Who We Are

Anne Hungerford

Anne has been teaching yoga in New Preston for the past 9 years. She began her teaching career under the encouragement and tutelage of Marie Fourcaut and has since studied with a variety of other notable teachers. Anne considers her own style of teaching to be interdisciplinary as well as self taught.

Angelina Salama

Angelina has a yoga teaching certification from YogaEffects in Manhattan and a children’s yoga teaching certification from KarmaKids Yoga, also in Manhattan. In addition, she has a Pilates mat teaching certification from Power Pilates. She has trained with teachers who practice Ashtanga, Anusara and Hatha yoga. Her own personal practice is a vigorous vinyasa style. Angelina is a seasoned dance professional having performed and taught ballet, flamenco and jazz for many years. She has danced for both Fledgling and well established choreographers in New York City, and currently performs with the resident dance group of Jazz Choreography Enterprises. She started practicing yoga within her dance training initially to improve flexibility. Over the years her yoga practice grew in depth and became an anchor not only for her physical well being but also bringing her inner peace and joy. She decided to widen her teaching skills to include yoga in order to share this wonderful gift. She brings the insight and keen eye for movement associated with many years of training in the dance world.

Nancy Opgaard

Nancy began her Yoga studies at the WushuAcademy of Physical Fitness, in New York,in 1983, and began teaching Yoga in 1984. In 1985, she met & began her meditationstudies with Jain Master Chitribhanu. She went on to be certified to teach Hatha Yoga in 1989, by Ruth Bender (a disciple of Selvarajan Yesudian ). In 1991, she was led to Mary Dunn, where her love affair with the Iyengar method began. Mary became her primary teacher, and while she completed teacher training with Beryl Bender Birch & Thom Birch, studied Tantric Yoga with Margo Anand, attended many workshops at Kripalu, took classes at the Yoga Asana Center in New York with Dharma Mittra, and studied with many other gifted teachers along the way, she always came back to Iyengar. Nancy is also a licensed massage therapist and a certified Feng Shui practitioner.

Kriss Alexander Peterson, R.N.

Guiding people in their goals for health and fitness has been Kriss’ passion for decades. She owned and directed Kristine’s School of Creative Dance in Monroe, Connecticut which she established in 1979. Giving up the business in 1989 to be home with her two sons who are now 20 and 22 years old, she embarked on a career in health care and became a registered nurse. Kriss has worked in a number of fields, from Obstetrics & Gynecology, to Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation to Geriatrics and now school nursing.
Several years ago, she discovered yoga purely by chance. A class was offered at the health club that she belonged to, so she gave it a try. Kriss loved the yoga class and found herself attending class much more often than she utilized the gym. A yoga studio was located not far from her home. This school offered mainly Ashtanga yoga. She has studied many other styles since then and enjoys exploring the wide variety that today’s yoga has to offer.
Since Kriss earned her 200-hour yoga teacher certification in May of 2008, she has taught weekly classes and is looking forward to sharing her experience with her students and furthering her own practice and yoga education.