Linda Zogas is an Associate Baptiste Vinyasa Teacher. She completed 3 teacher trainings with Baron and continues to attend teacher training boot camps and workshops as a student and an assistant. Linda also completed her 200 hour power Vinyasa training with Master Baptiste Teacher Bill Raup, owner of Power Yoga Works in Philadelphia and Malvern, Pa. Linda has taught at Bill’s Studios from 2004-2006. Always learning, Linda completed her teacher training with Master Duncan Wong, founder of Yogic Arts, and continues to attend Yoga conferences yearly. Her passion for cycling led to a certification as an Schwinn cycling instructor.

Linda is now focused on bringing more yoga to her community in Berks County through the CHB Sports Clubs, the YMCA downtown, corporate, school, and private trainings. Linda will guide you into incorporating yoga into your physical lifestyle.

Linda’s energy and teaching style will help you challenge yourself to new heights, transform your life, and sculpt your ideal body. Linda is dedicated to personal relationships with each student, ensuring success for them along their path. She feels it is extremely important to be connected with her students and their goals. This is a relationship that distinguishes her yoga classes and creates a safe and nurturing environment for all.

“Our mission is to continue to teach effective, affordable, and relevant yoga to every BODY”!

Mary Ann Belfko has been in the Health and Fitness Industry for over 25 years. Formerly a part owner and manager of a fitness center, and director of an aerobic program for 8 years, Mary Ann began practicing yoga in 1990 as a way of finding more balance and centeredness in her life. Her interest took her on two trips to India, and once back home, to study with several teachers before finding Power Yoga.

Upon finding Power Yoga in the spring of 2005 Mary Ann began practicing and studying with Master Teacher, Bill Raup of Power Yoga Works. Feeling like she has found her niche in yoga, she completed the PYW 200 hour teacher training program in November of 2005, which has taken her to the 500 hour level of registration with the Yoga Alliance. In August of 2006, Mary Ann completed the level 1 training, with Baron Baptiste and has completed her ERYT registration, which accounts for more than 1000 hours of teaching since her original registration.

Most recently, Mary Ann has had the opportunity to return to the Reading area and to teach again for Linda's Power Yoga. “What fun it has been to renew friendships and to find many new friends as well.”

"Power Yoga has transformed my life, creating a sense of renewed energy, while also being very cleansing and nourishing. The vigorous nature of Power Yoga shows us how to be present with what ever shows up in our practice and also in our life. In teaching this style of yoga I find a passion and a lightness that carries over into my life! The rewards of helping others to find their own inner strength and centeredness are phenomenal…we are all here in it together having fun and sweating like crazy!

John’s basic belief in yoga is that it finds you when you are ready, as he heard Linda say many times! John was first introduced to Vinyasa yoga in the summer of 2003 when his cousin, Lisa (who he owes much of his dedication to his practice today) took him to one of her classes in the Philadelphia suburbs. As the story goes he became hooked! John then started to practice and volunteer at Power Yoga Works studio in Malvern, Pa. His practice deepened and his commitment was clear. The Baptiste Power yoga started his devotion to yoga as an integral part of his life.

Professionally, john is Mr. Massey and works as an 8th grade history teacher in Berks County. John has worked with children of all ages and backgrounds for over ten years. In the summer of 2005 he literally jumped at the chance to begin training for children’s yoga. The two passions in his life have come full circle and combined.

John’s breakthrough experience developed as he studied at Karma Kids studio in New York City. He continues to educate himself about children and teen yoga through seminars, workshops, and continued training.

John completed his 200 Power Vinyasa teacher training program at Power Yoga Works in 2005. He is registered with Yoga Alliance.

As for many people, yoga initially seemed nothing more than a new fitness routine for Amanda. As for many people, the first few months of practice tested Amanda deeper than she bargained for: physically, mentally, and emotionally. But perseverance, patience, and a little faith paid off when, one ordinary day, the real depth and beauty of yoga revealed itself and life became forever different. The physical practice of yoga opened undreamed-of doors on the mental, emotional, and spiritual levels, through the vehicle of the body. Mere exercise it was not.

Amanda soon found herself feeling driven, almost desperate, to deepen her personal practice by giving it away through teaching. Interested in the natural fusion of personal expression with the deep wisdom of classical practice, Amanda enrolled in Shiva Rea's teacher training program and will complete her 200 hour certification in October of 2009. While working to share the knowledge she has already acquired, Amanda met Linda and found a mentor close to home with a similar desire to make yoga increasingly available for all students, and an inspiring practice of her own.

Amanda deeply believes that "yoga is meant for everyone, everywhere, because the unity we strive towards through yoga practice is the singular truth of all life. Unity is nothing less than our birthright. Yoga requires no VIP pass, no definition, no borders. What yoga really is already exists inside of you. You need only to free it and live it."