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!

Danielle dabbled in yoga classes for years believing that yoga just "wasn't for me" until she discovered power yoga. As an avid runner and triathlete, its immediate appeal was that it was athletic in nature and flow. At the time she was training for her first marathon and immediately saw the physical benefits "a little yoga" provided. But on race day, approaching mile 20, with legs burning and fatigue setting in, her yoga instructor's words "it's only a sensation" echoed clearly in her mind. At that moment, it was clear that yoga was benefitting her beyond a physical level, even the most basic yogic philosophies were filtering into her daily life.

Within months yoga became a daily practice-a perfect compliment to both the mental and physical impact running, biking and swimming took on both her body and mind. Her relationship with yoga grew even deeper when she suffered an injury in October 2009 which left her unable to run for over six months. Yoga provided her with a means for physical activity during this time but it also "strengthened my mental clarity, helped me find patience during this frustrating ordeal and taught me to let go of situations that are beyond my control. These lessons were taught through an injury but have filtered into how I handle situations with people I care about…and even people I don't know."

Soon after incorporating Power Yoga into her life, she knew she wanted to pass the gift she was given on to other people so in February 2010, she began her journey of teacher training at Power Yoga Works in Philadelphia. Through this experience, her relationship with yoga has grown to an even deeper level as she is learning more and more the "why" of why all this "yoga stuff" works. "I always believed in connections between the mind and the body but yoga has proven to me that this connection exists and it is powerful."

For her, life is about the journey, not the destination, and in the short time yoga has been a part of her life, "I have been on a journey beyond my wildest dreams." Danielle is grateful to have this journey take her to teaching at Linda's Power Yoga and looks forward to deepening her yoga practice as both a teacher and a student.

Jordan became hooked on power yoga after seeing amazing benefits while training for a marathon in early 2009. A knee injury which kept him from running for nearly two months from mid January to early March would keep most people from attempting to still run the March 21st marathon, but not Jordan! "The strength, both physically and mentally, developed through only a couple months of yoga practice definitely got me through that marathon, not to mention the mental reminders to focus on my breath, and to relax and find peace in uncomfortable moments."

Soon after, Jordan was introduced to Baptiste Vinyasa Power Yoga in June 2009. He immediately loved the adaptability of this style, and began a daily self practice, reaping all of its rewards. Currently, Jordan is studying under Master Teacher Bill Raup and working towards his 200 Hour Power Yoga Teacher Certification at Power Yoga Works in Philadelphia.
Professionally, Jordan is a chemist at a Lancaster county laboratory. He sees his yoga training as an outlet for a little creativity, and an opportunity to share all that yoga has to offer with others. He looks forward to future trainings, workshops, and bootcamps!

(Disclaimer: I DO NOT recommend training for a marathon by practicing yoga and not running. I do recommend ADDING a yoga practice to any current training program.)