Wendy Gross-Pinto, the innovative creator of Soul Sweat Asana Yoga, has a gift for transforming enthusiastic students into great yoga teachers. For over 15 years Wendy has helped thousands of people from around the world create more joy, power and ease in their bodies.

Wendy’s inspirational teaching style, has people consistently achieve more than they thought they could. Her refreshing spiritual yet practical lessons will focus your mind, bring joy to your life, and literally sculpts your body into its best shape ever.

Wendy is extensively trained in the styles of Bikram, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Ishta, Phoenix Rising and Nia. Her clientele includes professional athletes, dancers, Olympic gold medalist and celebrities.

Wendy has been a featured speaker at seminars with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Bernie Segal, Bhagavan Das, Bijan, as well as Bob Proctor and Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith (as seen in The Secret), as well as many other spiritual and revolutionary thinkers of our time. She was the head yoga therapist for Dr. Deepak Chopra's Center for Mind Body Medicine in San Diego, CA.

She feels honored, blessed and inspired to teach and run the Yoga and Healing Center.

Clarissa currently practices full time as a student and instructor of yoga.  She lives in Staten Island and was certified to teach by the Integral Yoga Institute in Yoga Institute in Yogaville, Virginia in August of 1998.

Yoga is her passion!

Debbie is a yoga enthusiast who has studied with Wendy over the past 11 years. Becoming certified to teach with the Soul Sweat Teacher Training in 2003, she continues to grow her practice and teaching through yoga seminars, readings and LIVING. Yoga has transformed her life!

Athletics, spirituality and teaching are Debbie's passions. Wanting to share her passions, she has coached, taught and volunteered within the community since moving here in 1992. She plays paddle tennis and golf for recreation beyond her yoga practice. A busy mother of two boys, Debbie maintains balance & focus in her life with her yoga & daily meditation.

Debbie appreciates Wendy, her staff and her students for the truly wonderful experience of practicing & teaching at The Yoga & Healing Center- it's a wonderful community!

  Martha is a recently transplanted Canadian girl. Athletics, animals and the great outdoors have always been a passion for Martha.

• Certified Yoga Instructor (American Yoga Academy, Claire Diab)
• Trained and Instructed in the Yoga and Healing Center Vinyasa Flow style.
• Certified fitness instructor (F.O.L.P)
• Certified cycle Reebok Instructor.
• Certified in Thai Massage Level 1
• Certified in Reiki Level 1
• Certified Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Certificate through the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, October 2000 by Janice Clarfield
• Certified Animal Lover

Ross has been practicing hatha yoga since 1978. He experimented with many different styles of yoga until he discovered Beryl Bender Birch's Ashtanga based Power Yoga classes in 1990 through the New York Road Runners Club.

He is trained in the Yoga and Healing Center Vinyasa Flow style by Wendy Gross and has received the 250 hour certification from "The Hard and The Soft Ashtanga Yoga Institute" from Beryl Bender Birch and Thom Birch. He has also studied with other teachers including David Swenson and Kathy McNames.

Ross consistently challenges his students with his vigorous Ashtanga Style power yoga classes. He is very grateful to Wendy for encouraging him to teach at the center.

Donna is a founding partner in two companies, Joyful Evolution and Building Momentum, Donna creates and facilitates seminars, workshops and mentoring programs. She is also a private mentor. She is a certified yoga instructor and author of an inspirational book, "The Divine Spark That is You," a compendium of simple truths and powerful practices to awaken the spirit within.

Today, in addition to coaching and yoga instruction, Donna is a Pranic healer and teaches Primordial Sound Meditation, a practice revived by Dr. Deepak Chopra. Her unique presentation style is a combination of passionate belief and earthy inspiration. "I love seeing the light in peoples eyes turn on when they start to discover their own inner truth," she says.

Donna's is certified through the Yoga and Healing Center to teach Soul Sweat Yoga and is also certified by the Chopra Institute to teach Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga.

Donna is also an assistant teacher of Zen and Yoga and the Art of Living at Seton Hall University in South Orange NJ.

Donna is so grateful that things have come full circle, as she now has the opportunity to come back to where her yoga training began enjoying and sharing this wonderful gift and her love of yoga.

Kim has been an enthusiastic yoga practitioner since 1996. She has studied under many talented yoga teachers beginning with Wendy Gross, who offers a free flow, power yoga.

Then, in the year 2000 she was introduced to Ashtanga Yoga and has taken teacher training workshops with Thom and Beryl Bender Birch as well as Kathy McNames. In 2003, Kim was certified in the Soul Sweat Teacher Training.

Kim loves to share her love of Yoga with friends and students. She teaches an All Levels and open power yoga class to adults as well as children, and incorporates different style of yoga into her classes. One of Kim's greatest gifts are her hands on adjustments. She believes that the power and energy of yoga will transform your life and connect you to your Divine self.

Valerie has been practicing yoga at the Yoga and Healing Center for over 5 years. It has transformed her life both physically and spiritually. She is a hot yoga enthusiast.

Wendy gave her the opportunity to start teaching over a year ago. She recently attained her 200 hour certification with Jimmy Barkan in Florida and will continue her training in the Fall of 2007. Through her teaching she hopes to inspire others to make yoga a way of life.