Instructors
Learn from the best
At Yoga Plus Herbs, our passionate instructors are the heart of our community, dedicated to our mission of holistic healing and inclusivity. Our team brings a wealth of knowledge in yoga, meditation, and wellness, ensuring every class is enriching and transformative.
Our teachers embody our core values of compassion, personal growth, and creating a welcoming environment. They are mentors and friends, committed to helping you on your journey toward healing and self-discovery.
Meet Instructors
Carmela Danna
Carmela completed her teacher training in March 2006 at Yoga Works, New York. She has since attended various workshops in continuing education. She left her full time job in Princeton, NJ to pursue her passion of teaching yoga. Yoga has been a big influence in her life and she wants to share her passion for yoga. Aside from regular asana practice, Carmela enjoys restorative yoga and meditation.
Vijya Hirani
Vijya is a certified Yoga Instructor in Sivananda Yoga and has been teaching since 2006. Bringing East to West, Vijya’s aim is to help train the body, integrate the mind, heart and soul as one. Yoga in modern lifestyle is a challenge we gather from external and hold it internal. We aim to let go, discover our true self, living life with peace and harmony.
Sanjay Pandey
Sanjay is an established meditation, yoga, and breath work instructor who has over 30 years of experience, training under great masters such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Himalayan masters, and advanced yogis. He is a trained Sivananda Yoga teacher, a Reiki Master, a spiritual consultant, and interprets the ancient scriptures in the modern language effortlessly and easily to the people of today. He has experience in the theater arts, film, marketing, and business making him a self made man who always strived for purity in his path to train people to better health and higher states of consciousness.
Jennifer Ka (Karuna)
Karuna is currently a Clinical Yoga Therapist with Penn Medicine Princeton Behavioral Health teaching yoga to a population with trauma, major disorders and psychiatric symptoms. She is a 800 hr yoga therapist (IAYT certified) or yoga health educator with Sivananda Yoga. She is a breath and meditation instructor for SKY Campus catered to college students and mental well being. Karuna is a committed sadhak dedicated to the practices of yoga, meditation, and living a healthy life and hopes to share this with others. Growing up with a family who survived the Cambodian genocide has led her to the path of healing and serving others to come out of trauma, suffering, and stress through the transformational practices.
Melissa Krieger
Melissa appreciates the opportunity to share her love of meditation and yoga with new and seasoned yogis. She leads thoughtfully sequenced yoga classes, complemented by breathing, mindful stretching, and meditation experiences, intended to be grounding, relaxing, and energizing. Her intention is to have each student fall in love with their yoga practice and experience the benefits in their life.
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