About Our Teachers
Beatrice B. Mattaway, CYT, E-RYT 500 is the founder and owner of Willow Tree Yoga. She received her 200 and 500-hour Yoga Alliance
certification through Yoga Mountain in New City. Beatrice took her first yoga class and began meditating when she was 6 years old, living
in Japan. Bea spent two years living in an ashram in India, where she practiced yoga,
meditation and chanting daily. Beatrice keeps her classes fun and relaxed, allowing her students, from advanced to brand new beginners, to feel welcomed and relaxed.
Class intensity varies depending on the experience & ability level of students in any given class.
Jyothi Vastare, RYT 500, has studied and teaching yoga for over 10 years and has completed her 500 hour(Masters)certification with Yoga Mountain.
Jyothi is from India and has been taught by Pattabi Jois, the famous Ashtanga teacher.
Jyothi's classes incorporate a vinyasa style linking breath with postures. She gives a more vigorous class that emphasizes proper alignment and position.
Jyothi's objective is to help her students to open their bodies and let the asanas (poses) flower from the inside, rather than impose or force them from the outside.
Her instruction is challenging, yet not straining, with the focus on the breath and the way the asanas feel on an innate, sustained, and personal level.
The atmosphere in each class is one of flow and deep release.
Ashley (Feo) DiMeglio is a certified E-RYT 500 yoga instructor with certifications in Restorative & Vinyasa yoga.
She has trained with many wonderful teachers and has been studying the Five Tibetan Rites finding that her classes have blossomed from this great practice.
She flows several yoga styles into her practice. She was given a Sanskrit name "Bhakta" from Joan Suval in Ananda Ashram meaning the "tranquil one".
Spending at year at Ananda Ashram helped her realize that yoga had changed her life and she continues to learn as she travels down this great path of yoga knowledge.
She is finding incredible gifts for her own growth from a continuous study of yoga postures and philosophy and is happy to be able to share this ancient knowledge with her students.
Her personal experience has brought her to realize that if you “Lead with the breath the heart will follow”.
Bill Rosenfeld, RYT-500, has been practicing and loving yoga since January 2003.
His classes incorporate alignment, anatomy, breath, and the fun of movement.
Bill encourages all his students to connect with the amazing intelligence, beauty, and energy of their human bodies.
Bill received his 200- and 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Birchwood Center in Nyack, and continues to practice yoga there and elsewhere.
He has two grown sons and lives in Nyack with his wife.
Scott Levinson, RYT-200, Scott first took yoga over 10 years ago, in the original Bikram Yoga studio, in Los Angeles.
Over the next 10 years, through college and beyond, he was drawn to Yoga though he had no idea that his journey would ultimately lead him to teaching.
In 2008, he moved to New York, and started taking classes on a more regular basis.
Then, in March of 2011, when his studio, Hot Yoga NJ NY, offered a teacher training, he enrolled with the intention of deepening his own practice.
Throughout the training, he developed his passion for teaching, and he has been teaching classes since. Scott has derived many benefits from practicing yoga,
and truly feels privileged to be able to guide others in their practice.
His classes center on proper alignment of the body, and maintaining proper breath throughout each pose.
Sharie Sofair received her 200 Hour & 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Certification & Yoga Therapy Certification from Yoga Mountain.
She is an RYT 500 Hour registered National Yoga Alliance teacher. Her teaching focusses on integrating the breath with movement in a mindful,conscious way. Her love of Yoga brings joy to her teaching.
She develops strength, flexibility and balance in her students as well as a strong presence of mind. She incorporates various styles in teaching Yoga including Hatha, Vinyasa, Kundalini and Iyengar, Restorative and meditation.
Sharie holds a Master of Arts degree from New York University in Music Therapy and is a Certified Music Therapist .
She is also a Licensed NYS Special Education Teacher. Sharie has produced and published a CD entitled "My Heart" of her own compositions which can be visited on cdbaby.com/sharie.
Cheryl Schwartz, RYT 200, has practiced yoga joyfully for most of her adult life.
She taught weekly classes at Yoga Mountain Studio in New City for seven years and assisted with the teacher training program.
Her yoga teaching experience spans from kids yoga to teen yoga, general hatha practice to senior/assisted yoga.
Her classes are imbued with depth and precision while creating space for the student's personal comfort and growth.
Cheryl is a sensitive and enthusiastic practitioner who brings a lifetime of yoga perspective to her teaching.
She is currently an ESL teacher at Valley Cottage Elementary School.
