Instructors
Atha Yoga School’s instructors teach on subjects that are not commonly found among the usual yoga offerings. We work hard to create special classes and workshops that provide excellent content and unique learning opportunities and the people who facilitate our classes and workshop reflect the unique perspective that we offer..
Dawn Gibbons, RYT-500, RMT
Robyn Love is the founder of Atha Yoga School. She has two decades of personal practice, over a dozen years of teaching and thousands of hours of training. All of that is good and important but it doesn’t really convey her passion for sharing the profound wisdom of yoga, particularly as it is presented in Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtra and other foundational texts. Robyn believes that the ongoing study and practice of yoga deeply rooted in abhyasa (daily discipline) and vairagyam (acceptance) honours yoga’s roots in India and takes up its invitation to explore what it means to be alive in a human body. Her teachers are Chase Bossart, Dolphi Wertenbaker, Guta Hedewig, Elizabeth Cunningham Bossart and Bhooma Madavan. Robyn also is a jukai student in the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism. Her teacher is Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, the abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery.
Robyn Love, C-IAYT, E-RYT500
Celeste Greene is a intuition based yoga instructor and body/mind therapist. She brings the embodiment of her studies in yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, somatic therapy, and art practices to her clients.
She believes that our body is much more than the vehicle that carries our mind around. The body holds all of our life experiences and to become free, our most authentic selves, we must compassionately meet our inner demons and give them the space to physically be released.
Celeste has almost 20 years of personal yoga practice, 12 years of meditation practice, 2,000+ teaching hours, and more than 1,400 hours of yoga training. In 2021, Celeste graduated from the Yoga Well Institute Yoga Therapy Trainning in the lineage of T.K.V Desikachar. She is a certified IAYT yoga therapist and E-RYT 500, and is certified as a YACEP guide through Yoga Alliance.
Celeste Greene, C-IAYT, RYT-500
Debbie Brown, RTY-500
Debbie Brown is an RYT-500. Debbie was a boxer for 14 years before coming to yoga over ten years ago. For her, Yoga was a practice to support physical wellbeing and a solace while going through major life changes. It soon became a passion and Debbie completed her 200-hour training at Adishesha Yoga Studio in Ottawa in 2017. In 2021 she completed her 300-hour training at Atha Yoga in Corner Brook, NL, with Robyn Love. She is also certified in Yin and Thai Yoga Massage. Her classes explore the physical and mental aspects of the body and often include laughter.
Dawn Gibbons is a RYT-500, Registered Massage Therapist, mother, certified Aromatherapist, thalossophile, Naturopath, and dog mom. She is a graduate of Atha Yoga School’s 300-hr YTT program and Live, Breathe, Grow’s 200-hr YTT. Dawn knows first hand that there is no such thing as one size fits all, especially when it comes to our yoga practice. She is committed to sharing the life-changing benefits of yoga with people in all body types.
shea in the catskills
shea in the catskills is a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, pleasure activist, organizer + contemplative. They love to collaborate. For almost 10 years, they lived in full-time residential training at a zen buddhist monastery, where they did a lot of meditation + liturgical training and experienced the joys + challenges of communal religious living. shea spends their days walking, making, imagining, reading, writing, praying, conversing generatively with friends + comrades + tending to their constantly shifting obsessions. They send out a newsletter on the first of every month that details how you can work with them, what's inspiring them now + a tarot offering. You can subscribe at their website sheainthecatskills.com
Nancy Hunter
Nancy is a long time yoga teacher, trainer, mentor and yoga therapist in the Tradition of TKV Desikachar. From a holistic yoga lens of health and healing, Nancy is particularly interested in looking at the harmful impacts that colonial systems and culture have on us - individually and collectively. Nancy has always been committed to social justice and transformation and is also a sometimes podcast writer and producer.