Michelle Itzkowitz 
E-RYT 500, PBTL, PCP
owner, founder and director of innerglow yoga and cape cod yoga school
​executive chef, nourish your innerglow
michelle@innerglowyogacapecod.com

Yoga and meditation have been a part of my life for over 25 years and has been the saving grace through many of life's challenging experiences. I use my knowledge and growth to inspire students to continue pushing forward, and believe in the strength and beauty of every moment and every breath of every day. Yoga inspires me to meet each moment with mindfulness and to cultivate happiness and joy with whomever I meet.
My studies in yoga and nutrition started over 30 years ago, when I became vegetarian and concerned with the humane treatment of animals. I dove into educating myself in many areas of wellness, including over 2000 hours of formal yoga teacher training as well as culinary school to adapt classical cooking to a healthier approach to eating. After graduate school and teaching health, family consumer science and physical education, I realized that my impact on changing the world was greater and opened innerglow yoga. The studios and school are my life's work. I teach public and private yoga classes, public and private cooking classes, one on one coaching to live your best life and continue to learn and grow from everyone I meet. I live life as a student first and am deeply grateful for the loving wisdom my teachers have shared. Let's grow together.

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Ingrid Jaeger
​CYT 500

practice with Ingrid
Monday 9:00-10:00am moderate flow
Sunday 5:00-6:00 yin yoga

Ingrid Jaeger is a Yoga Teacher who works with students of all ages and abilities. Her style is relaxed, accommodating, and inclusive; she infuses her classes with a blended style that includes vinyasa, QiGong, hatha, yin yoga, and meditation. She started teaching a weekly yoga class at her gym years ago, but after making some significant life changes, she decided to commit to teaching yoga on a full time basis. She has a 500 hour certification with a focus on Traditional Chinese Medicine and yin yoga, and a 200 hour certification in QiGong. She currently teaches at 2 studios on Cape Cod, works with private clients, provides corporate offerings, and leads workshops designed to help those who are interested in healing through yoga and meditation.

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Sara Hubbard 
RYT 500, holistic health and life coach

Yoga has been a part of Sara’s life for over a decade. Her yoga journey has transformed from a strong power yoga practice in her early 20’s, to becoming a sacred space to slow down, and experience more freedom, joy, and ease, both on and off the mat. Yoga inspires Sara to connect with her truest self, be present, and honor the simple joys in life.

Forever a student, Sara completed her 200-hour teaching training with Open Doors Power Yoga, 50-hour yin and yoga nidra teacher training with Yoga On the Vine, and 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training with Down Under School of Yoga in 2020. She is also a certified health coach, empowering women to overcome stress, overwhelm, and burnout, to experience more clarity, joy, and freedom.
Sara’s flow classes are powerful, creative, and lighthearted. She combines a dynamic sequence of postures, carefully curated playlist, and a daily dose of inspiration that will guide you in and through the body.
Sara offers studio classes, private + group yoga, events, mentorship, and more. Connect with her on Instagram @saraannhubbard, visit her website at www.sarahubbard.com, and follow her monthly yoga class playlists on Spotify at Sara Hubbard.

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Kirsten van der Bil
​yoga teacher and licensed massage therapist 

practice with Kirsten
Monday 11:00-12:00pm gentle yoga for strength
Monday 6:00-7:30pm prenatal yoga
Thursday 9:00-10:00am resistance band flow
Thursday 11:00-12:00pm gentle yoga for relaxation
Beginner Series 

Kirsten's first introduction to yoga was finding a stack of old books and manuals. The writings of Amrit Desai, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Ram Das offered her a glimpse into a system of practice that she deeply recognized. Home practice and self study brought her to a 200 hour foundational training with Diane Kovanda and Kind Yoga School in 2011. Currently, Kirsten studies Embodyoga with developer Patty Townsend, and is working towards her 500 hour certification under Patty's Guidance. Kirsten recently completed a 90 hour prenatal teacher training with Corrine Andrews, owner of Yoga Center Amherst and developer of Birthing Mama, an online program for prenatal yoga and wellness.

Kirsten attended Spa Tech Institute of Massage Therapy and is a 650 hour Licensed Massage Therapist as of March 2017. Through therapeutic touch, Kirsten's greatest wish is to give a tangible form to the practice of yoga. By communicating subtly through touch and differentiating different layers of tissue, her clients gain an embodied sense of their own anatomy and alignment.

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Carol Thompson

practice with Carol
Friday 9:00-10:00am vinyasa flow
Saturday 8:30-9:30am meditation and movement at AutoCamp in Falmouth

Carol has been in the fitness industry for almost 40 years mastering many techniques and disciplines. She has a passion for fitness and strives to improve lives through physical fitness.

Carol earned a Masters from Ohio State University in physical education and holds numerous certifications that enable her to personal train and teach group exercise classes including: weight training, core strength, senior fitness, zumba, water aerobics, spinning, and aerobics. Carol owned and operated her own fitness studio in downtown Chicago where she ran the group exercise program for AT&T and provided Oprah with personal training.

After an inspiring conversation with Michelle, Carol signed up and completed her 200hr certification through Cape Cod Yoga School in April 2017. ​

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Jessica Sechoka

practice with Jessica
Monday 4:30-5:45pm slow flow
Friday 11:00-12:00pm slow flow

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Anna Lambros

practice with Anna
Tuesday 9:00-10:00am vinyasa flow
Thursday 4:30-5:30pm vinyasa flow
Friday 6:00-7:15pm restorative yoga

Anna has lived on Cape Cod for 32 years. Growing up in and around the Boston area, she attended UMass Boston and later Lesley University for her Masters in the Creative Arts with a background in Elementary Education. She has been practicing yoga for 22 years and has been teaching in her Cape Cod community for the past 13 years. She is 200 hour hatha certified through Inner Peace Yoga School and 300 hour vinyasa certified through All That Matters School of Yoga with Coral Brown in Rhode Island. She is also a practicing and certified Reiki Master.

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Holly Commesso 

practice with Holly
Tuesday 4:30-5:30pm Barre
Saturday 10:30-11:30am Barre 
Sunday 10:30-11:30am Pilates 

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Lynne Buscher

practice with Lynne
Saturday 12:00-1:00pm moderate flow
Sunday 8:30-9:30am vinyasa flow at AutoCamp in Falmouth

As an avid runner, Lynne Buscher took her first yoga class to improve her flexibility. She learned that yoga helped with so much more, including stress management.  She decided to become certified, and under the tutelage of Sheryl Light and Michelle Itzkowitz, she attained the 200 hour RYS training through Yoga Alliance, and has been teaching yoga ever since. As a mother of two grown daughters, and a veteran teacher of the Falmouth Public Schools, she recognizes the necessity to create a balance in her own life, and to help others to work toward that balance. Her passion for teaching is inherent, and the reward for her is seeing the improvement in her pupils. Her family and her students serve as her inspiration to continue to persevere.

Her  interests include: enjoying family at the beach, running along the beach, teaching yoga on the beach, and reading at the beach. Notice the theme? The ocean is important to her, and she is proud to call  this beach community her home. Her favorite quote is: “Carpe Diem–Seize the Day” (Horace).

Lynne’s classes are deemed “Moderate Flow,” but she differentiates, based upon each participant’s practice.

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Danielle Ayotte
Yoga Therapist, CYT-500

practice with Danielle
Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm vinyasa yoga
Wednesday 6:00-7:00pm yin yoga
​Thursday 8:00-8:30am yoga express

After raising three children and growing her business in Central Massachusetts, Danielle moved to Cape Cod with her husband, marking the beginning of a new chapter. Her first yoga class at innerglow yoga shifted something inside of her. Danielle completed her first 200-hour training two years later. That incredible experience led to several more trainings, allowing Danielle to significantly expand her skill set. Danielle is now a Certified Yoga Therapist and Buddhist Meditation teacher and hold certificates Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Chair Yoga, and Pre/Postnatal Yoga.
Danielle is always eager to share the tools of yoga and meditation which have enabled her to move through her life more skillfully–with greater ease and clarity. Through the lens of these ancient, yet constantly evolving practices, Danielle’s classes emphasize the importance of supporting ourselves well physically and emotionally (both “on and off the mat”) though functional movement and alignment focused asana, coupled with ample space and time for self-introspection.

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Betsy West

practice with Betsy
Wednesday 11:00-12:00pm grace yoga

Betsy West developed an interest in yoga with the intention of finding balance and flexibility, stress reduction and improved breath control.  After practicing for 12 years, she became a certified yoga instructor, through Cape Cod Yoga School. She works with others to help them find healing and balance through their own practice.  

Due to scoliosis and spinal fusions, Betsy understands first-hand that each person comes to the mat with diverse abilities. Her hope is to create a grace filled space for students to explore their own healing practice. 
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Betsy West is a native Floridian who moved to Falmouth in 2017. (yes, she moved north, while y’all are looking for ways to move south!) Betsy is the Church Music Director at Waquoit Congregational Church, and she sings with the Cape Cod Moonlighters Big Band, as well as with other local musicians.  She’s married to Matt and has two grown and married children.

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Andrea Skane

practice with Andrea
Wednesday 9:00-10:00am vinyasa flow

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Sue Andersen 

practice with Sue
Tuesday 6:00-7:15pm yin yoga

I’m Sue Andersen, a yoga instructor who works with people that have experienced loss and are grieving through yoga and movement. Many who have heard of the benefits of yoga may be afraid to take the next step - but you don't need to be. All beginners welcome!

​Through years of practice I found balance and peace as a student and joy as a teacher. Meditation, mindfulness and breath work are the foundational elements that connect the physical to the spiritual practice, and are key to my teaching style. 

I'm excited for everyone to experience these life changing benefits. Whether I'm guiding a vinyasa, yin or gentle yoga class, my goal is to help students find their own practice and to enjoy all the benefits yoga brings.

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Leilani Sutterfield

practice with Leilani
Friday 8:30-9:30am vinyasa flow at AutoCamp in Falmouth

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Karen Cheromcha 

practice with Karen
Tuesday 11:00-12:00pm yoga for happy bones

After moving to Cape Cod, Karen began searching her soul for a life change that resonated with her. She has always had a passion for mindfulness, yoga, painting and nature and wanted to incorporate these as part of her next journey in life.  In 2017 she was registered as an RYT 200 yoga teacher by Cape Cod Yoga School at innerglow in Mashpee.  

​Karen fully enjoys teaching a gentle mindful yoga class incorporating breath and body work to instill an inner peace within her students.  She continues her journey seeking wisdom and training in all aspects of Yoga.

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Kat LaBaire
practice with Kat

Sunday 12:00-1:00pm warm slow flow