River & Stone Yoga

💗 Meet the River & Stone Yoga Institute's 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training faculty!⁠
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Get to know your teacher, Doreen DeFazio! 🥰🥰⁠
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🌿 Doreen is a yoga teacher and educator specializing in multi-lineage traditions and holistic wellness.⁠
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💛 She is dedicated to guiding students through immersive, transformational experiences that break conditioned behaviors to restore personal power and self-awareness.⁠
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🙏 Her classes are rooted in compassion and courageous self-inquiry. She believes yoga is a catalyst for profound personal growth and positive change.⁠
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🧘 Doreen has led local and international retreats, workshops, private lessons and teacher training.⁠
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Interested in 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training? Join us in September. Link in bio to learn more.⁠
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👀Spotted: Traveling summer yogis of MA!! When Metrowest Yoga Metrowest Yoga , Dennisport Yoga Dennis Port Yoga and R&S Yoga teachers come together in class = ✨✨✨

🌞This morning Doreen Doreen Mooza DeFazio and Kelly Kelly Carbone Mahoney met for a practice at Dennisport Yoga on Cape Cod. Joanna Joanna Benevides lead them through a beautiful Vinyasa flow. With teachers from MetroWest Yoga also in attendance Steph Crocetti Mirvat Robinson :) !! 🥰

💕Doreen considers Dennisport Yoga her “home away from home” and her friends at Metrowest extended family. Worlds colliding!

💫There’s something special that happens when these types of connections come together mat to mat in practice.

🥰We hope as you travel this summer, wherever your mat lands, may you find new communities and connections.

🙏One meaning of Yoga is union, a coming together. Many of us at R&S love being traveling yogis and are grateful for all the teachers that support our practices no matter where we are.

OM SHANTI 🤍🙏

🥰 Meet the River & Stone Yoga Institute's 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training faculty!

Get to know your teacher, Theresa Murphy!

💗 Theresa is a 30 year teacher of Yoga, Somatic Movement Educator, and Yoga Therapist. Her approach is rooted in compassion, curiosity, and respect for each person’s uniqueness. She draws on deep anatomical knowledge, developmental theory, and makes complex ideas feel simple, accessible, and full of wonder.

💥With over 30,000 hours of teaching experience, she offers private sessions, group classes, workshops, and trainings both locally and nationally. Theresa’s work guides others into a deeper connection with the innate intelligence and brilliance of their bodie-heart-minds 💪🫀🧠

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Interested in 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training? Join us in September. Link in bio to learn more.

What stays with you after a 200-hour yoga teacher training? 🙋

Maybe its the anatomy, alignment or how to sequence a yoga class...

💓 What we often hear is graduates talk about seeing themselves differently. Feeling more grounded and connected. Building deep friendships. Finding confidence in their own voice. Broadening their perspective. Deepening their relationship with practice-- with themselves, with others and with life.

🥰 These are a few reflections from 2026 graduates. Their experiences are all unique, but they share a common thread: yoga became something they embodied, not just something they learned. And this embodiment impacted their lives in a real way.

🤔 If you're curious about where a deeper study of yoga could lead, applications for our 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training starting this September are open.

🤍 Early Bird tuition is available through August 1.

💛 Want to learn more about the experience, meet the faculty and ask your questions? Join the next info session on July 21st at 7 pm, in-person and online.

➡️ Learn more and apply.
Link in bio.

Start your day outside.

Join us for a 7-week outdoor yoga series at Evolve Fitness and enjoy the energy of practicing in the fresh morning air. Whether you're looking to build a consistent practice or simply soak up a summer sunrise, these all-levels classes offer a grounding way to begin your day.

🗓 Wednesdays and Saturdays

📅 July 15 through August 29

🕡 6:30–7:30 AM

📍 Evolve Fitness

137 Shrewsbury Street

West Boylston, MA 01583

💲 Drop in: $25

Bring your mat, water, and an open mind. We can't wait to practice with you outdoors.

Register here:

https://app.fitdegree.com/t/dashboard/registrables/4168217

Please complete the required Evolve Fitness waiver before your first class:

https://evolveft.gymdesk.com

Learn more about River & Stone Yoga at:

www.riverandstoneyoga.com

✨ Yoga is a living mythology.

🧘 If your first path into yoga has been through asana (physical practice), you're not alone. However, have you explored deepening your practice through the ancient myths that inspired many of these postures?

📖 The stories of the yogic tradition are not mere fairy tales—they are psychological maps and energetic blueprints designed to help us navigate our human experience.

🌿 Kris has offered her popular Myth & Movement workshops since River & Stone first opened. This season, she is introducing Shakti Rising: the Divine Feminine.

🔥 We will journey into the heart of the Divine Feminine (Shakti) through the archetypes of Durga (the fierce protector), Kali (the radical transformer), and Parvati (the steady ascetic). Through a curated blend of storytelling, pranayama (breathwork), embodied asana flow, and guided meditation, you will learn how to invoke these energies on your mat and integrate their wisdom into your daily life.

📅 Sunday, July 26 • 1:30–3:30 PM

🔗 Learn more and register through FitDegree. Link in bio.

A special post to honor Kat yoga with kat! She has a big life update!

👩‍✈️Kat has enlisted in the Navy as a hospital corpsman (which means all things medical).

⚓️She leaves for Bootcamp in September and then to training school at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

🙏She continues her path of yoga in service of freedom for all. What’s it’s really all about.

🥰If you’ve had the pleasure to take her class you know Kat is an incredible teacher, so wise, intuitive and compassionate. She lives the teachings of yoga. We know she will make an impact wherever she goes.

🥹We are so proud of you. And we will miss you dearly!! Know you always have a home at River & Stone. We are all wishing you well in this next chapter.

🎉Celebrate Kat in studio and join her for her last classes at River & Stone tomorrow Sunday (June 28) at 7:30 am!

💕We love you, Kat!

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🥁Introducing... our RSYI Yoga Teacher Training graduates! 🥳

🎓Cue the Pomp & Circumstance! We are so excited to present River & Stone's FIRST graduating class of the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training program, under the guidance and instruction of Cindy Boulter & Theresa Murphy. This cohort studied together in a committed intensive program, and this month, these 9 yoga students became yoga teachers.

💗Over 6 months, these students practiced and studied the full spectrum of yoga. Often, for people who haven't studied yoga in depth, they may not recognize that yoga teaching is more than meets the eye. One might think yoga teaching is simply choreographing a series of physical postures.

🌿Although yoga teacher training naturally explores the physical body in depth, the YTT emphasizes a commitment to self-study, recognizing personal values and motivations for spiritual leadership. Quality yoga teaching is a healing practice, and this comes with privilege and responsibility. On the final day, they each shared a mission statement as teachers considering the questions:
✨Why do I teach?
✨What are my values?

💫 Congratulations to the Class of 2026 RSYI 200 YTT! Our light sees, honors, and values the light in each of you, and we are so proud of your dedication. May you each go out and shine your unique light in this world.

🎊When you see these beautiful individuals practicing alongside you in studio, be sure to say congratulations!

Morgan Gould
Sarah Clark
Nicole DiPaolo
Lynne Weinstein
Meghan Haney
Shannon Grant
Maya Van Der Els
Marie Sanchirico
Erin Gardner

✨If you would like to be a part of a program to deepen your yoga practice, to learn to teach yoga and grow in body, mind and heart the next program starts this September.

Link in bio for more information on River & Stone Yoga Institute 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training. 📖

🌞 Summer Prenatal Yoga 3-Week Series starts this week! Wednesdays at 5:45 pm Upstairs with Ellery. 🌞

June 24
July 1
July 8

🌸 A nurturing class designed to support you through every stage of pregnancy. 🌸

💛 Space to strengthen, soften, and connect with yourself and your baby. 💛

🌷Sign up for the series or drop-in! 🌷

💞 Register in FitDegree 💞

💫R&S Summer Special💫⁠
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😎 To officially welcome the start of Summer, we're offering a limited-time special: 2 Months Unlimited for $180⁠
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🤩 Between now and June 30⁠
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👉Select "Summer Unlimited Special" in FitDegree under class packs. Link in bio.⁠
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🌞 Get your Summer practice on! 🌞⁠
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