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Opening a Yoga studio has been a dream of Brandy's ever since she received her 200 hour Yoga certification in 2014 from Sangha Center for Yoga and Wellness. Since then, she has taken several scary, yet, exhilarating, life changing leaps, in order to make her dream a reality-opening Shakti Yoga & Pilates! Shakti represents the creative energy that is within us, our intuitive, motivating force, our personal power, and our ability to move and change. To help her students tap into this, Brandy's classes are based on the energy and needs of the students who show up. Her Yoga classes incorporate astrological influences, Yoga philosophy, and the wisdom of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine  (two sciences that teach us that what is going on in nature is also going on inside of us) to help her students feel more balanced as they move through their own changes.  Brandy also completed her Comprehensive Pilates certification through Lates Pilates. in 2020 and believes this practice is a beautiful way to offer movement that is supportive and sustainable for life. Her Pilates classes are ever changing, fun, and a good challenge for the mind and body. Brandy has experienced positive mental, emotional, and physical changes through both of these practices and she's thrilled to offer both disciplines to you.  Brandy hopes that the energy she's put into Shakti will help to set a spark off within you too!

Hi! My name is Kathy Gary and I'm excited to bring strength training to Shakti. After recieving my personal training certification from American Council of Exercise in 2019, I began facilitating groups and working one on one with women to make strength trainging less intimidating and more fun. My goal is to make every workout something you look forward to and have you leave class feeling stronger and more confident!

Nicole has a lot of titles under belt. She is a certified vinyasa Yoga instructor as well as a working personal trainer for the past 20 years (certified through ISSA). She also teaches  zumba/dance fitness. She loves bootcamp and cycling (both mountain biking and road riding) and anything having to do with the outdoors. Yoga is her saving grace and she loves inversions and arm balances. Look for some pop-up workshops soon!

Slow and steady. Useful advice for races and your practice. Although he received his 200 hr. training in a Power Yoga program, Matthew takes a more deliberate approach to his practice. Find the pose, settle in, hold it. Nothing too flashy, just tried and tested asanas to help you discover a whole new level of your practice.

Sherry Marentay is a licensed clinical social worker. She has provided mental health counseling toindividuals and couples for over 20 years. Sherry found yoga for herself and has been practicing for over10 years. It was through her own practice that she found the benefits of yoga on a mental, physical andemotional level. She decided that this was something that she would like to offer the people that sheworks with in counseling as well and further her own practice. In 2021 she attended and completed her200 hour certification training at One Point One in Pittsburgh. Her classes involve mindful movementand breath work activating the effects of the practice on our emotional and mental well-being. Shecreates a safe space for individuals to find themselves and be present in the here and now.

At the age of 16 I got into aerobics. After taking classes for a couple of months, the instructor fell ill during class and asked me to take over. . . and by the time I turned 18, I was owner/operator/instructor of ‘Round the Clock Aerobics. In the 40 years that followed, I taught everything from step, high and low impact aerobics, stretch and tone classes to barre, spin, and strength conditioning classes.

In 2020 when we are all stripped of every form of recreational group fitness, like every other avid fitness enthusiast, my body rebelled, cramped, and stiffened from the depression of my new sedentary lifestyle.

In the years that followed, I realized that I wasn’t created to sit back and watch us all fall apart and that I was here for so much more with so much more to give and that my time wasn't over yet.

In January 2024, I bought a reformer, started taking Pilates classes, and by October I was enrolled in the one year, 500 hour Pilates certification program at Lates Pilates in Fox Chapel. Nearing the end, I am finally pursuing the dream I have longed for since the 1990’s. I can’t even begin to tell you how great it feels to continue to follow my dreams and how honored and blessed I feel to be a part of your wellness journey.

My goal and promise to all of you is to take you from being in class to BEING in class and BEING the best version of you that you can be . . .