Class Descriptions
Hot Power Yoga
(teachers: Jacqueline Dagle, Lauren D’Angelo, Tara Morris and Allison Sheahan)
Consistent with the tradition of power yoga, each class begins with sun salutations followed by a series of strengthening and balancing poses set to music in a tempoed flow. The room is hot (110 degrees in Tara’s, and 100 degrees in Lauren’s) and the class, slightly different every time, is always strong. Lauren’s class is Goldilocks Flow…absolutely challenging and fun and strengthening, but also deep and meaningful with time to stretch and relax at the end. You will sweat and feel absolutely accomplished. Tara’s class is packed with lots of poses is challenging both mentally and physically. It’s an experience.
Vinyasa with Rebecca DeCristofaro
Thoughtfully designed, each TLO Vinyasa class is organized in a ladder sequence, providing a breakdown of poses to build into a true vinyasa flow with challenging and fluid transitions and balance. The class begins with breath to movement sequencing and stretching to ready the body and mind for more powerful transitions and balance poses. Through alignment cuing and full body engagement, you can expect to develop a strong, confident, and rewarding yoga practice. The room is hot (110 degrees).
Strengthen & Lengthen with David Vendetti
A yoga class that is accessible for beginners and options for advanced students. This class will move through postures at a mindful pace with a lot of focus on alignment and safety. This class can often be described as a moving meditation. Offering different movements and poses each time, with heat at approximately 95 degrees so your muscles are warm, this class is an all-level class that finds balance. Get ready to move, and to leave feeling like you worked out all of the stuck energy! Beginners welcome.
Prop, Block & Roll with David Vendetti
This rolling and self massage class highlights common areas of tension and leads to increased range of motion and deeper relaxation. Highly recommended for athletes, those recovering from injury, and lovers of massage! The room is heated to 80 degrees.
Candlelight Yin with Jen Phillips
A 75-minute class with a mixture of meditation and floor-based asana with bolsters, blocks, blankets and essential oils. The room is a set temp of 80 degrees. With its stilling nature, Yin helps to move our mind to a state of quiet and calm which helps balance our nervous system. As we age, our joints and connective tissues tighten and lose elasticity leaving us feeling stiff, but with prolonged practice Yin reduces tightness bringing fluidity to your movement and overall better health. This class is perfect for every. body.
Restore and Renew with Courtney Sprague
Expect a classic Restorative Yoga class with no movement and no stretching, just a deeply relaxing and restoring deep rest with bolsters and blankets. The room will be dark, warm, and quiet, and you'll be able to truly reset to restore yourself. Wear comfortable, loose clothes and absolutely no experience is necessary. Just come rest with us.
Stretch & Reset with Courtney Sprague
Stretch & Reset will be your new favorite way to wrap up your week! Expect the beginning of class to focus on gentle, feel-good yoga flows, followed by gentle, full-body stretches and true restorative poses to reset your body and mind. This class is all you need to reconnect and recenter yourself after a busy week and re-energize you just in time for the weekend.
Teacher Bios
Jacqueline Dagle
Jacqueline Dagle (RYT-500) developed a love for yoga at a young age when she accompanied her mother to a class at a local community center. She has been involved in the practice ever since and has developed a passion for the positive connection yoga enforces between physical and emotional well-being.
After completing her teacher trainings, Jacqueline went on to support students as both a yoga teacher and a resource for students attaining their own teaching certifications. Jacqueline has gained experience teaching a wide variety of styles including power yoga, hatha, vinyasa, yin, restorative, and adaptive for a diverse community of students. She also has experience leading content-based classes focused on topics including anatomy, ayurveda, and the philosophical aspects of yoga.
Jacqueline views yoga as a method of making space for ourselves on the mat, both physically and mentally. Through the practice and teaching of yoga, Jacqueline has found a creative outlet fostering balance in her life. As a teacher, Jacqueline’s goal is for her power flow classes to be physically and mentally nurturing, while offering a present, playful, and empowering outlet for students!
Lauren D’Angelo
Lauren D’Angelo (E-RYT 500, YACEP) found her way into her first yoga class after years of playing sports, running, and cycling, and knew instantly that she wanted to be a yoga teacher. Through her journey of becoming a teacher, she has studied with Goldie Graham, Robert Sidoti, Betty Riaz, David Vendetti, and many other well-known teachers who have guided her along the way. She has also studied and been certified with Core Power Yoga, Budokon, and SPA yoga.
Lauren’s classes are an active, powerful, movement-based vinyasa crafted to be accessible for all. In her 15+ years of teaching, she has taught in settings such as the UnderArmour world headquarters, Oakley world headquarters, the Boston Common, and Yoga Reaches Out, and for O2x, a Boston organization that helps first responders, including military and firefighters thrive. Lauren is known for her creative, fluid sequences, story-telling, and messaging, and similarly, is also an avid writer.
Currently, Lauren is studying for her Master's in Social Work, and with this education, she brings the gift of science and education of the brain, central nervous system, and the human body into her classes.
Rebecca DeCristofaro
Like many people’s yoga stories, Rebecca initially sought out yoga as a workout, but quickly found it was definitely that, but SO much more. Less than 6 months after taking her first yoga class, she started her 200hr YTT journey to augment her own practice and to learn how to deliver an inspiring experience to students. Rebecca teaches the way she likes to practice – fluid transitions, thoughtful balance, strong engagement and movement – all unified through breath. A perennial student, she’s constantly pursuing development opportunities through workshops, mentorship and teacher trainings to always bring something new and challenging to her yoga community.
When Rebecca’s not practicing or teaching, you can find her on her small horse farm in North Smithfield, RI – herding ducks, waiting on horses, tending to her garden, working remote (as a project manager) and probably thinking about yoga.
Ben Gettinger
Ben Gettinger is a certified Advanced Level Yoga Teacher and Rhode Island native who left his hometown of Cumberland twenty years ago to travel the world and immerse himself in various spiritual disciplines such as Yoga, Zen Buddhism, Reiki, and Shamanic Healing. During that time span, Ben was mostly based in Los Angeles where he practiced, trained, and taught at a handful of prominent studios such as Liberation Yoga, Yogaworks, and Jai Yoga Hollywood. In 2015 Ben travelled to India where he studied closely with world-renowned teachers, Rolf Naujukot and Ganga Puri. In the midst of the pandemic, Ben returned to Rhode Island to reconnect with his roots and share his teachings with all the wonderful yogis and spirit seekers back home!
Tara Morris
Yoga powerhouse, photographer, and entrepreneur Tara Morris lives a big, full, and joyful life with her incredible friends and two pups in Providence. Originally from Marshfield, MA, she's lived all over the world and settled back on the east coast to be closer to her family. She has spent the last 20 years traveling the world and has been to 35 countries, mostly by herself, but has also led yoga and photography workshops all over the world under the Destination Love Offensive brand.
Tara’s classes are powerful, athletic, and ablaze with tempo and music. As a teacher, she curates a gritty power experience designed to explore using the body for mental health and how our thoughts makes us feel. Her goal for students in every single class is to help them walk out feeling grateful, hopeful, and free. If her life had a mission statement it would read: To see the world and make people feel good. She does her best. :)
Jen Phillips
Shortly after Jen began practicing yoga she decided to enrich her practice and enrolled in a 200-hr YTT. There she realized how much it reached her on a spiritual level and wanted to share her passion by teaching. Soon after settling into a Yin practice, she felt the peaceful benefits of stillness of mind and body through consistent practice. She also recognized how much it touched her soul and felt close to her nature. Jen continued her training specifically into Yin and Reiki healing. Her hope is to touch her students with Yin in the same way it made carving out time to practice so important to her, in order to find balance. When she is not teaching and practicing, you’ll find Jen in Exquisite Smiles in South Attleboro, MA helping the community of patients with their dental needs. Most closely to her heart is her family. She loves spending time with her husband Gerry and Irish twins, Reis and Mia.
Allison Sheahan
Allison is a passionate yoga instructor who believes in the transformative power of the practice. She specializes in hot power yoga, which combines the physical and mental benefits of yoga with the detoxifying effects of the heat. Allison is dedicated to helping her students improve their physical and mental well-being through the practice of yoga, and she is committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive space for all her students. Whether you are a seasoned yogi or new to the practice, Allison is committed to helping you find inner peace and strength through the practice of yoga.
Courtney Sprague
After dabbling in yoga for several years Courtney realized the true power in her practice to quiet the mind and find peace on her mat in 2021. Through her personal practice, Courtney learned a lot about the important connection between physical and mental health by making time for herself to get quiet on her mat. As she set out to deepen her practice, Courtney enrolled in yoga teacher training where she found an unexpected love for hot power yoga and continued to foster her appreciation for mindful restorative practices. Throughout her classes, Courtney sets to inspire her students to find movements that empower their body and mind on and off their mat. A natural healer, Courtney is a Reiki Master and looks forward to incorporating these modalities to deliver the ultimate yoga and relaxation experience.
Shaffany Terrell
Shaffany Terrell is a Black Afro indigenous, multidisciplinary performance artist, dancer and musician from Roxbury, MA. Music is an ancestral gift for Shaffany, her intuition has guided her in making sound beyond her realm of understanding since her childhood. Shaffany is interested in using her gift to create community and safe space for Black people and all people to vibrate at a higher frequency together. Shaffany is an artist-facilitator for Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools combining art making with mindfulness to help children deepen their understanding of Self. She is certified by Deep Play for Kids and teaches yoga to children in Providence. Shaffany’s work has been featured at Wilbury Theatre, WaterFire Arts Center, Rites and Reason Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and Paramount Theatre in Boston.
David Vendetti
As a 30 year practitioner and the founder of Yoga Liberation Front, David is a powerful advocate for empowering and celebrating every kind of body and people from all spheres of life.
With a wild sense of acceptance and inclusivity his classes are a deep dive into spirituality, humanity and unlocking the secrets of transformational anatomy and energetic alignment. He thrives on innovating new sequences and practices that are absurdly useful and effective.
He is gay, poly, and a huge supporter of all things LGBTQIA. He firmly believes in non-violent communication, emotional intelligence, and radical education for positive social reform.
His teaching leaves people feeling that everyone has a place in this universe and that each of us truly, deeply belongs here.
David owned (South Boston Yoga) and managed yoga studios for over 20 years, and traveled worldwide teaching. He is a profound bodyworker and has been practicing structural integration for over 15 years.
He believes we can always make a difference. We make that difference by uplifting others even though we are still learning and climbing ourselves. Transcending through ascending together.