About Shaina

Shaina found yoga in her early 20s to help her cope while caretaking for her father, Robert, who was living with Parkinson’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. Her time on the mat allowed her to calm her mind while managing his care. When Robert passed in 2020, Shaina joined a 200 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher training to experience connection and community in a time of isolation while processing her grief. Although she joined the training with no intentions to teach, she came out the other side with a passion to share her insights of the practice with others.

In 2021, Shaina started training in Katonah Yoga at The Studio and Katonah Yoga Center, and began teaching shortly after. She’s completed mentorships with world-renowned teachers Abbie Galvin and Mary Dana Abbott of The Studio and Katonah Yoga Center. In 2023, she also completed an Apprenticeship with Abbie Galvin. Over the years, Shaina has amassed over 1500 hours in training specific to Katonah Yoga, with emphasis on body reading, face reading and hands-on adjustments. She continues to learn from this expansive material. Katonah is very much a living, breathing thing.

Shaina’s believes one’s yoga practice is a recipe to develop techniques to connect with ourselves and ultimately propagate a conscious link between body, breath and mind. It is by going in, that we establish ways to better go out, building deep connection with others and the Earth that supports us. Katonah Yoga helps to reveal patterns, making the unconscious, conscious, cultivating emotional regulation in the process. This practice has changed her life and she aims to help others experience its magic as well.