Our Building

This former Christian Science Center and Christian Science Reading Room was constructed in 1960 and served the community until 2007.  In 2009, 5 School Street became a yoga studio and today continues to offer yoga and meditation to all who enter the doors of this warm, uplifting space.

Our Instructors

Kim Nashed

E-RYT-500

Kim Nashed is an E-RYT-500 teacher.  She has been guiding mindfulness based Yoga classes since 2010, with her early teaching days beginning at School Street Yoga! Since then, Kim has guided weekly studio classes, special yoga and meditation events, and taken yogis on weeklong Retreats in Italy, France and Switzerland.

 

Closer to home, Kim has lifelong ties to Waterville through her family, as an alum of Colby College, and through the joy of raising her two sons in Waterville.

 

Kim is delighted to return to School Street Yoga and shine her love and passion for sharing yoga on the yogis and yogis-to-be in the Waterville area at her new home away from home, School Street Yoga.

Kathleen Leisure Haberstock

RYT-500

Kathleen Leisure Haberstock became a 200 hr certified teacher through Jaya Yoga Center in 2012, and taught yoga all over Brooklyn and New York City. She received her 300 hr training at Kripalu in 2019. Kathleen fell in love with sharing yoga, and finds joy teaching all ages: from children and teens, to adults and the elderly. Everyone can do yoga. If you can breathe, you can do yoga!

Her flowing and alignment based classes encourage exploration and self-acceptance coupled with tapas (discipline). Drawn to the physical practice at first, she later found the more profound changes occurred over time with a deeper mind/body connection. She has a deepening interest in pranayama (yogic breathing) techniques and meditation. She is also a Reiki II practitioner. With much gratitude to all her teachers (especially Carla Stangenberg and Yoganand Michael Carroll) and to her wonderful and supportive husband, Alan.

Holly Zadra

RYT-500

Holly Zadra first learned yoga as a homemaker fitting vinyasa videos in while raising children. This led her to Carla Stangenberg and Jaya Yoga’s Iyengar/Krishnamcharya teachings, then Yin Yoga w/ Josh Summers, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, and Hatha Yoga w/ Susannna Barkataki in the Shankaracharya tradition of Advaita Vedanta. Holly continues her studies in spiritual embodiment practices w/ Rev. Naomi King and she continues yoga philosophy studies w/ Dr. Shyam Ranganatham. 

Grounded in place with reverence for the original stewards of Dawnland, Holly also keeps learning from the teachings and practices of Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset Sherri Mitchell that support all beings to live and thrive. 

Carol Janelle

Carol Janelle

CYT-500

Carol Janelle is a trained and board-certified classical homeopath, with a background in natural health, biochemistry, and certified yoga therapy. For 20 years she worked her own business in wilderness adventures in the California mountains, combining hiking, breath work, yoga, and hula hoops for a healthier and happier way of being. Carol, who grew up in Waterville, is excited to be back and part of the the growing consciousness of School Street Yoga! She believes what we do here affects the entire community!

Carol Janelle

Anna Olsen

CYT-200

Anna Olsen received her certified yoga teacher training through the Bloom! School for Therapeutic Arts. She has been teaching yoga since 2018. Her passion for yoga has been a part of her whole life — from the Colorado Rockies to the rocky coast of Maine. In addition to yoga, Anna also enjoys hiking, adventuring, and archaeology.

Desiree Kelley

RYT-200

Desiree Kelley has always found freedom in creative movement, with a passion for ballet in her youth that eventually transitioned to a consistent yoga practice. Over time she discovered yoga provided emotional and mental support with a sense of connection to the mind, body and spirit. Desiree is a graduate from Well Heart Yoga School, is a RYT-200 with Yoga Alliance, and certified SUP yoga instructor.

She primarily teaches alignment based Vinyasa Flow yoga with focus on options for everyone and emphasis on connection to the breath.

Christiane Guillois

RYT-200

Christiane Guillois has been practicing yoga since her adolescent years in France. She obtained certification as a yoga teacher in 2011 at School Street Studio, and has trained in teaching Yin Yoga with Joshua Summers. With her background in Chinese medicine, dance, and pranayama, she is especially attuned to the interaction between the body and the meditative aspects of Yin Yoga.

Portrait of Audrey McGee a qigong instructor at School Street Yoga in Waterville Maine

Audrey McGee

 

RYT-200

Audrey McGee is the owner of Resilient Embodiment Yoga, LLC. She is an RYT-200 with Yoga Alliance having graduated from Well Heart Yoga in Falmouth, and completed a 300-hour teacher training at the Summers School of Yin Yoga with Bernie Clark. Deepening her studies in Chinese medicine, she became interested in the holistic health benefits of Qigong, an ancient movement practice that incorporates nature and the elements, for which she undertook teacher training with Mimi Kuo-Deemer. Audrey is also a Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) receiving certification through the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI, in Massachusetts.

Her focus is on embodiment through practices that benefit the whole body, help restore and maintain the mind-body connection, build resilience, and present moment awareness. She teaches Qigong, Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi, Deep Stretch Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation, and Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in the local community and online.

Portrait of Audrey McGee a qigong instructor at School Street Yoga in Waterville Maine

Emma Goodrich

Emma Goodrich is a yoga teacher from Waterville, Maine. She has taught dance, movement, and yoga in various school settings for the past five years to children from ages 2 to 12. Emma’s classes provide her young students the skills for mindfully navigating daily life as well as a fun outlet through linked breathing and movement.

Portrait of Audrey McGee a qigong instructor at School Street Yoga in Waterville Maine

Holly Dean

Holly Dean received her 200hr RYT and prenatal yoga training from Sistermoon Wellness in Montana, where she began teaching classes in 2021. She focuses her classes on slow controlled movement, offering variations and encouraging choice through a trauma-informed lens. In her free time she likes to be outside, play casual video games, and learn new recipes.