About Our Studio
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Cindy Buchanan
Studio Owner & Instructor
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500, Reiki Master, Restorative and Yin Yoga certified, Trauma Informed, Sound Healing, and Shamanic Practitioner.
She lives locally with her husband Paul, their two teenage sons Cole and Tyler, and a menagerie of pets, including “Luna” the dog, “Cuddles” the guinea pig, and her sister “Chatterbox”.
Cynthia (or Cindy) began navigating the layers of self at the early age of 12. First, using dance to explore emotions, she found solace and freedom in spinning and flying through the air- leading her all the way to the Boston Conservatory dance program. After a brief time as a professional dancer, the desire to dive deeper into soul and energy work led her onto the path of Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and Restorative yoga in 2010. She used yoga and meditation at that time to help navigate through clinical depression and anxiety, and knows she owes the amazing quality of life she experiences today to the numerous gifts of healing that these and other modalities provide. Recently, Cindy received her Soulmonic Sound Healing training from Shamanic Sound Healing practitioner Three Trees, as well as completed a Shamanic Healing Training/Mesa Building under Peter Bonaker from the Four Winds Society, Three Trees, Greta Hough, and Tabitha Gardner.
She desires to express gratitude by paying forward the knowledge and healing of these practices – to create a safe, nurturing, and loving space for the practitioner to realize their own innate gifts, to foster connection and strength of mind, body, and spirit, and to nurture a sense of peace and power within that can be carried out of Shine On and far into the world.
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Our Studio is Your Relaxation Destination
Retreat. Reset. Renew.
We are not just about perfecting our poses. Yoga is the perfect way to alleviate tension before or after a long day of work, loosen up any tightness or aches in the body and also clear our heads.
Why Shine On with Us
Certified and Experienced Instructors
Instructors have certifications in areas, such as Yin, Restorative, Hatha and Vinyasa, Kundalini, 3DMAPS (3-Dimensional Movement and Performance System Gray Institute), Meditation, Sound Healing, Thai Massage, and Reiki to name a few. Many of our instructors have decades of experience and are ready to teach you everything that they know.
Flexible Schedule
Our studio has weekday and weekend classes that are available for everybody. No need to be at a particular experience or fitness level. We design our program around relaxing and renewing your body as well as your mind.
Clean and Sanitized Studio
Our studio is cleaned and sanitized after each class. Masks are not required for practice but encourage when moving around the studio. HEPA air filters run in the studio to help us filter and clean the air.
Our Instructors
We pride ourselves in choosing instructors who are here to help you retreat, relax and renew.
Alejandra
Alejandra has always been passionate about the art of movement and body conditioning, but no matter how much she enjoyed cultivating these areas she always felt there was something missing: the spirit. Feeling that integral connection flowing organically through the rhythm of a proper breathing system was, is, and will always be a very magical experience. Yoga means union and its practice leads to pure-present awareness and quieting of the mind. This oneness is the true definition of Yoga and the reason why she fell in love with yoga at first breath.
Ana Milena
In 2013 Milena decided to join a Kundalini yoga teacher training at Happy Yoga Colombia. Milena specializes in Kundalini as a yoga practitioner and as an experienced instructor. She loves that Kundalini emphasizes the movement of vital energy to promote a meditative state yet awaken the creative energy that settles in the pelvis. Kundalini mobilizes your body harmonically through the spine and mind to restore the natural state of balance and calm. Milena has also developed workshops and courses in facial yoga, eye yoga, yoga for women, and meditation.
Bob
Bob has been practicing yoga for more than 15 years, Starting in the physical Realm of Bikram and continuing his journey into Meditation and Breathwork. Bob's style infuses humor into detailed cueing of the postures with an emphasis on safe/correct alignment. Due to his extensive training and experience, Bob is comfortable teaching a variety of styles; Flow, gentle, and restorative, always with a breath and meditative component to the physical work.
Brigitte
Brigitte first fell in love with yoga in 2017 while spending time in Vietnam. Following a stressful time in her life, she became fascinated by how this practice brings inner peace by calming down the mind, releasing emotions through movement, and tapping into the inner strength we all have. After finding that her yoga practice served as an anchor to remain present and grounded even during the most tumultuous times, she decided to earn her RYT 200-hour certification from The Prana Lab in 2021. Brigitte's classes encourage finding what works for your body in order to achieve a deeper mind-body connection, using breath and movement along with sound healing.
Celeste
Celeste is a mother, yogi, and energy healer and lives her Yoga on and off the mat. Her teaching style is in finding an intuitive way to help her students move through poses to release pent-up emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual blocks in the body. Her classes have been called “Gentle & Strong” which might sound conflicting but somehow she is able to bridge the gap between the two in a harmonious way. She has Reiki I, II & Master’s through The Prana Lab and is working towards her Advanced 500 hour certification.
Leslie
Leslie has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 years, including thousands of hours dedicated to the body, mind, and breath. She has witnessed students move through difficult times with much more ease when they have yoga in their lives. Leslie loves to enhance the yoga space with music, sounds from Tibetan bowls, and the silence of only one's breathing. She has studied Ashtanga, Yin, Katonah Yoga, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, and meditation. She believes a subtle, mindful practice can yield great benefits to your body, mind and help you in many aspects of your life. Leslie is has a BFA in modern dance. She is also a Doula and Prenatal Instructor. Leslie is an Experienced- Registered Yoga Teacher and Certified Reiki Master.
Lori
As a 2016 Cancer Survivor, Lori understands the healing power of yoga and thoughtfully leads her students to find their own mind-body-spirit connection. Being a teacher by nature and inspired to take her took her practice to the next level, Lori – a longtime middle school teacher, specializing in GEM high-school level Algebra and Geometry – earned her RYT 200-hour certification in Hatha Yoga from The Prana Lab in June of 2019. This was followed by a RCYT 95-hour certification in Children’s Yoga. Lori crafts her unique classes to both support new practitioners and challenge more advanced yogis. Lori is committed to delivering meaningful, challenging, and creative classes to all levels.
Manuela
Manu practices and guides graceful movement, alignment, strength, overcoming resistance, and conscious surrender. A former gymnast, she was shaped by her persistence towards self-improvement and freedom of the mind through trust in the body. During her University years abroad, her yoga practice became an intuitive experience of going inwards to be present, thus cultivating health and well-being through a stressful time. After graduating, she dipped her toes in a short online Breathwork and Meditation retreat of sudarshan kriya with SKY @Emory, then a 30hr Holistic Power Yoga Teacher Training with InnerDimension, finally deciding to pursue an in-person 200-hour YTT in Alignment-Based Vinyasa, Slow Flow, as well as a certification in Yoga Thai Massage Therapy with LagoCph. She trained in Sound Healing with Three Trees, Soulmonic Sound Healing.
Nipa
Nipa was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She has completed her Bachelor's in Commerce and a Master's in Law at the University of Mumbai. She is trained in Indian classical dance. She has been living in the USA since 2000. She has completed a 200-hour training in Hatha yoga, 300-hour training in Kundalini yoga, and a 200-hour training in shakti dance and yoga. She is trained in yoga for youth and the Comprehensive Mind and Body Wellness program. She has been sharing her love and passion for mind, body, and spirit wellness by sharing the essential skills of breathing, meditation, and movement with adults and children. She believes that mindfulness, breathing, movement, and relaxation techniques can help us be in the present moment. She strives to increase self-awareness, self-acceptance, vitality, strength, focus, productivity, and concentration which helps us in every area of our life, including to shine our own light.
Pi`ilani
She left her profession as an Architectural Designer to journey inward. She is a Kundalini Yoga Instructor for the past 7 years, assisting in the training of the next graduating class of Kundalini Instructors for 2016/17. Pi`ilani is an ordained Bachelor of Divinity, Certified Master Hypnotist through the NGH, trained in Regression and 5 Path Hypnosis, EFT, Theta Healing. Pi`ilani also studied in Hawaii with master teachers (Kumus & Kahunas) of Huna Kane, Lomilomi, and Ka Hana Pono. She has been practicing the Healing Arts, Hypnosis-Regression Work, and Yoga for over 20 years.
RoseAnn
RoseAnn is a certified Hatha, Vinyasa, Sampoorna, Children's and Prenatal Yoga Instructor and has also studied the Ashtanga, Kripalu, and Iyengar Yoga lineages. RoseAnn uses her 20+ years of experience and diverse systems of healing to benefit all, personally and in the classroom. Her exploration deeper into more than just the physicality of yoga created a deeper connection with herself. Hence, the path towards alternative healing was discovered. Over time she has fine-tuned her intuition and become a Thai Yoga Body Worker, gifted Reiki Master Teacher, Acutonics Practitioner, and Energy healer.
Teri
Teri has enjoyed progressing through the fitness industry for over 25 years. Her passion for health and fitness began during her years as a competitive gymnast and continued during her several years of coaching. Teri’s insatiable thirst for knowledge has been quenched by many certifications and teaching formats including but not limited to Yoga, Pilates, Personal Training, and Group Fitness. After obtaining a few small Yoga certifications mostly associated with the physical body, she wanted to learn the roots, the history, the authentic lineage. She knew The Prana Lab was the place to go for her RYT200 Yoga Alliance Certification. Teri's expansive teaching experience allows her to connect the dots from many different fitness arenas.
“When I step on the mat at the studio, I know I will leave feeling 100% better. With chronic back issues, yoga has helped me heal and relax. I enjoy my time practicing at the studio with instructors who truly care.”
Reach Us
Address
16614 Saddle Club Rd,
Weston, FL 33326
Phone
info@shineonyogi.com