Meet Our Instructors
Our teachers bring their love of yoga to each class and offer a unique blend of postures, breathing, and mindfulness.
Angie
Angie Krysiak has joined Inspired Yoga following her 200 hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training. She is a natural teacher full of confidence and peace and a world traveler. Angie brings her love of nature and the outdoors and we are honored to have her presence at the studio. She has been a practitioner at our studio since we opened in 2009. She is a Reiki Master and turtle whisperer. We love the way she works her magic in the studio.
Cathy
Cathy Arnault completed her 200 hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training in the fall of 2018. A former elementary school educator, this smiling yogini is now exploring other passions. As a Reiki Master and writer, Cathy ascribes to the following quote by Rumi: “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul.” Committed to yoga and personal growth, Cathy’s ultimate goal is to inspire others to find presence and joy in their lives.
Jessica
Jessica Norton is a graduate of Yoga Works 200 hour certificate program. Her journey with yoga began in 2010. Jessica has been diligently practicing Vinyasa Flow, Align, Hatha and Gentle yoga since that time and began teaching in 2016. Yoga has become a way of life
for her. In addition to her love of yoga, Jessica is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Master Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor. She continues to find balance with her career and passion for her yoga practice. Jessica feels grateful to share what Yoga has offered her with her students.
Karen
Karen Batchelder began her yoga journey in 1998 as a method to alleviate anxiety. She discovered that yoga provided not only stress relief, but a set of tools and life lessons that help with anxiety and so much more. She began her instructor training in 2005, earning her 200-hour and 500-hour Classical Yoga Teacher Training and Level 1 Comprehensive Yoga Therapy Training through the YogaLife Institute of NH. “I aspire to help others seeking relief from stress and anxiety by integrating Yoga’s wonderful tools into my gentle yoga classes. My intention is to create a welcoming and supportive environment and inspire students to value yoga’s gifts for their own personal growth. Having taught for 10 years, I have seen firsthand how transformed a student can be after each class. Arriving stressed or tired, leaving untangled and relaxed. I look forward to meeting you on the mat.”
Certified Health Coach
Linda
Linda Sample is a graduate of YogaLife Institute’s 200 hour Classical Yoga Teacher Training program. She has been practicing yoga since 2007 and is a Level II Reiki Practitioner. Linda loves the emotional freedom and sense of ease that yoga has brought into her life and is committed to sharing these gifts with others. “Yoga has deepened my practice of acceptance, of being present and of creating more balance in my life.” Linda is a licensed Speech Pathologist. She has served children and adolescents with communication needs for many years. When not on her mat, Linda enjoys reading, children’s storytelling, seasonal activities and dance.
Marissa
Marissa Garvey discovered a love for intuitive movement early in life and came to trust in the power of a playful, curious, accepting practice through her own yoga journey. Her career in clinical dance/movement therapy deepened her belief that physical movement gives us a path into self-knowledge, divine relationship, healing, and joy. When not on the mat, you can find Marissa tromping through the forest or building sand castles with her small children.
Marissa completed her 200-hr YTT training through Barre&Soul in 2022, and is registered through Yoga Alliance. She can’t wait to meet you on the mat!
Molly
Owner
Molly (Schlangen) Thomas is the owner/director of Inspired Yoga (formerly Awakening Grace Yoga) and a 500-hour Certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor. She has been teaching yoga since 2006 and finds this to be her true dharma. She has found the practice of yoga to be a journey for healing and personal growth; “We start where we are, and allow yoga to transform”. She has worked as a Registered Nurse in the areas of community & mental health, sports rehabilitation, school health and on the nursing faculty at NHTI. She holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. Molly brings her love of people and the practice of yoga to her classes, workshops, and retreats where she invites participants to discover (and live) the balance of stillness, movement, breath and meditation … connecting body, mind & spirit.
NSHC Certified Health Coach
Trained in Tai Ji Quan: Movement for Better Balance
Reiki Master
Donna
Donna Jones fell in love with yoga in 2003 after suffering with anxiety, depression, and headaches!! My body, mind, and eventually spirit just healed with yoga.
In 2007, she became a RYT 200 through Yoga Spirit and started to teach and share yoga with others. One thing about her style (due to my lineage training in Iyengar ) is that she is big on using props. She also feels very strongly that yoga is for every BODY. In 2021, Donna became certified in Yoga Nidra. In additon to being a yoga teacher she is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, a Reiki Master, a lover of nature, coffee, and animals.
She lives locally and hopes to see you on the mat.
Certified Yoga Nidra Teacher
Reiki Master
Shannen
Shannen Clark initially started practicing yoga to build physical strength and flexibility but ended up falling in love with the calm, positive energy that she discovered on her mat. Shannen strives to create strong steady flows with emphasis on connecting to the breathe. She encourages each student to strengthen both their body and mind. Shannen allows for a space of comfort and lightness while on the mat. She completed her YTT 200hr through Yoga Works in 2015 and her 300hr through Down Under School of Yoga in 2023. She was Yin Yoga certified in 2019. In 2023, she completed Reiki 1. Shannen believes that yoga is for every body; she has trained specifically to guide each student into postures with ease. Welcome Shannen!
Amber
Amber Drebaum teaches Tai Chi with a focus on cultivating strength, calm, and clarity. Certified through the Tai Chi for Health Institute, she guides students in gentle, accessible practices that build both body awareness and inner peace. As a life and career vision coach with Lumisage Coaching, she integrates her passion for helping people align movement, mindset, and purpose.
Hollis
Hollis Cornelissen graduated from Kripalu School of Yoga’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in October 2025 and is thrilled for the opportunity to share the beauty of Yoga with the Inspired Yoga & Health community!
A constant seeker of answers to the question of what it means to be human, Hollis began to practice Yoga after a deeply embodied first experience of savasana (corpse pose). For the last 16 years, her daily asana (posture) and pranayama (breath) practice have provided her refuge and nourishment as she has traveled through life.
A former Youth Minister and Interfaith Hospice Chaplain, Hollis has a real appreciation for Kripalu Yoga’s emphasis on being present to the mind, body and breath in the ‘moving meditation’ of Yoga asana and the ways that translates into ‘living Yoga off the mat’. Hollis draws great inspiration from Swami Kripalu’s belief that, “The highest form of spiritual practice is self-observation without judgment.”
Renee
Renee Masson has been teaching yoga since completing her 200 hour at Sewall House Yoga in Island Falls, ME in the summer of 2018. Her training consisted of Kundalini, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, and Hatha Yoga. She is registered through Yoga Alliance, and continues to train and expand her knowledge of yoga on a regular basis. She fell in love with yoga in 2005 during her freshman year of college. She found it helped her manage her anxiety and stress in a natural way, while encouraging her to exercise regularly.
Her classes tend to focus on slow movement to allow space to feel and meditate, while incorporating yoga philosophy. She offers modifications throughout her classes to fit her students’ levels and shifting needs. When not on her yoga mat, Renee can be found building jigsaw puzzles, exploring local coffee shops, marveling at her flowers, walking through the woods with her dog, or curled up with a book and her cats.
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