Kim Nichols-Cech

Director Kim Nichols Cech brings a deep understanding to the artistry, mechanics, and emotional language of the body to her teaching.  Using the principles of yoga as an ART/SCIENCE to explore the vastness of your inner universe and how poetically it relates to our outer environment.

Kim has been a  certified yoga teacher and yoga therapist since 2001, inspired and trained by many great teachers. She is devoted to sharing the art/science of yoga and all its many benefits. Classes offer a joyful, encouraging, safe, and supportive environment to explore yourself whether you’re interested in yoga as exercise, health care, stress or pain relief, expression, self awareness, or to find your roots and let your heart blossom.

“Kim is an instinctive yoga instructor. She teaches with clear instruction – challenging yet thoughtful, with strong experience and pure knowledge of the poses. Each visit to her studio is a gift.” – Barbara from Maryland.

Dragana Pavic-Zappia

Native of Serbia and Montenegro, Citizen of the Earth….

I have always been touched by studies of healing through energy movement.  Having studied in Athens Greece where Dragana received her Reiki 1st degree in 1997, and became a certified Feng Shui Consultant in the New England School of Feng Shui in 2004.

Since birth Dragana has loved to dance, she has been seduced and and inspired by the Art of Yoga. Her yogic awakening truly began through evolving practice at Yoga Chandra Center with Kim Cech, Founder of Yoga Chandra Center.  “It birthed the hunger for yoga, like food nourishes the body”.  Dragana writes, “I am honored to be able to share my own inspiration and experience of yoga, through sensations it brings to my own body”.

My very new inspiration and Art form that I feel honored to be able to share, is NIA.  Studied and Certified White Belt from Nia Teachers Training with Black Belt Trainer Stephaney Robinson on Sullivan’s Island, SC.

Nia has brought a new level of body, mind, spirit awakening and deepened my yoga practice and therefore experience.  Nia teaches us to “Dance through Life”.  Body, Mind, Spirit, Joy, Movement, Grace, Freedom, Awareness, Healing… breathe and feel yoga and Nia for me.

I am a fortunate Mom, Spouse, Friend, Sister, Daughter and a student forever….

“I dance not to look pretty or perfect a series of steps, but to surrender myself to the spirit of movement”

Ifetayo White

Ifetayo is a 65 year-old grandmother, mother, teacher, mentor and celebrant of life.  Many experiences of change and growth have been the foundation for Ifetayo’s unique and full life. She generously offers the wisdom of this journey to all who on a path of growth.

Birthing, rebirthing, creating, touching, moving, breathing, loving, living in truth, joining with what is……this is the core of what Ifetayo offers to her community.  As a certified doula, Ifetayo has assisted many mothers and partners prepare for and experience the birth of their child in a manner that is true to them.  Supporting parents to name and move through their fears is one of the greatest joys of her doula work.

While working for the U.S. House of Representatives for a decade in the 80s, Ifetayo felt drawn to touch.  She was certified as a reflexologist in 1989 and her journey as a somatic body worker and certified massage therapist began.  In 1995 she was initiated Reiki I & II and received her Reiki III Master/Teacher initiation in 1998.

At Yoga Chandra, Ifetayo currently offers childbirth preparation workshops and Reiki I classes.  She is in the process of creating a movement workshop with Kim, “The Dance of Birth”, which will be full of fun, sensuality, and body-awareness.

Ann Gassenheimer

discovered her love for yoga in college and began practicing Iyengar yoga with John Schumacher. She was trained and certified as a Hatha yoga teacher while working in Jerusalem. Since then, she has continued to explore yoga with many different teachers. Ann believes her practice of yoga and association with the yogic community have deeply enriched her life. It is these quality-of-life enhancing powers of yoga that she seeks to pass on to her students.