Our Teachers

Ph.D., E-RYT500, YACEP

YOGA LAB CO-FOUNDER

Anna is a yoga teacher, photographer, clinical psychologist, brain-imaging researcher, activewear designer, and co-founder of Yoga Lab. Her yoga teaching focuses on mindfulness, interconnectedness, sustainability, alignment and functional movement, and compassionate action, on and off the mat. She teaches yoga in the Kinesiology Department at Penn State, where she has earned Teaching Excellence Awards for her yoga teaching. She created Sunny Get Up, an eco-friendly line of yoga clothes with designs drawn from her nature photography, to raise money for environmental charities.

Ph.D., E-RYT500, YACEP

YOGA LAB CO-FOUNDER

Jeremy David Engels, Ph.D., is an award-winning scholar and teacher committed to building wiser and more mindful democratic communities that can thrive in a world on fire. He is currently a Professor of Communication and Ethics at Penn State University. He has been studying and practicing yoga and meditation for 25 years, and he brings the insights of his spiritual practice to bear on his scholarship and his scholarship to bear on his spiritual practice.

M.S., E-RYT500, RPYT, YACEP, CES, PCES

YOGA LAB CO-FOUNDER

Kristen loves sharing her vibrant presence, raw humanity, and Jersey girl energy to empower and celebrate YOU and your place in the community. She strives to encourage individuals to garner their mental and physical energy to live on purpose and support one another as a collaborative collective to make the world a healthy, happy, and thriving place to live. Kristen really wanted to be an expert in yoga and got frustrated studying with dozens of famous yoga teachers who had their own contradictory way of doing postures with no legitimate “why.” That led Kristen to the body, skeleton, joints, and biomechanics, as the informant for how to do postures in yoga to optimize biomechanical and functional health for physical sustainability and longevity. Kristen has been teaching yoga for 20 years and has an MS in Exercise Science & Rehabilitation and is a certified Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES). She is PSU Kinesiology faculty and has earned Excellence in Teaching awards. Kristen specializes in pregnancy and postpartum, especially after having 4 kids of her own, and offers workshops in restoring pelvis, core, and pelvic floor function. Kristen is happy to support others in her weekly group classes, as well as one on one sessions, to help women (and everyone!) find their way back their bodies and themselves, and show up more fully in community.

Ph.D., RYT200

Ph.D., RYT200

RYT200

RYT200

RYT200

RYT200, Sound Meditation Facilitator

Ph.D., RYT200

E-RYT500, YACEP, PMN, RRCA Coach