Our Teachers

Yoga Lab Co-Founders

Anna S. Engels

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.

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Jeremy David Engels

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.

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Kristen Boccumini

M.S., E-RYT500, RPYT, YACEP, CES, PCES
YOGA LAB CO-FOUNDER
An award-winning yoga teacher with over two decades of experience, Kristen teaches science-informed yoga and mindfulness to empower individual, relational, and global transformation. Her classes build strength and mobility through dynamic movement, complemented by meaningful inspiration to foster self-agency, integrity, and compassion.
Kristen’s holistic approach cultivates embodied self-awareness and meaningful connection which moves beyond the mat, exemplified by her humanitarian work in Africa with Off the Mat Into the World and her local community impact as the founder of Yoga On The Mountain and leader of Yoga In Action programs, also integrating service into her curriculum as a Kinesiology instructor for PSU.

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