Instructors
At Yoga on the Vine we offer a wide range of classes for every person, every body, every level. Our teachers collectively have several decades of experience to offer. While each instructor expresses a unique style, there is a common thread with the quality of instruction, and our united desire to make you feel safe, supported, and always welcome.
Lora Ksieniewicz
Owner, Director of Yoga San Kalpa Teaching School, E-RYT 500, YACEP, IAYT Yoga Therapist, Peak Pilates Instructor
Lora Ksieniewicz has been teaching yoga since 2006, and has studied meditation and asana practice for more than two decades. Her yoga and Pilates classes focus on functional movement to keep our bodies safe, strong and healthy, using the poses as a way to access our minds and emotions for release, healing and greater ease in the present moment.
Lora holds a degree in Holistic Health at The University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a focus on the Kinesiology of Yoga. She has studied the history and philosophy of Buddhism and Hinduism at Boston University, through Antioch University, and at Mount Holyoke College. She spent several months at the Burmese Monastery in Bodh Gaya India, studying the history of Buddhism and it's various traditions from both an academic standpoint and as a practitioner. She is honored to have studied vipassana meditation with the venerable Munindra-ji, and was able to test his patience with her many, many silly questions. Some of Lora's yoga teachers include Claire Este Mcdonald and Gregor Singleton, Sarah Powers, Shiva Rea and Baron Baptiste. She has trained within the Sivananda Yoga tradition in the U.S, the Bahamas, and in Kerala India.
Lora was the Director of Flexibility and Recovery for National Championship Amherst College Men's Soccer and Puma Peak Performance Camps, having worked with the team since 2010. She has developed a specific sequence of therapeutic yoga postures for athletes that helps maintain pliability, reducing non-contact injuries, and improving both performance and recovery time. In addition to men and women's soccer at the college, high school, and youth level, Lora trains college athletes in football, lacrosse, field hockey, baseball, and hockey at Amherst College and UMass Amherst. She is a certified Functional Range Conditioning provider, and a Peak Pilates Instructor.
Lora is a Pro Ambassador for Jade Yoga. She has run retreats and teacher training programs in the US, Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America.
Shannon Larsen
Lead Instructor, Yoga Therapist, CYT-500 (YSK/YOTV trained)
Shannon moved back to Martha’s Vineyard 2005, where she has deep family roots. While working through some personal obstacles she became an avid runner. A very close friend encouraged her to attend a YOTV retreat, and the experience changed her.
Realizing the benefits and power of yoga and wanting to learn more about it, she enrolled in Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga on the Vine. In no small way the practice, and the practice of teaching, has transformed her life. She is passionate about sharing this with every one, and making it powerful and accessible for every body.
Shannon is a graduate of both the Yoga San Kalpa/Yoga on the Vine 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program, 300hr Yoga Therapy program, the 50hr Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra program, 50hr Advanced Yin training, with specializations in Chair Yoga and Pre/Postnatal Yoga. She has completed our 200hr Buddhist meditation training. She is also our resident expert on Ayurveda, and available for both group classes, and private instruction or yoga therapy.
In 2019 Shannon was made Lead Instructor, and mentors YTT graduates as they take on the first challenging years of their teaching practice. What Shannon would like her students to feel from her classes is an experience of themselves, and the release from pressures of the outside world. Even if it’s just for an hour, in a space where they feel safe and supported.
Lindsey Provost
Yoga Therapist, CYT-500 (YSK/YOTV trained)
Lindsey was born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard. She has turned to yoga at different times throughout her adult life. After some medical issues in 2014 she turned to her practice to help with her healing and recovery process, first through a love for hot yoga and over the past few years her practice has evolved and she has found a passion for yin and restorative yoga. Lindsey believes that, through breath and deep stretching, you can strengthen your body and mind from the inside out. Being able to breathe through postures and learning the difference between pain and discomfort has been beneficial in all areas of her life, not just on her mat.
Lindsey encourages students of all ages and body types to come to her classes and hold space for themselves within the group setting. Side by side, breath by breath we support each others individualized journey.
Lindsey is a graduate of both the Yoga San Kalpa/Yoga on the Vine 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program, 300hr Yoga Therapy program, the 50hr Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra program, and Advanced Yin training. She has completed our 200hr Buddhist Meditation training. She is available for both group classes, and private instruction or yoga therapy.
Tom Coye
Yoga Teacher, CYT-200 (YSK/YOTV trained)
Tom’s teaching is compassionate, welcoming and peaceful. He brings a zen-like approach into even a challenging power flow. Trained and working as a nurse, Tom brings an intelligence about anatomy, and the importance of care to how he teaches. He has most recently been a nurse for Hospice, providing support for folks in the final stages of their lives.
Tom is a graduate of Yoga San Kalpa/Yoga on the Vine’s 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program, and YOTV’s Pre/PostNatal Training. He is available for both group classes, and private instruction or yoga therapy.
Claire Markell
RYT-500, Vinyasa, Yoga San Kalpa (YOTV Teaching School) grad of Yin & Nidra TT
Claire has been a licensed and certified Massage Therapist with the American Massage Therapy Association since 1991. She is a Physical Therapist Assistant and a 500 hour Yoga Alliance yoga teacher. She has worked in healthcare and fitness for over 25 years. Former founder and owner of Integrative Therapeutics, a complementary healthcare clinic in Natick, she believes that there are many paths to healing and wellness, and is committed to honoring the individual needs of each client and student. Claire believes in collaborating with other clinicians and practitioners as it optimizes results and offers the most efficient care. Claire graduated from Lasell College in Newton and then the New England School of Massage Therapy. Her bodywork practice combines a number of modalities including myofascial release, site specific trigger point work, cold laser therapy and thoughtfully sequenced self-care stretching and strengthening. Client participation is essential to maximize benefits of treatment. Reluctantly taking her first hot yoga class in a gym (where her clinic was located) in 2001 was "life changing". In 2008 Claire completed her first 200 hour teacher training program with Jimmy Barkan. She continues to study with many teachers in a variety of styles, as well as studying with Jimmy Barkan at his trainings annually. She is now an Advanced Barkan Method teacher.
Jill Gault
Jill is an educator in a therapeutic support program at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School and a dedicated single mother. Prior to moving back to Martha's Vineyard in 2019, Jill owned her own yoga studio and led annual 200 hour teacher trainings that focused on trauma informed yoga.
Her goal is to make the practice of yoga and meditation more accessible for marginalized populations of people.
Jill believes that yoga is for every body, race, gender, non-gender and age. She is especially passionate about using yoga as a way to heal and manage the effects of personal, racial, and collective trauma. She has trained with Connection Coalition of Miami, FL; Dr. Chelsea Jackson of Atlanta, GA, and Off the Mat Into the World which is a non profit organization that uses yoga as a tool for social change. Jill is currently enrolled in Yoga on the Vine's 300hr Yoga Therapy Training.
Jill brings her eclectic background to her yoga teachings and practice.
Angela Sison
Currently in pursuit of CYT 200 through Yoga San Kalpa (YOTV Teaching School)
Angela was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and grew up in Manila, Philippines. Angela's first taste of yoga was during her adolescence complimentary to physical activities and getting in shape. It continued to trickle in and out of her life during college and adulthood. Yoga really became part of her lifestyle in 2013 taking different classes from Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Kundalini, Forrest Style and Yin. Angela finds that adding yoga into her life helps with releasing any kind of stress and tension. It helped her by adding a sense of clarity and freedom. She found refuge in yoga during hard and challenging times in her life.
Angela has also dove into different yoga workshops focusing on Restorative, Psoas Release and Yoga Nidra in both San Francisco and Martha’s Vineyard.
Angela moved to Martha’s Vineyard full time in 2016 and started her own clothing business full time. She continued taking yoga classes in her free time and met Lora. Angela resonated with Lora’s teachings and regularly practices with Lora. In the winter of 2018, she dove into her first 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga San Kalpa School.
Angela enjoys welcoming and supporting others to be mindful of their physical, emotional and mental health. Angela’s purpose of going into her first 200-Hour was to build strength and gain a deeper understanding of what yoga is. Angela loves to guide her students through challenging flows but at the same time always approaches her classes in a light-hearted and nurturing manner.
Danielle Ayotte
Yoga Therapist, CYT-500 (YSK/YOTV trained)
After raising three children and growing her business in Central Massachusetts, Danielle moved to Cape Cod with her husband, marking the beginning of a new chapter. During the early months of the pandemic, a fellow yoga teacher shared information on YOTV’s online Yin & Yoga Nidra training program. That incredible experience led to several more trainings with YOTV, allowing Danielle to significantly expand her already completed 200-hour training.
Danielle is now a graduate of the Yoga San Kalpa/Yoga on the Vine 300-hr Yoga Therapy program, the 50hr Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra program, the 50hr Advanced Yin Yoga program, the 50hr Chair Yoga program, the 50hr Pre/Postnatal Yoga program, and our 200-hr Buddhist Meditation training.
Danielle is always eager to share the tools of yoga and meditation which have enabled her to move through her life more skillfully–with greater ease and clarity. Through the lens of these ancient, yet constantly evolving practices, Danielle’s classes emphasize the importance of supporting ourselves well physically and emotionally (both “on and off the mat”) though functional movement and alignment focused asana coupled with ample space and time for self-introspection.
Diane Tetreault
Yoga Teacher, CYT-200 (YSK/YOTV trained)
After searching for years for a form of exercise that she enjoyed, yoga found Diane. Coming to yoga later in life was a blessing. It offers her a pain-free back, centering, a clearer mind and a happier, healthier body.
Diane’s classes provide an opportunity for students to listen to their bodies, move with their breath, explore what their bodies need, and feel the peace and joy that is unique to yoga. Her teaching philosophy that this gift of yoga is available to all ages, all sizes, all shapes.
Diane is 200hr certified, certified in Yoga for All which ensures access and appropriate cues for any age, any shape, any "level". Diane completed her Yin & Yoga Nidra training with Yoga on the Vine, and is currently enrolled in YOTV's 300hr Yoga Therapy training
Fallon Aiello
RYT 200, Baby and Me Yoga
Born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard, I moved out west to Albuquerque to attend college at the University of New Mexico. While studying Health Education in school, I continued to practice yoga and dance and after earning a BS in Health Education. I moved back east before embarking on a journey overseas to Bali and India to study yoga and immerse myself in the culture.
I am a certified yoga instructor through Radiantly Alive Yoga, based out of Ubud, Bali, and specialize in prenatal, Mom & Baby and children’s yoga. Studying and teaching prenatal/postpartum yoga has given me the utmost respect for women’s bodies and I am thrilled to be a part of the powerful connection found in motherhood. My playful, energetic spirit carries through to my teachings, and I have seen first hand the numerous benefits that yoga can bring to a child’s life.
I am a DONA trained birth doula and am honored to support women through the birth process. Also I'm a proud member of the Vineyard Birth Collective, a collaborative effort between a group of Island women who have created a website for everything pregnancy and birth related on MV. When not yoga-ing, you can find me spending time with my family, including my 2 kids that keep me on my toes (literally!).