Anna Rose Picagli, RYT 500
TSY 200 Hour 2022, 300 Hour 2023
Anna began practicing yoga in 2014 and quickly discovered its healing and community-building powers. She completed her 500-hour training with Three Sisters Yoga from 2022-2023. She also attained supplemental training in yin yoga with Anjali Yoga Academy and trauma-informed teaching with Yoga International.
Anna strives to create diverse, inclusive class spaces that amplify each student’s unique strengths. She aims to empower each of her students to find their own paths to healing by focusing on the mind-body connection. By fostering deeper self-reflection and bodily awareness, she hopes to help her students self-soothe and find their centers.
With a background in creative writing, Anna utilizes dharma talks, rich imagery, and the poetics of asana to spark inspiration within her students. Her classes are slow-paced, yet intense and intentional, focusing on mindful movement and invitations to draw inward. She strives to hold space for quiet intensity, encouraging her students to lean into their “shadow work” and integrate every aspect of themselves. As a firm believer in the power of the spiritual and metaphysical possibilities that exist within the physical realm, she is also an Usui-Tibetan Reiki Master.
Anna currently resides in Astoria, Queens. Off her mat, she is a voracious reader, a passionate poet, and a seasoned home chef.
Jessie Han, RYT 200
TSY 200 Hour 2016, 300 Hours in the works!
Jessie is a tech professional and yoga instructor. She received her a 200- and 300-hour through Three Sisters Yoga.
Jessie believes that this simple yet powerful practice informs the way we communicate with ourselves and the way we communicate with the world. As an instructor, she hopes to offer you that same clarity and connection. Her vinyasa-style classes focus on building strength, alignment, and the mind-body connection.
She grew up in Beijing, wandered across both the west and east coast in the past 12 years. When off the mat, she enjoys long walks all around New York, memoirs, and seasonal cooking with friends.
Conner Meenan, RYT 500
TSY 200 Hour 2021, 300 Hour 2023
Conner received their 200- and 300-hour teacher certification through Three Sisters Yoga. They are also a high-school science educator with the mission to bring equitable education, of mind, body, and spirit, to students across identity and experience.
Their yoga studentship has brought healing, empowerment, and connection to their own life, and they find great joy and challenge in exploring the intersections of yoga philosophy and science. Their classes incorporate hatha, iyengar, and vinyasa-influenced asana with an emphasis on philosophy, pranayama, and joint-focused cues as catalysts to experiencing and exploring ourselves and our higher Self on and off the mat.
When not teaching, they can be found reading, playing video games, or spending time in the kitchen.
Nicoli Sinclair, The Veda Den, E-RYT 500
TSY 200 Hour 2012, 300 Hour 2015
Nicoli Sinclair is a mother, meditation teacher, and seasoned yoga instructor turned spiritual teacher, who has dedicated her life to helping others move beyond the social constructs and identities that make them feel divided and disconnected from the Divine and each other. Her life lessons and teachings help spiritual seekers unmask their true Self, connect, and live the life they are capable of living. Nicoli takes an emotional mature approach to spiritual teachings that are rooted in the wisdom of the meditation and the Jnana Yoga way of living.
Nicoli began her spiritual journey immersed in the teachings of Jesus Christ as a child and young adult. She has enormous respect for the path of Christianity and is forever grateful for its foundational teachings. Nicoli, however, was called to expanded and began her meditation and yoga practice in 2011. After a few years of practicing, Nicoli became certified in 2013 in Vinyasa Yoga through the Three Sisters Yoga (TSY) 200/hr teacher training and went on to complete her 300/hr certification a year later. During her advanced teacher training, Nicoli became passionate about Jnana Yoga, the teachings of Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramakrishna, and the teachings of the Upanishads, the ancient text from the Vedas. She went on to study mantra, sadhana and Hatha Yoga in Guatemala in 2015. While living in New York City, Nicoli became a frequent guest at the Vedanta Society of New York and when she later moved, the Arsha Vidya Gurukulakam where she studied the teachings of the late Swami Dayananda and his disciples. In 2016, she discovered the Advaita Vedanta philosophy teacher and Zen Master Mooji. In 2019 she had the opportunity to visit Rishikesh India to study yoga, meet Mooji in Satsang, and visit Swami Dayananda’s ashram in India. Nicoli later joined the Chopra Center and become a Certified Meditation Instructor. Nicoli is a lifelong student of meditation and yoga philosophy, and continues to enrich herself in these powerful Vedic sciences.
Eric Mosley, Black Mat Yoga, RYT200
TSY 200 Hour, 2019
Eric Mosley is a Yoga Alliance registered yoga and meditation teacher on a mission to decolonize the western wellness experience, and encourage all people--particularly people of color--to bring their most authentic selves to their mats. With a background in education and school leadership spanning over 10 years, he launched Black Mat Yoga NYC to address identity based inequities in wellness spaces.
By using current events, curated playlists, physical asana and meditation practice, Black Mat Yoga specializes in capitalizing on the human experience to create conditions in which practitioners feel safe and connected on their mats. Since launching earlier this year, he has worked with yogis of all ages in studio spaces, private lessons, and school and corporate settings.
Eric integrates the nuances of his identity and his experiences as an educational leader in his offerings. His passion for social-emotional learning, data-driven instruction, and the intersections of race, gender and sexuality, allows Eric to "make it make sense" making yoga accessible to newer and seasoned yogis.
Eric is a Morehouse College graduate, received his Masters in Teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education, and completed his 200 hour teacher training at Three Sisters Yoga in New York City.
You can find more information and online classes at BlackMatYogaNYC.com; or follow on social media at @blackmatyoganyc on instagram and facebook.
Jan Orland Go, E-RYT 500
TSY 200 Hour 2013, 300 Hour 2014
Jan takes a personal and individualized approach to teaching yoga, influenced by his own experience as practitioner of Vinyasa and Ashtanga Yoga.
He is a Three Sisters Yoga 300 Hour Alum 2014 and 200 Hour Alum 2013. In addition, he has 100 hours of Advanced Anatomy Training, 85 hours of Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training and 25 hours Restorative Yoga Teacher Training.
The basis of his teaching philosophy is that yoga can benefit all body-types: if you can breathe, you can benefit from yoga. In class with Jan you will experience a breath and alignment based exploration of familiar asana while exploring challenging and often untapped asana.
Always committed to being intuitive, compassionate and non-judgmental the cornerstone of Jan's practice is a joyful exploration into challenging and new asana with modifications for all.
Daba Briggs, E-RYT 500
Daba came to yoga over a decade ago to balance out soccer, running, and fitness. She describes her classes as mindfully aligned and aims at making poses accessible for every body and every level. Daba brings humor and lightness to her classes while leading students in a safe and challenging practice. A true student of the yoga practice, Daba now lives, practices and shares her yoga teaching in NYC, Jersey City, and North Jersey. Daba is an E-RYT 500 instructor. She has also completed training programs in pre-natal & post-natal yoga; currently studies Iyengar and structural yoga with her mentor and teachers Nikki Costello and Alison West; and studies gentle/restorative yoga. She is blessed to share yoga in the community every day. Daba studies and draws some of her inspiration from her many yoga instructors, yoga students, everyday life and her little dog Chuy.
Lisa Benner, Lisa Benner Living & Elder Sisters Apothecary, E-RYT 500
An actor, mover and dedicated breather, the moment I was introduced to yoga, I knew it was for me. I came to yoga shortly after I discovered pilates, and found I was able to use both to correct and/or improve different physical issues, including chronic headaches. For a long while I practiced both, but as I experienced the personal transformations it brought, yoga won my heart. I graduated from Sonic Yoga’s 200 hour Teacher Training program, Hathavidya’s 500 hour training, and Bread & Yoga’s prenatal program. I am a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance as E-RYT 500 and Pre-Natal. I teach at various locations around NYC and am the studio manager for Sonic Yoga. I am also an assistant director for Hathavidya and co-teach teacher trainings at the 200 and 500 hour level (www.hathavidya.com ).
I teach from the Hatha philosophy in the Vinyasa style, creating each class on a theme, and incorporating pranayama, mantra and meditation. Strong attention is given to alignment. I am greatly honored to be able to share the transformations that yoga brings, to teach and to continue to learn. Many thanks to my precious teachers, including Will Duprey, Susan Duprey, Johanna Bell, Lauren Hanna and Jonathan Fields.
Constantina Rhodes, Ph.D.
is a professor of Religion with a specialty in Sanskrit and Hindu scriptures. She is a translator of Sanskrit devotional poetry and the author of several books and dozens of articles on Hindu Tantra, Yoga, Kashmir Shaivism, and the traditions of the Goddess in India. She teaches at Hunter College/CUNY as well as at the NY Open Center, and she also offers specialized workshops on such topics as intuitive development, meditation, prosperity consciousness, and the Hindu goddess.
Constantina is also a certified intuitive consultant and certified teacher of intuitive development. She combines her academic and intuitive backgrounds to access subtle dimensions of divine consciousness and spiritual guidance. This helps her to offer highly accurate, clear, and compassionate responses to questions about career, relationships, life path, and other issues. She is widely appreciated for the compassion, accuracy, and sense of upliftment that her clients experience during her intuitive sessions.
Visit her website at www.constantinarhodes.com.
Kate English, TSY Assistant Director, E-RYT 500
TSY 200 Hour 2012, 300 Hour 2014
Kate is a Hampton Bays based yoga teacher and former owner of The Yoga Collective NYC. Kate came to yoga to better manage anxiety and is enthusiastic to share the tool belt with others.
In addition to completing her 200 and 500 Hour trainings through Three Sisters Yoga, she is also certified in Y4C (Yoga for Cancer), pre/ postnatal at ISHTA yoga and Yoga for PTSD/Trauma with The veterans yoga program. Kate has been in love with TSY since 2012 and is grateful for the opportunity to share this community with others.
Jen Whinnen, Founder & Director, E-RYT 500, MA Communication & Leadership, Ph.D. in process…
Jen began practicing yoga 27 years ago. She continues to be inspired by the practice calling it “the best refuge and healer in my life.” Jen is a Yoga Alliance 500 Hour E-RYT with over 25 years teaching experience. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Leadership & Communication.
Teachers trained under Jen have gone on to deepen their practice, open their own businesses, teach all over the world and share yoga wherever they can.
Three Sisters Yoga’s approach to teaching is rooted in Jen’s studies in Hermeneutics and her Iyengar, Vinyasa & Katonah Yoga studentship. Jen works to weave together classes that are concise, safe challenging, liberating and fun.
The name Three Sisters Yoga is inspired by three things in Jen’s life; being the middle child of three sisters, growing up in the Pacific Northwest under the watchful eye of the Three Sisters Mountain Range (Mt. Adams, Mt. Baker & Mt. Rainier), and the practice of growing the three sisters crops (corn, beans & squash). Each of these is a combination of unique, independent entities that can stand on its own, but when they work together provide support, stability and growth for the whole. This is the kind of yoga community I hope to inspire.
It is a joy to continue to work and learn alongside you.
Thank you for everything you teach me.