Our Teachers
Ana del Rosal
Ana has been practicing yoga since 1999. She fell in love with the practice because she felt strong from the inside out. Yoga has taught her throughout the years how to be present in her life, respond to experiences with compassion & kindness, and to live from a place of love.
As a teacher, Ana is specific on body alignment to ensure stability throughout the joints so that the student is strong and safe while they practice.
Her classes are geared towards all levels. However sometimes people prefer to do a private class beforehand. This provides one to understand the proper positioning in poses and begins to provide the foundation for a safe and effective practice.
Ana has a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with It’s Yoga and a 500-hour training with Yoga Medicine. She also studies with Rod Stryker of ParaYoga.
Giles Smith
Giles studied at the Soma Institute for his 200-hr YTT in 2020. He is Therapeutic and alignment based focused on building a healthy practice for longevity purposes.
Linda Freeman
A long time certified Personal Trainer and Yoga Instructor, Linda loves to share her passions for
fitness, Yoga, the outdoors and her chocolate Lab. Linda’s depth of training and experience
includes conditioning and Yoga for athletes as well as coaching and performance for endurance
sports. Her personal favorites include variations of Yin and Yang styles of Yoga, hiking, and her
Peloton Power Zone team. Family first, Linda is dedicated to her family, friends and community
and seeks to embody the benefits of a healthy lifestyle/balanced practices.
Angie Andrews
Angie was introduced to Kundalini yoga at a retreat in 2013. She fell in love with its ability to quickly shift energy and strengthen both her body and her spirit. She has continued to practice and teach Kundalini since then.
As a leader of women’s circles and transformational retreats over the past several years, she is gifted at creating compassionate and safe space, guiding attendees through deep healing and inner connection.
In addition to teaching Kundalini at Mountain Rose, Angie is a certified Reiki master and offers Intuitive Energy Healing Sessions in our beautiful massage room.
Deborah Feldman
Deb Feldman, MA, RYT, LVCYT, teaches yoga because she loves sharing the joy of movement we can find on the mat or on a chair. In 2017, Deb earned her 200-Hour Yoga Teaching Certificate in Ashtanga Yoga from Grateful Yoga in Montpelier, VT. She continued her training in 2018 with David Williams and at Kripalu with Lakshmi Voelker, becoming a certified LVChair Yoga instructor that same year.
As well as running her yoga practice, Deb meditates and writes as part of a daily practice she’s been evolving over many years. She holds Master’s degrees in Counseling Psychology and in the Applied Healing Arts. Using movement, mediation and writing at her home studio, Moretown Common Wellness, Deb applies her broad skills set in order to best mentor others in how to reach their goals.
When not practicing, Deb enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, being outdoors walking, hiking, and x-country skiing, or keeping cozy indoors sitting by the wood stove knitting, reading, or simply relaxing.
Jennifer Degen
"If you have a desire to feel more joy, ease and freedom, while deepening your commitments to yourself, then come to my classes and workshops for some inspiration. We all have an inner guide that we can tap into to reach our greatest potential - we just need to hold the somatic mirror up to ourselves."
I was looking for a way to recover from feelings of self-doubt after having had a traumatic brain surgery. Having trained in over 500 hours of Hatha Yoga Therapeutics, and 30 years counseling/coaching, I see the connection of the ancient teachings of yoga, Buddhist psychology, neuropsychology, and somatic coaching. My service and natural ability lies in loving yoga as a window to self-awareness, and personal growth.
I spend my days facilitating change and transformation and feel grateful that my stress/pain/overwhelm led me here. Having always been a spiritual seeker, with multiple losses, and injuries that influence my journey, I have discovered my intuition is my best guidance. That gut feeling and heartbreak have new meaning to me now.
When you come to class, you will garner the tools that can support you to move through life’s inevitable disruptions, traumas and personal events that leave you contracted, exhausted, fearful, uncertain or addicted. Slow movement, attention, focus on the yoga postures, breath, mantra, mudra, chanting, are gateways to explore the truth of what is getting in the way from you living the life that was meant for you.
April Smith
April whole-heartedly embraces yoga as a transformative path to awaken to our best selves and live fully with more ease, joy, and compassion amidst our ever-changing world. Her yoga journey began in 1992 as a student at YogaWorks in Santa Monica, CA, where she was inspired by the studio's
innovative and now globally celebrated teachers, including Shiva Rea, Erich Schiffmann, Rod Stryker, Bryan Kest, and Seane Corn. In 1997 yoga connected April with master teacher Sara Powers and the integration of Vinyasa flow
with slower, deeper styles of yoga and meditation.
Braiding wisdom traditions together, April's precise but playful teaching style blends slow flow Vinyasa sequences, long-held Yin postures, core strengthening, and meditation to create a dynamic and balanced yoga practice. Mindfulness techniques weave through practice to deepen relaxation and spark self-inquiry on and off the mat. April has taught Vinyasa and Yin yoga classes and workshops in the Mad River Valley since 1998. She completed her yoga teacher training with Sarah Powers (Insight Yoga) in 2012 and her 200 hour Vinyasa RYT certification with Tom Gillette at Eyes of the World Yoga in Providence, Rhode Island in 2015.