DRAGONTEACHERS

Meet Our TEAM

Mori

Known for tough yet compassionate teaching style, Mori owes her life and being to God, her parents and the Original Hot Yoga Sequence. Given this, she left her successful career in Corporate America, not once but twice, dedicating herself to improving the life of others through yoga. Having received her MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon and working at major CPG companies on iconic brands (including Kraft Foods, Heinz Inc, Campbell Soup, and First Response), Mori was provided the proper training grounds for her to start her own highly successful Breathing Dragon Hot Yoga in Montgomery, New Jersey and allowed her to share the love of the yoga with thousands of others since 2013.

James

James is one of the most prolific Original Hot Yoga instructors in the tri-state area. He has more than 10,000 documented hours teaching and taking Original Hot Yoga classes. He can provide honest insight on how to develop and improve one’s overall ability to teach an Original Hot Yoga class. James will provide insight into the practicality of what you’ll need to do to feel cool and confident; from busy classes of 50 students to smaller more intimate ones. James brings a passionate, accurate yet laid-back approach to his teaching. He has also spent over 200 hours outside the classroom studying basic anatomy so as to facilitate a more immediate understanding for the students. From 2007 to 2010 James managed Bikram Yoga Philadelphia, one of the busiest yoga studios on the east coast. He oversaw a staff of a dozen teachers and a schedule with 48 classes per week. Soon to be the owner of Allentown Yoga Works, set to open in the Spring of 2020, James believes health of the body, mind and spirit is the basis for how well someone practices the class. Peace of mind is the byproduct of a steady and coherent practice. James has been with Breathing Dragon Yoga Montgomery, NJ for over six years and is a perennial favorite for a reason!

Meredith

One of our most veteran instructors, Meredith has been teaching Original Hot Yoga since 1999. She first started hot yoga in the Boston area back when it was difficult to find any place to take a hot yoga class. She fell in love with hot yoga immediately after she took her first class! Meredith loves teaching (indeed, you can hear it in her voice as she teaches!), and feels she has grown over the years because the students teach her from both inside and outside of the yoga room. Meredith has been with Breathing Dragon Yoga since 2014 and looks forward to teaching with us for many more years to come. Her joyous energy is infectious, come catch it soon!

Matthew

A Personal Trainer, Yoga, and Fitness Instructor with Military and Martial Arts background, Matthew is highly active across a myriad of physical exercise disciplines, including Extreme Calisthenics, Capoeira and Masters Track & Field. Matthew took his first Hot Yoga class in NYC in 2012 and was excited he did not walk out of class, but rather that he glided out of class! Amazed by how pain free and fluidly he moved after class he became a regular practitioner at a local studio. That is where he met Mori, who would later open Breathing Dragon Yoga where Matthew would continue his hot yoga practice and expand his horizons taking other styles of yoga.

Matthew attended Inferno Hot Pilates Teacher Training in May of 2017 and has been teaching regularly at Breathing Dragon ever since! His Inferno Hot Pilates will leave get your heart pumping and your thighs burning! Matthew’s expanding personal practice prompted him to become a yoga instructor and return to his martial arts roots in a practice steeped in Eastern Philosophy that practice is Yin Yoga. He became Certified in Yin Yoga learning directly under Master Paulie Zink in October 2018. He loves that the aim of Yin Yoga is to restore your body back to the suppleness and ease of movement we had as children. One Yin/Yang class with Matt will have you flowing into postures and maybe even barking like a seal!