Naime and I are dedicated to living a meaningful yogic life.
We seek to ‘optimally align’ in all that we do—as teachers,
parents, friends, artists, lovers and students of yoga. We
keep high standards for ourselves sweetened with humor and forgiveness, with the intention to continuously evolve. By truly
paying attention, we are able to step more fully into the blessings of ours lives with greater appreciation, less regret and more laughter.
We have been truly blessed to have ‘kept great company’ with many extraordinary teachers over the years
We are deeply grateful to John Friend and Dr. Douglas Brooks, each of whom we have spent over a decade studying with and who continue to be among our greatest sources of inspiration and wisdom. We treasure the humility and brilliance of Sally Kempton and Paul Muller-Ortega, and thank so many other extraordinary teachers who have helped us along our path like Maty Ezrahy, Chuck Miller, Erich Shiffmann, Krishna Das and Sharon Salzburg. And let us not forget our students who bless us with their presence, and our two beautiful boys, Luca & Milo, who teach us everyday how to be more loving, patient, playful and curious.
Sue & Naime Bio (together):
Sue Elkind and Naime Jezzeny are nationally renowned certified Anusara® teachers, with over 25 years of teaching experience combined. Sought out as teachers’ teachers, they are celebrated for teaching styles that are precise, accessible, and light-hearted.
Incorporating the Universal Principles of Alignment fluently into their teaching, they complement each other beautifully as teachers, working together for the past 10 years in trainings and workshops. Sue & Naime are most inspired by their two children, Luca & Milo, who are currently their greatest teachers of yoga and life-- not to mention an endless resource of themes for their classes! After spending over 17 years in Los Angeles, they now live in beautiful Bucks County, PA where they enjoy the abundance of nature and their exquisite teaching home, Yogaphoria, in New Hope, PA.
Naime Jezzeny bio:
Naime is a nationally-renowned, certified Anusara® teacher who is celebrated for a teaching style that is precise, accessible, and light-hearted. He is unique among yoga teachers for his in-depth knowledge of biomechanics and its application to yoga and other movement disciplines. His extensive background includes formal studies in exercise physiology and kinesiology at the University of Southern California.
His years of study allow him to take the therapeutic qualities of yoga to another level. Naime has worked rehabilitatively with a wide variety of professionals including Olympic gold medalists, actors, dancers, and business leaders. Naime has assisted and studied extensively with John Friend since 1999 and incorporates the Universal Principles of Alignment into all of his teaching. Regarded as a teacher’s teacher and a master of therapeutics, he teaches workshops and trainings throughout the U.S and at his teaching home Yogaphoria in New Hope PA.
Sue Elkind bio:
Sue has been teaching yoga since the mid 90’s and was certified in Anusara Yoga in January 2002. As a certified Anusara® instructor, Sue has become nationally recognized for her inspiring, endearing, and detailed teaching method. Sue’s thoughtful and delightful style gently but perceptibly raises students’ practices to the next level. Her passion for learning and incorporating yoga into all aspects of her life, including being a mother of two, creates an inexhaustible enthusiasm to teach from the heart.
Sue spent over five years as co-owner of a successful yoga studio in Los Angeles. She then moved to Rochester, New York to study with Dr. Douglas Brooks, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Rochester, and among the world’s leading scholars on Hinduism. Sue and family now lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where her teaching home is Yogaphoria in New Hope, PA.