Sarah Navarro
I first practiced yoga when I was 12 as part of a summer dance intensive. The teacher brought lavender eye pillows for us and I fell in love with savasana. I practiced on and off afterthat, but returned consistently in 2013 after suffering a stress fracture in my foot. Since then yoga has saved me over and over, it's always there in just the way I need it. It has taught me to have patience and grace with myself, and that breathing first is always a good idea.
Besides teaching at salt, I also teach dance at a studio in Wexford. I live with my husband and 2 kitties in the North Hills.
Robin James
I came to yoga a decade ago with a running injury and never looked back. The peace I get from my mat, the breath, and the beauty of salt is unmatched. Beginning my teaching journey with these incredible humans is one of my proudest accomplishments. I live in Cranberry with my amazing husband, two boys, and a very spoiled little dog.
Alison Vitale
At the beginning of my yoga journey, it was more of an additional certification to my dance practice. I have been a dancer since my body knew how to move. I grew up in a competitive dance environment, earned my bachelor of fine arts degree in dance performance and choreography, and started my own dance company. Somewhere in the mix, I earned my 200 hour yoga certification.
Finally - I found a deep connection to yoga once I started practicing at salt. The rest feels like history. Yoga grounds me to the earth, makes my heart feel whole, and awakens different parts of my body.
I love to run, take long walks with my boxer named Zeus, and spend time laughing with my fiancé!
Rachel Janeway
I have always had a passion for exercise. I used it to keep my physical body in shape, but it also helped with my stress and anxiety.
When I discovered yoga I thought it would be another form of exercise but it is so much more. Yoga helps me to stay in the present moment and builds self awareness as you learn to breathe and stay calm while holding challenging postures.
In life, we all go through tough times. Yoga is a tool to help you stay connected in mind, body and spirit while learning to breathe through those hard times and do our best to let go and accept what’s happening in the present moment. Yoga can be used alongside therapy to help process emotions through holding certain hip openers to bring the emotion and energy that we store in our muscles to the surface and release it. It also builds strength and endurance while building heat in the body to create change and using the breath to calm your sympathetic nervous system, fight or flight, and activate your parasympathetic nervous system, calm and restore.
I received my 200 hour training in 2011 and have been teaching consistently since then. I have taken many workshops and additional training and continue to build my knowledge as science reveals more information about this practice.
My classes are tailored for all levels from beginner to advanced and on the mat it’s your own practice because we are all anatomically different and are in different stages in life. We will move through some active and dynamic poses and hold some still postures while keeping our breath calm.
My hope is that through this practice, you will feel more energized and restored as the body, mind and spirit find homeostasis and balance.
Lauren Reinstadtler
I always thought that you worked out to look a certain way, not feel a certain way. So I never understood what people meant when they said that you need to find a form of movement that makes your body and your soul happy until I started doing yoga.
During the pandemic, I decided I wanted to try something new and thought it would be cool to give yoga a try. So I googled yoga studios near me, came across salt, and the rest is history! I absolutely fell in love with the practice. The movements, the breath, the stillness, the challenges, the softness, the connection, the peace, and the openness to just be human, all wrapped into one. Especially how it stays with me off my mat in my every day life.
I obtained my 200 hour certification with YogaRenew as well as completed an arm balance and inversion training with Yogi Flight School.
Erinn Batykefer
I’m a former Division I athlete, which means I spent a sizable chunk of my life approaching my body as a tool for rowing. It was there to lift really heavy stuff, move boats, run stairs, win races, earn scholarships, prove something. When it hurt, I iced it until it was numb enough to keep going. When it kept hurting, I pushed through. Until I couldn’t anymore.
Yoga wasn’t immediately part of my recovery from burnout and injury, but when I finally started practicing regularly, it changed the way I approached my body, and when that changed, everything changed. Now, yoga is the central practice that grounds me physically, mentally, and spiritually, and it’s a pillar of my approach to managing chronic illness and healing complex trauma.
So when you come into the studio and you want it to be hard, I get it. I see you. And I want you to know it can be hard *and* easy. And you can do it wearing the biggest earrings you can find.
When I’m not at salt, I’m writing books and hanging at home with my partner and his kids, planting a gigantic garden and collecting rocks.
Meagan Price
I walked into Salt 7F nearly 12 years ago and never looked back. The physicality of yoga poses + the deep intention of breath brought me so much more than physical strength. Yoga has taught me the balance of push, pull, stretch, retreat. That practice, combined with the community that the teachers and the students so thoughtfully nurture daily, has me hooked on yoga (and Salt!) for life.
I completed my Salt teacher training in 2022 and am always on a journey to learn more as a teacher. I am so humbled to share this practice with other students and help foster the beautiful community that first drew me to the studio all those years ago.
Outside of the studio, I own my own communications consulting business. I live in Cranberry Twp with my husband, our three pretty-awesome teenagers and two borderline-insane goldendoodles.
Wizi Kuttesch
Yoga has been a part of my life for 20 some years. It’s carried me through different seasons, different injuries and just life.
It’s a place for me to reconnect, to find myself again. To make peace and to just be. The poses are fun, but it’s the breath, the mindfulness and community that keep me coming back.
It’s safe space. A place to slow down and breathe. (Actually fully fill my belly and chest breathe.)
salt has always felt like home and I’m grateful I get to share this space and practice with each of you. My hope is to echo that same safe cozy openness I feel when I walk through the door. An opportunity for you to reconnect to yourself, find your center, find your peace. To inhale and exhale, through every season. Some easier, some harder.
When I’m not at salt, I manage a running store and like to take adventures with my lady Luna.