Fez Aswat

Fez Aswat has been teaching yoga and meditation in the Boston area since 2000. He has taught at a number of prominent Boston studios including O2Yoga, Back Bay Yoga, Samara Yoga, The Arlington Center for Yoga, Bow St. Yoga, Down Under Yoga,  and The Yoga Studio where he taught for senior teacher, Barbara Benagh. He served as Teacher Mentor and Manager at YogaWorks Boston. He’s led First Friday’s for people of color at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, and will soon be leading the affinity group sangha for PoC at Boston Meditation Center. Fez mentors a number of students and teachers, and has taught meditation and yoga to groups at various institutions and to diverse populations including physicians, med students, college students, dancers, choreographers, writers, musicians, business owners, social workers, cancer patients, trauma survivors and people in recovery from addictions. With The Lionheart Foundation, Fez led a meditation program for Lionheart's Power Source Video - a documentary style teaching tool for youth at risk, students, staff and social workers filmed at ROCA in Chelsea, MA; developed a yoga curriculum for people in solitary confinement in the California State Prison System; and led meditations for teenaged inmates at the Bay State Youth Correctional Facility. . Currently, he teaches Insight Meditation at Asana Charlestown and Laughing Dog Yoga and runs his own classes on line through his website.

Fez has worked closely with his teacher, Tom Alden, since 2004 with a focus of meditation and yoga with therapeutic application. Fez has studied extensively with Barbara Benagh, Iyengar teachers, Patricia Walden and Arthur Kilmurray, and Jin Sung of Oakland Yoga Studio. His early yoga practice began with Insight Meditation and Ashtanga yoga. His meditation retreat experience is with the Vipassana Center in Shelbourne Falls, MA and the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. He also continues to study Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism.

Fez is a husband and a father, a musician, and a two time cancer survivor. His practice supported his recovery from his experiences with cancer and the loss of a dear friend at a younger age, and continues to be essential in helping show up for what he cares for most with care and a sense of meaning and purpose. These experiences and views combined with a healthy dose of humor are very present in how he teaches.

Michelle Coleman

Michelle Coleman

My mother introduced me to yoga in the 1960’s as part of my early childhood education. Yoga has become my way of life, my roadmap for living on and off the mat. I practice to cultivate equanimity, and flexibility and strength of mind, body, and spirit. Yoga gives me a sense of authority over my own body and this embodied confidence is something I seek to pass along to my students. My intention is also to create easeful space that guides students to adapt their practices to their skill level while building strength, improving balance, celebrating the magic of their bodies, and tapping into joy.

In 2016, I completed a 200-hour yoga teaching training at South Boston Yoga and a 300-hour yoga teaching training at Down Under School of Yoga in 2020. My personal and teaching practices have been influenced powerfully by Baba Richard Gonzales, Catherine Allen, Annie Hoffman and Jurian Hughes.

Practicing yoga in the predominantly racially homogeneous studios of Boston has inspired me to create and advocate for POC-led, POC-centered and queer-affirming yoga spaces. My overall goal is to present and promote yoga as a birthright practice that's accessible to and beneficial for all.

Regina Terry-Green

Regina Green

Hello my name is Regina Terry-Green Ph.D., LSW., RYT-500. I am originally from Roxbury and I have been working as a special education guidance advisor for over 27 years within Boston Public  Schools. I began teaching trauma sensitive yoga to my students in 2013 to introduce them to tools that may be helpful towards them regulating their emotions. In 2018 I purposely sought a YTT that would  provide me with additional skills and tools to teach yoga as a vehicle for social emotional learning to students who have been impacted by trauma. With this new knowledge, I was able to enhance my trauma informed trauma sensitive teaching skills as well as share the gift of yoga to the school faculty as part of a wellness program for educators who may be feeling signs of burnout. 

Outside of my work, I volunteer with “ Hands to heart center - yoga for the people” in order to offer the healing practice of yoga to people in Boston and surrounding communities who may otherwise not have access to the practice. As for me, I always knew yoga was good for the body, mind and soul but I was always  focused on providing others with the practice.  However, Yoga entered my life after suffering a life threatening illness which caused me to reevaluate my own personal practice. This may sound cliche but ….Yoga truly saved my life.

In 2020 I decided to earn my 300-hour certification from Down Under School of Yoga, where I studied alignment and sequencing under Natasha Rizapolous and meditation under Fez Aswat's leadership. 

I love vinyasa flow and meditation. My yoga practice is fun yet relaxing. It brings peace to my body, mind, and soul and I hope the practice will have a lasting effect on you  

Lisa Leung-Tat

Lisa Leung-Tat is a 500 RYT who has been teaching yoga since 2018 upon graduating from Four Corners Yoga + Wellness. Her classes are a mix of meditative exploration and self-inquiry through mindful movement and breath awareness. Lisa currently teaches Slow Flow and Yin Yoga at 4 Corners and is also a facilitator of an “off the mat” series titled Candid Conversations. Lisa’s personal practice helps to cultivate a sense of awareness and grounding that is continuously evolving and she brings this transformational aspect of the practice to her classes as well. 

When asked about how yoga has impacted her life, Lisa responds, “Yoga has helped me to re-imagine what it means to show up authentically and take what I’ve learned on the mat to my off the mat experiences every day.” She’s deeply committed to sharing her learned and lived experience as an ongoing student herself and seeks to teach yoga in a way that is inclusive and accepting of all.

Tina Terry

Tina Terry

I first came to yoga in 2001 looking for a physical work out. After having children my practice stopped due to the demands of being a working mother. In 2013 I transitioned to a new job at a small high-tech company. I soon became overwhelmed balancing my new position and motherhood. I found my way back to yoga and after the class I felt relaxed, calm and the tightness in my chest was gone. When I came home from work my son noticed a change and asked what was different about my day? It was then that I realized that my stress and need to get everything done right now was leaving very little room for me to be present and more importantly it was affecting my relationship with my family. 

As my practice grew so did my love for yoga. I stopped imposing unwanted stress on myself by attempting to do everything immediately. I was able to remain present, which allowed me to fully enjoy and appreciate each moment. I am a wife, mom of three, manager of a software test team and a type I diabetic. My passions include being outdoors, fitness training, reading, cheering my kids on and you guessed it yoga! I have been practicing yoga for 20 years with a consistent dedicated practice for 8 years.  My decision to become a yoga instructor was born from my desire to bring an awareness to others regarding how they are moving through life. I completed my YTT-200 hour at Revolution Community with lead teacher Cindy Boulter. I completed my YTT-300 at Down Under School of Yoga in Boston, MA with lead teacher Natasha Rizopoulos. I received my pelvic floor yoga certification from Leslie Howard, international yoga teacher and author.