Yoga Sol and its staff of experienced yoga teachers is one of the oldest and most highly respected yoga centers in the area.

Becoming a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher requires years of practice, study and a rigorous examination of skills. For teachers, the Certification Mark demonstrates a commitment to maintaining the purity, excellence and high standards of Iyengar Yoga.

"Teaching is a difficult art, but it is the best service you can do to humanity."
B.K.S. Iyengar

We offer classes, workshops and teacher training for students of all levels in asana (posture) and pranayama (breathing). This vigorous approach emphasizes balance between strength and flexibility, builds endurance, and self-awareness through precision in movement and attention to subtle aspects of posture and breath, mind and spirit.

Colleen Gallagher

Colleen began studying Hatha Yoga in 1980 to ease back and neck pain from an automobile accident. In 1986 she began to study the Iyengar Method of Hatha Yoga. The introduction to this method of Hatha Yoga gave her an understanding of the body, mind, breath and movement connection.

She is a Certified Intermediate Level 3 Iyengar instructor who has traveled to India to study with the Iyengars, as well as other leading Yoga teachers, including: Patricia Walden, John Schumacher, Manouso Manos and Gabriella Giubilaro of Italy.

Training in massage therapy gave Colleen a background in anatomy and physiology. This training greatly enhances Colleen's ability as a Yoga instructor to use specific poses to help individuals recovering from injuries.

Colleen's energetic and precision-oriented teaching style is caring, encouraging and fun. She creates a balance between the physical and spiritual aspects of Hatha Yoga to deliver a focused and meaningful class.

Stephanie Streff

Stephanie is the owner of Yoga Sol and brings many years experience in marketing and managing a yoga studio having relocated from Monument, Colorado.

She has been studying yoga since 1992, teaching the Iyengar method since 1998 and is certified at the Introductory Level. Her main teacher is Colleen Gallagher and she has taken numerous workshops and teacher trainings with senior Iyengar teachers such as Manouso Manos, Patricia Walden, and Felicity Green.

Elisa Aueron
Elisa Aueron has taught yoga for 14 years. Her identical twin, Cynthia who is also an Iyengar teacher, recommended yoga for Elisa's back pain. Not surprisingly Elisa loved yoga right away. After experimenting with different styles of yoga, she found Iyengar yoga and with Colleen's help relieved her back pain. A Certified Introductory level teacher, Elisa studies regularly with top instructors. Although she is a serious student and teacher, Elisa feels that yoga should be practiced with lighthearted awareness and humility.

Jo Boccassini

Jo began practicing Iyengar yoga in 2002 due to numerous athletic injuries. She is a 200 RYT and is a certified YogaKids teacher. She is a world traveler and has traveled to India to study with the Iyengars as well as Rajiv & Swati Chanchani six times. Her principle teachers is Colleen Gallagher. Jo has studied with many senior Iyengar teacher including Manouso Manos, Lois Steinberg & Rebecca Lerner. Jo is passionate about her practice and her students. Her lighthearted and loving sense of humor brings a sense of trust and ease.

Judy Rosenzweig

Judy has been practicing Iyengar yoga since 1995 with Colleen Gallagher and started teaching 11 years ago. She has taken workshops with some of the highest certified Iyengar yoga teachers in the world and imparts her love of yoga to those she teaches. Judy is a Certified Introductory Level Iyengar teacher. Aside from teaching yoga, Judy enjoys artistic painting and cooking on a professional level.

Dr. Vindra Maharaj Roy

Vindra is a Certified Introductory Level Iyengar teacher who has studied with Colleen Gallagher since 2001, and has been practicing
Iyengar Yoga since 1993. She has studied in India with the "Iyengars" and in the U.S. with several leading Iyengar teachers.She is also a part time dentist. She combines her experience as a health care provider with her dedication and joy for yoga to help you discover the path to "Self" care. i.e. How to take care of you.

Marlen Kirel

Marlen Kirel was brought up in a yogi household by a mother who was an experienced yoga practitioner and later a Hatha Yoga teacher. Marlen was a professional dancer and an athlete. She also taught spinning, jazz, oriental and modern dance.

Marlen picked up her yoga studies and developed her skills as a student and later on as a teacher, when she arrived in the United States. She is a Certified Iyengar Yoga instructor and has studied under B.K.S Iyengar, Gitta Iyengar, Manouso Manos, John Schumacher, Dean and Rebecca Lerner, Lois Steinberg and Mary Dunn.

Marlen holds a Bachelors degree in Nutrition and Food Technology and is a breast feeding consultant.

Marlen is energetic, caring about students' needs and compassionate in her teaching style. She is intuitive and her joy of teaching comes from sharing all that yoga has brought to her.

Karen Ponder

Karen Ponder started her yoga practice in 2000 when she moved to the Northern Virginia area from Delray Beach, Florida. Her first yoga experience began at the Yoga and Daily Life studio in Alexandria, VA, where she learned the benefits and importance of the mind-body connection. Through the years she has been exposed to a variety of yoga styles like Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anasura, Vinyasa and Integral; always finding her way back to the Iyengar Method. Due to the amazing benefits Karen has learned through her yoga practice, she wants to teach and give back to what was given to her. Karen loves teaching, especially the work she has done with her past prenatal students. Karen received her first 200hr yoga teacher training though Yoga Works in 2007 with teacher, James Brown. Recently, she completed her 200hr Iyengar Method teacher training at Yoga Sol, under her teacher, Colleen Gallagher. Karen is working toward her certification and currently apprenticing and teaching with us here. Professionally, Karen has been a social worker for over the last 15 years and presently works at Hospice of Palm Beach County as a Children’s and Family Bereavement Therapist. Karen would like to one day combine both her yoga and clinical practices to increase the emotional healing of her students and/or clients.