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Professional Highlights: Registered Yoga Teacher (500hr) Registered Yoga Teacher (300hr) Registered Yoga Teacher (200hr) Certified AntiGravity® Yoga Instructor More about Pamela: As a yoga teacher, Pamela is known for leading strong, deep classes that fine-tune movement and asana. Teaching at Raffa since 2006. Pam’s intellectual, lighthearted teaching style emphasizes dynamic alignment principles, rejuvenating Pranayama (breath work), strength building, and fluid movement. Pamela Teaches Raffa Vinyasa Flow and Power & Core Yoga, its taught as SIMPLE & POWERFUL. This class is pure JOY, Its Yoga for everyone! Students often comment that class is fun, lighthearted and challenging. You just need to bring a smile and trust to explore all your possibilities. In Pam’s class it is not uncommon to see students of all levels. The most important message is to begin where you are. Many levels will always be shown. New students new to yoga or new to Raffa always feel welcome at arriving to pam’s classes. There are always smiles shared and laughter when needed. After years of fitness training, an injury in 2003 brought Pamela to her yoga mat. Yoga helped rebuild her strength both physically and emotionally while recovering from back surgery in 2005. Having to work through sciatica pain and nerve damage Pamela knows how to modify or begin a yoga practice. Through sweat and tears she found her way. Pamela’s Power Yoga is a fusion of Ashtanga, Iyengar, Forrest and Bhakti Yoga. This Fusion of Power Yoga focuses on Core Strength, pose alignment and self-examination, you will flow with a smile yet slow down enough to explore your body in the pose. Core conditioning and awakening is very important in Pamela’s class. Each class incorporates core strength as well as soft somatic movements to target the release of the Psoas muscle and quadratus lumborum muscle. Both are a target for back pain. Somatic practices can help you develop an even greater awareness of specific parts of your body, find relief from pain, and understand more fully how your body works. Regardless of injury, age or body type anyone can practice and benefit from yoga. Pamela has completed a YogaWorks 200 hour training, 75-hour Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training with internationally acclaimed teacher Ana Forrest, as well as yoga fit level 1 certification. Most recently Pamela completed her RYT-500 graduate of the “Change your Life” Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training taught by Raghunath Cappo & Sondra Loring. AntiGravity® Yoga is another form of yoga that Pamela teaches. AntiGravity® Yoga uses the Harrison AntiGravity® Hammock. This yoga prop acts as a soft trapeze that will support you through simple techniques to advanced poses as well as a close to the floor restorative flow. When Pamela is not teaching Yoga she is spending time with her husband Michael, their two teenagers, and their Goldendoodle Jessie. Pamela loves to paint, ski, SUP and just hang at the beach.

Pam Sammartino

Instructor at Raffa Yoga