Rehoboth Beach Yoga

Svaroopa®

Discover the Bliss of  Your Own Being

Our Teachers

Our studio in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, is open to all regardless of experience. We offer yoga classes, yoga therapy sessions, meditation groups, workshops, retreats, training seminars and wonderful trips to locales such as Mexico, Costa Rica and India. The primary style of yoga at RBY is Svaroopa® Yoga, a supported practice that offers healing, transformation and illumination to any body of any physical level. There are multiple classes each week in person and online. Our teachers are certified, well-trained and enthusiastic.

Terry (Ishvari) Gardner
CSYT, RYT 500

Terry was born and raised in Rehoboth Beach. She came to Svaroopa® Yoga after experiencing unrelieved pain from a serious car accident. It was then she discovered the amazing gifts in both body and mind thanks to Svaroopa® Yoga. In 2001, she became a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga instructor and has continued  her education ever since with advanced training as an Embodyment® practitioner, Vichara® therapist and Meditation teacher. 

Terry has been Director of Rehoboth Beach Yoga since 2008 and her leadership has placed it in the top echelon of yoga education with a variety of classes, workshops, and community outreach. She is also an enthusiastic guide at yoga retreats worldwide in Peru, Italy, Costa Rica and Tulum, Mexico.

Sandy (Mati) Gilbert,
CSYT, RYT 500

Sandy started taking Svaroopa® Yoga classes in 2001 after moving here from Washington, DC.  Svaroopa® Yoga not only greatly reduced or eliminated her stress, it also provided her relief from hip and shoulder pain. She began taking teacher training to enhance her practice, and it set her on a second career path to become a Svaroopa® Yoga teacher and yoga therapist. Sandy recently completed meditation training with Svaroopa® founder Swami Nirmalananda. She shares her enthusiasm and personal experience of the transformative power of Svaroopa® Yoga and now Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation in her teachings. 

Sandy is currently a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher, a Certified Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation Group Leader, an Embodyment® practitioner, a yoga therapist, and a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

Mary Jean Skinner,
CSBT, RYT 200

Mary Jean discovered Svaroopa® Yoga when she moved from the D.C. area to Delaware. Looking for a modality that would relieve her sciatic pain and general tightness, she began attending two or three Svaroopa® Yoga classes a week and immediately noticed that changes were taking place not only in her body, but in her mind as well.

Mary Jean is now a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Basics Teacher and an  Embodyment® practitioner, and has been offering Introductory and Continuing yoga classes at Rehoboth Beach Yoga since 2007.  She is also a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance and a member of the Svaroopa® Association of Teachers.

Kelly (Kushala) Sharp, CSYT, RYT 500

Kelly found Svaroopa® Yoga shortly after her move to the beach in 1999. The changes in her body were profound within the first few classes. More significant, however, were the changes in her mind. After two years of taking classes at least three times a week, Kelly entered yoga teacher training with Master Yoga Foundation. In September of 2003, she became a registered yoga teacher (RYT) at the 500+ hour level, and Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher (CSYT). She also has certifications as an Embodyment® therapist, Vichara® therapist, 1/2 day workshop leader and Meditation teacher, resulting in over 1200 hours of training. 

Kelly has been teaching for 20 years, and spent four years working for Master Yoga in Pennsylvania supporting the teacher trainings. She says “Svaroopa® Yoga has become a way of life for me, and I love to share this transformative practice.”

Chelsea (Rajni) King
CSYT, RYT 500
For those of you that don’t know me, I’m Rajni(Chelsea) King. I live and have been teaching Svaroopa® Yoga in Milton, DE for the past several years. You may know me from the many years I taught at Rehoboth Beach Yoga in the past. I’m excited and thankful that I’m able to add my online classes to the schedule at RBY and look forward to being there in person on Tuesday mornings when we get back to the studio.

I’ve been teaching Svaroopa® Yoga since 2002 and went through most of my teacher training in the same class as Kushala(Kelly). It’ll be wonderful to work with her again, as well as the other Rehoboth Beach Yoga teachers. We have really never stopped working together to bring this community, in lower Delaware and beyond, the benefits of the powerful practices of the Svaroopa® Sciences. I’m grateful to be collaborating with such a dedicated team of teachers!
Elaine Ippolito

Elaine Ippolito began Svaroopa® Yoga classes at Rehoboth Beach Yoga in 2008.  While recovering from lower back surgery she attended class twice a week. She has maintained her practice and became so passionate about the effects on her body, she decided to share those benefits with others. She is grateful for the ability to manage pain free movement, agility and a mind-full practice. Svaroopa® Yoga has become part of her life, the rewards plentiful and further enhanced by sharing with others.

Elaine has taken Svaroopa® Yoga Foundations and intends to study further and work with her mentors to continue her self-practice and teaching at Rehoboth Beach Yoga.

Lisa Holmes

Lisa began practicing yoga at Temple University in Philadelphia. Lisa attended her first Svaroopa Yoga class here in Rehoboth Beach and by the end of her second class, she became interested in sharing the benefits of yoga and enrolled in teacher training with Master Yoga. Lisa has been teaching Svaroopa® Yoga to brand new beginners and continuing students and fellow teachers since 2005. She is also an Embodyment® Therapist.

Lisa is excited to be a part of this wonderful community of Svaroopi’s. She is thrilled to be a part of the team sharing the tremendous benefits of Svaroopa® Yoga to the Rehoboth Beach community.

Svaroopa® yoga has changed my life. I now have less pain, am enjoying walking again and it has helped with 
my neuropathy. The instructors are extremely professional. They guide the class with care and concern.

– Cathy Lavinia Clark