Leaping Waters teachers

ROBIN IS A YOGA TEACHER & TRAINER BASED CAMBRIDGE MASS & SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE

HER TEACHING STYLES INCLUDE AERIAL, YIN, FLOW, RESTORATIVE, CHAIR, ROPE WALL & YOGA NIDRA. ROBIN TRAINS & MENTORS YOGA TEACHERS WITH EMPHASIS ON THE RESTORATIVE ASPECTS OF YOGA, TRAUMA SENSITIVITY & EMOTIONAL WELL BEING. SHE BELIEVES AERIAL YOGA HAS A SPECIAL CONNECTION TO EMOTIONAL WELLNESS AS WELL AS PHYSICAL BENEFITS.

ORIGINALLY TRAINED BY JACQUI BONWELL IN 2012, ROBIN ALSO COMPLETED TRAININGS WITH MAINE YOGA SCHOOL, PRANAKRIYA SCHOOL OF YOGA & OTHERS & IS AN E-RYT 500 & YACEP WITH YOGA ALLIANCE. IN 2020, ROBIN STARTED LEAPING WATERS YOGA TO OFFER AERIAL AND OTHER CLASSES, AND IN THE SPRING OF 2025 SHE PASSED THE LEGACY ON TO BREATHING ROOM.

ROBIN BLENDS REIKI, SOUND, INTUITIVE READING & YOGA TO CREATE GROUP AND 1:1 SESSIONS & CAN BE REACHED AT LEAPINGWATERSYOGA@GMAIL.COM

Jared has a Yin/Yang style of teaching. His sense of fun, challenge and humor shines in aerial classes while his meditative, contemplative side guides his yin yoga class. Jared first earned his Aikido Black Belt in 2015 after years of focused training. He felt the urge for more and yoga teacher training called. He completed his 200 Hour Yoga Certification with Boston School of Yoga/Terry Coburn and Ame Wren in 2016. Jared's continuing education has included Yin Yoga (twice!) & Trauma Sensitive/All Bodies trainings with MUSE School of Yoga in 2017 and 2018. After teaching vinyasa and yin for a few years followed by a break during the pandemic, Jared re-ignited his yoga practice & skills with Aerial Yoga Teacher Training & Sound Practitioner training in 2022 & a second Yin Yoga Teacher training with Andrea Gleason/Southern Maine Yoga School in 2023.

Jared is an insurance professional during the business week, and on weekends he teaches Aerial Decompression, Yin Yoga for Men and offers sound baths with crystal bowls and percussion instruments, and helps train aerial yoga teachers here.

Caren has been practicing vinyasa and power yoga regularly since 2016, and started aerial yoga weekly in 2021 while living in Alexandria, Virginia. Upon moving to Maine in 2022, an aerial yoga studio was more important to locate than the Trader Joes!  She was so excited to find Leaping Waters?Breathing Room and immediately joined the community as a regular. A year later, she took the opportunity to complete aerial teaching training with Robin and grow her experience further. 

Yoga has taught Caren so much about her own body, how it moves (and doesn't move) and what it's capable of. Aerial takes this to new levels, literally, and adds an extra layer of fun as well. Caren's favorite things to do in aerial are climbs and core work - but on harder days, there's nothing like being gently held in the fabric and letting go of that muscle tension. Caren fosters a safe environment of playfulness and small challenges that get you out of your day-to-day headspace to leave you feeling both strong and refreshed. She's the perfect teacher if you want some advancing moves and she crafts fun, themed classes during the holiday seasons.

Alicia found yoga through Aerial. She was instantly hooked on how amazing Aerial yoga made her feel mentally and physically. Her urge to empower others and provide the same love of movement lead her Aerial Yoga Teacher Training with Robin Ivy Payton at Leaping Waters Yoga.  Alicia completed her aerial yoga teacher training one year after her first aerial class in 2023; shortly after she started teaching Aerial Yoga once a week. Her love for yoga and wanting to learn more and provide more to her students brought her to  Southern Maine School of Yoga where she completed her 200 YTT in April of 2024.  Alicia loves teaching with the very people who inspired and empowered her at Leaping Waters, now the Breathing Room. Alicia’s background is in athletics and coaching, specifically Football. Alicia has played, coached, officiated and Managed Women’s football for 17 years. She is a 12 time All American and has coached athletes in the sport for over 10 years. Her experience as an athlete and coach has set the foundation for her to be an amazing yoga teacher. Football was Alicia’s Yang.  Her Yin is now Yoga which has balanced her life beautifully. Her heart and passion to guide people through movement shines forth as she brings an energy that inspires people to move. Alicia also teaches Yin Yoga after training with Andrea Gleason and is on her Reiki practitioner journey with Kristine Keegan here at Breathing Room. Alicia loves teaching both adults and young ones and is capable in both strengthening classes and restoratives such a yin and aerial earth.

Rebecca has been practicing yoga her entire adult life. Her teaching path includes Restorative and Aerial yoga training in 2021, from which she began to teach. She followed up with her full 200 hour certification & her Yoga Nidra teacher training with Robin Ivy Payton and Andrea Gleason/Southern Maine Yoga School in 2022/23.

Rebecca both teaches and practices a variety of yoga styles from aerial to flow to hot hatha yoga.

She is also a Reiki II practitioner, trained in the Usui Lineage by Kristine Keegan. Her approach is gentle and supportive, and she often plays her tongue drum and singing bowl at the end of practice.