Teachers
Corinne Gervai
Founder / Director
Corinne Gervai, founder and director of Euphoria Yoga in Woodstock, has more than 20 years of teaching experience in New York City and in the Hudson Valley.
She received her yoga teaching certification from the Jivamukti Yoga school in 2000 after completing the one-year intensive certification program led by Sharon Gannon and David Life. Corinne taught all levels at Jivamukti Yoga in New York City from 2000-2005. Prior to that, she taught the Lotte Berk Method, which incorporates elements of yoga, dance, and therapeutic stretching. Corinne also holds certifications in Reiki and hypnosis.
In 2005, Corinne received her advanced Jivamukti certification. Upon moving to Woodstock full-time in 2005, Corinne taught locally until 2009, when she opened Euphoria Yoga. She has been a regular presenter at the Ahimsa Yoga and Music Festival, the Catskill Mountain Yoga Festival, the Woodstock Festival of Awakening, and has taught yoga for ‘Holistic Life Navigation’ retreats led by Luis Mojica at Menla in the Catskills, NY.
She has led several 5-day retreats at Omega Institute in collaboration with Carla Olla. Corinne also leads retreats in Umbria, Italy, Tulum, Mexico, and various locations around the world in collaboration with Dror Ashuah.
Brigit Moynihan
Certified Yoga Instructor, Pranassage™ Practitioner, Reiki 1 Practitioner, Toning Channel.
Certified Yoga Instructor (CYT) Brigit Moynihan was introduced to yoga in 1991 in a college course at SUNY Oneonta with Ashoke Malholtra PHD. During these first hatha yoga classes in savasana she had potent pranic experiences of energy filling her body. This began her life long studyand love of yoga. “ It was like yoga was just waiting there the whole time for me to touch this infinitely vast field it occupies. Our true self is right there behind the veil.
Brigit took her first yoga teacher training with Don and Amba Stapleton of Nosara Yoga at the Omega Institute in 2000. She has been teaching and continuing her education ever since. Brigit returned to Omega in 2005 for the Nosara Yoga Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. In 2013 she traveled to Nosara Yoga Institute’s original home in Nosara Costa Rica for Pranassage™ Teacher Training. Pranassage ™ is a set sequence of assisted yoga poses developed by Amba Stapleton, combining yoga, Thai massage and other modalities. This training was a deep dive into the chakras, the energy systems of the body, how prana (life force) circulates inside us and the energetics of asana. Expanding her love for energy medicine, In February of 2024 Brigit obtained her Reiki One certification from Jennifer Mulak of Cosmic Mother ™
Kimber Truitt
Kimber is trained in Hatha Yoga with Raghunath Capo and Sondra Loring, Prana Vinyasa with Shiva Rea and Coral Brown, and Yantra Yoga with Fabio Andrico. She teaches all levels of yoga with emphasis on vinyasa as movement meditation, breath as initiator of movement, and prana as underlying and creating alignment within asana.
Kim is also trained in Advanced Reiki with Lorry Salluzzi. She holds a BA in Art with an MFA in Poetry and lives with her husband, their 2 daughters, 3 dogs and 3 cats in Woodstock.
Georgina Berbari
Georgina Berbari, M.A., E-RYT, is an artist and yogini. Certified in yoga + meditation for a decade--including advanced training in Rishikesh, India--she is a life-long student of these ancient practices.,
Her intention is to serve as a guide for you to connect with the body's intuition, and internal essence.
Georgina's style of teaching is rooted in Bhakti--devotion. In deep gratitude to all those who came before her and illuminated the path--especially her teachers: Talia Sutra, Dr. Rose Erin Vaughan, and Lama Tsultrim Allione.
Jenny Fox
Jenny Fox PhD, LMT, BCST, has been a devoted student of Yin Yoga at Euphoria since 2014, and was certified as a Yin Yoga teacher at Kripalu in 2017. She enjoys a full-time private practice as an integrative bodyworker, and brings a depth of understanding about the human body and wide-ranging vision of human potential to her classes.
Lavinia Nannini
Lavinia Nannini has been practicing yoga internationally for fifteen years. She is a certified YogaWorks and Jivamukti teacher and holds a Restorative Yoga certificate from renowned teacher Jillian Pransky, the director of Restorative Therapeutic Yoga teacher trainings at YogaWorks in NYC. She plunged into the path of yoga through Jivamukti Yoga in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of advanced teacher Nives Gobbo. Lavinia’s later trips to India and numerous workshop and retreat experiences have augmented her passion for well-rounded, holistic and spiritual classes that engage the soul, mind and body whether through dynamic vinyasa or restorative classes.
She is a passionate teacher whose aim is to deepen her students’ yoga practice through lively, mindful and engaging classes that merge all aspects of Yoga from meditation, pranayama and asana sequencing to chanting and yoga philosophy.
Her creative classes focus on the breath and healing. Her teaching aspires to spread love and light while promoting peaceful change in the world.
Namaste!
Sophia Bruun
Sophia landed on the path of yoga and meditation in 2013 while studying in Denmark. After experiencing such a profound shift in her mental, emotional and physical health, she knew that she wanted to help catalyze the same transformation in others. In 2015, after earning a degree in psychology, Sophia completed a 200-hour power vinyasa YTTC in Southern California. The following year she moved to Thailand where she began teaching yoga and organizing retreats. While living in Asia, where she has spent the majority of the last decade, Sophia studied different forms of yoga, meditation, Thai massage, sound healing and other healing arts. In 2021, she completed a 300-hour multi-style YTTC at Shree Hari Yoga School in India. Since then she has completed two yin yoga trainings with Shree Hari and joined the school as a yin yoga teacher trainer in Dharamshala this year. Sophia is based part time in New York's Hudson Valley where she continues to teach and learn, sharing and building upon her toolbox of life skills for holistic wellbeing and spiritual development. Sophia aims to bring more balance to the world and expand consciousness through her offerings of yoga, meditation, and sound.