Faculty

Edward Harrold, “The Athletic Yogi”, is an owner of Comfort Zone Center for Whole Self Healing, a Director of Yoga & Sports Training for The Kripalu Institute For Extraordinary Living in Massachusetts and originator of Flexibility For Athletes® & Weight Loss …The Yoga Way.  Ed is a Life Coach on the human potential, yogic sciences and emotional intelligence. Ed leads programs at Kripalu, Satchidananda Yogaville, International Yoga Therapy Conference and other recognized venues.

Ed began his exploration into yoga as a broken athlete with low back and knee injuries sustained from individual and team sports.  Ed has been a competitive athlete in everything from football to surfing since the Age of 9. His most prestigious sports –oriented accomplishment was the Around The Island Swim (22 ½ mile) in Atlantic City, NJ in 1994.  The only amateur in a field of 27 professional swimmers, Ed finished 14^th out of a field of 28.

Because of the profound positive effects on him physically and emotionally, Ed studied at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health became a certified yoga instructor.  Since then, Ed has been blessed and influenced by the Master teachings of Yoganand Michael Carroll, Stephen Cope and Jonathan Foust.

Inspired and amazed by the effects of yogic breathing, Ed explored and mastered advanced forms of Pranayama weaving them into his athletic background.  He began to uniquely sequence basic, intermediate and advanced forms of Pranayama to facilitate Inspiratory Muscle Training. Ed found a way to fuse the worlds of yoga and sports in a revolutionary way.  He brings yogic breathing, Cross-patterning yoga and meditation into the western sports paradigm either as a primary training tool or hybrid within an athletic environment and created the Flexibility For Athletes® performance training program.  He has a series of instructional DVD’s, podcasts and a fully integrative yoga streaming video website. 

You can learn more about Ed by visiting his websites.  www.comfortzoneyogacenter.com, www.mindandbodyworkout.net and www.czyogaonline.com.

Wendy Harrold is an owner & Co-Director of Comfort Zone Center For Whole Self Healing.  In addition, Wendy is the Administrator for Comfort Zone’s Yoga School.  Wendy is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist , Reiki Master, Shiatsu and Thai Massage Therapist and certified yoga instructor in the Whole Self Yoga style. 

Wendy is the Creator of the Journey To Your Spirit.  Wendy’s Journey To Spirit program takes you on a journey deep inside our consciousness to clear away the emotional and mental imprints of our limbic system stored in the memory of our past so that we may live fully as our authentic joyful selves.  We use yoga, yogic breathing, toning, chanting, primal movement and meditation to explore these deeper levels of ourselves to understand who we really are and how we got to be who we “think” we are. 

Wendy enjoys travelling with her husband assisting in his workshops, professional certification programs and training sessions with individual sports teams.

Rudy Peirce, MA, a certified yoga teacher since 1982, faculty member of the Kripalu School of Yoga, is a perennial student of the yoga of life, fascinated with practicing yoga as an exploration. As an athlete in college, Rudy studied and practiced yoga and meditation.  While intrigued with the physical practice, it was really peace of mind he was after.  He has been leading transformational yoga retreats for over 20 years and is dedicated to making yoga accessible to those of us who would like to feel more flexible, comfortable, strong, whole and worthy.

He has now been practicing, studying, teaching yoga and training teachers for over 25 years. Rudy is currently a trainer on the faculty of the Kripalu School of Yoga in Lenox, Massachusetts.  Rudy is also the Co-Director for Comfort Zone Center For Whole Self Healing’s Yoga School and the co-creator of the Whole Self Yoga Teacher Training.

He created the Men’s Yoga Quest program offered at Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA. He has created a popular set of yoga CDs called The Gentle Series.  Learn more at www.gentleyogi.com.

Beth Seiwell has over a decade of experience developing a heart centered alternative healing practice. Beth is trained in and integrates many healing modalities. In a co-created sacred space, Beth helps bring physical, energetic and emotional bodies into a state of optimal healing and repair so the body can heal itself. Using the energies of stones and minerals to create shifts in the energy of the client, Beth clears blockages and facilitates the free flow of energy throughout the body. Using conscious resonance, her intuitive process taps into energy fields and her guides direct her on where to go- to pull and shift energy – so that those who wish to heal, expand and evolvecan begin the process. Beth’s intuitive connections often tap into alternative lifetimes, revealing patterns people are living out in order to learn lessons needed to clear and reprogram. Beth also emphasizes the need to heal and groundon the physical level, using yoga to link breath and movement to play out stress reactions - such as pain, resistance and discomfort. The yoga work helps clients take the spiritual and energetic work into the physical realm – allowing for skillful, effective and permanent life changes.

Beth’s credentials include: Crystal Resonance Therapist and Instructor, Primus Activation Healing Technique Practitioner, Usui Reiki Master and Karuna RMT - Reiki Master Teacher and Certified 200-Hr Whole Self Yoga Teacher. But her most important credentials include loving mother to Matthew, Olivia and Maia and wife to Brian. At her home and abroad she hosts sweat lodge ceremonies, vision quests, drumming circles and other indigenous gatherings, uniting community, purification, insights and celebration of life.

Larissa Hall Carlson, a 500–hour Kripalu Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic yoga specialist, is Manager of Yoga Education for Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living. She has an additional 200-hour certification in Yee Yoga, teaches prenatal yoga and chakra yoga, and is a Reiki practitioner. Larissa has taught yoga, meditation, pranayama, and yogic philosophy for the Tanglewood Music Center, the Berkshire Opera Company, and the Juilliard School. Additionally, Larissa travels the country teaching yoga workshops, advanced pranayama trainings, and Ayurvedic consultations.  Creator of the CDs: A Sadhana for Teachers and Meditative Yoga Flow: A Kripalu Sadhana.  www.larissacarlson.com

After my first years of college, I began to look for a career in which I would feel like I was making a difference in the world each day.  Like a bolt of lightning, it struck me—massage therapy.  I attended Praxis College of Health Arts and Sciences in 1997 to train in massage and hydrotherapy.  During the two year training I was first introduced to Thai massage, and I fell in love.   After several years of practice in the massage field I was drawn to further my career with yoga teacher training at Kripalu Center.  It was at Kripalu that I found my next great love in ayurvedic bodywork.  It was no surprise when I realized that these two had common roots.  I completed the Kripalu School of Ayurveda in 2006, and added ayurvedic consultations to my work at Kripalu.  After almost a decade of practice in the healing arts, I traveled to India and Thailand in 2007 to complete more advanced training and to meet the motherlands of my two great loves.  I currently travel and teach with my partner, Terrel, to spread the healing power of massage, yoga, and Ayurveda.