Allison began practicing yoga during college. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, she and her husband moved to Maryland for graduate studies and yoga remained part of her lifestyle. 

In 2023, Allison enrolled in the Pranakriya Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) with Kim Murphy at Crofton Yoga. Studying yoga has deepened her appreciation and dedication to the practice. As a school psychologist and mother of three, regular yoga practice is essential to maintaining a balanced routine.  

Allison is also a Reiki Healer and aims to incorporate her knowledge into each of her classes - creating an inclusive environment for all students.  

Liz was introduced to yoga over a decade ago. She was first interested in the stress relief, meditation, and relaxation aspects of the practice. As she began practicing more regularly she experienced the benefits of strengthening her physical container despite her own limitations as a person living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. After sustaining several injuries over the years, Liz found freedom through yoga to build strength and body awareness in new ways.

In 2020, Liz moved to Maryland from MA during the pandemic with her husband and their 5 children. Seeking relief from anxiety and isolation, she signed herself and her son up for yoga at a local Pranakriya studio, Crofton Yoga. This tantra hatha yoga tradition was exactly what she had been looking for, leaving her feeling “more fully alive!” The way that meditation is paired with breath and movement really gives her a sense of victory over racing thoughts in her head as well as compassion with her own body’s limits.

In the spring of 2024, Liz studied under Kimberly Murphy to receive her 200hr YTT certification from Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts. Her desire is to give others the chance to love themselves for who they are without all the labels. She works to help others connect mind, body, and spirit through breathwork, movement, and meditative rest. She encourages her participants to have “courageous authenticity” and to find peace by truly finding themselves.

I teach yoga because I am passionate about sharing the gifts of peace, joy, love and healing that yoga offers. I started practicing yoga in 2000 because I desperately needed stress relief and balance in my life. At the time, I was a new high school choir and theater teacher and nearly every waking hour was focused on work. I will never forget my first class and the blissfully peaceful state I reached during final relaxation. That day I vowed never to be without yoga. In the past 24 years, yoga has been a constant companion–bringing me strength, flexibility, balance, patience, clarity and happiness. Yoga and meditation were also key to helping me heal from a debilitating traumatic brain injury following a car accident in 2017. During my recovery, I learned that meditation and yoga kept me grounded, hopeful and resilient during a very bleak time in my life.

One of the things I love most about yoga is that you don’t have to be perfect. Just come as you are, with an open mind and heart, and allow yoga to move you. I believe that self-care, turning inward and slowing down are so important in our fast-paced world. Taking a yoga class with others elevates the individual experience to something that is quite special and difficult to put into words. As a yoga teacher I am honored to hold space for my students so they can listen and tune in to what they need to receive from their practice.   

I earned my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification from the Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts in May, 2024. Pranakriya Yoga is steeped in the Hatha Yoga teachings of Swami Kripalu and adapted for modern practitioners by Yoganand Michael Carroll. The Pranakriya tradition  focuses on cultivating awareness and aliveness through pranayama, asana, and meditation. I also hold a Level One Certificate from Love Your Brain Yoga (2021) and am called to help those who have experienced concussion and brain injury—along with their caretakers—as they travel their path of healing.   

When not practicing or teaching yoga, I work as an Academic Specialist for Music with Anne Arundel County Public Schools. I am a Nationally Board Certified Teacher, earning my Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Albion College and Master’s Degree in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University. I love stand-up paddleboarding, knitting, music, swimming in the ocean, and traveling this beautiful world. I am joyfully engaged to Duane Willoughby—who proposed to me in May, 2023 while at a Yoga retreat in Portugal!—and am mom to two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels,      

Sawyer (15) & Owen (7).

Linda completed a Yoga Alliance-approved 200-hour teacher certification in 2013 in Yin and Vinyasa yoga and received her 300-hour Yoga Alliance advanced teacher training certification in 2021 in Tantra Hatha Yoga (Swami Kripalu lineage/ Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts). Currently, she is completing the 95-hour Yoga Alliance specialty teacher training certification in children's yoga led by Pranakriya, PK Kids.  
Along with her personal yoga practice, and as her professional life allows, Linda teaches yoga classes, works with private clients, and teaches yoga classes and workshops in international venues.
When not teaching yoga, Linda is an international technology, transaction and media attorney. She originally sought out yoga to help balance the challenges of her overseas travel and law practice. Linda practices in English and Spanish and is a student of French.
Linda loves teaching yoga to children and guiding their energy, creativity, awareness and growth."