Ed Harrold, Director
Edward Harrold is a studio owner of Comfort Zone Yoga in Delaware, the Director for Sports Training & Yoga for The Institute For Extraordinary Living at Kripalu Center and originator of the Flexibility For Athletes® program. He leads programs and workshops and has a series of instructional DVD's. He trains with sports teams teaching the Flexibility For Athletes® program to enhance athletic performance and endurance. Ed is a Contributing Editor for Rowing News Magazine. www.mindandbodyworkout.net and www.comfortzoneyogacenter.com. In addition, podcast workouts are coming in 2008 for the rowing, running, walking, cycling and fitness club athlete!
Beginning Spring 2008, we are pleased to announce the launch of his newest work called The NEW Workout experienced exclusively at Kripalu Center for fitness workouts of all levels. This revolutionary technique crosses the barriers of Fitness and Yoga to create an entirely NEW Workout geared towards all recreational and professional sports including: walking, running, cycling, rowing and fitness club enthusiasts. In addition to the week-long fitness programs, the Flexibility For Athletes 70-Hour Teacher Training begins Summer 2008 at Kripalu Center.
Based on Ed Harrold's Flexibility for Athletes performance training philosophy, The NEW Workout approaches fitness by creating a body over mind atmosphere. The NEW Workout harnesses the wisdom of the body by using basic, intermediate and advanced yogic breathing techniques in cardiovascular fitness. It combines the best of yoga: breath, postures, relaxation and meditation to create positive feelings and results to any workout.
Ed has been fortunate enough to be a competitive athlete all his life and experiences yoga as a complement to all sports. By discovering a way to combine both his athletic background and training with yoga and ancient breathing techniques, Ed created and designed the Flexibility For Athletes® program which has been well received with the fitness community. Ed's cutting-edge training had led him to working for Stephen Cope's Institute for Extraordinary Living at Kripalu Center as the Director of Sports Training & Yoga. The Institute studies the effects of yoga, yogic breathing, and meditation on optimal performance in sports and the performing arts-and performs rigorous scientific research on these effects through its partnership with some of the top researchers at Harvard Medical School.
He currently works with collegiate and high school sports teams teaching a "Flexibility For Athletes" program to enhance athletic performance and endurance. Instructional DVD's and Podcast Workouts (Coming 2008) of this work are now available on his www.mindandbodyworkout.net website and www.rowingnews.com.
Chuck Naughton, Instructor
Chuck has been a competitive cyclist for over thirty years, first as an ultra marathoner then as a time trialist. He is a Paris-Brest-Paris finisher, and has competed in BAM (St Louis to Kansas City and back), Double Trouble (two day 400 mile race), and many randonneur events. As a time trialist, he has won numerous Midwest 40K age group gold medals and several ABR National 4 Man Team Championships. Top ten at USCF National 40K Time Trial for age group. Chuck is a Kripalu trained yoga instructor, member of Yoga Alliance, KYTA, and is a Flexibility For Athletes Instructor.
Stan Bergman, Consultant
Stan has coached at the club, schoolboy and collegiate level for the past 40 years. While at Holy Spirit High School, he coached crews that won many championships with 3 crews capturing the Princess Elizabeth Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. At University of Pennsylvania, he guided The Quakers to Eastern Sprint Championships in 1986, 1991, 1996 and 1998 along with 2 IRA Championships in 1989 and 1992. In 1991, the University of Pennsylvania Varsity won the National Championship in Cincinnati, Ohio. Stan was born and raised in Ventnor, NJ and continues to serve as Chief of Ventnor Beach Patrol during the summer months.
Coach Gerald Quinlan, Consultant
8th Season
After serving as an assistant coach in 1998-99, Gerry Quinlan is in his seventh-year as head women's varsity coach at Saint Joseph's University.
Quinlan's resume includes a six-year stint as the head coach of Northwestern University's men's and women's programs and a three-year stint as the head women's coach at Notre Dame. His teams have won medals at the Dad Vail Regatta, Champion International Collegiate Regatta ECAC Championship, and the Head of the Charles and have competed in the Henley Royal Regatta and the Mexico City International Championships.
Most recently, Coach Quinlan's Hawks won the Varsity 8 at the 2006 Dad Vail Regatta and went on to compete at the 2006 Reading Regatta and Henley Regatta in the UK.
David Funk, Instructor
David has been coaching at Mainland High School for the past 7 years and was named Head Boy’s Crew Coach at Mainland High School in 2005. He’s guided The Mustang’s to the New Jersey State Team Points Trophy. David’s most memorable highlights in his own athletic achievements include winning the 2002 & 2003 South Jersey Doubles Championship and the “Triple Crown” with his twin brother, Andrew AND winning the South Jersey Doubles and Singles Championship being only the 2nd lifeguard to win both the Doubles and Single’s race in the same year since the race began in 1924; 1996 Gold Medalist Scholastic National High School Rowing Championship, 1998 Silver Medalist at Eastern Sprint for Rutgers University.
Larissa Hall Carlson, Instructor
Larissa is a 500-hour professional Kripalu Yoga teacher, prenatal yoga teacher, chakra yoga teacher, and Reiki practitioner. Currently, she teaches at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA, the largest residential yoga center in the USA. As Manager of Yoga Education for Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living, Larissa teaches yoga, meditation, pranayama, and yogic philosophy to members of the Tanglewood Music Center, Berkshire Opera Company, and the Julliard School.
Dimitra, Instructor
Dimitra has lived a life "in movement" by growing up in Sweden playing soccer and doing gymnastics, to moving to Greece, hiking and diving, and finally ending up here in Lewes, DE, doing yoga. Lots of yoga! After participating in her first yoga class, she cried out in happiness and could hardly relax in Savasana. She very quickly realized that yoga was it. Since then, yoga has transformed her life creating a sense of renewed energy, while also being very cleansing and nourishing.
Dimitra is certified by Power Yoga Works in Philadelphia and by the Yoga Alliance. In addition, she is also a Personal Trainer and certified in Pilates, Spinning and Group Fitness. She studies with various teachers throughout the U.S. She now studies with Ed Harrold to become a Master Teacher of Ed's breakthrough program called The Flexibility for Athletes.
Dimitra incorporates a straightforward, informative and fun approach in her teaching style. She hopes to make students, especially new ones, both comfortable and excited about the yoga practice. She wants the individual to embrace the many joys and challenges it offers.
"The rewards of helping others to find their own inner strength and centeredness are phenomenal… we are all here in it together, having fun and stretching like crazy!"
"Love, light and eternal gratitude to all my Yoga Teachers, past, present and future for their wisdom, inspiration, and generosity. NAMASTE!"
"P.S. I love trees:)!!!"
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