Delaney Halsted

Delaney Halsted, RYT 200, began practicing yoga in 2017, during her freshman year of high school as a way to integrate more mindful movement into her life. She  graduated her 200 hour certification from Laughing River Yoga in 2023, and has loved teaching yoga since. Delaney is a student at the university of north carolina wilmington, studying exercise science. She loves teaching at Soulshine when she is home in Vermont, and hopes anyone who joins her for a class feels loved, appreciated, and embodied as they move through their practice. 

Eliza Kuchuk

Eliza Kuchuk (she/her) is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher who aims to create a sense of ease and compassion in each and every practice. Deeply inspired by the ancient teachings and texts of yoga, she loves to weave in philosophy, mantra, energetics, and pranayama with the physical asanas of yoga. In her classes, you can expect a strong vinyasa flow with a light hearted approach and a focus of tuning into your own experience.

Eliza completed her 200 hour YTT in 2019 with Yoga Vermont and her 300 hour with Rise and Vibe Yoga in 2025. She was most recently living in the US Virgin Islands but is excited to be back home in Vermont. On top of her weekly classes and workshops, Eliza also leads retreats and yoga teacher training. Outside of yoga, Eliza loves exploring the great outdoors!

Emily Smith Duggan

Emily has been practicing and studying yoga since 2008, and embraces the philosophy of “planting seeds and nurturing what grows.” In her yoga practice, Emily enjoys sowing the seeds of mindfulness, and seeks to offer the same to her students. She completed her 200 hour Vinyasa RYT in New York in 2016, 50 hour Restorative Yoga training in New Jersey in 2018, and is currently working towards her 500 hour advanced certification. In her classes, students can expect mindful flow sequences that link breath and movement, opportunities to connect inward through meditation, and the calming qualities of restorative yoga postures. Emily prioritizes community and connection, and loves to integrate feedback and focus areas from students to ensure each practice meets students where they are at. Outside of yoga, you can find Emily running, skiing, hiking, biking, gardening, and eating lots of ice cream!

Emily Souliotis

Emily has been practicing and teaching yoga for five years. She earned her 200 hour teaching certificate through Yoga Vermont in Burlington, and is currently working on her 500 hour certificate. Although Emily loves teaching many styles and levels, her favorite class is a challenging vinyasa! When she’s not teaching, Emily loves spending time with her husband, two little ones, and boxer pup.

Jenny Sugar

Jenny Sugar (you can call her Sugar!) took her first yoga class in 1999 and has been teaching ever since. With a background in Ashtanga, her true passion is for Vinyasa-style yoga because of its playful, energetic, fluid, and challenging nature.

Sugar’s vigorous classes use the connection of your breath to your movements to deepen the connection you feel toward others and to the world. You’ll strengthen and open every inch of your body, and are encouraged to move at your own comfort and ability level, to explore new, challenging poses, and above else, to have fun!

Kate Blondin

Malaika DosRemedios

Malaika DosRemedios (E-RYT-500, and YACEP) is a full-time teacher of the Tantric Tradition of Hatha Yoga, group fitness instructor and personal trainer in the Burlington, Vermont area during the late spring to mid fall and lives in Key West, FL during the winters. When not in Vermont she is traveling and teaching all over the globe. In the recent years, Malaika has lead Intensive Immersion Teacher Trainings in Bali, Indonesia and clinics for students and teachers in Sydney, Australia.

She enjoys working with communities, inspiring others into their best selves. She is a community partner, and consultant with other yoga communities globally, helping to fine tune their vision and creates collaborative partnerships with other teachers and studios involving yoga retreats, teacher trainings and events throughout the world. Her life is dedicated to this work and she always feels as though it is just beginning. She and her beloved Yellow Lab “Teddy,” who is a certified Therapy Dog of Vermont, like to volunteer in their free time unleashing smiles to folks in need of personal visits.

Marissa Pappalardo (She/Her)

I began my yoga practice as a simple means of gaining physical strength and flexibility. Years
later, I find myself enjoying yoga as a spiritual, physical, and philosophical path. I hope to honor
the complexities of yoga as ancient culture, science and wisdom, as well as acknowledge yoga as
a modern practice that helps me unveil clarity and grounding within.

I am first and foremost a student of yoga, and secondly I am a 500+hr RYT. My classes are a
blend of pranayama, asana, and meditation. In this way, I hope to offer a dynamic, light-hearted,
and wise approach to practicing yoga in a modern context; and I look forward to sharing yoga
practice with you!

Mary Mahoney

Mary Mahoney has an RYT-200 from Yoga Renew (Hoboken, NJ), supported by 15+ of experience in yoga practice, study, and volunteering. She is most experienced in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Hot Yoga. Mary is a former tri-athlete, loves xc skiing, and snowboarding. Her teaching style is upbeat, and nourishing. She emphasizes linking breath and movement, mindfulness, and empowerment. She integrates Sanskrit terminology about half the time. Mary gets excited about health, wellness, nutrition, regulating the nervous system, music, comedy, and art. She loves dogs, road trips, bringing dogs on road trips, and DIY spa days.

Mary brings with her a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, with a combined focus in Counseling and Behavior Analysis. She is experienced with trauma-informed care, neurodiverse communication, environmental modifications, tuning and processing sensory experiences, and cognitive behavioral therapy. She also has a bachelors of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from UVM and is a native Vermonter. She is culturally competent and always, always a student.

Naomi Hahr

I began practicing yoga in 2009 after an injury to help heal and manage chronic pain. I have practiced regularly since then, with many teachers and studying different styles. I continue to practice as a way to be gracious to my mind and body. I love studying yoga and sharing this practice in community with others. I enjoy poses that offer different challenges. Right now, I love Bird of Paradise pose. It keeps me mentally engaged and offers the ability to focus on something new each time I come into the pose, whether it’s flexibility, balance, strength or just trying not to topple over. Outside of yoga, I am an avid runner and mountain biker. I love spending time at home with my partner Jesse, our 3 dogs, Savannah, Maisie and Ramona, and cat Percy.

Noelle Davis

Noelle Davis has practiced yoga for the last 16 years and completed her 200 hour teacher training through Yoga Vermont. Her vinyasa classes focus on being present, listening to the breath as the voice of the body, and having fun. The connection that we all make through breath, movement, and our minds is what inspires Noelle to get on her mat everyday. She believes that through the physical mind we can free the mental mind. Noelle is grateful to be here sharing her love and adventure for yoga, for her teachers who inspire her daily, and most especially for her family, as it is their love that makes living her life blissful.

Paula Palermo

Paula identifies as a teacher. Yoga, art, mindfulness and mathematics both sacred and practical are passions she shares with adults and children alike. Fostering wellness, curiosity and building strength as well as supporting practitioners in developing meaningful and sustainable life-long practices are the goals of her teaching. Expect a mindful practice which integrates breath-body connection, energy, humor and music with Paula.

Rachel Cowan

Rachel found yoga over fifteen years ago, beginning with the fundamental Ashtanga sequence and exploring many other disciplines since. She fell in love with yoga, the union found in practice, one’s ability to quiet the mind, focus on breath, challenge the body, and most of all have fun!

Rachel teaches Vinyasa flow yoga with creative sequencing that will work all areas of the body, focusing on opening the heart and undoing the ways in which we’re hard on ourselves in our day-to-day lives. Rachel hopes that through mindful practice each practitioner will cultivate a sense of awareness and awe within their individual practice, taking time to enjoy. Rachel enjoys intertwining music and philosophy into her teaching, while never taking practice too seriously. When Rachel is not in class practicing yoga, she enjoys being on the water, hiking, art, writing, live music, food, and finding new adventures.

Sarah Quinttus

Sarah was first exposed to yoga in the spring of 2011 and quickly fell in love with the practice and its teachings. Growing up playing competitive sports, Sarah endured several injuries which resulted in 5 reconstructive knee operations. Yoga was the only form of rehabilitation that made a lasting impact, and she attributes her daily practice to being able to remain active outdoors, whether it be skiing, biking, hiking or kayaking. 

Although Yoga started as a mostly physical practice for Sarah, it has grown into a way of life, both on and off the mat, and has become deeply spiritual and healing for her. Through living her yoga she has learned the power of intention, positive thinking and remaining present. In Sarah’s class you can expect to be physically challenged, play with your edge and find space and serenity in the mind. Sarah has been inspired by many wonderful teachers on her path and is excited to share the traditions of this beautiful practice with her own students. Sarah is currently working towards her 1,000hr IAYT certification in Yoga Therapy.

Sara Swartz

Sara completed her 200 hour yoga certification in Embody Yoga at Yoga Center Amherst in 2005. She is currently working towards her 500 hour certification. She has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 years.

Sara takes a structured yet light-hearted approach to teaching. She aspires to create a safe, nurturing space that will bring you to your edge while allowing you to have fun and express yourself fully. A lifelong lover of movement, Sara will encourage you to approach your practice from a new perspective. Her classes are grounding and centering, yet dynamic and powerful.

Sara is also a mental health professional and has taught yoga in a variety of clinical settings, including hospitals and community health centers. Her practice is trauma-informed and all-affirming.

When she’s not teaching yoga, you will likely find her exploring the natural beauty of Vermont. She loves hiking, biking, kayaking, cooking, watching birds and spending time with her dogs.

Shannon Jankowski (Jank)

I took my first yoga class in 2017 at SoulShine. I was looking to find peace and comfort within myself. From there I began taking classes consistently and feeling the physical and mental benefits of the practice. In October 2023, I began my 200-hour yoga teacher training at Laughing River and completed the program in May. I am excited to have come full circle and be at the studio where it all began for me. Off the mat, you can find me enjoying the sun, reading, painting, rock climbing, and paddleboarding. 

Stacey Sadowsky

Stacey is an avid runner and volunteer running coach who was told by her massage therapist if she didn’t’ find a way to stretch the body, she would not be able to continue running. That comment led her straight to yoga! Though her body calls for a heated, vigorous practice with arm balances and handstands for strength, her passion is teaching beginners who think they can’t “do yoga”. She loves to inspire, encourage and unite through yoga, breath and meditation.

Stacey completed her 200 hour teacher training in 2019 and will graduate with her 300 hour teacher training in January 2021. She is also a certified chair yoga teacher and volunteer teaches at a local senior center. She is also certified in Dharma Wheel and Yin practices.