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Jourdan Abel

I began practicing yoga to relieve chronic pain from a broken back eight years ago. After a few months on the mat, more than just my back felt better, and I was hooked. I practice yoga for both the physical and inner peace and balance it has brought to all aspects of my life. I teach yoga because I want to share the grace, wisdom, and fun of it with others. I strive to teach classes that are woven along the thread of vinyasa, with a deep attention to alignment and healing, and with some exploration and laughter thrown in. I am grateful to the O2 yoga teachers and students for the chance to learn from and with them.

Bob Carr

"At the age of 30 I discovered the experience of 'flow state' as a cyclist. There was something exciting and powerful about breaking through to a level of singular focus through exercise and I gravitated toward that feeling. After 5 years of teaching cycling in downtown Boston, I decided to join a yoga class that followed my cycling class. The experience of connection with myself was immediate. Through the coordination of gaze, breath, and motion, yoga opened new roads for exploring the body and the spirit."

Bob maintains a personal practice deeply grounded in Astanga yoga. He strongly believes that yoga is found in the breath, and teaches a vigorous class that strives toward the union of breath and continuous motion. His teachers include Mimi Loureiro, Beryl Bender Birch, Stephen Cope, and each of his students. His spiritual practice is guided by the writings of J. Krishnamurti.

Carol Ciaravino

I came to yoga at mid-life after a 25-year career as a psychotherapist and a psychoanalyst. After a career based in words, concepts and deep emotions, yoga felt light, simple. Just show up. Come to the mat and practice, practice, practice. Yoga has given me a feeling of stillness inside, a sense of optimism that I can do things that I once would have thought impossible and a connection to the wonderful teachers and community of O2. A friend of mine says that we teach what we most want to learn and so it is that I teach yoga.

Eve Kagan

The first time I stepped on a mat was fifteen years ago. While my path has taken me around the world and back, I have always returned to the mat, to the practice, to the present moment, where mind and body connect through breath and awareness. I had wanted to become a yoga teacher for years but had yet to find a style that encapsulated the wisdom and delight I found essential to the practice until I came to O2. I completed the O2 Teacher Training and have been teaching and practicing at the studios ever since.

Mimi Loureiro

Mimi has been living and breathing her dream of being a full-time yoga teacher for 15 years. She created O2 Yoga in 1998 as a way to introduce people to the system she believes is like no other for changing and improving body, mind, and spirit. She has a BS in nutrition, a BA in psychology, and an MS in exercise physiology. These studies led her to believe even more strongly in the benefits of what you do with the body and put into your mouth really does matter. Yoga is a natural extension of this belief. “Yoga represents a way of harnessing all the good energy, focusing it on one point, to create a more harmonious individual and therefore a more peaceful world,” she says. Her infectious enthusiasm and love for teaching comes through in everything she does. She specializes in strong anatomical focus, adjusting the body to better align and strengthen the spine and therefore create better posture, better mood, better interations with the world, and a more centered and quiet mind.

Mimi’s creation, O2 Yoga is a unique system that draws from the philosophy of the eight-limbed path of Patanjali. O2 Yoga is athletic, empowering, energizing, and life-changing. O2 Yoga is a community of teachers and students who believe in the connection to all living beings and therefore our responsibility to be conscious of all of our actions, words, and intentions. O2 Yoga encourages a proactive interaction with the world.

Mimi has been thrilled to receive many “Best of”s, including “Best of the South End,” “Best Yoga in Boston” by the Weekly Dig, and “Best Yoga in Boston” by the Boston Phoenix, just to name a few! Most importantly, she is inspired every day by her husband, Steven, her two boys, Dylan and Deven, and her family’s ever-increasing animals, including 3 dogs and 6 chickens. Mimi runs teacher training and retreats locally and internationally. She is also incredibly joyful and passionate about animals, vegan cooking, home schooling, traveling with her family, and helping her husband rebuild their antique sailboat, which will take them around the world someday soon.

Peter Loureiro

The body is the tree of enlightenment, The mind like a clear mirror stand; Time and again wipe it diligently, Don't let it gather dust. - Shenxiu

Diana Milan

Melanie Mitsch

Melanie fell in love with yoga because it can be as simple or as complex as the day allows and is something everybody can do. She believes there is a posture or series of poses for every mood and all poses are accessible to every body with some form of modification. Melanie has been practicing yoga in the Boston area for 8 years. What started out as a weekly class at her gym turned into a deep passion that led her to take the Teacher Certification Course through O2 Yoga. She teaches yoga in her free time from her job as quality assurance manager at Tamale Software. All of Melanie's experiences, both on and off the mat, influence the classes she teaches, including teachers, students, family, and friends.

Katherine Pomponi

I began practicing yoga to achieve physical goals. Five years later and 40+ pounds lighter, yoga has not only improved my body physically, but has inspired me in so many ways. Yoga has brought a sense of balance, peace, and mindfulness not only on my mat, but in my hectic personal and corporate life. Through teaching, I hope to give other students the joy and passion of yoga I have received from so many knowledgeable, wonderful, and supportive teachers.

Heather Stewart

I started practicing yoga at the recommendation of a friend. I had heard so many great things about yoga, I thought I would give it a try and I've been hooked ever since! I don't remember ever feeling so passionate about something as I do yoga. While athletics had always been a part of my life growing up and I loved it, it didn't excite me the way yoga does.

Being able to do something that makes me feel just as good on the inside as well as the outside is amazing to me. I am grateful to be a part of O2. I love being able to share with students what Mimi and all of the teachers at O2 have shared with me.

Heather is the current manager of the O2 Yoga Somerville and Boston South End studios.