About Carrie...   Carrie Parker Gastelu is a New York/New Jersey based, E-500 hour registered Yoga Instructor and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. Carrie is Co-director of Bright Spirit Teacher Training, a 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training program at Devotion Yoga in Hoboken, NJ. Carrie specializes in Prenatal Yoga and is Director of Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Works and is Director of Prenatal Yoga for Devotion Yoga. In addition to weekly classes and teacher training, Carrie teaches Mindful Parenting workshops, incorporating yogic principals into everyday family life.      Carrie has been a guest teacher at the OMEGA Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, regularly teaching at their New York City conferences. She is also a presenter for Birth Works International Conferences for birth professionals. She has been featured in Fit Magazine, the Yoga Zone Book and in the Yoga Zone Video, “Flexibility and Stress Release.” Carrie was also featured in the Discovery Documentary, “From Conception to Birth,” teaching Prenatal Yoga.

Yogi Raj Mani Finger initiated Carrie into the ISHTA Yoga lineage after extensive training with Mani’s son, Yogi Raj Alan Finger. ISHTA Yoga (Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda) draws on many ancient traditions including the athletic ashtanga practice, the flowing vinyasa style, the precise Iyengar method and the consciousness-expanding tantric practices. In addition she has studied many other yoga traditions as well as anatomy, physiology, movement and awareness practices to create an eclectic style all her own. She is known for her honest, non-dogmatic approach and encourages her students to find the teacher within.

Carrie teaches Yoga-centered Childbirth Education. It is a holistic approach to prepare women for birth and motherhood. She is certified by Lamaze International and is a guest speaker for Birth Works International Conferences. Carrie has also studied with author and midwife, Pam England, taking Level One Training for Birthing From Within Childbirth Education. Carrie is known for inspiring women to rely on inner strength, courage and intuition to have a peaceful and empowering birth experience and transition into motherhood.   Prior to teaching yoga, Carrie was involved in children’s entertainment marketing, developing high quality toys and books for children. She is the mother of three children after yoga filled pregnancies and beautiful home births.