Our Mission
Sheltered Yoga facilitates mental and behavioral health and wellness through yoga and mindfulness education. We serve individuals and communities by using a specialized evidence-based, trauma informed curriculum that fosters strong self esteem, strength, confidence, tolerance and empowerment.
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Meet the Founder
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Joseph S. Russo, D.O.
Younok Dumortier
Samuel S. Levine, M.S., D.D.S.
Tarsha Scoven, Founder- Let's Go Outdoors
Michael Giangiordano, CEO- RentalRater.com
Tselane Williams, Esq.
Donnetta Moss Gardner, Esq.
Adam Taylor
Elizabeth Millar
Tracy Wehringer
Aisha O'Donnell
Staff
Tina LeMar, Founder & Executive Director
Silvana Hreiz, Executive Assistant
Tina LeMar has been practicing and teaching yoga since 1993. Her credentials include two Master's degrees; an MA in Education & Curriculum and an MBA in Business Administration, as well as extensive graduate level classes in Family and Systems Psychology.
Tina’s formal yoga trainings are in the popular Hatha, Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga styles and she is a certified yoga teacher trainer of the International Yoga Alliance.
Tina has owned and operated a successful yoga and wellness business along with yoga studios in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and in the neighboring state of New Jersey for over fifteen years and was the founder and editor of the digital magazine, “Yoga Bean Magazine” for over six years.
Tina founded and currently runs a successful 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, “Sheltered Yoga”, which brings mental and behavioral health and wellness through psychosocial & social emotional activities, life skills, yoga and mindfulness education. The nonprofit serves individuals and communities by using a specialized evidence-based, trauma informed curriculum that fosters strong self-awareness, self-regulation, confidence, tolerance and self empowerment. Sheltered Yoga’s program is taught in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, and continually expanding. The nonprofit has been recognized as a very effective and innovative approach to rebuilding self-esteem, self-worth, self-regulation, self-awareness and compassion among the communities and individuals it serves. Tina wrote an extensive curriculum for Sheltered Yoga that is being used in all their programming. This curriculum helps actualize the missions outcomes. All Sheltered Yoga teachers are trained in the curriculum.
Tina’s advanced degree and thesis in teaching focused on the physiological and neurological changes that occur in the brain during a yoga and meditation practice. As a direct result of her work, she is considered a pioneer in the field of “Yoga Therapy and Meditation.” She has ongoing clinical research employing the benefits of yoga and meditation to mitigate the clinical characteristics of Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder, Addictions, Autism, Pain Management, and Mental and Physical Trauma. She is available to speak on such unique topics as: “Yoga and Stress Reduction,” “Yoga and Health,” “The Psychology Behind Yoga Postures,” “Yoga as a treatment for Anxiety and Panic Disorder,” “Yoga for Individuals Suffering from Trauma/PTSD,” “Chronic Pain and Addiction Rehabilitation through Yoga,” and “The Benefits of Yoga for Autistic Children,” and many other current topics of yoga, meditation, mindfulness, trauma, and cultural and gender differences in yoga.
