Yoga Instructors

Del Snyder, RYT-200

Del has been teaching Yoga for 6 years and has been a student of yoga for over 12 years. She received her 200 hour RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher certification with Yoga Alliance) from the Institute of Health and Healing in Newport News. In August of 2010 she received her E-RYT (Experienced) Certification through Yoga Alliance. She is also certified through Yogafit and Om Mamma Prenatal School to teach Prenatal/Postpartum classes. During the past 12 years she has attended many workshops and experienced many styles of Yoga. She is passionate about yoga, and continually seeks to grow as a teacher and student of yoga. She is committed to teaching with safety and body awareness. There are wonderful benefits to a Yoga practice, clarity, spacious opening, grace, free-flowing energy, well-being, strength, and flexibility among many -- she is delighted to share this powerful and healthy practice with you. Del is a wife and mother of three; she is also a proud grandmother of a beautiful young grand daughter.

Christine Griggs, RYT-200

Christine Griggs was born and raised in France. She traveled and lived all over the world with her husband and 3 children before settling down in Newport News in 1998. She’s an avid long-distance runner, aspiring writer and a trained multilingual translator. She’s currently working as a freelance interpreter for the Virginia Court system. When Christine stepped into her first yoga class in 2006, she knew she’d found what had been missing from her life. She became a certified Yoga-Fit instructor in 2008 so that she could teach an ongoing weekly free class to the community at her church. She became a 200RYT through the IHH Integral Yoga program in 2010 and a 500RYT with the Rolf Gates 500hr-RYT Vinyasa Training in June 2011. She is now training instructors as a member of Zenya Yoga Academy’s 200-hour Teacher Training’s faculty. She has taught over 1,000 hours at Zenya, Gold’s, One Life Fitness and in her community. She’s a fervent meditator and member of her local Buddhist temple. She believes in a healthy, balanced, compassionate lifestyle: live consciously, feed your spirit, take the time to be still and enjoy the moment, be generous in your words and actions, don’t take yourself too seriously, always have a dream and, when you reach your dream, get another one. This is the key to true happiness.

Laura Viviana, RYT-200

Due to a near fatal accident in childhood, Laura Viviana spent 6 years in and out of hospitals and undergoing surgeries, often spending months in wheelchairs and crutches.
Her voracious desire to heal led to her to yoga at the age of 14, when she developed a crush on Rodney Yee in his "Yoga for Beginner's" VHS tape (which is now vintage).
Hooked, she studied nearly every form of yoga under the sun. In college, she led yoga "goddess" workshops for her lady friends in need of nourishment and connection, and
after graduation, traveled all over the world in pursuit of wellness, adventure and spiritual wisdom. In New Zealand, she was a well loved yogi who taught in exchange for rent
at eco-villages and shared houses by the sea. Finally, after the urgings of many, Laura decided to make it official and got her 200 hr at the prestigious Kripalu Institute in
June 2011. She is super grateful to be teaching yoga, and believes that it not only cultivates joy and peace in practitioners, but that it maximizes the experience of life itself.

Karen Delnero picture & bio coming soon.

Joe Charsagua - RYT-200

Joe Charsagua was born in the Panama Canal Zone and as a child of a career military father traveled the world before settling in El Paso, Texas where he graduated from high school. After graduating from West Point, NY, Joe served 30 years in the Army and retired from active duty service in 2010. In 2005, Joe was exposed to yoga while stationed in Los Angeles, CA and was immediately attracted to the physical aspects of yoga as a way to complement his physical training regimen and provide alternative forms of physical fitness. Since then Joe has come to realize how yoga provides a holistic approach to living and now enjoys its many aspects to include meditation and yoga philosophy. To deepen his understanding and experience of yoga Joe enrolled in the Zenya Yoga Academy in Newport News in 2011. Joe graduated from the program and attained his Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 200-hour level certification. Joe is currently studying for his meditation teacher certification in the American Meditation Society. Joe is enthusiastic to share the gifts and benefits of yoga and meditation he has enjoyed with others and help them progress along in their respective journey to improve themselves and better their lives.

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