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Kristin Caforio Marengo

Kristin Caforio Marengo (owner/E500RYT) is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts.  Upon graduating high school in 1998 she left Massachusetts and pursued a career in dance.  Landing her first job as Grover in Sesame Street Live in 1999.  After a series of dance tours, and cruise line contracts she landed in NYC.  After a back injury in 2002, she found Yoga.  In dance she was always competing, dancing through injuries and neglecting her body. Yoga changed all of that and through yoga she learned proper alignment.  No longer competing and forcing she began listening to her body and healing her body. Quickly her injuries healed. 
 
Yoga started off primarily physical, but quickly yoga became a mental practice as well.  Kristin started noticing that she was more calm throughout the day.  Things that would have got her down previously were no longer affecting her.  Yoga was changing her life in a positive way.
 
In 2003, Kristin received her 200 hour certification in NYC and years later received her 300 hour certification.  Currently Yoga Alliance (E-500 RYT). Her teaching career began, teaching throughout NYC.  In 2007 Kristin became the general manager of Prana Power Yoga in NYC.  In 2009 she became the head teacher of the Teacher Training Program.
 
In 2010 Kristin's class was rated as one of the top 10 yoga classes in NYC, by Time Out Magazine. (December 2010) issue.
 
Kristin led NYU's physical therapy yoga program.
 
November 2014 Kristin was featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine
 
In 2014 Kristin was featured as a yogi in the motion picture "Creative Control"
 
Kristin decided it was time to move back to Worcester Massachusetts in November 2014, and decided to open Hot Power Yoga Center. Kristin's dharma or life purpose is to spread the healing powers of yoga to all her students and is overjoyed to have her own studio.  Hot Power Yoga Center is a safe atmosphere where students can explore their physical and mental selves through breath and movement.  There are no mirrors at Hot Power Yoga Center, because through Yoga we let our egos go and listen to our bodies without competing or judging.  Hot Power Yoga Center is a simple place to escape from every day stresses, and take time to fill your own cup.
 
There is no end to a yoga journey, just a beginning.
 
Kristin wants to thank her husband Joseph and son Josiah for their unconditional support. 
 
 


Kristin Caforio Marengo instructs the following:
  • Hot Power Vinyasa All Levels

    • The word Vinyasa means “linking breath to movement.” Our Vinyasa yoga classes are creative and teachers take students on a journey where the poses are found through breath. Vinyasa yoga is sometimes referred to as flow yoga since students flow from pose to pose in this style of class. In this vigorous flow students will be led through Sun Salutations, side bends, heart openers, backbends, hip openers, inversions, arm balances, standing poses, forward folds, core, twists and a floor sequence. Our classes are the perfect blend of all ways of stretching including a heavy focus on biomechanics and strength. We incorporate active and passive stretching, resistance variations of stretching, and use of props to add load or to modify.  These classes are for all levels. We offer a ton of modifications for all levels, so that each student can find the right variation of the pose that suits their unique needs.


  • "Aromaflow" Hot Power Vinyasa with Aromatherapy
    • This class was developed and created by Kristin Caforio-Marengo. She merged her two loves of oils and yoga and created this class. In this all levels heated vinyasa flow class, we diffuse 100% pure therapeutic grade essential oils throughout the practice.  The oils will change every class, to support the theme and message of the class.
     
    Essential Oil aromas stimulate the part of the brain that affects emotion.  The shape of an essential oil molecule is like a key that opens lock-like structure in the olfactory nerve receptors in our nostrils.  The impression of the aroma is sent directly and immediately to the limbic system where memories are stored and pleasure and emotions are perceived.  When stimulated, the limbic system releases chemicals that affect the central nervous system.  Serotonin counteracts anxiety, and endorphins reduce pain.

  • 200 Hour Teacher Training
    • Join Kristin and Company for this life changing journey. Hot Power Yoga Center's 200 hour program is registered with the Yoga Alliance. This once in a lifetime opportunity takes place over the course of 19 weekends.
     
    Graduates will leave the training with a whole new perspective on life and confidence to pass this knowledge to all of their students. The training includes:
    Dissecting the Asanas (The poses)
    Teaching the flow and the poses
    Philosophy
    Anatomy
    Biomechanics
    Chakras 
    Sutras 
    Modifications
    Using props (blocks, straps, towels, bands, wall etc
    How to modify safely for injured yogis
    8 Limbs of Yoga
    Pranayama (Breathing techniques)
    Mythology
    Meditation
    Methodology 
    Law of Attraction
    Yoga Nidra
    Chair Yoga
    Restorative and Chair Yoga
    How to teach classes to all levels and ages
    and so much more
     
    Each trainee is assigned one of our fabulous senior yoga teachers as their mentor, and trainees will meet their mentor privately throughout training for individual attention and guidance.
     
    The course includes Unlimited free yoga throughout the entire training at Hot Power Yoga Center.
     
    19 weekends at Hot Power Yoga Center consists of the following:
     
    Saturdays and Sundays
    Saturdays 3-8pm, Sunday's 4-8pm
    Weekends are:
    September 13-14
    September 20-21
    October 4-5
    October 18-19
    November 1-2
    November 15-16
    December 6-7
    December 13-14
    January 3-4
    January 17-18
    January 31-February 1st
    February 14-15
    February 28-March1st
    March 14-15
    March 28-29
    April 11-12
    April 25-26
    May 2-3
    Graduation May 9th

    Investment: $3200 

    Payment plans are available. Signing up and paying the $500 deposit holds your spot. Then you can choose to pay off the balance in full or choose a payment plan. Signing up and paying the deposit is a commitment to the entire program and the $3200 price. No refunds
     
    Counts as continued education for Yoga Teachers
     
    Email hotpoweryogacenter@yahoo.com for more info
     

  • Arm Balances and Inversions Workshop
    • Arm balances and inversions with Kristin and Krystal! This workshop will include a little flow to warm up the body in all the right places, then move into spending time breaking down the key components of arm balancing and inversions. Understanding the bodies mechanics and weight distributions are keys to starting/enhancing your arm balance/inversion practice. We’ll spend large chunks of time working on ways to initiate arm balances/inversions and different approaches to get into variations of the poses.
     
     
    $35 (non refundable)
     
    Space is extremely limited for safety, no refunds 
     
    This counts as continued education with Yoga Alliance for all yoga teachers