Join us for a unique yoga experience led by a local instructor, accompanied by live music from an Erie Phil musician.

Dates

Location - Lobby

Instructor - Studio Sage

Instrument - Harp

Yin Yoga - SOLD OUT

Location - Rehearsal Hall

Instructor - YogaErie

Instrument - Cello

Power Flow

Location - Stage

Instructor - Studio 99 Yoga

Instrument - Piano

All Levels Flow

All classes start at 6pm

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Meet the Instructors

Sydney completed her 200hr Yoga Teacher training in March 2024 after having a decade of personal practice. Since completion of her 200hr, she has continued her education to receive 110 hrs of Yin specific training. Similar to many, her practice began solely as a movement practice until she began to uncover the wholistic view of what Yoga is. The Yoga practice has helped Sydney regulate her mental and emotional well-being through many life challenges and she is passionate about people having the opportunity to experience and adapt the practice in a way that is most meaningful to them.

Outside of her teaching, she has a love for animals and has three cats and three dogs at home, and regularly volunteers at Purrista Cat Cafe. You may also find her at a local market selling her handspun yarn or knitted goods, or holding a class to teach others how to create with fiber arts. She is passionate about sharing her skills and interests with those around her and using them to create a positive impact on her community.

Jill Murphey, the owner of yogaErie, discovered yoga years ago, but it wasn’t until after the birth of her fourth son that she dedicated herself to the practice.
Yoga has transformed her life and she enjoys sharing her passion for the practice. Jill completed her 200 hour teacher training program through YogaFit, a Yoga Alliance approved school, in March of 2009. In 2010, Jill furthered her yoga education and training with Amazing Yoga in Pittsburgh led by Karen and Sean Conley, completing the Level One power vinyasa yoga teacher training. In March 2012, she traveled to Mexico for Advanced Teacher Training with the Conleys, completing an additional 100 hours training. Jill has traveled to Costa Rica for Amazing Yoga Level 3 training and yoga retreats with Amazing Yoga. She is very grateful for her training and support from Karen and Sean...Amazing Yoga was the inspiration for yogaErie!

Jill teaches a vinyasa style of yoga, focusing on flow, strength, grace and power, while at the same time encouraging students to respect their bodies. Her classes are challenging but she is able to offer modifications so that each student is comfortable and confident in each posture.

When she is not teaching or practicing yoga, Jill is raising her four boys, Charlie, Teddy, Harry & Archie, with her dedicated husband Craig. Jill also serves as Judge of Elections for her polling district in Fairview, and spends as much time as she can at Edinboro Lake with her family. Through yogaErie, Jill is able to share her passion with others in the hope that they too will find themselves transformed by the power of yoga.

Through a series of synchronistic events in early 2009, Monica transitioned from a corporate career in Program Management into the world of Holistic Health, Wellness + Spirituality. She spent 6 years as a Master Educator and Retreat Host with The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, CA. where she received certifications in Meditation, Yoga + Ayurveda under the mentorship of Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. David Simon and many other world-renowned visionaries. She had the fortune of honing her teaching skills at the Center with nearly 10,000 guests from all over the world.
In May of 2015, Monica launched her company Soulbare Wellness. She sold nearly all her belongings and moved to Central America with nothing more than a backpack to study Mayan cultural traditions. She had a deep desire to weave together ancient practices from different places around the world. Monica spent another 6 years traveling the world as an Intentional Nomad - speaking on big corporate stages, delivering small group transformational workshops, and hosting adventure retreats across 6 countries.
After this fun and transient chapter, a nudge from Spirit brought Monica back home to her roots in Erie, PA.N
ow, in addition to delivering Soulbare programs and retreats - she is the proud co-owner of Studio 99 Yoga & Wellness in Edinboro, PA. She also produces an annual event called Sol Fest - a day-long festival that celebrates health, wellness, music, community, and the soulful summer season. Monica is a self-proclaimed spirit nerd and comes alive by helping others rediscover their vibrant well-being and passionate purpose in life.

Meet the Musicians

Cleveland-based harpist Emily Laurance is currently Principal Harp with the Firelands (Sandusky) Symphony and performs frequently with many Northeast Ohio ensembles. Dr. Laurance was formerly Principal Harp with the Stockton (CA) Symphony Orchestra and Professor and Chair of Music History at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her recording credits include Luciano Berio's Sequenza II on Neuma Records as well as the Squirrel Nut Zippers album Perennial Favorites, which won the Recording Institute Association of America's Gold Sales award. In addition to degrees in harp from the Oberlin and the New England Conservatories, Dr. Laurance received her PhD in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after which she was a postdoctoral fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, where she conducted research in music for voice and early pedal harp. She has taught harp and musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Dr. Laurance serves as Editor for the American Harp Journal.

Will Teegarden enjoys a varied career as a cellist and teacher based in Pittsburgh, PA. He currently holds the Associate Principal Cello chair of the Erie Philharmonic, the Principal Cello chair of the Westmoreland Symphony, as well as a position in the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre orchestra. Additionally, he frequently performs as a substitute cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Wheeling Symphony, and as an associate member of the Columbus Symphony.
In 2019, Will was featured as a soloist on Tan Dun's "Elegy: Snow in June" with the NAT 28 contemporary ensemble of Pittsburgh. Will frequently performs in Pittsburgh local area chamber and contemporary groups such as NAT 28, Alia Musica, the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh, Resonance Works, and as a substitute cellist for the cello rock band, Cello Fury.
Will previously held positions with the Canton and Youngstown (OH) Symphonies, and used to perform as a substitute cellist with the New World Symphony (Miami, FL) the Orlando Philharmonic, and the Florida Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Florida and a Master’s Degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied with cellists Steven Thomas, David Premo, and Anne Martindale Williams. At Carnegie Mellon, he earned first prize with his colleagues in the school's Silberman Chamber Music Competition with an enthusiastically received rendition of Oliver Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du temps". Additionally, Will has attended the National Repertory Orchestra, Brevard Music Center, and the Innsbrook Institute Summer Festivals.

Dr. Nick Weiser is that most rare combination - a musician's musician, and a musical ambassador to the masses. A communicative artist skilled not only as a pianist, conductor, and bandleader, but as a composer, arranger, educator, and scholar, Weiser has performed to acclaim as a soloist and collaborator in numerous idioms. Diligence, curiosity, and love of music led him from his tiny hometown of Dighton, Kansas first to the University of Kansas, and then on to the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his M.M. and D.M.A. in the Department of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media under the tutelage and mentorship of Harold Danko and Bill Dobbins, among others.

Weiser has dazzled audiences around the United States and abroad with performances at the Santiago de Cuba International Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Umbria Jazz Festival, the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, New York City’s “Prez Fest,” and Carnegie Hall. He has enjoyed performance engagements with musicians including Dick Oatts, Byron Stripling, Bob Brookmeyer, Christian McBride, Peter Erskine, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and the New York Voices. He recently premiered Dana Wilson’s Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble, and has a number of forthcoming performances with the foremost wind ensembles and orchestras throughout the United States. Highly regarded as a collaborative pianist, Weiser appears on recent CD releases by tubist Justin Benavidez of Florida State University, longtime Ithaca College trumpet professor Frank Gabriel Campos, and Weiser’s own jazz trio, i3o, featuring bassist Nicholas Walker and drummer Greg Evans. He is in the process of recording his own solo piano album, to be released in early 2025.

A passionate and dedicated educator, Weiser has been the architect and director of the Jazz Studies curriculum at the State University of New York at Fredonia since the program began in 2017. Among his duties at SUNY Fredonia, Weiser is proud to conduct two stellar big bands, the Fredonia Jazz Orchestra and the DownBeat award-winning Fredonia New Jazz Ensemble and Fredonia Jazz Flextet. In the greater Fredonia community, Weiser serves as artistic director of the Fredonia Jazz Society, which he co-founded, performing regularly and facilitating concerts and festivals sponsored by the organization. Prior to coming to Fredonia, Weiser taught at Ithaca College from 2011 to 2017 and at Cornell University from 2013 to 2017, and has maintained a private teaching studio for many years.