OUR TEAM
EM GILMORE RHODES
Owner, Manager & Teacher
Emily owns and manages Dillsburg Yoga. She completed a yoga teacher training on Vancouver Island in British Columbia many years ago. During this time, she lived and camped on a small herb and vegetable farm, while immersing herself in the study of yoga and natural living. Over time through her own experiences her teaching has naturally grown and evolved. She incorporates elements of yoga posture practice, functional movement, & natural movement in what she is calling "embodied movement".
Emily also has an academic background in science and philosophy; in particular with human physiology and integrative approaches to health. She is a certified biology & environmental educator with teaching experience in local public schools and at a Montessori school. Emily has had a variety of experiences in her life, from living & exploring the magic of the island of Oahu, Hawai'i, working at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History botany department, supporting and experiencing work on a small, sustainable vegetable farms, but she feels most at home teaching embodied movement, spending time with her family, being outside with plants & animals and advocating for a more naturally wild world.
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She is motivated by practicing and sharing with others the magic in connecting with the sacred in the everyday including our own bodies and the ways we intereact with the world around us. She looks forward to working with you in a fundamentally, holistic way.
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DIANNE DUSMAN
Pilates Fusion Teacher
Dianne has been a fitness instructor for over twenty years. She retired from the Office of Attorney General in 2013, after twenty-five years of consumer advocacy. Self-taught at first, she practiced traditional Pilates in the 1990s, then progressed to three levels of the Jonathan Urla series (known as “Yogilates”) which fused aspects of Yoga and Pilates, in the 2000s. In 2015, she became certified in the Eve Gentry technique.
SHERRA ZAVITSANOS
Yoga Teacher
Meet Sherra, a yoga teacher on a mission to make yoga accessible to anyone who wants to give it a try. With a passion for helping people develop a supportive and effective yoga practice, Sherra has been teaching yoga since 2011. Her dedication to sharing yoga with individuals who may feel hesitant to join a class due to self-perceived limitations such as weight, inflexibility, age, or injury is truly inspiring.
Sherra's journey with yoga began in 2003 when she sought to alleviate the pain and dysfunction caused by a back injury. Determined to make progress, she began taking weekly private yoga sessions with Tina Stroh. Through consistent practice, Sherra saw remarkable improvement and committed to a year of regular private sessions and home practice.
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Sherra's dedication and commitment to yoga led her to earn her 200 hr certification through Just Plain Yoga. Additionally, she studied extensively with certified Iyengar teacher Dale Hails from 2009 until 2015. Today, Sherra is passionate about empowering others to find their own yoga journey, no matter their background or perceived limitations. Whether you're brand new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, Sherra is here to support you every step of the way.
JENNIFER RABENSTEIN
Yoga Teacher
Jennifer is a spiritual healer who blends in artistic ways of promoting self growth and healing. She offers a variety of healing modalities such as Reiki, sound healing, shamanic work, art, and yoga! Jennifer utilizes her practiced modalities for private sessions, group gatherings, public classes, and sacred celebrations and rituals. Jennifer loves the art of holding space for everyone's you-nique spiritual healing journey.
In 2019, Jennifer completed a 200 hr yoga teacher training with focuses on making yoga accessible for all. This means that she supports anyone who wants to practice yoga, no matter their body type, experience, or any other obstacle they may face. Because she is vision impaired, losing her sight to Stargardts, Jennifer learns to practice and guide others in yoga through verbal cues and having people build up their awareness of their bodies. To Jennifer, yoga is not about what it looks like, and is all about what it feels like. Jennifer enjoys leading a variety of yoga flows such as accessible flows with modifications (using chairs, props, wall, ground), gentle flows (focusing on the feelings being in the poses), and restorative flows (using props to hold the body in poses). She has also trained in Tai Chi and enjoys blending it into yoga classes. Any time she leads yoga Jennifer puts out invitations for others to follow along, and ultimately encourages them to listen to their own needs to do what they feel is flowing for them in the moment.
ADRIANNE BARGER
Yoga Teacher
Adrianne came to the mat early in high school, gravitating towards a very active practice of arm balance and inversions. At the start of 2019, she started a practice of Acro-yoga. After diving deeper into the practice of yoga, she quickly learned that it is about much more than a physical practice and is to be practiced off the mat.
Adrianne completed Om My Yoga's 200 hour teacher training during the spring of 2019. She has experience teaching both in and out of a studio setting. Adrianne is constantly growing and evolving as a teacher, but the heart of her teaching has always been about serving others. She strives to teach yoga in a way that includes everyone, seeing as though everyone’s practice is unique to them. By offering a balance of breath work and mindful movements, her classes offer an opportunity to connect with the physical and energetic body.
EMILY COPE
Yoga Teacher
Emily is a Dillsburg native who moved west in 2011 where she stayed for 9 years. During her time there she fell in love with the practice of yoga. She completed a 200 HR RYT in 2013 and dove head first into teaching. She taught a wide variety of classes ranging from chair yoga in retirement communities to yoga for athletes. She attended many yoga trainings and workshops which continually showed her how deeply healing, potent and unique a yoga practice can be. Emily moved back to Dillsburg in early 2020. Since that time her movement practice and studies have been focused on subtle modalities that complement yoga such as the Feldenkrais Method and Body Mind Centering.
Emily is passionate about allowing the process of coherent movement to unfold, where blissful ease, pleasure and capacity naturally flow. She sees this process as being unique to every person and aims to provide guidance that allows one to modify their practice to suit their individual context. Her practices are light and playful, often employing specific uses of imagination and awareness.
Outside of movement Emily is passionate about regenerative agriculture, art and enjoying life.