FACILITATORS
At North Node Space, our facilitators are more than just instructors; they are dedicated guides on your journey to self-discovery, fun and personal growth.
Learn more about our facilitators; they are the heart and soul of our community. Each facilitator brings a unique blend of expertise, intuition, and compassion, creating a supportive environment where you can truly become more you.
ALEXANDRIA GIANAKOS
Alexandria’a approach is to connect with her student’s body’s inherent wisdom through movement. She aims to support her student’s natural dynamic state and reduce pain, discomfort, and restriction.
Alexandria’s practice is rooted in her personal meditation and movement practices. As a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Eva Wong her approach is framed by Buddhist and Taoist wisdom. She believes all her students have what they need to connect deeply and that she is partner on their path.
Alexandria’s background of yoga instruction in community clinics and jail informs her value of movement as a core component of personal and community health. Allison works with activists, parents, change makers, professors (and more) to manage their health.
Join Alexandria for YOGA NIDRA once a month, usually on a Friday at 6:30PM.
ALLISON JANE
Allison Jane is a 500-hour E-RYT, Ishta-trained, specializing in Sound Healing, Yoga Nidra, and Restorative Yoga. With nearly 20 years of yogic study and experience as a performing artist, musician, bodyworker, and dancer, Allison creates a playful space for discovering the joy of movement, silence, and simplicity.
Her teaching is rooted in devotion, ritual, self-reflection, and surrender, emphasizing the practice of presence.
Allison’s heart-centered classes welcome all levels, leaving students grounded, centered, and joyful. She integrates breathwork (pranayama), chanting (mantra), and movement (asana), with music playing a key role. Her playlists enhance focus during longer holds, building physical strength, mental clarity, and heart openness.
Join Allison for ELEMENTAL FLOW every Tuesday at 8:45AM.
AMY SHEARER
Amy Shearer, a former fashion retail executive for over 15 years, is now the founder of The Recreated, a company focused on helping individuals learn their power to heal. She helps women transitioning into midlife ready to embrace their inner power to emotionally and spiritually recharge themselves so they can have wholehearted relationships, ongoing wellness, fulfilling careers, and a connection to deeper meaning in their lives.
Amy is a trauma-informed Master Life and Success Coach, Master and Trainer of NLP, EFT, TIME, Hypnosis, certified Flow Breathwork Facilitator, and Somatic Stress Release Facilitator. Amy is a California native who resides in Kingston, New York, with her husband, Brian, and sweet rescue dog, Brinkley.
Join Amy for BREATHSCAPES once a month, usually on a Thursday at 7:00PM.
ANA GIOIA
Ana Francisca Gioia is an Earth and Birth Worker. She has trained in multiple yoga lineages including Hatha and Kundalini and is certified at the 500hr level. She has been living and teaching yoga in Kingston since 2013. Ana is also a practitioner of plant medicine, regenerative earth practices and ancestral health.
Ana has a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston College and an Masters in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College in New Mexico where she studied Eastern Philosophy and Sanskrit. She is a trained Radiant Child Yoga Teacher and teaches Children’s Yoga and Family Yoga as well as adult classes and offers workshops in Family Dynamics, Energetics and Rituals.
Ana is the mother of two children and practices writing, wild crafting, foraging, sustainable cooking and connecting with the Earth. She is very passionate about Seasonal Living, working with children, and connecting with her Celtic and Mayan roots. Ana currently teaches a restorative fusion blend. She also speaks Spanish, as she is half Guatemalan and works with Cacao and other plant medicines, often crafting her offerings/circles around the the New and Full Moon Calendars.
Join Ana for VENUS DAY every Friday at 10:00AM.
CATHERINE MERINGOLO
Catherine Meringolo is a multidisciplinary performance artist, facilitator, and writer working at the intersection of theater, dance, and poetry. An alumna of The New School for Drama’s MFA Acting program, with a Bachelors in Theater and Film and a Minor in Dance from St. Mary’s College, she has trained and worked in experimental and physical theater, dance, film and poetry for over twenty years.
In addition to acting in theater and film, her collaborative and original solo pieces have been presented at venues such as The Emerging Artists Festival, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival, Gibney Dance, ChaNorth and 1 Brooklyn Bridge Gallery. In addition to making and performing, Catherine is a movement and creative process facilitator with an approach that encourages playful curiosity and experimentation.
Join Catherine for LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING every Wednesday at 5:45PM.
CORINNA BARSAN
Corinna Barsan is an Akashic Records practitioner, crystal guide, spiritual medium, and writer.
Corinna received her Akashic Records training with Christina Cross, in the lineage of Linda Howe, and studied mediumship with Eileen Davies, Mary Grisey, and Christine Morgan. She is certified as a Crystal Resonance Therapist and Primus Activation Healing Technique practitioner, trained by Samaya K. Aster (formerly known as Naisha Ahsian). She also received an Usui Reiki 1 attunement from animal communicator and Reiki Master Cindy Brody.
Corinna has worked in publishing for almost two decades and taught in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University, and is currently an independent editor.
Join Corinna for THE KNOW-WHERE CLUB once a month, usually on a Thursday at 6:00PM.
DAN CHUNG
Dan is an energy healer, group leader, teacher, consultant, and community builder.
His practices include ThetaHealing, the I AM teachings, shadow work, active listening, and divine feminine/masculine integration.
Dan’s spaces honor all people. He enjoy nothing more than exploring freedom with others.
Join Dan for THE GOLDEN TICKET once a month, usually a Sunday at 3:30PM, & DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE (4-week workshop) every Season.
ELANA KAUFMAN
Elana Kaufman is a Yoga instructor (E-YTT 300), Usui Reiki practitioner, space holder, and musician who is passionate about fostering community, whole being nourishment, and self expression.
Her degree in holistic psychology and the healing arts alongside a dedicated yoga practice of over 20 years inform her love of teaching and facilitating healing experiences.
She is passionate about empowering students’ self inquiry and growth through decolonized Yoga for every body.
Join Elana for MOON DAY YOGA every Monday at 10:00AM, & RESTORATIVE RESET once a month, usually a Thursday at 6:30PM.
LUKE SIMON
Luke Simon shares the healing tools that help him stay in the flow of life: reiki, breathwork and yoga. He is here for creatives and queers, and anyone who feels outside and is trying to come back to their true self.
He is the founder of North Node in Kingston. He trained in Breathwork with David Elliott since 2014. He continues to study Iyengar yoga and practice meditation to cultivate ease and compassion.
He is also a writer. His first book is a playful spiritual memoir called Venus Juice: When I Tried to Live in LA. In sharing his path with others, he hopes to inspire and make you laugh.
He hopes to share tools with people to ground and deepen their path in these radical and challenging times. He believes that uncertainty is part of life and that learning to trust, be brave and stay open are the way.
Join Luke for SWEAT & CRY every Tuesday at 5:45PM.
MAY LIN LE GOFF
May Lin is a dedicated practitioner in the realms of Reiki and sound meditation. Her journey into these modalities began as a personal quest for inner peace and spiritual growth, eventually evolving into a calling to assist others on their paths.
May Lin is an Usui Reiki III & Earth Evolution Reiki Certified practitioner, having been attuned by the "Reiki Godmothers" Aki Hirata-Baker and Manu Del Prete, the visionary founders of the radical MINKA Mystery School in New York.
In sound, she received training from esteemed sound practitioner David Shemesh, co-founder of the WOOM Center in New York. Her attendance at "Sound School" provided extensive training focusing on the therapeutic and psychedelic properties of sound vibrations, as well as sound and musical theory, practitioner values, psychology, philosophy, and hands-on experience with overtone-emitting instruments such as singing bowls, gongs, tuning forks, flutes, drums, and more.
.Join May Lin for FOLLOW THE SOUND once a month, usually a Sunday at 2:00PM.