| All of our instructors at Oceanfront Yoga have had intensive Yoga training and are qualified to teach beginner to advanced classes. We honor the class and the students who are present. | |
| Owners & Instructors | |
| The Owners of Oceanfront Yoga, Connie Weisberg and Melanie Mochel, met each other while taking Yoga in the mid 90s. They both became yoga students together at the International Yoga Institute, where they developed a strong bond during their intensive training. Their friendship continued to develop as they worked together in the original Yoga program at Wareing’s Gym. The vision and creation of Oceanfront Yoga is the result of their passion for wellness and giving the community a place to practice and grow. | |
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“Yoga is healing and challenging and humbling and fun. If we can maintain a sense of humor and see ourselves through a clear lens, yoga serves us through every challenge and joy in our lives.”
Having fun with friends one playful night….
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melanie@oceanfrontyoga.com Melanie Mochel and her husband moved from northern Wisconsin in 1997. Preferring the warmer weather of the beach, they settled here to raise their two daughters. In 1998, Melanie began her yoga journey and quickly became a yoga aficionado. Encouraged by her teacher, Christy Brock, she began earning her teaching certification in “Raja” (Zen) from The International Yoga Institute in 2001. As a senior instructor of Raja, she continues to learn other styles of yoga through workshops and self study. Although Melanie is a very accomplished teacher of all levels and many styles, she is most known for her gentle approach to yoga. Helping others discover their path in yoga is what gives her the greatest joy as a teacher. Melanie with Doug Swenson at Oceanfront Yoga in 2012. |
| Yoga Instructors | |
| Gabrielle Weisberg Cabreros :: Gabrielle’s journey to yoga began with simple observance. She grew up watching her mother, Connie Weisberg, teach fitness and yoga to the patrons of Wareing’s Gym. As a typically resistant teenager, she didn’t completely buy into the idea of yoga right away. After all, that was “Mom’s thing.” After some on-and-off experimentation with different types of yoga throughout college, Gabrielle developed a more serious interest in the study of yoga philosophy and yoga practice in 2009, when she decided to try her hand at yoga teacher training. A wedding and a major career change interposed and choreographed the next couple of years of Gabrielle’s life, leaving little room for serious dedication to and study of yoga. Gabrielle spent this time cultivating her marriage to her husband, Rey, and learning the ins and outs of teaching under the mentorship of her high school English teacher. But, Gabrielle always knew that she would eventually return to yoga and that her return would signify a major life change, when the time was right.Gabrielle’s calling to yoga sounded once again in the summer of 2011, when she spent six weeks living in Asheville, North Carolina for graduate school in English literature. The amazing community yoga center, and skilled and dedicated yoga teachers, as well as the local and sustainable restaurants and retail shops throughout Asheville, inspired Gabrielle to pursue a more simplified, Spartan-like existence with yoga as her centering point. Vigorous asana practice over the summer reawakened Gabrielle’s body, as well as her mind, to the possibility of becoming a yoga teacher. Her two years of experience teaching high school English at Cape Henry Collegiate School gave her the confidence she needed to assume the role of teacher with adult yoga students. She sought guidance from her mother, Connie, and received her yoga teacher training certification (200 hour level) in February of 2012. Gabrielle enjoys the opportunity to share the benefits of yoga and yoga philosophy with anyone who seeks truth, balance, and peace. |
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ELAINE SOLAQUA Elaine is a well-practiced and trained yoga instructor. She began her yoga journey exploring many different styles of yoga before she began a regular Hot Yoga practice in 2002. This built a strong desire to intensify her practice, as a result, she completed a 200-HR teacher training at International Yoga in 2006. After Elaine’s training, she did not feel quite primed to transition from student to teacher, so she pursued another 200-HR teacher training program at Oceanfront Yoga. She now shares this deep-founded knowledge and years of application with her students every week. Elaine enjoys the never-ending teaching journey, and all the joy it generates, on and off the mat. |
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CHARLOTTE BERRON, RYT500 discovered yoga in 1999 while a college student at Sewanee, the University of the South. Once she became a mother of twins in 2010, her dedication and gratitude to her practice became whole-hearted as she sought a physical, mental and spiritual outlet. While seeking the physical release of a strong Vinyasa practice, she also came t love and value the balance of the contemplative Meditation practice. As a fitness devotee and group exercise instructor, she has witnessed firsthand how the gym an transform a body, but Yoga transforms lives. She found the power of connecting body, mind and spirit in a personal and sincere way through yoga.
Off the mat, Charlotte is a German teacher and as a MA in Germanic Languages and Litereatures from the University of Kentucky.
She compelted her 500 hour training at Glenmore Yoga and Wellness center in Richmond, VA. With genuine gratitude for her husband, children and all the teachers who have shared and supported her journey, she shares her love of yoga with a sense honor and privilege.