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Something about us
and who we are

Based in Massachusetts, Studio Om, LLC, is a yoga and holistic arts company,

founded by Saskia Bergmans, RYT.

Who we are:

Saskia Bergmans        Marianne Bergonzi       

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Testimonials: What our students say -- click to read

Saskia Bergmans, R.Y.T. Certified Yoga Teacher and Founder Saskia Bergmans is dedicated to the promotion of yoga -- what she believes is not just an exercise but a lifestyle. Educated in England, Saskia has traveled widely. She studied the arts of India and Thailand and, after practicing meditation, finally found in Yoga her personal path to fulfillment before going to Holland to take a teacher training course. She has also studied yoga in the United States before becoming an RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) in this country. Her introduction to Yoga had an international background as she describes:

     I started to practice Yoga seriously in 1995 in Amsterdam, pretty much as soon as I settled back there.  I met Dona Holleman and Orit Sen-Gupta in the spring of 1997, where I started my teacher training course.  Between 1997-2000 I went to Northern Italy (Lake Garda) several times to visit Dona  and in 1998 I studied with Orit in Israel.  During those years, after completing my teacher training course in Amsterdam, I met with other teachers from Dona's course several times each week to practice and aid each other with the more challenging poses. 

Whilst in India in 2000, Saskia did a 10-day Vipassana retreat (a Buddhist form of meditation), held just outside Rishikesh in northern India:

"In an Ashram along the Ganges river a group of fifteen of us came together to sit in silence for 10 days to meditate.  We did both sitting and walking meditations, some of which were guided. We held a one-hour discussion group every other day to talk about our progress, to help one another and to air our feelings and our experiences. As an important and integral part of the meditative life, we all had daily chores to do around the Ashram.  I found it to be a wonderful and freeing experience that has inspired me to develop my own teaching skills in helping others in meditation."

Our dedicated teachers include:

Marianne Bergonzi

Marianne Bergonzi received her Hatha Yoga certification and inspiration from Barbara Benagh at The Yoga Studio in Boston, MA.  Her teaching is an eclectic style influenced by Donna Farhi, Judith Lasater, Gary Kraftsow and Julie Gudmestad.   Her classes focus on generating freedom in the body, mind and breath by recognizing our behavior through movement and learning how to undo unconscious repetitive patterns.

All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.  You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.  

Eckhart Tolle

Saskia Bergmans        Marianne Bergonzi     

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