Cintia Hongay

Cintia F. Hongay, PhD., Advanced Teacher of Therapeutic Yoga, is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (YACEP, E-RYT-500), a Yoga Tune Up(R) teacher, Chair Yoga teacher (LVCYT), and Restorative Yoga Teacher, who has been practicing yoga for over thirty-seven years. Her first training in the Iyengar method with Candace Carey in Belmont, MA, gave her knowledge of body alignment and proper use of yoga props to adapt most poses for all bodies and abilities. She practiced and enjoyed yoga during her two pregnancies and knows first-hand how to modify asanas for the developing belly.  She currently teaches at the Canton Yoga Loft (www.yoga-loft.org) and at her studio in Potsdam, NY.  Her therapeutic yoga classes bring awareness of asana expression for different body types and proportions drawn from her knowledge of anatomy and physiology acquired through her academic studies.  In addition to her Yoga Teacher Certification, she has attended multiple workshops at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in MA, including yoga for back pain, the Franklin method for yoga, proper pelvic alignment, yoga for arthritis, yoga for plus-size yoginis, yoga for seniors, meditation in motion, Yoga Nidra "Divine Sleep" with Jennifer Reis, and "Body by Breath" with Jill Miller. Cintia received her Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Certification in May, 2024 and her Restorative Yoga Teacher Certification in February 2025.

Cintia completed her 200-h yoga teacher training in 2014 from the School of Yoga and Ayurveda at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in MA, and she has been teaching yoga in the North Country ever since.  Interested in spinal health and self-massage for fascia conditioning, she later trained with Jill Miller at Kripalu in 2016 where she received her Yoga Tune Up(R) teacher certification. Cintia is the only Yoga Tune Up(R) certified teacher in the North Country.  She received her Advanced Teacher of Therapeutic Yoga 300-h Certification from Kripalu in October 2023.  

On her other plane of existence, Cintia received her Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University/Harvard Medical School and was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitehead Institute/MIT, receiving NIH funding since her pre-doctoral days. She moved to the North Country in 2011. Born in La Plata, Argentina, and having lived in Italy before acquiring her American citizenship, she brings a multicultural approach to her teachings and a deep understanding of the science behind yoga.  She is fluent in Spanish, English, and Italian, and knows French and Portuguese.
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