Our Team!
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Casey Allard - Instructor
Casey, a certified Vinyasa yoga teacher since 2016, combines her rich background in dance and performing arts with a unique blend of grace and mindfulness in her classes.
With a decade of experience teaching in NYC, she has instructed in afterschool programs, yoga studios, online platforms, and nursing homes. Currently pursuing a master's degree in Transpersonal Psychology, Casey also offers clinical and spiritual regression hypnosis as a board-certified hypnotist.
Her extensive training in accessible yoga, trauma-informed yoga, and yoga for older adults ensures her classes are inclusive and supportive. With over 15 years of yoga practice, Casey brings deep experience and understanding to her students.
Yoga transformed her life, bringing balance, happiness, and energy, fueling her passion to help others achieve the same benefits. In her classes, expect to deeply engage with your body and the present moment, leaving with a profound sense of connection to your body, heart, and soul.
Join Casey in exploring yoga's transformative power and embark on a journey towards holistic well-being.
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Stacy LaMotta - Instructor
Stacy’s life orbits around her devotion to yoga, wellness, and all definitions of fitness as they relate to mind, body, and spirit. For over 40 years, she has been helping people improve the quality of their lives through healthy living, stress management, and all kinds of movement/exercise. In addition to being a certified Yoga Instructor, Stacy is a Medical Exercise & Post-Rehab Specialist, an ISSA Personal Trainer, a ZUMBA teacher, a Healthy Living Coach, and a certified Pilates instructor.
As a teacher, her rich history in movement and her matter-of-fact physical clarity are buoyed by her warm personality and her genuine love of teaching. Every time she speaks of fitness, she is reminded that life is meant to be full of smiles, peace, joy, and happiness. The energy she exudes while sharing her knowledge makes you happy you know her!
Stacy developed a weight loss and better health program which led to a study proving that with her program, people could lose weight, get off medications, and enjoy life to the fullest. This program went on to be sold on television and helped thousands of people!
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PATTY CIANO - Owner
Emmy Award Winner and Executive Producer and visionary founder behind Hiatus 24, a wellness lifestyle brand dedicated to nourishing the mind, body, and soul. As an Emmy Award Winning Executive Producer of The Doctors, Patty's decade-long immersion in the world of health and wellness ignited a personal transformation. Her journey, overcoming challenges like quitting smoking, losing weight, and battling breast cancer, inspired the creation of Hiatus24.