About Us
We’re a group of people passionate about making the healing benefits of yoga more widely known. We’ve felt the difference yoga can make in our own lives, and feel that much suffering and disease could be avoided if people simply learned to take better care of their bodies. Yoga has much to offer; a regular yoga practice doesn’t just make you fit, it gradually transforms mind and body by creating greater and integration and depth at all levels of our being.
Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D., E-RYT 200, RYT 500, LMT, Co-Founder
Eva Norlyk Smith is a writer, yoga therapist, and body worker with a lifelong passion for yoga and meditation. She started her yoga training in Kripalu Yoga, and has since studied Anusara Yoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy, and has been further enriched with her ongoing studies with some of the leading yoga teachers in the country. Together with her husband, body worker and Anusara-inspired yoga teacher Terry Smith RYT 200, she is the founder of the Healthy Back, Healthy Body program.
Robin Silverman
Robin has been organizing her family (hubby and three children – and now enjoying 6 grandchildren!) and various non-profit organizations for many years and now brings these organizational skills to YogaUOnline to help keep things running smoothly, working with our teachers to set up programs, overseeing our customer service and anything else that needs detailed attention.
Malinda Gosvig Rees, M.A., M.F.A
Malinda is a writer, content editor and assistant marketing manager for YogaUOnline. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. in Education from Maharishi University of Management. Although she’s practiced meditation from a young age, she only recently took up yoga, which she has found immensely helpful in combating the side effects of sitting at a desk.
Lynn Crimando, MA
Lynn is a yoga teacher, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, board-certified Health and Wellness Coach, and Buteyko Practitioner. She serves as the teaching mentor for YogaUOnline’s Wellness Educator Program. In addition to her private yoga therapy and health coaching practice, Lynn is the Co-Director of the 800-hour, IAYT-accredited Yoga Therapist training of the Yoga Nanda Long Island Institute of Yoga Therapy in Garden City, NY, and oversees the Rutgers Presbyterian Church Adult Wellness Initiative in New York City. Lynn also teaches adaptive chair yoga classes throughout the city on behalf of Health Advocates for Older People. To learn more about Lynn, visit her website: yogalynn.com
Patti Hamilton, RYT 500
Patti came to YogaUOnline by way of her passion for yoga. She came to yoga a little later in life, but thoroughly embraced the practice and became a yoga teacher in 2010, studying with the amazing Sarah Bell, from Yoga Works in NYC. She later
furthered her studies and Yoga Alliance designations studying under Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee. Patti learned organization and people skills through a 25-year-long real estate career and as a single mom, raising delightful daughter Chloe, who now resides in Chicago. A 35-year Fairfield, Iowa resident and meditation practitioner, she has now relocated back to Ohio to help raise her niece, Addison. Patti coordinates all the video shoots for our practice channel and continuing education classes. She also works with our writers to bring you the latest yoga practice tips, yoga and meditation research, and wellness news as the Managing Editor of the YogaUOnline blog. Patti has a B.S. in English Education from Ohio State University.
Charlotte Bell, Editor
Charlotte Bell began practicing yoga in 1982 and began teaching in 1986. She was certified by B.K.S. Iyengar in 1989 following a trip to Pune. In 1986, she began practicing Insight Meditation with her mentors Pujari and Abhilasha Keays. Her asana classes blend mindfulness with physical movement. Charlotte writes a column for Catalyst Magazine and serves as editor for Yoga U Online. She is the author of three books: Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life, and Yoga for Meditators, both published by Rodmell Press; and Hip-Healthy Asana: The Yoga Practitioner’s Guide to Protecting the Hips and Avoiding SI Joint Pain, published by Shambhala Publications. She also edits Hugger Mugger Yoga Products’ blog and is a founding board member for GreenTREE Yoga, a non-profit that brings yoga to underserved populations. A lifelong musician, she plays oboe and English horn in the Salt Lake Symphony and the folk sextet Red Rock Rondo whose 2010 PBS music special won two Emmys.
We’re always looking for new writers and yoga therapists to join our team. If you’re interested, send us a note: admin@yogauonline.com.