Lumina Mind Body Studios Instructors

We offer yoga and pilates private sessions as well as personal training.

Kathy Ney

Kathy Ney

Trainer, Lumina Instructor
  • Kathy has 31 years of personal training & group exercise classes such as Sculpting, Spinning, Core and specializes in TRX, Osteoporosis & Kids Training.
Deb Bendetson

Deb Bendetson

Lumina Instructor
  • Deb has been teaching yoga since 2013. Her classes provide a safe place to defy expectations and limitations. Through challenging and creative sequencing she will guide you to unexplored strength, flexibility, and balance. She often refers to her classes as “play with a purpose” and encourages her students to keep a sense of humor. Deb emboldens her students to overcome obstacles by opening the mind and body to what is possible and receiving the gift of self acceptance.
  • Deb is both a certified yoga teacher and personal trainer who strives to grow through workshops and classes and making time for herself on her mat.
Marca Katz

Marca Katz

Lumina Instructor
  • Marca Katz came to yoga 10 years ago during a time in which she was training for marathons, teaching step classes, and raising her 3 sons. Feeling a need for something with less impact but no less challenging, she was initially lured by the physical aspects of the practice, but kept returning to her mat as she experienced the many other benefits yoga brought into her life. Wanting to share this gift with others, Marca completed a 200-hour teacher training in July, 2015 at Down Under Yoga in Newton/Brookline with Kate Heffernan, Peter Crowley, Angelina Hawley-Dolan, and continuing education with Natasha Rizopoulos, and Barbara Benagh. With degrees in both nursing and exercise physiology, Marca’s dynamic yoga classes are intelligently and creatively sequenced, while providing a safe and gentle space for her students to practice at their own pace, enabling them to reach their potential.
Kelley Kounadis

Kelley Kounadis

Lumina Instructor
  • Kelley Kounadis is a Framingham resident and an enthusiastic personal trainer as well as a Pilates and Spinning instructor with over 10 years of experience. Kelley is classically trained in Mat Pilates. Her certifications include Power Pilates for Mat Pilates, Balanced Body for Reformer, and Cycle Reebok. Kelley is currently teaching Mat Pilates, Pilates Reformer, Spinning, and Pilates and More, a class which combines classic Pilates exercises plus Barre, Weight Lifting, Core and Stretch. Kelley is a people person and enjoys teaching all sized classes from one on one personal training to small groups or large classes. When Kelley is not making her Lumina students laugh during the Hundred she can be found walking her two dogs or on a family bike ride with her husband and two daughters.
Joe Scianna

Joe Scianna

Lumina Instructor
  • Joe has been teaching Yoga since 2002. He has studied with Baron Baptiste, Bikram Choudhury and Jimmy Barkan. Joe originally sought out Hot Yoga as a tool to help assist with the healing of a shoulder injury and immediately was hooked on both the healing and detoxifying aspects of the practice. Joe made a significant career change from software engineering to teaching full-time in the MetroWest area.
Melissa Seastead

Melissa Seastead

Lumina Instructor
  • Melissa has been a psychotherapist in private practice since 2001 and initially discovered the benefits of yoga while pregnant in 2005. She has been practicing various styles of yoga ever since. Melissa maintains a strong belief in the connection between mind, body, and spirit. With close attention to both functional movement and body awareness, she encourages students to embrace a deeper sense of themselves. Melissa offers a warm, authentic, and nurturing style to conduct classes feeling physically and mentally rejuvenated. Melissa received her CYT-200 hr through the One Voice teacher training program.
Jon Woodward

Jon Woodward

Lumina Instructor
  • Jon is a certified T’ai Chi instructor who has been practicing T’ai Chi for over 30 years & has been teaching classes in the Metro West for over 5 years.
Linda Wright

Linda Wright

Zoom Lumina Instructor
  • After learning that there was a strong history of heart disease in her family Linda decided that this was not going to happen to her. In the mid 1980s, she started taking aerobic classes at a local high school then joined a gym. From there a passion grew for moving to music, working out and taking care of her body. At that point she wanted to share this passion with anyone who wanted to join in so she became a group exercise instructor.
  • Through the years Linda has taught a variety of classes from Pilates to Zumba where her goal is to make you leave feeling inspired and energized. She is currently certified and /or licensed through Physical Mind Pilates, Zumba, Fitour, AAAI ISMA, TRX, Yogafit and the Willpower Method.
  • In her spare time Linda enjoys spending time on Cape Cod beaching, boating and Stand Up Paddle boarding (SUP) and hanging out with her King Charles Spaniel.

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