About Us
Amy LaCentra, B.S.Ed.,E-RYT, has been teaching a diversity of yoga, wellness, dance, and fitness to children and adults for over 20 years. After graduating from NYU with a degree in Dance she continued to perform professionally as well as receive certifications in Dance, various Fitness styles, and Personal Training. Amy has had many unique teaching experiences throughout the course of her career including running the Fitness Program for the Yale Club of New York and teaching Dance and Physical Education at the prestigious Brearley School for Girls in New York City.
After getting married and having two children, Amy's first child was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Yoga took on a profound presence in her life as well as her family. Amy continued to expand her movement career to include more yoga certifications from YogaFit, YogaEd., Core Strength Vinyasa,and YogaRocksKids. Along her journey she began to experiment with yoga techniques as a way to help her son and others find valuable coping strategies. With the help of many Special Education Professionals and her own innate desire to help, she began to create yoga strategies that were easily accessible to everyone for home practice as well as for the school setting.
She has taken her extensive knowledge and personal experience to create her own business, Take a Break Yoga & Wellness. Whether Amy is working with Adults or Children, her classes and sessions are an eclectic blend of all her training and experience but so much more. A life long student, Amy continues to study, grow and uncover her own unlimited potential. Her compassionate and respectful style of communicating helps her clients gain a true understanding of acceptance of themselves and their own unique place in the world.
In addition to her own business, she is the co-creator of the Yoga Rocks! Kids Adaptive Yoga for Every Child Teacher Training Program(Level 2 and 3). She and partner Jeannine Smolinsky bring their innovative program to businesses, homes, schools, and recreational facilities.
Through Amy's own personal journey, she knows how yoga & wellness can transform one's life. She continues to be inspired by both her children, her clients, as well as others who live with challenges. It is her intention to help everyone she can live their lives to the fullest.
