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Alix Darrow, CYT has always been curious about the mind - body relationship. Alix was drawn to yoga after numerous years as a serious dancer combined with the intense need to counteract the demands of work as a corporate lawyer. Alix has primarily focused on iyengar and vinyasa flow traditions and received her 220 Hour Teacher Training Certification from Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman-Yee and Richard Rosen. Alix enjoys incorporating whatever she is currently studying and always strives to make yoga accessible to everyone while focusing on alignment.
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Jaci Spellman, Co-Founder, has enjoyed the practice of vinyasa flow yoga, originally inspired by Tricia Fiske and Moksha Yoga teacher training completion. As her practice grows, she enjoys trying other styles of yoga, but always returns to vinyasa. "Yoga has changed my life. In the beginning yoga may just be physical, but as your practice becomes part of your life you begin to learn how to focus from the inside out. I want our studio to be an offering of space to the community for the sharing of like minds and energy; a place to practice."
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Jeanette Virden has practiced yoga on and off throughout her life and always felt incredibly drawn to it. As an adult she decided to really dedicate herself to the practice and was blown away by the depth of yoga ~ spiritually, mentally, and physically. "I felt the way I used to feel in my younger years as a dancer, expressing my inner self through physical movement." Jeanette signed up for a 200 Hour Teacher Training with Prairie Yoga and was fortunate to study under knowledgeable and accomplished teachers. Jeanette has taught adults and children since the summer of 2008 and loves it. Jeanette tries to bring a spiritual element to every class and feels priviledged to share with others the joy, strength and the healing she has found in yoga.
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Karen Wisocki-Weber, LMT, RYT has been unveiling the path of Self-realization for almost a decade. Her foundation came from Daren Frisen and Laura Jane Mellencamp-Murphy. She is also completing her studies with Rod Stryker’s 500 hour Parayoga in the Swami Rama Himalayan Tantra Yoga tradition and T.K.V. Desikachar’s continuation of Krishnamacharya’s teachings with a 500 hour Healing Yoga Foundation Training for Personalized Therapeutic Yoga. In addition, she is studying Dr. David Frawley’s Ayurveda and Yoga distance course. Karen’s teachings draw on the wisdom of the Yoga Sutras as the primary tool for transformation, healing and the bringing of the unconscious to the conscious. Her classes include practical applications of the eight-limbs along with Bandha, Dristi, Kriya, Mudra, Yoga Nidra, Samkalpa, Bhavana and Mantra. Karen has written books and offers lectures on Yoga philosophy and is also a Kriya Yoga initiate, a Licensed Massage Therapist, Level 1 trained Thai Yoga Therapist and Reiki Master Teacher.
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Sanghmitra Dhar began practicing pranayama (breathing exercise) meditation and hatha yoga years back in India. After moving to the United States Mitra's practice grew deeper day by day with more emphasis on vinyasa and ashtanga yoga. Mitra completed 200 Hour Yoga Teaching at Yoga Now in Chicago. "The benefits of my practice have been immense from the very first day. I firmly believe that yoga is a complete science that works at the deepest levels to help us maintain fitness and well-being while bringing harmony to body, mind and spirit."
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Susan Tauster has practiced and instructed hatha and kundalini yoga and meditation for nearly 20 years. She received her Kundalini Instructor Training through the 3HO Foundation (based in Espanola, NM). As the former publisher of Vegetarian Times magazine, she understands the connection between a balanced diet and fitness regimen that includes yoga practice. She has instructed both adults and children and is conversant in vegetarian diets and natural products and remedies. "Kundalini yoga has allowed me to more effectively integrate changes, both tangible and intangible, in a wide variety of situations."
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