JUDI HARVIN   Judi has been involved in the fitness industry for 12 years. She received her 200-hour teacher training certification from the Temple of Kriya Yoga, has attended workshops and teacher trainings with Rodney Yee, Seane Corn, Jonny Kest, Ana Forrest, and others. She has been teaching yoga in the LaGrange/Riverside area for four years. Judi's focus is to teach classes that safely challenge her students while stressing proper alignment and technique. However, her greatest goal is to help her students discover how yoga can affect and improve their lives off the mat, and to encourage them to find their own "inner teacher".

ANNE UNGER  Anne believes every class provides an opportunity for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual transformation and healing. She is truly excited about sharing the benefits with her students. With a focus on connecting body movement and the fluctuations of the mind to the rhythm of the breath, Anne's eclectic approach to teaching yoga includes a blend of holding and working in asanas, coupled with mindful flowing sequences.

Anne received her training through the Temple of Kriya Yoga's extensive nine month teacher's training program and continues to deepen her practice through participating in events and training workshops with master yoga teachers.

LISA MUSIAL  The gift of yoga was given to Lisa in the unassuming package of an offer made by a friend, pursuing the yoga teacher certification program, to take an "in-home" practice class. Since this initial introduction, Lisa has been reaping the rewards of her yoga practice. Among the many benefits, Lisa has eliminated her insomnia and weak digestive system (classic "vata-type" conditions).

Currently working as an adult educator and textbook author, Lisa finds it satisfying to be involved in the process of student development. She considers it personally rewarding to foster an environment in which students strive to reach personal goals. Her decision to become a yoga instructor allows her to share her love of yoga with students who share that passion.

Lisa is certified through Moksha Yoga Center's 200 hour teacher training program. She has completed teacher workshops with many master teachers including Tias Little, Eddie Modestini, and Nicki Doane. Lisa's objective is to lead students through a safe and progressive yoga practice, with the ultimate goal of achieving "quietness of mind" and "lightness of body" While flexibility, strength and stability are important aspects of Lisa's yoga class, she feels that integrating the whole body within a pose is equally important. Her classes provide a traditional yoga environment incorporating total body and breath awareness, as well as some classical warm-up techniques used by dancers.

KRISTINE SCHULTZ   Kristine graduated from the Level I, Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Program at the Temple of Kriya Yoga in the spring of 2004. She has been practicing yoga for 14 years and began teaching yoga to pregnant women and new mom's and babies after the birth of her daughter in 2002. Kristine also completed a Prenatal Yoga Teachers workshop at Sweet Peas Studio in February of 2003. She has taught at the Richport YMCA, Sweet Peas Studio, Oak Park Yoga & Wellness, and Lifetime Fitness. She has also taught wellness clinics on-site in corporations and small businesses, as well as, she works with individual clients in order to help those individuals define and meet their needs with their personal yoga practice.

Kristine's teaching style draws mainly from her practice and training in the hatha yoga tradition although she draws from the tradition of kundalini yoga and viniyoga, as well. Kristine focuses on breath awareness, alignment, guided mediation and making yoga accessible to all participants. Kristine believes that through yoga we can begin to connect to the spirit within and that yoga is an excellent way to begin this journey.

Kristine has taught Prenatal Yoga, Baby & Me Yoga, Tot & Me Yoga, Preschool Yoga, Kids Yoga (5-8 year olds), Kids Yoga (9-12 year olds) and Beginning and Continuing Hatha Yoga. Kristine has also held workshops for Mother & Child Yoga, Partner Yoga for adults, and Comfort Measures for Expecting Parents.

KIM WADE  As a mother of twins, Kim knows life can take a toll on one's body. Physical, mental and emotional stress and strain can forever alter the way a body is grounded, aligned and considered.  Our bodies are us.  They are the only physical vehicles we have to express ourselves and take up the space allotted to us in this world.  How do we choose?  As a student of Manju Jois, Ana Forrest, Sean Corne, Gary Kraftsow, Tias Little, Gabriel Halpern and Daren Friesen, Kim has learned that Yoga is the Quiet You.  And, if you listen to it often enough, it vibrates.  She teaches intention, beginning and intermediate asana, pranayama, vinyasa, and quiet flow. 

DONNA PRENTA  Donna Prenta has taught several workshops at Focus Yoga, offering guided meditation, Qi Gong and other techniques to promote self-care and relaxation. She is a certified Reiki Master, and has studied Healing Imagery with Belleruth Naparstek at the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (N.I.C.A.B.M). She has received a Certification in Intuition.

TORIA BURRELL-HRENCECIN  draws on her mostly musical back-ground as inspiration for her meditation practice. Toria has been a professional musician for 16 years: - a pianist, flautist, singer, instrumental and vocal instructor, conductor and composer. With a Masters degree in English literature as well as Music, she combines many artistic elements into her meditation teaching, such as poetry, song, rhythm, metaphysics, philosophy, acting and performing techniques.