JUDI HARVIN, E-RYT
is the founder of Focus Yoga. She began instructing students in exercise and fitness almost 20 years ago, and has been instructing students in yoga for 10 years.
Judi's classes focus on yoga as a tool for creating overall wellness in physical health, and as a tool for focusing the mind, developing control and discipline over the mind in a way that improves our daily functioning, way of looking at life, and interactions with others. She emphasizes techniques that can be practiced at home, at the office, at the store, everywhere that daily life brings us. She stresses that yoga is not an isolated practice; it is a tool to support us as we face our challenges, interact with the world, and conduct our life’s work.
Judi has 200 hour certifications from both the Temple of Kriya Yoga and Moksha Yoga's Daren Friesen, and has completed additional workshops with wonderful teachers, including Tias Little, Aadil Palkhivala, as well as a teacher training with Seane Corn. www.JudiHarvin.com
SUSAN DIEDERICH Susan has been teaching yoga since 1998. Her teaching method is warm and infused with humor as she incorporates spiritual, mental or physical themes into each class and creates integrity with each pose that can be carried beyond the mat and into daily life.
In addition to teaching yoga, Susan created "Fit For All Seasons", a personal training business from 1990 - 2004.
She is grateful to have studied with Sudda Weixler and his teacher training workshop. Additional teachers include Kathleen Wright, Nancy Heraty and Gabriel Halpern.
In her classes, Susan offers a practice that includes alignment-based asanas in a slow style that guides students toward improved awareness and reflection.
LISA MUSIAL, E-RYT Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Methods from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently working as an adult educator and textbook author of valuation studies, Lisa derives satisfaction from being 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 same passion.
Lisa is certified through Moksha Yoga Center’s 200 hour teacher training program and has completed teacher workshops with many master teachers including Tias Little, Eddie Modestini, Nicki Doane, Aadil Palkhivala, Lino Miele, Kino MacGregor and Rod Stryker. 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. www.lisamusial.com
LINDA ROTUNNO Linda began to practice yoga after experiencing running injuries and stress fractures due to osteoporosis. She admits that her first yoga experiences involved following the video practices of Rodney Yee and Baron Baptiste. Always attracted to the power of the body, Linda enjoyed learning the body, breath, and mind techniques that tapped into her inner strength and energy. It was her daughter’s encouragement and her experience practicing with a few outstanding yoga instructors that led Linda to enroll in the 2004 Moksha Teacher Training program with Daren Friesen.
Linda transfers many of the skills acquired as a former junior high school teacher to her yoga 'classroom.' She continues to study a never-ending source of materials to enrich her own and her students' practices. Creating new and challenging sequences to keep the students engaged and interested is one of her goals. Linda has practiced with and been inspired by several Master Teachers including Ana Forrest and Andrey Lappa. She continues to learn from Tias Little, Aadil Palkhivala, Jim Bennitt and many senior Moksha teachers (where she taught for several years) in workshops and teacher trainings.
Linda seeks to teach a practice that creates presence, energy, and power with grace.
FREYA SMITH Once she began practicing Yoga, Freya Smith knew that it would become a lifelong passion of hers! Freya tried her first class about 10 years ago and has been practicing ever since. She has been a fitness instructor for the past 9 years teaching spin, strength, core and stretch classes. She has found that her knowledge of Yoga has allowed her to become more effective in teaching these disciplines as well and she especially loves incorporating Yoga poses into her other classes.
Freya completed her 200 hour CYT (certified yoga teacher) training in 2008. Having the honor to learn from Master teachers Tias Little, Gabriel Halpern, Gary Kraftsow, Daren Friesen and numerous inspiring instructors over the years, Freya looks forward to sharing that knowledge with her Focus Yoga students and is truly excited about yoga’s potential to enhance their lives.
Freya's teaching style blends the various styles of yoga that she has learned and includes vinyasa flow, longer holds, and sequencing that she hopes will allow her students to find the inner peace of mind, body and spirit that is Yoga.
ELLIE TAYLOR Ellie walked into her first yoga class nine years ago, and it has been a part of her life ever since. She loves the fact that every time you come to the mat, it is an opportunity to learn something new, providing rest and quiet for the mind while strengthening and opening the body.
Ellie holds a 200-hour hatha yoga certification, and received a second certificate for her participation in a 108-hour Anusara immersion. She continues to study Anusara yoga and feels its Universal Principals of Alignment are a phenomenal tool for any practice.
She is known for her enthusiastic teaching style and the down-to-earth way in which she helps students make their practice their own. Ellie is full of gratitude for the opportunity to be able to share the sweetness of yoga with others.
ANNE UNGER, RYTAnne believes every class provides an opportunity for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual transformation and healing, and is truly excited about sharing the healing benefits of yoga 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.
KIM WADE At the age of 12, Kim was diagnosed with scoliosis. For many years following, Kim vigorously challenged her body. Then, in 2004, she became pregnant with twins and everything changed. The rapid weight gain created tendonitis in both of her wrists; she developed sciatica and overtaxed ligaments.
Kim began a daily rigorous Ashtanga practice to get back into her natural shape and lose the weight. She then realized how much of her body had been forever altered. Life had taken it's toll and she discovered that what had once been easy for her was now a new and difficult challenge.
She enrolled in the extensive Moksha Yoga Teacher Training Program and logged over 690 hours of study. Learning how to rebuild and correct the asymmetry she had developed had been her primary focus. Once in the program, however, the beauty, peace of mind and acceptance she found through practicing yoga became her passion. She began teaching to share this passion with others. Our body and mind are connected. Our bodies are our words, emotions, thoughts and experiences. Our bodies are us. They are the only vehicles we have to express ourselves and the sole way we take up 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 it vibrates. She teaches intention, beginning and intermediate asana, pranayama, vinyasa, and quiet flow. Visit Kim's web site, www.innergazeyoga.com.
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