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Heather has her masters in education from
Harvard University and has been teaching middle school, high
school and college for the last 10 years. She is currently
completing her 200 hour yoga teacher training with the Bodhi
Tree in Charlotte. Heather began seriously studying yoga as
a student seven years ago when she moved to Telluride,
Colorado. While in Telluride, she studied Bikram Flow and
fell in love with Ashtanga. For the last four years she
studied full time
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Cheryl has her
masters degree in the science of social work and is a
provisionally-licensed clinical social worker. She
also has completed her 22 hour En Yoga certification at The
Bodhi Tree, a registered Yoga alliance school, where she was
taught by Lesa Crocker and many other wonderful teachers.
In 2000, Cheryl noticed that yoga had an incredibly positive
impact
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Kathy
offers pranam (homage) to the many teachers in her
life, including her parents, her sisters, her son, and her
husband. Yoga found her in Southern Illinois in 1995. She is
grateful for the time that she was blessed to spend with a
number of amazing yoginis, many from the Iyengar
tradition,
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Cathy Fieselman,
MA
Cathy started her study of yoga
in 1973 in Chapel Hill, NC. She is certified in both
Satyananda Yoga from the Institute of Holistic Health of
North America and Relax and Renew from Judit
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Molly obtained her 230 hour Yoga
Alliance certification from the Asheville Yoga Center.
Her practice, which began in 2001, is influenced by Kripalu,
Anusara, and Vinyasa. Molly came to yoga for increased
flexibility and found that and so much more, "strength,
courage, playfulness, peace, laughter, sadness, joy
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______________________________________________________________ I have been practicing yoga with heart
and soul for 5 years now. It started as way to burn
through baby weight and foggy new-mommy emotions. I
felt so good both emotionally and physically, I knew down to
my cells that I was doing exactly what I was meant to do. I
began to inhale all I could about the traditions of yoga and
related subjects. I began to practice pranayama and
meditation regularly and those quickly became the focus and
foundation of my home practice. For me, teaching is
about community, about coming together to brighten the world
starting with ourselves, in all of our glamour and in all of
our beautiful imperfections.
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______________________________________________________________ I love the human body and how it serves
us; I love the spiritual and how it graces us. I love yoga
and how it brings the two together. A former distance
runner, I was led to Yoga after a running stress injury.
I have been practicing yoga for six years and took Lesa
Crocker's inaugural Bodhi Tree teacher training in 2003. I
have studied with a variety of yoga teachers including Erich
Schiffman, Desiree Rambaugh, Bryan Kest, & Guramukh. I
travelled to India in February 2007 where I attended the
International Yoga Festival and traveled down the Ganges,
exploring and studying with various yoga masters along the
way. I recently completed Massage Therapy training and am a
nationally certified therapist. I also am a Level 2 Reiki
practitioner. I love all disciplines of yoga and try
to blend them together in my classes. I am grateful for the
opportunity to share yoga with others. Namasté.
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Lisa started practicing yoga at
the age of 16. At 18 she began taking dance classes at
CPCC in Charlotte, NC. She went on to earn her Diploma
in Dance at North Carolina School of the Arts. She
danced with Footpath Dance Company of Cleveland and Toronto
Dance Theatre of Canada. Lisa continued her yoga
studies with David Life and Sharon Gannon at Jivamutki Yoga
Center in New York City and soon began teaching there.
Lisa was introduced to Ashtanga Yoga by Eddie Stern who
became her main teacher. She then went to India to
study
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Stephanie (Stef) is a family
nurse practitioner and president of Divine Wellness as well
as an Anusara-inspired yoga teacher. Clearly, Stef has
a medical background, but she also obtained her personal
trainer certification in 1997. Working in the medical
field for the past 20 years, she focuses on preventative
medicine with areas of interest in geriatrics, psychiatry,
and hormone balance. Currently, Stef is enrolled at
UNC Chapel Hill in a psychiatric/mental health nurse
practitioner/clinical nurse specialist program. Since
discovering yoga in 1999, Stef has traveled extensively
around the country studying Anusara yoga with John Friend,
its founder, as well as ______________________________________________________________ Because "stuff happens" and one of our regular teachers cannot always step in, we have some great Substitute Teachers ______________________________________________________________
Annette has been
teaching yoga for four years. She is a certified Level
II YogaFit instructor and has also studied yoga with Erich
Shiffmann, Brian Kest, and
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Christina graduated
from her 200 hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training in October
1999 at the age of 52 with the desire to help people become
more comfortable in their bodies through yoga practice.
She is currently working on her 500 hour Teacher Training
Certification with her
Kate Evans Certified Nia White Belt
I began practicing Nia in 2004. It was a stressful time in my life. I had 2 small children, my husband was in graduate school, and I worked full time night shifts as a labor and delivery nurse. During my first Nia session I felt something I’ve never felt during an exercise class. I felt like I had come home. I left feeling more joyous in my body, more alive in my body, more enthusiastic about life, and definitely de-stressed. The next day all my muscles ached and I knew that I had also gotten a great body work out. Professionally, I am a registered nurse. My nursing career has focused on Women’s Health. I believe in a holistic approach to health care. Nia is a holistic approach to exercise, integrating the mind, body, spirit, and emotions in each class. When we moved to Cornelius, NC in 2006 I was disheartened by the absence of Nia in the area. In lieu of Nia I began practicing yoga, however, there was still an empty place in my heart that Nia filled, and so in the fall of 2007 I went home to Charlottesville, VA, trained with Helen Terry and obtained my White Belt certificate. I am so exited to bring Nia to the Charlotte area. ______________________________________________________________ |
with her guru, Victoria, on a beautiful, tiny bamboo
floored studio in the mountains of Colorado six days a week.
There she learned to connect the breath with movement. Since
moving to North Carolina last year, she has made her happy
home at Community Yoga. She was immediately struck by the
acceptance and support of the community and began coming to
class as often as possible. Currently she teaches a teen
yoga class as well as Go with the Flow. Heather attributes
yoga and its benefits with saving her life several times
over the years and healing her heart. 
on her mental and emotional health and desired to learn and
practice more. she studied at the world-renowned
Himalayan Institute under the guidance of Pandit Rajmani
Tigunait. There, Cheryl deepened her practice with the
Eight Limbs of Yoga, and had a truly life-changing
experience. Returning to her daily life, she realized
how difficult it is to maintain a rewarding practice and
still meet day-to-day commitments. Soon after, Cheryl
had a deeply mystical experience that reminded her to return
to yoga in order to create balance. Cheryl has
returned and enjoys sharing yoga with beginners in a calm
and relaxed environment. She also works as a hospice
social worker and, with her husband Brian, welcomed her
first child Sage in January 2006.
including
Charlotte McLeod, Charlotte Bell, Dr. Marian Garfinkel, Mary
Kay West and Stephanie Keach. Kathy is further
grateful for the inspiration and satsang (being in
the company of those who reflect one’s true nature) offered
by Andrea Boyd, Jeffrey Cohen and Kelly Morris, teachers in
the Jivamukti tradition. She offers the
greatest respect, gratitude and reverence for the life and
the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. Kathy completed her
230-hour yoga teacher training under the direction of
Stephanie Keach in July of 2006. She earned a PhD in
Psychology in 1998. 
Denise
has studied sacred dance forms for over two decades and
loves to share her love of the dance with others. Her
classes focus on taking ancient Middle Eastern movements and
making them relevant for today's woman. Her personal
journey has taken many paths and she continues to seek out
and explore the common spiritual roots uniting us all.
She also works as an intuitive massage therapist, grows
heirloom roses, and has fun creating a home for her husband,
two daughters, and four cats.
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Lasater. Cathy holds a masters degree in exercise
physiology from UNC-Chapel Hill and continues her study of
yoga in the Iyengar style.
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. . I found awareness." She is eager to share her love
of yoga with her students and encourage them to find
whatever it is that they are seeking. In addition to
being in love with yoga, she is in love with her husband
Dave, her two kiddos Abby and David, their big brown dog
Tucker, skiing with her family, organic cooking, gluten-free
baking, dancing, music, and seeing, trying, and learning new
things.
Suzi
has been on a yogic path for many years. As a child
she loved to MOVE and studied and taught dance. She
began studying yoga at the age of 16 in St. Petersburg, FL.
During the 60's and 70's she explored and practiced
meditation. Her love of the physical yoga practice was
reignited when she began to practice again, teaching Kelley
Akin's daughter Katie in kindergarten. Suzi studied
with Stephanie Keach in Asheville to obtain her yoga
certification and continues to practice, study, and teach as
much as her busy life allows. For the past three
years, Suzi has taught this life-balancing practice to her
6th graders at Brawley Middle School and is looking for a
way to incorporate these teachings into her new career path
of coaching teachers at Statesville Middle. She now
teaches at Community Yoga and is working on a program that
includes dance and yoga. Suzi feels that the world
would be a better place "if everybody did yoga."
Hatha
Yoga teacher, Amy studied at The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta
Center in Neyyar Dam, India. She has been greatly
influenced by many renowned teachers and spiritual leaders
making her teaching very open, eclectic, and beneficial to
students of all levels
and body types. Amy began her path in the mountains of
Upstate New York with Rob Greenberg. She will be
forever grateful to him for this gift of yoga. Amy
believes that yoga is a personal and sacred practice.
Her love of yoga is evident through her teaching. Amy
has recently returned to us from the Treasure Coast in
Florida.
with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Lisa's additional yoga
studies include Iyengar, Sivananda, Kundalini, Bikram, and
Anusara. From all her yoga experience, Lisa draws most
from Ashtanga and Anusara in her teaching. Lisa is
also certified in Pilates Mat and Reformer and is a NYC
licensed massage therapist. Lisa is a true believer in
the energetic balancing of the body, mind, and spirit to
achieve peace and alignment in the universe in which we
live.
others, including Desireé Rumbaugh. In February, 2007,
Stef journeyed to India for three weeks with Desireé and
others. Stephanie has completed a total of 475 hours
of training, 51 of those in yoga therapeutics which has
become her passion. Stephanie likes the precision, but
fun, found in practicing Anusara yoga and brings that fun to
her teaching. She believes that your yoga mat is a
"personal playground" of fun and exploration. Her
classes are challenging, yet playful. She has
volunteered to teach yoga to the West Mecklenburg HS
football team and dreams of developing a yoga program for
at-risk inner city youth. Stef hopes to make a
difference in the lives of others by who she is and what she
does and always has a smile and hug for those she meets.
John Friend. Annette weaves her experience teaching
traditional yoga, core yoga (yoga with Pilates), power yoga,
gentle yoga, and meditation into her personal yoga practice
and her style of teaching. Come for a class that
combines playful athleticism with mindfulness and
meditation.
main interest being a more therapeutic yoga and working with
people who want to do yoga but have special situations such
as pregnancy, health issues, injuries, and/or who are older.
Although she enjoys all her students, Christina especially
enjoys teaching beginners. A long time yoga student
beginning in the 1960's, her love of yoga has deepened over
these past years. She says, "I have become a life-long
learner i the experiences of life and yoga." Christina
has attended workshops and trainings with Judith Hanson
Lasater, Lilias Folan, Carolyn"Suda" Lund, Michael "Yoganand"
Caroll, John Friend, Sara Meeks, PT, and many other teachers
at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lennox, MA.