DANVILLE Staff Bios, Danville, IN | Yoga Studio near me in Danville, IN

Tara

Friday

5:30

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6:30

PM Better Backs - Live Streamed

Sunday

11:00

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12:00

PM Vinyasa Level I/II

Mitzi

Mitzi Johnson has a passion for teaching! She is an elementary school teacher with an interest in Social-Emotional Learning. She teaches kids the importance of mindfulness by focusing on the breath, finding stillness and creating calm in the body and mind. This naturally led to a personal practice of self-acceptance and self-love.

As a yoga teacher, Mitzi hopes to teach her students how to “take it slow” on and off the mat, to breathe during difficult moments and to be still. Most of us lead lives that are Yang in nature, active and busy. Mitzi is drawn to Yin and Restorative Yoga because these styles allow space to let go of the need to always be busy, learn to truly relax and be in the present moment exactly as you are. It is a true gift of yoga to find peace, healing, calm and well-being.

Peace through Yoga

Maria

Wednesday

4:30

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5:30

PM Vinyasa All Levels

Saturday

1:30

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2:30

PM Vinyasa All Levels

Charlie

A much loved teacher, Charlie weaves affirming themes throughout his well-crafted sequences with uplifting quotes and thoughts. He is a perennial student of all aspects of yoga, the mechanics and structure of the human body; as well as, the spiritual teachings. Charlie’s specialties include precise cueing, sensitive manual adjustments, hand balances and inversions. Charlie originally came to yoga as a means to strengthen an ailing lower back that was hampering his meditation practice. It wasn’t long before he recognized the greater benefit of yoga: the centering of mind, body and spirit with the breath. Charlie lives his yoga. His passion, experience and expertise shine in all aspects of his teaching. Charlie has studied with and been inspired by the following teachers: Marsha Pappas, Les Leventhal, Chris Roche, David Romanelli & Amy Thomas.

Sunday

11:00

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12:15

PM Vinyasa Level I - Live Streamed

Kim

Kim is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist who has taken her passion for healing others in a holistic direction. This has led her to pursue certification in Muscle Reflex Response Testing, Digestive Health Professional and Reiki Master. Kim came to yoga for physical fitness and found a mind, body and spirit connection that set her on a path of healing her childhood trauma. A naturally compassionate and sensitive soul, Kim is committed to helping others with a natural approach to healing and to self-discovery through many different styles of yoga.

Tuesday

6:00

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7:00

PM Vinyasa Level I/II - Live Streamed

Friday

8:00

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9:00

AM Vinyasa Level I - Live Streamed

Krista

Krista Wright found her passion for yoga over twenty years ago. Throughout those years, her practice was not consistent. She discovered hot yoga as a means to stay injury-free during her trainings for marathons. She began teaching yoga in Indianapolis over twelve years ago but attained her RYT 200 in Baptiste inspired yoga several years ago. Her greatest passion in life is empowering others to evolve into the best version of themselves that they can be. She loves to inspire others to encompass all points in their practice-physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally. Hands-on assist and sharing energy is also one of her favorite things about teaching! Outside of Yoga, she experiences her nirvana through hiking, nature and sharing healing energy as a Reiki practitioner. Her “crazy” is expressed through freelance writing as a creative non-fiction writer. Currently, she resides 45 minutes outside of Asheville in the Cherokee National Forest.

Evelyn

Sometimes all it takes is just a little urging from a friend to discover something new that can be life-changing. This is what happened to Evelyn when she first set foot on a mat at her friend’s suggestion. Evelyn says she had an immediate connection with the asanas, pranayama and the yoga experience as a whole. It is this same connection to the practice, as well as to the mind, body and spirit, that Evelyn seeks to inspire in her students. Evelyn is a sensitive, versatile teacher who is quick to laugh as she finds delight in each of her students. You can find her instructing Vinyasa, Gentle/Restorative, Chair and Corporate classes.

Tuesday

10:00

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11:00

AM Chair Yoga - Live Streamed

Meagan

Meagan has loved yoga since rolling out her mat in her first class many years ago. Yoga helped her face some of life’s challenges and through yoga, Meagan became a witness to her own physical improvement and emotional changes. Now, as a teacher. she finds joy in witnessing the same growth and development in her students. This ability to explore oneself and evolve physically, mentally and spiritually through yoga is what ignites her practice.

Meagan’s classes reflect her energy and passion for yoga. Students can expect to be challenged physically, oh yes, but her underlying message is always “you can do it.” Meagan has found profound happiness in yoga and the yoga community. She invites her students to join her in finding their own inner and outer strength.

Erica

Erica was introduced to yoga as a teenager while living in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Decades later after moving to Indiana, she was delighted to re-discover yoga through her son, who along with several high school friends was attending a weekly class in Eagle Creek Park.

A serious student of yoga for ~5 years, Erica loves the Ashtanga primary and Rocket series, and Power Vinyasa. Now a yoga instructor, she is thrilled that her yoga journey has come full circle. A pediatric endocrinologist by profession, Erica knows firsthand that yoga connects us to our own inner Power, Beauty and Peace, and she is so excited to share this magic with others!

Wednesday

6:00

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7:00

PM Vinyasa Level II - Live Streamed

Meghan

Meghan finds great joy in teaching yoga, though it is not anything she imagined she would be doing. Despite an early introduction to meditation and other Eastern practices in her high school years and participation in group yoga classes throughout college, Meghan remained a student of the teachings. It was only after her college years that she instinctively turned to yoga as a way to quiet inner turmoil and lead her on a path toward recovery. Now in the role of a teacher, Meghan humbly remains a student, always eager to learn and to share with her students the sacred teachings of yoga, the healing properties of essential oils, and the soul-stirring vibrations of music that accompany her teaching.

Beth

Neck and shoulder pain may have been what prompted Beth to attend her first yoga class, but 20 years later, the ease she feels in her body and mind are what keep her dedicated to her students and her own practice. She proclaims: “Yoga brought me back home to myself; to daily living with purpose and joy!”

It was while in yoga teacher training that Beth began to understand the true transformation yoga brings to the body, mind and spirit, and how the breath is the gateway to all three. Her approach in teaching yoga is to add meaning to the asanas by applying the power of the breath to improve movement, alignment and mental tranquility. Beth enjoys teaching students of all ages and offers options for all skill levels.

Abbey

Sometimes a light shines through a crack in the darkness. This is how Abbey came to yoga. After enduring betrayal, profound loss and illness, Abbey found happiness in her life. She met her husband, a native of Danville, Indiana, and moved from her home in Illinois to this charming community where Peace through Yoga has been established since 2015. Abbey had never practiced yoga in a studio despite being an active person. It took some time before she found the courage to enroll in a class and she hasn't looked back since. Abbey identifies completing Peace through Yoga's 200-hour teacher training program as one of the best decisions she has made. Yoga improved so many aspects of her life, not only physically, but also mentally and spiritually. Now she is passionate about helping people of all ages cultivate a love for yoga so they may benefit from all that yoga can offer them in life.

Tuesday

6:30

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7:30

PM Vinyasa All Levels

Mark

Mark began practicing yoga in 1997 to find relief from low back pain. His introduction to yoga led to the discovery of the wonderful connection of mind, body and spirit that yoga offers. Mark is a certified Ashaya™ Yoga teacher. His teaching aligns body, mind and heart to facilitate the awakening of our inherent creative potential as human beings. Mark has a playful style that focuses on precise alignment of the body infused with heart-based teachings. He works to support his students at whatever stage of practice they are in from beginner to advanced.

Saturday

9:00

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10:00

AM Vinyasa All Levels - Live Streamed

Patrick

Patrick began practicing ashtanga yoga in the summer of 2004 in Bloomington, with Debby Harris and Wendy Gleckler. He has practiced regularly ever since, learning Primary series and then Intermediate series from Carol Tharp-Perrin. Patrick has also learned important things from Kino MacGregor, David Swenson and Matthew Sweeney. In 2007 Patrick undertook teacher training with It's Yoga in San Francisco and learned “The Rocket,” a powerful and fun mixed ashtanga sequence. At the same time, Patrick practiced traditional “Mysore-style” ashtanga with Clayton Horton and then Kate O'Donnell. Patrick continues to practice in the Mysore-style method (self-practice under a teacher's guidance) whenever possible and offers both “Rocket” and Mysore-style at Peace Through Yoga.

Kelly

Kelly found Peace Through Yoga because she was truly seeking peace through Yoga. She has always been a physically active person ranging from running to CrossFit.

Kelly has struggled with shoulder and neck pain for about 20 years and Yoga had been recommended several times. Ultimately, she found her way to Peace Through Yoga because she wanted her two teenage daughters to have exposure to the benefits of practicing Yoga. After she and her daughters finished the 4-week Yoga Essentials for Beginners program, they were hooked.

As a teacher, Kelly enjoys helping her students with their individual goals and sharing all of the many benefits of Yoga with them.

Thursday

9:30

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10:30

AM Functional Flow - Live Streamed

Laurie

Laurie is a certified yoga therapist and has treated athletes and clients for injuries and disabilities.

Laurie is skilled in the practice of a variety of yoga styles, from the alignment-oriented Iyengar style to Vinyyasa and Anusara yoga. This blended background, along with her many years of experience and her passion for yoga, makes Laurie’s classes fun and engaging, as well as transformative. Although she takes her yoga very seriously, Laurie believes that a sense of humor with a sprinkling of yogic wisdom helps her students relax and enjoy the practice more. She is delighted and honored to share the gift of yoga with anyone who even has a spark of interest in yoga and the many benefits it offers.

Hope

Hope found yoga looking to manage stress associated with Chronic Kidney Disease in 2010. Yoga has helped her settle into a healthy lifestyle, manage stress and so much more. Yoga taught Hope to honor her health limitations and grow a more meaningful life from that foundation.

Hope has been teaching alignment-based yoga with heart-opening themes since 2013. She has over 1,000 teaching hours which makes her an Experienced 200 Hour Registered Teacher (E-RYT 200). She is also an Ashaya Yoga® Licensed Teacher (AYLT).

Hope's classes will leave you feeling strong and open to all that life has to offer.

Amanda

Amanda came to yoga in search of a mid-day stress reliever from her professional career as a social worker. Her commitment to weekly classes at noon became her steady diet of yoga. Amanda came to love what yoga can do to connect mind, body and soul. Her personal growth led not only to professional advancement, but also to the discovery of new ways to serve those around her. She found that applying skills from yoga to the social work world can help youth and families be stronger together.

Seeing the effect yoga has on her clients, staff and students inspires Amanda to share the wisdom she has gained from her practice and participation in Peace through Yoga’s Real Life Yoga Immersion. Students can look forward to light-spirited classes with a healthy dose of humor in Amanda’s teaching.

Shannon

Shannon found a love for Yoga in 2001 and has maintained an asana practice with self-study ever since. In 2015, she made a life-changing self-rediscovery journey to the Himalayan International Yoga Academy in Nepal. There she studied Yoga, Reiki and Meditation, trekked the Himalayas, and met incredible people on her physical and spiritual path. Shannon returned to the States with a greater sense of purpose and an understanding that everything she had learned up to that point was just the tip of the iceberg. She found growth, expanded knowledge and a true Yoga home while completing Peace Through Yoga's “Real Life Yoga Immersion” training.

Shannon is a warm, genuine “old soul” who describes herself as a forever student of Yoga. In her wellness career, she has a passion for promoting mindfulness and a holistic approach to well-being in the workplace. She loves sharing her learnings and wholeheartedly believes that no matter what is happening in the outside world, being on your mat offers you a safe space -- a space for connection, self-awareness and self-acceptance without judgement. A place where you can find peace and healing.

Jill

Like mother, like daughter! Jill found her way to yoga when her mom, a dedicated Peace through Yoga student, suggested they attend a class together. Sometimes that is all that it takes to experience a life-changing event. After being on pain medication for years for a fractured tailbone and ensuing back pain, Jill began to experience relief as she developed a regular yoga practice of her own. Jill says, “The more I went to yoga, the better I began to feel.” Then one day she noticed the pain was gone. Completely gone. Even better, she realized she felt a pervasive sense of peace in her mind and throughout her body.

Jill‘s experience inspires her teaching. She brings ease and comfort to newer yogis by ensuring everyone feels safe in the yoga studio and in their own bodies. Her greatest joy as a teacher is in providing an opportunity for her students to develop a transformative practice to find the strength and calmness she discovered on the mat.

Haylie

Like many people, Haylie always found a reason or bumped up against an obstacle that prevented her from pursuing what she desired. In her case, yoga was her objective, but life always seemed to get in the way. When Peace through Yoga opened a studio in Danville, practically in Haylie’s backyard, she recognized the sign that it was time to step on the mat. Haylie has never looked back.

What began as precious quiet time in the studio for one hour, once a week, turned into a journey of self-discovery and self-love. Yoga helped Haylie overcome anxiety and the crippling postpartum depression she experienced after having her daughter. Yoga provides an avenue where her love for music and literature can come to life in both her asana and meditation practices. As a teacher and graduate of Peace through Yoga’s Real Life Yoga Immersion, Haylie holds space for her students so they may overcome their own obstacles and find the joy that yoga brought to her life.

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