Teton Yoga Shala

Adi Amar, E-RYT 500, is the Co-founder and director of the Teton Yoga Shala. She has been studying and practicing yoga since the age of 15 and completed her formal training in 2001 at Mount Madonna under the guidance of Baba Hari Das.

In 1998, Adi had the fortunate experience to practice with Tim Miller and immediately found her teacher. She considers Baba Hari Dass, Tim Miller, Bhavani Maki, Nicki Doane and Eddie Modestini as some of her most influential teachers.

She offers specific tools for each individual to extend his/her own growth and wisdom within fun and inspiring classes that integrate the spiritual and philosophical teachings of Yoga. There are several roads that lead us to the same destination and Adi encourages people to find the path that works best for their lives.

Adi believes that the practice is the teacher and aims to inspire a passion for regular yoga practice. She has studied extensively within the broad scope of Hatha Yoga. She currently teaches Vinyasa and therapeutic group classes, private and semi-private classes that focus on individuals needs, workshops and teacher trainings.

Ainslie Mintz’s yoga practice began with a basic yoga class in her high school library and soon took her to different studios in Boston. She knew she was in the right place when she arrived at Renata Loree’s yoga studio and the first thing she saw was a sign that read “Everything changed when I stopped working out and started working in.”

She began practicing at that yoga studio every morning and began to relish how quiet her mind became in challenging classes.

Five years later she moved to Jackson, Wyoming and found Teton Yoga Shala where she completed a 200-hour RYT program.

She feels immensely blessed to live in a beautiful area and have access to the best teachers she could imagine and is forever grateful to have been taught by Renata Loree, Renee Leblanc, Tom Slattery, Adi Amar, Angela Tong and Niki Sue Mueller. She hopes to see you on your mat in one of her classes soon!

Mike has discovered that the practice of yoga IS what it’s all about. Whether enhancing athletic performance, creating mindful awareness, healing the body or just having fun, yoga provides the balance to survive and be happy.
It was on Maui during the summer of 1994 when Mike first started practicing under yoga teacher Nadia Toraman. He has been exposed to many styles and trained with dozens of teachers over the years. He completed the 200-hour yoga teacher certification in Jackson, WY in 2016 under the guidance of Angela Tong and Adi Amar, among others.

Mike has found that his yoga practice nicely complements his lifestyle as a teacher of windsurfing, surfing, SUPing, snowboarding and more.
His long term goals focus on bringing yoga and recreation into people’s lives in Jackson Hole and beyond.

In fall 2011, Connie Wieneke completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance yoga teacher training from Adi Amar and Angela Tong for Vinyasa Krama.

Although she took the training to deepen her personal practice of yoga, friends asked her to teach them yoga. The journey continues, with gratitude for her teachers.

Since then, she has taken workshops and intensive yoga classes from visiting senior teachers Eddie Modestini, Nicki Doane and Bhavani Maki, taking to heart the niyama of svadhyaya, self-study.

Connie has practiced Kundalini under teacher Sarah Kline for three years, incorporating it into her life on a daily basis. In addition to Kundalini, she teaches classes and workshops in Vinyasa style yoga and meditation/writing.

Cassandra grew up in Teton Village, Wyoming where she spent most of her time on skis or untangling her father’s fly-fishing line. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder to study Literature and Sociology. This is where she first became aware of the amazing community of people dedicated to the practice of yoga. She was stunned by the powerful sense of well-being she felt after a class.

After graduating, she spent a year and a half teaching English in a small town on the border of Thailand and Laos. This endeavor truly required she find calm within chaos. After traveling, she felt the mountains of home pulling her back.

She has completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training at the Teton Yoga Shala under the guidance of Adi Amar and Angela Tong. When she is not in Shavasana, she tutors local students, works at a radio station, writes poetry, and listens to podcasts.

For over a decade Justus Stearns’ focus has been on rock climbing, distance running and skiing. In the last few years his passion has expanded to include the healing practice of yoga. Though he loves the challenge of the poses, he is not only inspired by the physical postures. Eternally a student, he continues to study the Yoga Sutras which are based on codes of conduct, discipline and the cessation of suffering for all beings. Though he dances to the beat of his own drum, he also honors and reveres the wisdom of the yoga teachings.

His energetic and meditative classes reflect his independent spirit, curiosity, humor, and love for movement and stillness. Inspired by his teachers Adi Amar, Angela Tong and Niki Sue Mueller, his classes reflect his love for movement, yoga philosophy, meditation and alignment.

During college Jessie McCarty really became aware of the power of yoga and the depth of the practice. She found that as she dove deeper into her practice that she was better equipped to handle life’s challenges and more empowered to take control of her circumstances. In 2014, she enrolled in a 200-hour training with her teacher and mentor, Bethany Vaughn where her life would completely change.

Since then Jessie has traveled around learning more about herself, the world and the life- changing practice of yoga. She has learned from wise teachers in many forms, ranging from incredibly skilled and insightful professional teachers to children with wisdom far beyond their years and. of course, the ultimate guru: Mother Nature. Having always been drawn to “slow yoga,” in 2017 Jessie continued her formal education at Yandara Yoga Institute, gaining another 100-hour certificate in the Yin and Restorative styles.

Jessie is thrilled to share this beautiful practice with the community here in Jackson Hole.

Brantley was raised in Central Virginia and graduated from James Madison University with a B.A. in Sociology. In 2006, she moved to Jackson and embarked on a decade-long career in office management. In 2017, Brantley spent three months in Central America where she earned her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification from It’s Yoga Nicaragua.

Inspired to share her experience of incorporating yoga into her addiction recovery program, Brantley developed a 12 step yoga flow called “Zenity Now”. She finds that a holistic approach to recovery, nurturing the mind, body and spirit, greatly aids in relapse prevention. Her aim is to create a welcoming space for students to explore the complementary spiritual practices of yoga and the 12 steps of recovery.

Shoshana Kobrin has practiced many forms of yoga in many countries since 1998.

She teaches Spanish at Journeys School and found that her students loved practicing yoga in Spanish. This inspired her to pursue teaching yoga outside of school and began teaching classes to the Jackson Hole Latino community in 2009.

She has immersed herself in a blend of Anusara and Ashtanga yoga and received her 200-hour certification with Angela Tong and Adi Amar in November 2011. She enjoys the creativity of learning different methods of yoga and bringing that variety to each of her classes.

Vanessa Sulzer is a health coach, yoga teacher and barre teacher. Over her 15 years of teaching she has come to focus on connection to spirit and community along with a strong sense of alignment.

She has found that no matter what modality she is teaching, when people move toward deeper health and wellness, they inevitably grow into a greater understanding of themselves and the world around them.

Eddie has been doing yoga since July of 1983. His first teacher was a woman from the San Francisco bay area named Gayna Uransky. Realizing that he had found his path, he lost no time in jumping in with both feet.

His first introduction to yoga was Iyengar Yoga and he became a certified teacher in a short time. He was part of the first batch of teachers certified on the East Coast. Many of those in his group have gone on to become senior Iyengar teachers. At the time it was very hard to get certified.

Today, Eddie Modestini is what is known as a teacher’s teacher. He has been a yogi since 1983 and has been teaching for that long as well. Eddie has been certified in Iyengar yoga and spent many years studying with Pattabhi Jois, receiving a blessing to teach Ashtanga yoga. He is well versed in both systems and has an amazing eye and holds the ability to read students’ bodies and is a master of yoga therapy. “Through the experience of watching yoga heal me, I know that it has the capacity to heal the masses.”

Deidre Norman has been teaching yoga for 10 years. Her students are encouraged to flow from the heart space. Her devotional, dynamic classes combine physical postures, breath work, kundalini kriyas, meditation, mantras and chanting to help students awaken to their truth and raise their consciousness. Her creative teaching style is inspired by her primary teachers, Kia Miller and Anand Mehrotra.

Deidre first started practicing yoga in 2000 after she sustained a knee injury. She quickly realized that yoga was much more than a physical practice, and she took her first yoga teacher training in 2009 at Yoga Tree in San Francisco. She now has well over 1,000 hours of yoga teacher training and is a Master Sattva Yoga teacher. Yoga has became a path of truth for her, a way to heal past trauma and become more conscious in her life. Deidre currently teaches in Jackson Hole, and leads retreats and workshops around the world.

Deidre also has a Masters degree in Energy Medicine and does private intuitive readings. You can learn more at deidrenorman.com and follow her on Instagram at @deidrenorman.

Patricia, or Trish as most people call her, is so honored and excited to be able to teach yoga under the guidance of her teachers at the Teton Yoga Shala. Trish came to yoga after a childhood of ballet and dance, so she is no stranger to body movement and its healing effects. Her first 200-hour Ashtanga training with It’sYoga just scratched the surface in the to this scared science.

So, she came back for more at the Teton Yoga Shala in 2017 where she deepened her understanding of yoga as therapy and the mind-body connection.
Trish’s mission is to help people find the light within them through the practice of yoga. Her classes will reflect her love for dance, connectivity and philosophy while focusing strongly on alignment and awareness of the body in space.