Teton Yoga Shala

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!

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.