Laura King RYT500, RCYT Laura is the Director, Training and Marketing for TreeYoga & an instructor with Alpha-Omega Yoga, providing teacher training programs and workshops in Texas and Mexico. Laura believes that yoga is a practice for everyone and enjoys helping students meet their goals, both mentally and physically. Her desire is for every individual to find comfort and ease within their body, on and off the mat. Laura’s yoga journey began in 2002 after an accident left her unable to continue her previous physical regimen. Her spinal injuries have inspired her focus on yoga anatomy, which can be felt in each of her classes. Laura finds the human body amazing and continually furthers her studies of human anatomy & physiology and how it relates to the yoga practice. When she’s not teaching, Laura enjoys spending time with her husband, Steven, and their daughter, Eleanor, who inspires her practice in new ways every day. You can find Laura at www.northtexasyoga.com
Chinook Wusdhu
In ’86, Chinook started practicing Tai Chi at the Dallas Academy of Tai Chi and for the last 23 years has used these principles to strengthen his mind, body and spirit. Never losing his competitiveness, he won major international championships in ’98, ’99, ’00, ’02, ’04 and the International Martial Arts Championship in Houston in 2006. His insatiable appetite and thirst for true health and wellness continues to thrive. Reading and researching everything he could get his hands on eventually led Chinook to yoga. He found his personal yoga practice helped fill the void for intense training and led to even greater mental and spiritual rewards. Chinook continues to research, keeping Tsada members abreast of new discoveries affecting our well being. Chinook’s unconventional approach to fitness embraces a simple motto – ‘if something works, I incorporate it and if something doesn’t work, I eliminate it’. Using health and fitness modalities from all over the world led to his ’651-Multisculpt’ training method. A work-out pioneer, he was one of the first to fuse multiple training methods into a holistic system over time evolving into his Yogua Dao system of health and healing. What is Yogua Dao? Yogua Dao translates to ‘the way of constant evolution’. Forever flowing and growing, through the practices and principles of global health and wellness methods – Yogua Dao is the way of the seed, root and fruit. This method purposely emphasizes and utilizes circles and spiraling energies and is primarily focused on transitions between the asanas as well as the asanas themselves. Tai Chi, Bua Gua, Qi Gong, Aikido, capoeira, vinyasa yoga and meditation are the foremost, dominant guiding principles and techniques.
Monica Blossom: Dallas
Monica Blossom is a conscious dance facilitator, events producer and social entrepreneur deeply committed to the healthy evolution of humanity through the power of movement, music & conscious community. She is the founder of Ecstatic cOMmUnity, offering Ecstatic Dance Dallas, Ecstatic MoonDance, & other dance, music & bhakti yoga events in Dallas. She created Flowetry in Motion, an inviting embodiment practice & philosophy of life that cultivates authentic & empowered shamanic living. Monica is a steward of conscious community, an overall connector, eternal optimist and lover of life based in Dallas, TX. www.ecstaticcommunity.com
Brook Cheatham. Dallas
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Brook has been a student of yoga since 2001, and began teaching in 2004. A dancer since the age of four, the step to yoga was only natural. After many years teaching and helping to set up mind body programs for corporations, she opened her own studio in 2009. Not only is she the busy mother of 3 boys, but she is a strong voice in the community bringing awareness and a message of peace and compassion. Today her focus is bringing teachers from all over the globe to North Texas so that a larger audience can meet and learn from these amazing teachers making our community even larger and brighter.
”Yoga is more than an exercise. It gets into you at the very core of your being. It helps you to connect to something bigger than yourself, and in turn it helps you release not only your physical baggage (fat/toxins) but your emotional baggage is stripped away along with your ego. It’s not something you can explain to someone with words or with demonstration. You just have to get on your yoga mat, get real, and feel it for yourself.”
Lisa Ware. Dallas Coordinator + Liasion
Lisa Ware, RYT
Yoga Instructor. Texan. Colorado Rockies Girl. Happily Married. Two Crazy Kids. Vegetarian. Organic. Healthy Living. Traveler. Newness. Practice. Meditation. Reiki Master. Yoga 4 Survivors! Healing. Interconnection. Community. Grace. Prana. Vinyasa.
DFW Ambassador for Origin Magazine. Co-chair Kickoff Festival DFW Free Day Of Yoga.
Yoga event organizer Earth Day Dallas 2011, Wanderlust Festival ‘Yoga in the City Dallas’.
She supports Texas Yoga Conference, Cancer-to-Wellness with Breathe The Cure non-profit; Texas Community Yoga, YogaMonth.org and Yoga Roundup Conference.
‘Expanding Our Horizons… Inspiring Positive Change’
Mind / Body / Spirit. Oneness. Peace. Love. Light
Owner – Dynamic Yoga and Fitness Studio by Yoga 4 Love.net
Christopher Phillips-Frishman – Bhagat Singh
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I seek to combine the dynamic flow of Ashtanga, the subtle energetics of Kundalini and the sweaty good times of Vinyasa into a transformative experience – moving mediations, physical prayer, transcendence and surrender, passion and compassion. It will be loud, it will be challenging: nectar will be wrung from your body as you pursue fervent supplication. You will be emptied and confronted but in a supportive manner…all are welcome, if you can check your ego at the door and focus on Asana, Pranayama, Drishti, Bandhas and Vinyasa!
Part William Blake, part Billy Sunday – some say Atticus Finch or even Poetry Slam – I know I roll-holy and I will shake the tent during the revival, because this practice is worth getting that involved and engaged in! Welcome to my Spaceship – you’re beautiful forever…
Adri Kyser. Dallas + National liasion.
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Adri Kyser , E-RYT 500 is a leading Vinyasa /Prana Flow® Yoga and Pilates Teacher with over 6 years of experience and 1600 hrs of combined training. Adri has studied with many Yoga and Pilates teachers in hopes of sharing, teaching, and transmitting the knowledge and benefits these two great disciplines have to offer with others. Her main style of yoga is based and inspired by the teachings of Shiva Rea, who she credits for re-awakening the natural flow and spontaneous movements in her body, practice and life. Adri’s classes are fun, dynamic and inspiring. During her classes, she invites you to surrender and let go of inhibitions allowing you to find your natural and innate flow, transforming your practice from a state of doing into a state of being.
Blessed with the opportunity of traveling worldwide to study yoga in places like India and Africa, Adri has immersed herself in the diverse teachings of many great yoga masters. Adri is one of the few teachers in the Dallas area offering Prana Flow® classes and is the first one to lead Prana Flow® Teacher Training Modules in Texas. Currently Adri serves as mentor and assistant to Shiva Rea’s Global School of Yoga and continues to study and travel to cultivate knowledge and growth in all levels in her life. You can find Adri sharing her passion for yoga by leading master classes, workshops, teacher trainings and retreats in the Dallas area and abroad. www.innerbeautyyoga.com
Melissa Smith. Houston Director
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Melissa began teaching 20 years ago while attending Texas A&M. After a Marketing degree and an adventurous corporate career, she took time off to be Mom of 2 cool boys who keep her busy running carpools to sports, choir & more. She’s lived and traveled all over the US and most recently lived abroad in Malaysia. Her 200-RYT (350 hours) is from Inspyrayoga in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2005 where Melissa specialized in pre/post natal for over 3 years. Moving back to the US, Melissa obtained her 500-RYT and blogs about her experiences as a student and teacher. She currently leads teacher trainings for Leeann Carey Yoga (200 and 500 hour), specializing Partner Practice. Melissa’s also a speaker and advocate for research for a non-profit Alzheimer’s Group and holds weekly donation classes to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s near Houston, TX. www.graceyogaandpilates.com
DeAnna Shires Nielsen.
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DeAnna Shires Nielsen, M.Ed. E-RYT 500, Owner and Director of the In-Depth Studies program at Blue Anjou Yoga Studio in Lewisville, draws from her previous career as a Special Education teacher in creating her multi-stage approach to breaking down asana with awareness thus making asana approachable, safe, and exciting for both the beginner and the advanced practitioner. In 2005, DeAnna created the “Breathe Into Recovery” program for those healing from addiction and is a strong believer of Yoga for Emotional Healing, which is evident in her teaching. In addition to asana, DeAnna incorporates the Energy Body, Pranayama, Meditation, and Chanting/Mantra into her classes for a holistic yoga experience. Her playful spirit encourages laughter, exploration, and the freedom to Bliss Out and simply Be.
DeAnna is a Certified Hatha Yoga teacher with specializations in Yoga for Beginners, Yoga for Women, Prenatal Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Therapeutics, Ayurveda, Yoga for Recovery and Emotional Healing, Reiki and Prana Karma. Since beginning her personal yoga journey in 1993, DeAnna’s most influential teachers are Karen Prior, E-RYT 500 of N2Yoga & Dr. David Frawley, Director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies. www.blueanjou.com
