Cindy Lusk began practicing yoga in 1985, while pursuing graduate studies in social psychology. She studied Ashtanga Yoga extensively with Richard Freeman and Pattabhi Jois, and began teaching at Richard’s studio in 1994. Cindy met John Friend at that studio in 1992, completed her first teacher training with him in 1999, and became a certified Anusara teacher in 2002. Presently she serves on the Anusara Certification and Mentoring Committees.

Cindy is an avid student of yoga philosophy and has studied extensively with leading tantric scholars Douglas Brooks and Paul Muller-Ortega. She brings these teachings into her classes and workshops, and teaches yoga philosophy courses as well. In addition, Cindy mentors Anusara-Inspired teachers seeking certification.

Cindy’s teaching reflects her love of tantric yoga philosophy, grounded in her many years of study, in addition to being precise and light-hearted. Her students feel supported and report that her teaching has transformed their experience of yoga and of their lives. You may find out more about Cindy at her website Cindy's Web Site.

Michelle Anderson's yogic journey started in 1991 after many years as a dancer and horseback rider. Inspired by yoga's healing influence, she practiced Integral yoga for nine years and traveled to India to attend the Sivananada Teacher Training. She began studying Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga with Richard in 2002, and has completed three of his Teacher Intensives. Michelle has studied with many leading teachers in therapeutic, Iyengar, and mondern flow styles of yoga, including Shiva Rae, Manouso Manos, Gabriella Guibilaro, and Aadil Palkhivala. She has also studied extensively with Ammachi. Her training as a geologist allows her to see things in perspective and as a whole. She also has a strong interest in anatomy and health. All of this is reflected in her warm and knowledgeable teaching style which blends the exploration of dance, the precision of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, and the meditative flow of breath awareness. Her teaching is infused with enthusiasm and humor, steady peacefulness, and vibrancy. Michelle invites students' individuality, and guides them into an aligned experience through descriptive cues, the use of props and hands-on adjustments.
Michelle's Web Site

De West has been an ardent student of yoga since 1992. As a teacher, De is insightful, intuitive, and attentive. She generously shares her love of yoga and discovery in a non-judgmental and compassionate way. Precision, attention to breath, and deep understanding of anatomy contribute to De’s passion for helping her students connect with their innate intelligence.De creates an atmosphere of sacred play – challenging yet joyful. Students leave De’s classes rejuvenated, energized and infused with a sense of personal and physical empowerment.

De is a leader in the Boulder yoga community. She has taught over 4000 classes since 1998. Her teaching combines principles from Iyengar, Ashtanga, and therapeutic yoga. Her work in an Osteopathic doctor’s office allowed her to apply yoga therapy to many different conditions, seeing the wide range of yoga as a healing tool. De continues to study with Richard Freeman, Rodney Yee, and Gabriella Giubilaro.

Her innovative Prenatal Yoga Teacher Intensive brings practitioners from across the US. De’s specialty workshops include Women’s Body Wisdom, Seeing is Believing, Rejuvenate, and Happy Healthy Back.
De's Blog

Katharine Kaufman’s world contains playfulness, poetry and movement existing hand in hand with the ancient contemplative paths of Yoga and Zen Buddhism.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance and Choreography. She taught and studied for many years with Richard Freeman at the Yoga Workshop and also practiced in India with Pattahbi Jois and others. She works with Barbara Dilley in improvisational movement forms. Katharine is also lay ordained in the Soto Zen lineage by her root teacher, Kobun Chino, Roshi.

Katharine is a senior adjunct at Naropa University where she teaches Contemplative Dance Practice and Contemplative Learning Seminar. She teaches yoga at Studio Be in Boulder, the Shambhala Centers and in Longmont, Colorado, where she lives.
Katharine's Web Site

Asha Wolf holds a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and is a Certified Movement Analyst. She has in-depth knowledge of human anatomy which she applies in all her teaching. She first received certification as a yoga teacher in 1992 from the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City. Later she apprenticed with Dr. Ranjani Cobo, a student and personal friend of both B. K. S. Iyengar and Sri Pattabhi Jois. More recently, she completed Richard Freeman's Teacher Intensive. She teaches anatomy and physical rehab workshops as well as regularly scheduled Yin Yoga classes. She brings to the studio a unique balance between the physical and the sublime. Her teaching style is direct, clear and accessible with a nurturing hands-on approach. Asha has a private practice in which she provides in-home physical rehabilitation using yoga as the primary modality: www.wolfphysicalrehab.com. Outside the studio, Asha has been developing her connection with horses including leading workshops using the energy of the horse to encourage personal growth. 
 Asha's Web Site

Jayne Satter began practicing yoga in 1970 and teaching Iyengar yoga in 1990. Jayne is certified at the Junior Intermediate III level in the Iyengar method. A former marathon runner and triathlete, Jayne holds a Master's Degree in Education and has taught in elementary and middle schools as well as at the university level. When she contracted chronic fatigue in the late 1980s, she intensified her yoga practice, bringing renewed health and balance. She has made six trips to Pune, India to study with the Iyengar family.
 
Her teaching is deep, broad, precise, and addresses individual needs.  She enjoys interweaving philosophical and spiritual aspects of yoga into everyday life. With her enthusiasm and sense of humor, Jayne offers a supportive and fun environment, inviting students to deepen their yoga practice.

Caroline Ashley, also known as Karuna, started her life’s work in Paris as a model and was then contracted by Ford Models in New York. She continued her modeling career for over eight years in New York City. While in New York, she started her Hatha yoga training program and 22 years later she is now teaching and practicing her daily sadhana in order to further her own personal insight into the gifts of Kundalini Yoga and meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan, her master teacher. She has been chosen by the Kundalini Research Institute to be an intern under Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and will work her way up to becoming a teacher’s trainer. She’s hosting the first ever Kundalini Yoga Teacher’s Training in Boulder, Colorado.

Her lifetime achievements include being a mother to two amazing children, going to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England and also acting in various films, TV and theatre productions. She also continues a successful modeling career.
Karuna's Web Site

Mary-Laurence Bevington practices Hatha and vinyasa yoga. As a teacher, she intends to help practitioners find exquisite equilibrium, the same exquisite equilibrium that set the stage for life on Earth. In the studio, Mary invites self-discovery, togetherness with the seen and unseen, and spoonfuls of wishful thinking within precise postures. Mary did her first sun salutation in theatre school in 1985, and taught her first yoga class in 1992 by magical happenstance. Mary also teaches Body Knowledge Pilates, and she facilitates groups for Outward Bound. She was trained in massage by The Institute of Psycho Structural Balancing and earned an MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University.
Mary's Web Site

Barbara Holden has been avidly studying and enjoying yoga since 1973,  studying with several senior Iyengar teachers along with John Friend, Angela Farmer and Eric Schiffman.  She studied with Sofia Diaz for 15 years, which included an extensive apprenticeship.   She has her teacher training certification for both Rama Birch and Tias Little.  Barbara has a 35-year long meditation practice and brings that stillness into her classes.  Her classes are exploratory, deep and playful. She is presently teaching a restorative class at StudioBe in which she integrates the best of her therapeutic training and the wealth of wisdom from all her yoga trainings.

Yuki Tsuji-Hoening, E-RYT, LMT, RTT, is a yoga instructor and Thai massage therapist. Born and raised in Japan for 18 years, her life philosophy is to be simple, intuitive, and dynamic in her work, study and play. She has been a student of yoga since 2000. She pursued her teacher training with Iyengar Yoga senior teacher, Nancy Stechert, in Hotchikiss CO. She continues to study the discipline with experienced certified teachers. She is intrigued by the subtleties of yoga that aligns and connects body and mind.

Her classes are filled with some fun movements, partner work, and detailed and precise instruction on alignment. Her sequencing allows students to drop deeper with intelligence and gentleness. Her passion and curiosity for healing arts brings her to the focus of therapeutics and restorative yoga.

She is also a certified AcroYoga (Yoga, Acrobatics and Thai Massage combined) teacher who loves to build a playful community.She enjoys being active outdoors; rock/ice climbing, hiking, Nordic skiing, backcountry skiing and playing in the park with friends.  She’s also a co-founder and an artist of Kokoro Acro.  She directs and performs AcroYoga with her Acro partner, Paul Robinson, in and out of town.
Yuki's Web Site and Kokoro Acro Web Site

Nataraja Kallio is a professor at Naropa University, where he runs the Yoga Studies & Teacher Training program. Seven years of study in India during the 1990s provided the foundation for his learning, where he immersed himself in the Sri Vidya tradition and the lineages of Sri Aurobindo, Krishnamacharya (namely Iyengar and Ashtanga Yoga), Swami Sivananda and Swami Satyananda.  Upon returning to the States, Nataraja pursued advanced trainings with a wide variety of teachers earning degrees in Religious Studies and Psychology.  His classes integrate the breadth of Yoga from asana and pranayama to meditation and Yoga philosophy.  As director of the only accredited Yoga Studies degree program in the U.S., Nataraja’s focus is on translating Yoga to the west in a way that honors its roots while emphasizing its relevance to modern life.

Kim Hansen first experienced a sampler of somatic methods as a young dancer. She knew at the age of 17 that her work would be with the Feldenkrais Method once her goals in dance had been achieved. After careers in dance and massage therapy, she finally became a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner in 2009. All of her interests are touched by this wonderful method of Awareness Through Movement.

She teaches group lessons and sees clients privately for the hands-on portion of The Feldenkrais Method called Functional Integration.

Pamela Lippe CMT holds certification in Integrative Yoga Therapy and for over 20 years has been a dedicated yoga practitioner and teaching for 15 years. Her training stems from Hatha and Kripalu traditions. Pamela has studied with Joseph LePage,Eric Schiffman, Angela Farmer and Elysabeth Williamson. Her inspiration comes from observing life in all its forms and bringing play, self-discovery, curiosity and kind observation from our inner and outer world onto the mat. She integrates daily life and somatic imagery to connect each student uniquely to his/her own innate wisdom. A guided instuctor of Vinyasa Flow, Partner Yoga, Restorative and Yin yoga is many of her passions. Her students include all levels of physical ability, especially those who are recovering from illness or injuries. Pamela encourages awareness and staying present to “what is” and letting go of habitual patterns of the body and mind. As both a dancer and Massage Therapist, Pamela brings nourishing embodiment to her teachings.