Yoga Teachers
Alya Howe
EYRT500, YCAP, CMA. Alya Howe was the founding GM for Kindness Yoga Studios Denver, a beloved teacher at Samadhi; locally she teaches at TNHA and Vimana House. She uses all of her tools to facilitate greater ease, belonging and freedom.
Ally Watters Morrison
Ally Watters Morrison is a seasoned Myo-Fascial Release Bodyworker, Yoga Health Coach and Wellness Educator. Her extensive training in a variety of healing arts modalities informs her unique approach with pain and healing, one that guides you into layers of body alignment, deep-tissue awareness and seasons of change.
Yoga has been an integral part of her life, bodywork and healing philosophy since 1997. Ally began practice with yoga posture and body-based meditation which led to multiple teacher trainings within Anusara Yoga, traditional Hatha Yoga, Science of Self Yoga and Medical Chi Gong with Zen Wellness. She has assisted senior teachers well over 260 hours, has taught over 4,000 hours, and administered 6,000 hours of bodywork in her 26 year career. She treats clients in the beautiful river valley areas around Aspen, CO and teaches at regional festivals in the West.
Amy Harris
Inspired by her love for humanity and learning, Amy completed a Masters in Spiritual Science in 2005. Amy has studied spirituality, coaching, business, the nervous system, Authentic Relating, yoga, pre and postnatal fitness, somatic practices, graphic design, leadership, and culture. In addition to teaching yoga, Amy is a shamanic practitioner and an Energy Coach. She has led over 25 Yoga Teacher Trainings including one for the staff of Yoga Journal Magazine. Her yoga classes tend to have a range from quick moving and fluid, to deep study of anatomical perception.
Brittany Geis
Brittany was born in Aspen and grew up on the front range in Boulder. She found the practice of yoga during her early years of college and felt at home when coming to her mat. Brittany is an E-RYT 200, RYT 500 and teaches various styles of yoga including vinyasa, hot, restore and Myofascial Release (MFR). Her trainings include Power, Hatha, Alignment, Yin Yoga and RAD Mobility. In her classes you’ll find authenticity, empowerment to work towards your best self, a safe space for community, and her love for music. Brittany is forever a student embodying the wisdom of yoga.
You can stay up to date with Brittany’s offerings such as wellness retreats, workshops, YTT and events at spirittomat.com or follow along on IG @brittgeisyoga for local offerings.
Carolyn Williams
Carolyn Williams has lived in Carbondale for over 20 years. She found the practice of yoga at that time and was instantly drawn in. Carolyn discovered that yoga helped with recovery from skiing, biking, and running. Soon she realized how much more balanced and grounded she felt after spending time on the mat. Carolyn is yoga alliance RYT-200 certified and has additional training in yin, restorative, and athletic recovery yoga. In her classes, you will find a safe space for introspection and growth. When Carolyn isn’t teaching yoga, she is coaching athletes at Ripple Effect Training Center, and making art. She also enjoys spending time with her husband, two children, and pup.
Chelsie Brehm
Chelsie was born in Colorado and primarily grew up in Steamboat Springs. She discovered the power of yoga nearly 20 years ago and found that it helped her reconnect to her body and spirit after trauma. As a massage therapist, Chelsie naturally dove into the Anusara pathway and focused much of her teaching on structural alignment in her early years as a teacher. She studied with leading instructors of the Anusara lineage, focusing primarily on yoga therapy until landing in Carbondale, where she completed her 200-hour training with True Nature Healing Arts. Chelsie teaches various yoga classes but has found her primary home in teaching Yin Yoga. She brings her mentality of slowing down to dive deeper into each class with warmth and unconditional positive regard. Chelsie is passionate about integrating the emotional body within yoga and trusts the body to communicate its needs for growth and healing alongside connecting to the spiritual. She is currently working on her Master of Social Work and is an Internal Family Systems practitioner. Chelsie loves bringing her full heart to every class she teaches and believes in facilitating everyone’s connection to their most divine connection to oneness and self-energy.
Chrissy Leonard
Chrissy is a blue belt Nia instructor who has been practicing the art of Nia since 2011. She was drawn to the power of this multi-layered dance fusion practice by its ability to heal and bring together the joy of movement and music. She is happiest when she is out on a trail somewhere with her two dogs, Karma and Kooster.
Coco Rojas
Marco is a messenger of yoga. Marco, called Coco, is a student of yoga and a teacher of yoga. His teachings follow the Krishnamacharya tradition. He trained to be a teacher under the guidance of Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty, creators of YogaWorks, in Los Angeles in 2003. For seventeen years, Coco led classes in New York City in studios such as YogaWorks, ISHTA, Pure Yoga, and Equinox. Currently, he teaches master classes on zoOM and IRL reaching students worldwide. Coco is bilingual and will be infusing Spanish into his classes for any Spanish speaking students present.
Colleen Bishop
Deeply attuned with the rhythms of body, psyche, spirit, and Earth — Colleen weaves these inner and outer territories of wholeness into a ceremonial, transformative, intentional, and integrative experience.
Trained in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Bhakti, modern dance, ecotherapy, and transpersonal, somatic, and eco-psychology, Colleen has been a practitioner + teacher of movement-based practices for 20+ years, with a focus on intentional healing arts practices.
She is an alumni graduate-student of Naropa University and holds a MA in Transpersonal Ecopsychology. She is currently a PhD. doctoral student studying Transpersonal Somatic Psychology and an international + local wilderness rites of passage and transformative + eco therapeutic journey curator and guide.
As a certified sound + song ceremonialist and somatic practitioner, Colleen also listens for each individual's song and integrates sound and vibration through pranic awareness in her classes as a therapeutic modality for healing traumatic experience, restoring resilience, and fostering somatic + affect attunement, secure relational bonds, and nervous system regulation.
Davis Cowles
Davis Cowles is a Life, Breath, and Movement Coach with a deep background in wilderness-based leadership education, yoga, and outdoor adventure. He's fascinated by the place where breath and movement merge, and passionate about supporting bold individuals in their process of becoming, one breath at a time. mnbcoach.com.
Eliza Demarest
Eliza, born and raised in Mount Shasta, California, is passionate about movement, music, nature, and community. With 14 years of practice and 6 years of teaching experience, she holds certifications in Prana Vinyasa, Yoga Nidra, Yin, and Restorative Yoga. Eliza completed her 200-hour training at the Colorado School of Yoga and has continued her education with renowned teachers like Rod Stryker and Devon Sweeney. Currently pursuing a 500-hour RYT certification with the Samudra Global School of Living Yoga, her classes blend structure and flow, focusing on energetic alignment and sustainable breath flow. Through simple cues, rhythmic movement, and unique somatic patterning, she aims to create a deeply embodied experience for all her students.
Emily White
Emily’s passion lies in helping you know your body better through playful alignment based flows that quiet your mind, challenge your body and awaken you to a deeper relationship with your innate wisdom. Her 5 Gems 200 YTT in 2013, taught by Nova Loverro served as Emily's doorway into attuning to and aligning with her own graceful way of being. A life long learner, Emily holds 200 YTT in Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga and is a NASM certified CPT as well as somatic movement guide. Her classes invite you to methodically explore movement one step at a time allowing you to emerge into your resilient strength and connect to the wholeness of your being.
Jen Campbell
Jen Campbell has been happily teaching movement for over 3 decades. Starting as a young dancer, moving onto teaching Pilates and then into teaching Yoga, she cannot remember a time where she wasn’t studying movement, bodies, hearts and souls. She has completed two 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, in 1998 and 2010. She currently studies with Tias Little. She also completed comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training in 1993 and has taught both students and future teachers over the many years.
She is ever so grateful to be living and wandering in the beautiful Colorado mountains, alongside her hubby and teenage son (with 2 older kids out in the world.) It’s an honor to work with students and consider it my life’s work. Helping others grow in their health and well-being, it is intimate work. The willingness to open to new pathways in the body, new ideas taking root in the mind, and always, all ways, growing the heart are gems of these practices. Her classes will include some time to settle and shake off the day, breathwork, alignment-based movement and progressions, humor, poetry and a spacious calm.
Jennifer Lane
Jennifer is a nurturer, teaching to body, heart, and mind. In her classes you’ll experience a deliberate cadence, one devoted to inviting spaciousness into your limitations and softness into your strength —aspects not found in a hurry. Through attention to physical detail, she guides you through the deepening of your inner connectivity, bringing a joy and lightness to the challenge. Come discover a gentler way to tone while being held in an atmosphere of steadfast acceptance.
Joanne Nevilas
Joanne began yoga to heal a back injury, and thru consistent practice healing her physical body while learning the importance of connection to mind,body and spirit. She is a 500+RYT, finding her joy in teaching Stretch, Yin and Restorative practices. She has studied with Judith Hansen Lassiter as well as Chakra goddess, Anodea Judith. Joanne often finds a blend of stretch, yin and restorative to create a slow moving, comfortably edgy class, releasing deep tissue and leaving you feel relaxed, rejuvenated, and grounded.
Kaitlyn Hilliard
Kaitlyn merges ancient wisdom with modern life through yoga. She inspires others to surrender and love unconditionally. She weaves the principles of ayurveda, tantra, and the feminine flow into her practice. Her classes are well balanced with wise sequencing around a central theme, and geared to meet students where they are at all levels. She loves teaching advanced postures and expanding the constructed limits of possibility. After completing her YTT200 at Devanadi School of Yoga in Minneapolis, she taught at LA Fitness locations and moved west to teach at Alta Ski Lodge in Utah. She completed her 600-hr Ayurveda Counselor training at The Shakti School, amidst many other Parayoga intensives, her Panchakarma bodywork training at Maharani Academy in Santa Barbara, and received her 500-hr yoga training in Rishikesh, India. Kaitlyn is a mother and sacred birth doula in Snowmass Village, CO. You can connect with her on IG @kaitybel and at www.vistirna-wellness.com.
Kate LaMair
Kate first discovered yoga when she wanted a good stretch and sweat after skiing, running, and hiking. Her love for yoga evolved when she moved to Asia, where she realized she had only scratched the surface of what it truly means to be a yogi. After obtaining her certification in India, Kate recently moved back to Colorado and now lives full time in Carbondale. Working in the climate space and being an avid outdoorsman, Kate sees yoga as key to staying connected to the nature outside, and within ourselves. Her teaching style is fluid and flowy, oftentimes incorporating body weight exercises, breath control, and meditation.
Katie Andraschko
Katie discovered yoga during a time of uncertainty and has since found yoga to be a guiding force in her life. Her love for yoga has continued to develop over time as she has traveled across the world training in ashtanga, air yoga, meditation, and yoga for youth. Katie has completed her 500HR certification and has been teaching yoga to D1 athletic teams, mental health treatment centers, and studios across the nation since 2017. Katie loves to blend ancient yogic wisdom with nervous system regulation in her classes. She balances intensity and intentionality with a sense of playfulness in her classes. Katie’s classes are for all skill levels and she would be honored to share her ever-evolving practice with you.
Kerrie Schur
Kerrie is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, Ayurveda Yoga Specialist, Holistic Health Coach and Perinatal Consultant. Her primary teachers include Shiva Rea (prana flow), Maria Garre (ayurveda), Marc David (mind body nutrition), Sunny Rose Healey and Rebeka Rose (ayurveda and perinatal health). Over the past 15 years she has supported women to align with their inner compass and fine tune how they nourish themselves in heart, body, mind and spirit.
Kerry Kleisner
E-RYT 500 teacher Kerry Kleisner has taught yoga continuously for almost 25 years, and for True Nature since 2008. She teaches flow, yoga basics, restorative yoga, and yoga nidra. Kerry discovered yoga through a back injury, healing it through therapeutic yoga that focused on developing a stable core and backbody. Kerry completed her 200 hour teacher training in Asheville, NC and 300 hour teacher training through Rod Stryker, from whom she learned the art of class sequencing. She has studied anatomy with Leslie Kaminoff and Tiffany Cruikshank, and from this developed a prevailing appreciation for the body and all its nuance, which inspired her to teach A&P modules for the yoga teacher training at True Nature for three years. Kerry has also trained in trauma-informed yoga through the Give Back Yoga Foundation, and believes that yoga asana is less about mastery of advanced postures and more about practicing in any way that allows the breath to be free, the patterns of thought to slow down, and the knots of muscular and energetic tension to dissolve. You can expect a class with Kerry to include: a welcoming atmosphere, humor, postures that can be adapted, breathwork, and juicy moments of deep stillness.
Lindsay Herlinger
Lindsay believes that the practice of yoga is an opportunity to tune inward, connect and observe the delicate intricacies of who we are and why we are the way we are. Her classes emphasize the importance of quieting the body and mind and turning our gaze inward and by doing so, learning how to restore and nourish ourselves. She is a RYT-500HR/ERYT-200HR certified yoga teacher and forever a student. She’s clocked over 1,000HRS of training with Tiffany Cruickshank of Yoga Medicine, Tias Little of Prajna Yoga and Rod Stryker of Para Yoga. She specializes in Yin, Myofascial Release, Restorative, and has additional training in Yoga Nidra, Meditation, Pranayama, Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga. Her classes reflect her therapeutic and anatomical training, as well as her philosophical yogic training. Lindsay has experienced chronic health challenges for the past decade and a half. Her deep dive into yoga has been transformative and instrumental, helping her to maintain a healthy body and mind and help keep her feet grounded on earth. She loves teaching the Art of Relaxation – assisting others to decrease stress and tension and deeply heal their bodies.
Mindy Arbuckle
Mindy Arbuckle, E-RYT 500 and former studio owner, has been practicing and teaching yoga since the late 90′s. Her deep love of yoga, Vedanta, and tantra enables her to bring spirit down to earth with compassion, connection and generosity in her life and with her students. She is a heart-felt teacher that adds shakti, universal love, and joy into all she does. She loves meeting people right where they are and guiding them forward on their journey of awakening to the light of the soul.
Nicole Lindstrom
Nicole Lindstrom is a yoga and meditation teacher who teaches all over the world. She is the co-author of “WANDERLUST: A Modern Yogi's Guide To Becoming Your Best Self" and founder of GLDMND, guiding individuals and groups to the gold that lies within.
From guiding hikes and meditations with Wanderlust to leading global retreats with Yogascapes and Lead with Love, Nicole has an incredible depth of expertise and knowledge in holding space and curating group experiences.
Nicole is also the Yoga Program Director at True Nature Healing Arts.
Ryn Calhoon
Following a traumatic life event, Ryn, a registered nurse, was first drawn to yoga because of the release she experienced during high energy practices. Soon, however, she began to realize deeper peace and satisfaction through the more subtle aspects of yoga, e.g., pranayama, meditation, mantras, yin and restorative work. Seeking to drive her personal practice deeper, Ryn obtained her 200-hr YTT certification and it was only then that she sensed a desire to try to help others discover possibilities within their own yoga practices. She now teaches Vinyasa, Yin, and Restorative, and remains herself a lifelong student and practitioner of yoga.
Tyler Johnson
When Tyler is leading the charge you can expect a mindful connection with breath and movement. His fun-loving and intuitive feel-good flows will fill up your cup, and leave you feeling connected to your mind, body, and spirit. Tyler did his 200 Hour YTT in Palomino, Colombia, and learned from many amazing teachers in the southern hemisphere. Tyler can lead you in a strong upbeat vinyasa flow or can hold space in a deep restorative yin class. He feels truly honored to teach and practice amongst you.
Vanda Ciceryova
Vanda Ciceryova is a yogini, yoga & meditation teacher, somatic educator, EFT practitioner, nutritionist, a recovering serial entrepreneur and mother of two. She lives in Carbondale, CO with her husband and kids.
Over a decade of experience in the health and wellness fields has led her to develop her own alchemy of Eastern and Western approaches. She integrates spiritual traditions of mindfulness, yoga therapy, Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, with cutting-edge research in neuroscience, nutrition, nervous system regulation, somatic movement therapy, neuroscience, and depth psychology. And always a generous side dish of warm heart and common sense.