Sue Reynolds Co-Director of ClearSpring Yoga, began studying yoga in 1972. She holds a certification from Sivananda Center and the 1,000 hour certification from Southern Institute for Yoga Instructors in Nashville. Sue is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 500 hour level. Among her favorite teachers are Doug Keller, Rodney Yee, Erich Schiffman, and Ramanand Patel.
"I view my teaching as a service to others, as well as my path of personal growth. Yoga is a lifelong adventure."
Stephanie RiderStephanie has been practicing since 1998 and teaching since 2001. She holds a 1,000 hour certification from the Southern Institute of Yoga Instructors (SIYI).
She joined Sue Reynolds in serving the ClearSpring Yoga community as co-director of the studio in October 2003.
Stephanie is also a certified prenatal yoga teacher through Mary Barnes' Yoga for Two program.
Stephanie's intention is to serve her students by helping them see the possibility and potential of yoga to make the body feel better, and that yoga can also be a path to greater enjoyment and happiness in life.
Anthony CrutcherAnthony had studied yoga for a number of years before becoming a student at ClearSpring in 1999. He has been an instructor with ClearSpring since 2000. His creative approach to teaching is influenced by his exposure to Tias Little, Rodney Yee, Brian Kest, and Doug Keller. Anthony is currently continuing his training by participating in the Tias Little teacher training for which he travels to Santa Fe intermittently His adaptive, supportive style works well for all body types.
"I enjoy serving as a guide, taking students to a place within where they can experience their own individual beauty, strength, balance and peace."
Cecilia KeeferCecilia has studied yoga and developed her practice for over twenty years. Students will find her classes gentle, healing, and energizing. Individual attention is given in a small class setting.
Janka LivoncovaJanka is a 500 RYT registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She has been practicing meditation and yoga for 14 years, and teaching for 6. In 2005, she completed her 200 hour teacher training with Stephanie Keach in Asheville, NC, and in 2009 completed her 500 hour level with Mary Paffard in CA. Her style is also influenced by the teachings of Angela Farmer and Vanda Scaravelli, with an emphasis on grounding and undoing the central channel and belly. She is also currently studying meditation and Buddhism with Daeja Napier.
"My interest in the work of Vanda Scaravelli was sparked about 6 years ago when I read an article in Yoga International, 'When movement becomes meditation: The Legacy of Vanda Scaravelli.' Vanda wrote in her book Awakening the Spine, that "There is a way of doing yoga poses that we call 'asanas' without slightest effort." When I met her long time student Diane Long, she embodied that and more. I was stunned by her fluidity of movement and her quiet, relaxed strength. I want to thank my mentor Mary Paffard. It's through her teachings and support that my practice has been transforming into an effortless, meditative experience, and that is what I would like to offer and share in my classes."
"I would also like to thank Sue Reynolds, of ClearSpring Yoga, for seeing a teacher in me, and for all the support and encouragement she has given me."
Vist Janka's website http://breathingbodyyoga.com/.
JennyMac MerrillJennyMac (Jennifer Merrill) has been a student at ClearSpring since 2000 and a teacher apprentice since 2003. She began teaching at ClearSpring in 2004. JennyMac's love and devotion to yoga are evident in her teaching, which is rooted in Iyengar-style and Ashtanga training. Well-versed in fundamentals of alignment as well as the dynamics of vinyasa, she radiates the joy of yoga to her students. JennyMac is a graduate of Stephanie Keach's 230-hr Asheville Yoga Center teacher training program conducted at ClearSpring 2008/2009.
Margaret GreenMargaret has been a student of yoga since 1987. She holds three certifications from The White Lotus Foundation of Santa Barbara, CA., and the 1,000-hour certification from Southern Institute for Yoga Instructors in Nashville.� Her practice deepens through teacher trainings with Ramanand� Patel, Ganga White, Tracy Rich, Betty Larsen and John Charping. Margaret�s teaching blends technical alignment and the natural energetic flow of the mind, body and spirit.
Christine MashburnGrowing up in Atlanta, Christine began her studies in movement at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. She trained for Royal Academy of Dancing ballet exams under the coaching of Kelly Oakes-Dent. After completing exams through Advanced I, Christine went on to receive a minor in dance education from the University of Georgia. While in Athens, Christine taught dance and found the Healing Arts Center, where she began studying Iyengar and Ashtanga based yoga with Megan Burke. Upon graduation from the University, Christine traveled to Asheville to complete Stephanie Keach's 200 hour yoga teacher certification. While at the time Christine had little intention of teaching, she found herself one year later teaching yoga in Murphy, North Carolina. In 2007, with a contract to teach and dance professionally at Chattanooga Ballet, Christine was brought to Chattanooga and to ClearSpring Yoga, where she loves teaching different bodies and different levels. Christine's background in dance and yoga give her a great understanding of anatomy, alignment, and movement. She also takes people on amazing yoga adventure trips to Costa Rica. Ask her about it!
Susan BryantAfter years of practicing yoga, Susan Bryant, RYT, CYT, wanted to share the mind- and body-transforming practice with others. She completed her 200-hour teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, North Carolina. Her deep commitments to helping others heal lead her to Integrative Yoga Therapy School in Prescott, AZ, where she received her 500-hour and 1000-hour certifications.
Susan's yoga-based approach to wellness incorporates breath work, the opening of students' joints, stretching fascia, lengthening and softening tight muscles, and teaching proper structural alignment. These are achieved through therapeutic postures as well as traditional yoga postures.
Susan specializes in working the athletic injuries. She has also recently become a certified Yoga-For-Golf teacher through the Katherine Roberts "Yoga for Golf" program in Scottsdale, AZ.
Maggie WhiteMaggie is grateful to her first asana teachers, Sue Reynolds and Eric Wolf, and for her first experiences on the mat right here in Chattanooga in 2002. Maggie completed her first teacher training with Rossella Rossi at Namaste Healing Center in Asheville NC in 2004. The continuing unfolding brought Anusara yoga (http://www.anusara.com/) into her life and the guidance of Laura Christensen, Desiree Rumbaugh, Darren Rhodes and Christina Sell. Maggie’s opportunites to study with Anusara’s founder John Friend deeply inspire her practice and illuminate the Universal Principles of Alignment greatly. She has completed a 200 hr YA teacher certification, a 108 hr Anusara Immersion, 50 hours of Anusara Teacher Training, Anusara Therapeutics Trainings and logged hundreds of hours with some of the greatest Anusara teachers on the planet! Maggie believes in and supports one yoga kula, or community, and is grateful for all of the teachers across the ages that have blazed a trail for seekers to pursue. Classes pay special attention to alignment principles that optimize our ability to feel comfortable in our bodies and celebrate the beauty of our diversity. She welcomes others to come together to play and Flow with Grace~
Maggie also loves the many forms dark chocolate takes for our pleasure and usually has a bar in her bag for before, during or after class!
Howard Browninfo coming soon!
Anita GaddyComing soon
Catherine PalaCatherine is ClearSpring's "Yoga for Children" facilitator. As of this writing in 2009, Catherine has been practicing yoga for 14 years and has been a mom for six. Catherine has taught yoga at a Montessori middle school in Knoxville and is currently teaching high school students at Notre Dame High School. She is also currently enrolled in the Stephanie Keach 230-hr teacher training program and will receive her yoga teacher training certification upon completion of that program in June of 09. Catherine says “I love interacting with children because I am always looking for ways to connect with my inner child. In our yoga classes we will co-create a fun and very active environment with the children that allows them to begin to learn basic yoga poses along with some anatomy, biology, and nutrition. I want the children to have fun, and also learn some techniques for dealing with emotions like fear and anger. I love to sing, and chanting and yoga songs will also be part of each class.”
Daniel PrinceDaniel began his Yoga journey in North Carolina in 2005 at the behest of a friend, immediately realizing that it would be an intimate part of his life from that point forward. Within a year he was living in India studying all traditional aspects of Yoga and Meditation. Daniel has built upon his experiences there with a steady home practice, a 200-hour teacher certification program with Jacqueline Heisel at Frog Lotus Yoga in North Adams, MA, as well as Clear Spring Yoga instructors JennyMac and Kendall Beene-Crowder. For Daniel, Yoga is a holistic approach to living life and gaining the fullest experience of it. His approach to teaching is both traditional and spiritual - changing to meet the needs of each student and each moment.
Annie Sherrill-Harpeto come
Tammy Burnsto come
Bett WallaceAt the age of 25, a friend told Bett that yoga could change his life. He has been practicing ever since then, building on a daily practice with Clearspring’s Asha Wolf and Sara Mingus. He has attended seminars with Doug Swenson, David Swenson, and Stephanie Keach, and Bett practices Ashtanga daily at home. Within the last couple of years, Bett began attending Bikram classes, and in the spring of 2007, he attended a bootcamp with Baron Baptiste in Mexico . He is currently working on his 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification with Dolly Stavros, to be completed in the spring of 2008. Bett emphasizes inner body awareness in his classes and encourages students to find their own yoga teacher within themselves. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, reading, listening to live music and practicing presence through inner body awareness.
Howard BrownHoward has been a yoga student since 2001. He received his 200 hour teaching certificate from the teacher training program put on by OM Yoga Studio of Manhattan at Midtown Yoga in Memhis in 2002-2003. He has been teaching continously since January of 2003 and has attended workshops with Rodney Yee, Jennifer Brilliant, Shiva Rea, Doug Keller, John Friend, Chris Coniaris, Rod Stryker and various others. Howard favors a vigorous vinyasa-flow practice.
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