Cindy Phillips |
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Cindy is the Owner and Director of Island Yoga Space.
She discovered yoga in 1998 while searching for clarity after the loss of her father the previous year and thus views yoga as a healing art. This lead her to seek out and study with many teachers including Shiva Rea, Betsey Downing and her favorite, Seane Corn. She is grateful to ALL of the teachers who have graced and inspired her own teaching. She started instructing yoga in 2002.
Cindy guides students in Vinyasa Flow and Restorative classes with particular attention to alignment. While creatively interweaving underlying themes, poetry, and world music she encourages students to connect with their own personal core of “knowing” during practice and take this truth out into daily living.
By providing the island community with a comfortable and nurturing environment, she trusts that each student will find their inner strengths and overall well-being.
She holds a Bachelors degree in Humanities/ Performing Arts from Southern Oregon University, 200hr. Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Certification from White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara and a 200hr. Anusara Style Yoga Teacher Certification from Garden of the Heart Yoga Center in Sarasota. Cindy is a 200hr Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. |
Lynn Varsell |
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As a practitioner for over 12 years, Lynn credits yoga as integral to maintaining flexibility, core strength, and postural alignment. Her classes are designed for all levels of practitioner. The open flow classes are a challenging mix of strong anatomical alignment and powerful vinyasa. The Beginner/Level 1 classes focus on yoga fundamentals -- mastering the foundational asanas and pranayama techniques. Her teaching draws from the Ashtanga, Iyengar, Viniyoga and Jivamukti styles of Hatha yoga. She holds a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Certification from The Yoga Institute in Houston, in addition to a bachelor’s degree from Boston College, and a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. |
Jenny Parish |
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Jenny discovered yoga in 2005 as a means to deal with stress. She soon developed a deep desire to give back and share that which so inspired and transformed her life. After a few years of personal practice, Jenny’s dream to teach Yoga materialized in 2008. She completed a 500-hr intensive Teacher Training program with Sunstone Yoga in Dallas, TX and has been teaching Yoga full time ever since. Initially, Jenny began teaching hot Yoga, and her involvement in the Yoga community led her to seek out, study, and teach Vinyasa, Power, and Restorative styles of yoga as well. Jenny has attended several continuing-education workshops, conferences and teacher-training emersions with some of her most inspiring teachers including, Baron Baptiste, Johnny Kest, and Sharon Gannon.
Her Yoga classes integrate a mindful approach to asana with optimal alignment, breath and inner awareness.
Jenny moved to Anna Maria Island at the end of 2009 from Dallas, TX. When she is not on the mat, Jenny enjoys all things nature and outdoors…hiking, swimming, camping and enjoying the earth’s beauty. |
Randy Pauley |
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Randy began her yoga studies in 1999 with Ashtanga Yoga. She was introduced to Anusara Yoga in 2002 and has continued her studies extensively in this popular style. She holds a 200+ hour Anusara® StyleYoga Teacher Certification from Garden of the Heart Yoga Center in Sarasota and is an affiliated Anusara® Teacher. Randy continually studies with the founder of Anusara, John Friend, and other premier teachers as Betsey Downing, Desiree Rumbaugh, Sianna Sherman, Darren Rhodes and Bruce Bowditch. When Randy is not teaching or practicing yoga she enjoys time outdoors, on the beach emersed in nature. |
Kathleen Gallen |
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Kathleen Gallen graduated college with a BA in Political Science before heading off to serve in The Peace Corp in Eastern Europe. It was after returning home from her service that Kathleen realized a shift in her consciousness and found her life’s passion in yoga, meditation and massage therapy.
Kathleen is grateful to her teachers and has studied with Betsey Downing Anusara Yoga, Shala Worsley at Ashville School of Massage and Yoga, Jean Couch’s Balance Center Studies in Big Sur at Esalen Institute. She has just returned home from her work studies and travels in SE Asia including; Esalen Massage with Ellen Watson in Bali, Asokananda’s Sunshine Network Thai Massage in Thailand and explorations of yoga in India.
Kathleen blends different yoga styles that include teaching meditation, breath
work, and both flow and restorative yoga. Kathleen believes that the sublime
and subtleties are perhaps the larger part of a meaningful life. Kathleen's website
is: www.gallenmassage.com |
Gail Condrick |
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Gail Condrick is a Nia Black Belt instructor, the highest teaching credential achieved by Nia teachers, who has been teaching Nia through out the country since 1998. She has studied with the co-creators of the Nia Technique, Debbie Rosas Stewart and Carlos Aya Rosas at international Nia headquarters in Portland Oregon receiving her black belt in 2003.
In her years of teaching Nia she has experienced profound personal transformation in mind, body, and spirit and embodied what Nia calls a practice of “Dancing through Life.” Nia has helped her navigate change and self-heal by sensing how it feels to be truly awake and alive in a body. At her first class she sensed deep emotional release, feeling for the first time that she was home and present in her body, a sensation she had not known was missing from her life.
Gail is dedicated to helping you claim joy and health through the natural healing movement of Nia. Gail’s Nia classes are active, community building, musical, dancing barefoot joy and can be adapted to fit your Body’s Way of moving no matter your age or fitness level.
For more information about Gail, www.niavisions.com or about the Nia Technique Inc. www.nianow.com. |
Alex Copley |
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Alexandra (Alex) Copley has been practicing yoga on and off from the tender age of 18, and it has gotten her through everything from the stress of living in developing countries to receiving a Master’s degree in Photography. She has been trained in Ashtanga and teaches creative and dynamic vinyasa flow, calm and fluid Hatha, meditative Yin yoga, and fiery core strength classes. Alex now resides between Mumbai, India and the USA spreading the joy of yoga worldwide. |
Joan Dickinson |
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Joan Dickinson, Ed.D., is a Chopra University Certified Yoga, Meditation and Perfect Health instructor with the distinction of Vedic Master. She is currently teaching graduate psychology courses for Argosy University, Sarasota and a life coach. She also loves to swim, kayak, fish, walk and explore nature. Her Wellness Column appears every other Tuesday in the Bradenton Herald. She can be reached at 941-778-8356 or PO Box 731, Anna Maria FL 34216. |
Tammy Kelz |
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Tammy moved to Bradenton in 1999. That same year she began training in martial arts. Three and a half years into the practice of "My Jhong Law Horn", during a sparring exercise, she was injured. After recovery, she decided to become a student of Tai Chi. Starting with the Wu style, Tammy was then introduced to the Chen style Taiji, where she has since found her home. The fluctuating tempo and athleticism of the Chen style, coupled with the internal awareness, suites her. She is a licensed massage therapist, fitness trainer, and newly certified Kripalu Yoga teacher. Tammy is a long time meditator with a zest for life. She is actively pursuing aspects of spirit, mind, and body. She views each day as an adventure and is excited to share the journey. Tammy can be reached at 941-753-7766. |
Frannie Hoffman |
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Frannie Hoffman is a spiritual intuitive,
educator and a transformational leader. She has touched the lives
of 1,000's across US and Canada for the last 20 years,through
her meditation circles, spiritual counseling practice, writings
and compelling seminars and workshops. She devotes herself to
the life of inner transformation, inspiring and helping others
reconnect and tap into their infinite energy that heals and liberates.
Frannie is the author of "From Modeling Clothes
To Modeling Self - A Journey of Remembering the Simple Truths
of Love."
For more information visit www.FrannieHoffman.com. |
