Louise Lavergne

Louise is the owner and Director of JoyFull Yoga LLC. She is a certified Yoga teacher from both The International Sivananda Yoga Vendenta Center and the International Kundalini Yoga Association (IKTA) as well as the Naam yoga Association. She has been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation for over 20 years.

Louise empowers and inspires her students to awaken their own inner wisdom and strength. Her warm, humorous, down to earth approach makes each student feel at home. She strives to make her classes accessible to everyone by giving modifications to address individual needs. As a motivational speaker she has conducted countless workshops on Stress Management, Manifesting Happiness and Success, as well as Self-Healing techniques. In 2001, she created her innovative program Yoga On The Go™ to demystify Yoga.

Yoga On The Go teaches both techniques and strategies that can be incorporated into any lifestyle to increase productivity and well-being. Louise creates a similar scenario with her Coaching work. As a Communication Coach, she gives her clients the confidence and tangible tools to enhance their presentation and public speaking skills. As a Life Coach she empowers and inspires them to manifest success in personal and career goals. Her work, both intuitive and innovative, is tailored to the needs and aspirations of individuals or groups.

Louise holds a degree in Professional Theater Arts from Dawson College in Montreal and is also a Reiki Master, Harmonyum Healing practitioner, Hypnotherapist, and an Interfaith Minister.

www.louiselavergne.com

Mari Gayatri

Mari has been teaching Yoga/Meditation since 1978 & holds certificate in the lineage of Sivananda& Indri Devi. She studied the Vipassana meditation with Shinzen Young & Matta with Sylvia Boorstein.

She teaches yoga with an emphasis on mindfulness, equanimity, & compassion. Each student is encouraged to work at his or her own pace & receives lots of personal attention. She interprets posture as a window to the soul, with asana serving to frame our awareness & reveal our resistance.

The yoga student experiences all phenomena as impermanent & vibratory, & begins to allow the blockages to happiness-physical, mental, & spiritual-to spontaneously dissolve in the natural way of Mother Nature.

Her classes include a basic complement of asanas, pranayama, relaxation, meditation, & song. Mari is also a cartoonist, illustrator, author, & poet

www.marigayatri.com

Micaela Gahr

Micaela has been teaching courses in meditation, foundations of yoga and overall life enrichment throughout Oregon for seven years. Prior to teaching meditation Micaela owned an independent bookstore in Jacksonville, Oregon. One of the best selling books at her bookstore was Deepak Chopra's "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success". When the bookstore closed Micaela attended a seminar of Deepak's resulting in her deciding to become a meditation instructor. After attending numerous seminars and courses at the Chopra Center for Well Being Micaela received her Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor Certification in 1999. Discovering a love for yoga as well as meditation Micaela attended the Master Yoga School in La Jolla to attain their Foundations in Yoga Certification.

During the year 2005 Micaela deepened her experience and knowledge of the Vedas by traveling to Southern India and visiting many of the Ashrams and Sacred Temples.

She has hosted and facilitated retreats to enrich and expand our experience, workshops on healing with breath work, deeper understanding of the human energy systems, ayurvedic cooking classes and various techniques for more advanced meditation.

Micaela is happily married, enjoys the enrichment of grown children, grown step-children, grandchildren and having an extensive animal family as well.

Rita Jann Geeslin

Rita Jann Geeslin received a Bachelor's of Science degree with honors in Mathematics and Science from the University of Central Arkansas. She continued her studies in nutrition and holistic healing and has provided professional health care services throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.

Rita Jann lived among the Salish and Kootenai Peoples of western Montana for many years, learning the native spiritual and cultural traditions. A personal search for healing took her on a vision quest in the early 1980's that lead her to the creation of Holistic Health Services in Hamilton, Montana in 1983 and to her present path of service as a steward of the Earth.

Rita Jann founded The Wellness Center and Holistic Day Spa of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in 1990 and maintained a thriving practice with clients from

all over the world, until 2005, when she moved to the Applegate valley.

Rita Jann has hosted “Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Chi” retreats at La Tierra Sagrada (The Sacred Earth), Baja California Sur, Mexico, sharing her talents, experience and wisdom to facilitate a deeper attunement, connection and awareness to all that is, both within us and all around us.

Of her many gifts, she brings to you a beautiful Qi Gong form called “Cloudy Satchel” that she offers at the Joy-Full Yoga Center in Jacksonville on Wednesdays at 5:30. This form is easily learned and beginners can join in at any time to enjoy the benefits of bringing vitality and life-force (chi) to all parts of the body.

Lotus

Lotus started her journey into yoga in 1973 after a skiing injury.  She was so enraptured with the practice that yoga became an integral part of her life and remains so today.   Sheri has taught classes for many years with a synthesis of Hatha, Kundalini, Accu-yoga, Kum Nye, Luna Yoga, Pal Dan gum and Edgu as well as flow movements that channel through her.  She is certified in Kundalini and is a member of the International Kundalini Yoga Association (IKYA).  She holds certifications in Jin Shin Do, High Touch @ Jin Shin, and acupressure.  Lotus AKA Sheri white, is also a Licensed Massage and Healing Therapist as well as a Reiki Master.  She has taken numerous classes in a wide range of modalities, which have given her extensive understanding of the mind, body, and spirit connection.

Lotus’ style is to encourage the individual students in finding and trusting their own inner wisdom. She gently supports students by inspiring them towards a path of wholeness as they journey towards achieving their personal goals.  She believes that wellness evolves as we find balance in our lives.

Robereta Thornton

Roberta began her journey in Egyptian belly dance in Santa Fe after the birth of her second child.  She was inspired to expand her understanding of the history and breadth of belly dance, and has studied different techniques and styles.  While living in Northern Arizona, Roberta was able to benefit from instructors and workshops in Las Vegas.  She then began to share her love of the ancient dance through teaching.

Roberta loves all forms of belly dance, however, she is most fond of traditional Egyptian style.  Roberta dances with cane, sword, candles, and veil.  Recently, Roberta attended two workshops taught by the Bellydance Superstars.  In addition to technique, her classes include belly dance history, culture, dress, and custom.  Roberta has graduate and undergraduate degrees in History.

Mary Ann Carlson

Mary Ann Carlson's professional dancing career spanned fifteen years and ran the gamut from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet to Evita. After a shoulder injury and physical therapy, Mary Ann was referred to Pilates and it was love at first sight. Her apprenticeship included over six hundred hours of study at the Pilates Center in Boulder, CO. She is certified through the Pilates Method Alliance.

Mary Ann is a graduate of UCLA's Fitness Certificate Program, certified by the American College of Exercise and is CPR certified by the American Heart Association. She has been teaching Pilates for ten years.