Cynthia Hoss  Cynthia is an established bodyworker and has been practicing for more than 20 years. She is certified as a 500-hour Advanced Kripalu Yoga Teacher, a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, a Kripalu DansKinetics Instructor, and a Massage Therapist. Cynthia has been practicing yoga for 15 years and teaching for 10 years. She is a (RYT) Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500-hour level with Yoga Alliance.

The intention of Cynthia's teaching and bodywork is to open the flow of energy to enhance health, vitality, and balance in one's life-ultimately finding inner peace.

 

Judy Huxmann  Judy is a graduate of the Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts and has been practicing massage since 2002 in Kalamazoo and Plainwell. Judy has furthered her studies in the modalities of Manual Lymphatic Drainge Therapy at the Upledger Institute and CranioSacral Therapy at the graduate level at KCHA and with the Upledger Institute.

"I feel that the body has an innate ability to heal itself when given the right support. Massage, MLD and C/S therapies provide the whole body and its systems the support necessary for healing. Besides it just plain feels good!"

 

Nancy Diment  Nancy is a retired Licensed Physical Therapist and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) at the 500-hour level with Yoga Alliance and a member of International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has practiced yoga for 25 years, and taught for the last 8 years. Nancy enjoys introducing yoga as a useful tool that aids and supports living with chronic conditions. She also acknowledges yoga’s benefits as a way to enhance the aging process.

 

Jean Ketchum  Jean has been teaching yoga since 1994. She received her certification from The Temple of Kriya Yoga in Chicago. Jean is currently studying in Ann Arbor at The Yoga Space, where she is doing her teacher training assessment studies in the Iyengar yoga tradition. Jean is committed to ongoing deepening of her own practice and education of this ever-expanding art for her personal development and as a support to her students.

 

Sharon Betzler  Sharon graduated from the Massage Therapy program at Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts in 2008 and has been practicing massage at Awake and Aware since June 2007. Her holistic approach of being aware of what your body is telling you, can help ease the stress of your everyday life. Sharon offers various bodywork modalities including adult and child relaxation massage, myofascial bodywork, craniosacral therapy and hot stone therapy. Sharon's intention is "supporting the body to move through life with more ease."

 

Kyle Thompson  After being introduced to yoga by his mother-in-law, Kyle Thompson has been practicing for the past eight years and teaching for the past four. He received his teaching certification from the Temple of Kriya Yoga in Chicago and is registered with the Yoga Alliance. He teaches traditional hatha yoga and incorporates asana, pranayama, and centering/meditation into every class. In addition to the teachings he has received from the Temple, Kyle has been strongly inspired by teachers from several other yoga and Buddhist traditions.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor, Kyle is primarily interested in the psychological and therapeutic benefits that yoga practice provides. Kyle believes strongly in the mind-body connection and in using hatha yoga and meditation to promote health, wholeness, and personal empowerment. He encourages everyone to breathe, relax, feel, watch, allow and to experience each moment as it truly is. In addition to his group classes, Kyle is available for individualized yoga-based psychotherapy. Visit Kyle's website here

 

Gina Greene  Gina Greene has been practicing yoga for ten years and teaching for the past five. She enjoys sharing a flowing form of asana (posture) practice that has been greatly inspired by Melissa Spamer, Kali Ray's TriYoga flows, and by the experience of her own body and heart. Her classes emphasize wave-like spinal movements, fluid connection between poses, creative visuals, and subtle movements within each pose, all of which encourage the body/mind to be engaged and present.

Gina has completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification through Lotus in the Flame, Basics Certification through TriYoga, and a 520-hour Massage and Bodywork Certification through The Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts.

 

Veronique Jewell  Veronique Jewell - RN, MA, RYT has been studying Yoga for 17 years and in 2008 completed her 200 hours Teacher Training with Melissa Spamer through Lotus In The Flame. She is registered with the Yoga Alliance. She is deepening her studies in Yoga through various workshops and her own practice. She teaches Vinyasa and energy flow classes where she weaves Asanas, Pranayama and Meditation.

Veronique's vision is to guide her students into a joyful and peaceful Yoga journey where they can discover the infinite possibilities of the body and its profound wisdom.

 

Patricia Plasko  Patricia Plasko has been studying yoga since 1999, completing her 200 hour RYT Teacher Training in 2008 under the direction of Melissa Spamer, E-RYT 500, LMT and Founder and Director of Lotus in the Flame, School of Yoga and Healing Arts. Bringing over 25 years experience teaching dance and observing the body in motion, Patricia's vinyasa flow classes unite the technical detail of asana with meditative movement flow.

 

Shawn Compau  Shawn has an extensive background in Physical Therapy and is a former Massage Therapy Instructor. She combines these two passions in her bodywork, when working with clients who experience pain and or limitation of motion due to an injury or over-use. "These neuromuscular techniques produce fast results when treating anything that has limited your strength or range of motion", says Shawn about her techniques. Athletes and body builders can also benefit from these techniques to get that extra edge.

 

Pam Sheltrown  Pam is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA). Her training encompasses a broad spectrum of massage modalities, including; Therapeutic Massage, and Passive and Active Techniques for Myofacial Release. Pam will draw on her twenty years of experience, in consultation with her clients, to determine the appropriate method of massage for each person.