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 Athens Five Points Yoga 1687 S. Lumpkin Street Athens, Georgia 30605 (706) 355-3114 |
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Debi Garrett, Co-founder/Director, Certified Vinyasa Flow Instructor Debi's passion for fitness along with a background in dance inspired her love for the athletic, energetic style of Vinyasa Flow yoga. She has practiced various types of yoga since 1997 and was certified in 2008 after completing a Rolf Gates 200 hour Vinyasa teacher training program. Debi's goal for her students is to provide empowering workouts with a light hearted approach to this sometimes vigorous style of yoga. Her students will learn to focus inward, allowing for personal and spiritual growth, along with the physical benefits of this yoga practice. Debi keeps her classes interesting and inspiring with different themes and sequences each week as well as the use of play lists which include music that enhance the “vinyasa flow” experience. While these classes can be challenging, even the more novice, or newbie yogi will find them accessible, although for the Power Classes, some yoga experience is recommended. . By offering modifications and choices in the different poses, students at all levels of experience will have an opportunity to join. She is now working towards her Yoga Therapy Certification and would like to work one-on-one with those who may have a current injury, chronic disease, or illness, and educate them on how a routine of yoga practice, along with other therapies, can assist with healing. |
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Shannon Frank-Ball, Co-founder/Director, Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor Shannon is an Anusara Inspired teacher as well as a 200 hr Registered Yoga Teacher. She also has the honor of studying the Tantric Philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism with Professor Paul Muller-Ortega, one of the foremost Tantric scholars in the world. She is committed to teaching fun and challenging classes while using the exquisite alignment principles of Anusara Yoga. Shannon's hope is to create an environment in her classroom that helps each student remember her innate goodness, courage and worthiness. It is her deepest desire and intention to align her energy sweetly and fully with the One, Supreme energy from which the currents of Grace flow. |
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Anne Ethier, LAPC A student and instructor of fitness since 1990, Anne believes that the body is one of our greatest teachers. She was trained to teach yoga in 2006, and helps her students hold compassionate space as they connect body, mind, and heart. Anne's style is influenced by Hatha and Vinyasa Flow Yoga. In addition to yoga, Anne has training as a dancer, massage therapist, and counselor. (www.pathwayscounselingathens.com). Anne is also a proud wife and mother. |
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Chet Thomas, Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Chet has been teaching yoga in the Athens area for several years. He began his yoga practice many years ago for the physical benefits and found it crept into other aspects of his life, leading to the desire to begin teaching and sharing knowledge of the Iyengar approach to yoga. Chet was certified as an Iyengar Yoga Teacher in 2009, the culmination of several years of yoga practice, study, teaching and a rigorous examination process. He likes the Iyengar attention to detail and alignment, which helps to prevent injury; the equal emphasis on strength, flexibility, stamina and balance; and the adaptability to all ages and abilities. He encourages students to expand their physical limits while deepening understanding and awareness of the mind-body connection. |
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Henry Pursner, Certified Vinyasa Flow Instructor Henry has been a physical therapist since1995 and since 2004 has been practicing at Athens Therapeutics and Wellness Center focusing on the treatment of chronic pain and other disharmonies of the body. Henry fell in love with yoga after the birth of his second daughter in 2005 and found that it awakened a vitality, strength and poise that could be then expressed to his family and community. Henry had the pleasure of completing the Rolf Gates vinyasa yoga training in 2008 and through that process is inspired to share the gift of coordinating alignment, attitude and action. He has furthered his studies in the Anusara style of hatha yoga by completing an Anusara Immersion with Kelley Gardner, Stacey Millner-Collins, and Sarah Faircloth and is walking the path to becoming a fully certified Anusara instructor. He shares a great and deep gratitude for all the teachers in his life, the students that grace his classes, and the joy and love we all cultivate through aligning with what is most important to us over and over again through a steady discipline of hatha yoga.
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Melanie Kitchens O'Meara, Hatha Yoga Instructor Melanie Kitchens, a recent doctoral graduate from the performance studies program at Louisiana State University, found an interest in yoga eight years ago when she began graduate school. Her training commenced at a Yoglates studio that specialized in Bikram yoga, but she soon found a hatha yoga practice that was more her speed. Her passion for yoga stems from an eagerness to re-harmonize the mind and body. She draws strength and hope from Augusto Boal who says, “in the bodies battle with the world the senses suffer. And we start to feel very little of what we touch, to listen to very little of what we hear, and to see very little of what we look at. We feel, listen, and see according to our specialty; the body adapts itself to the job it has to do. This adaptation is at once and the same time atrophy and hyperatrophy. In order for the body to be able to send out and receive all possible messages, it has to be re-harmonized.” |
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Michele Berenete, Certified Yoga Instructor Michele discovered yoga in 1998 and has been practicing yoga regularly since 2003. Her greatest wish is for her students to attain a sense of balance through their yoga practice, both on and off the mat. Michele received her 200 hour certification through Mitchel Bleier Yoga and Inner Bliss Yoga Studio in Cleveland Ohio. Her training is in vinyasa flow with a strong emphasis on alignment. |
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Michelle Arington, Certified Yamuna Body Rolling Instructor Michelle Arington, Holistic Health and Wellness Coach is a licensed Nia White Belt instructor, a certified Yamuna Body Rolling practitioner, and a student and teacher of Yoga, registered with Yoga Alliance. She brings to her work an extensive background in ballet and modern dance, over 10 years experience in massage therapy and Reiki, and a deep understanding of the pleasure and healing power of expressive movement. Michelle has a deep passion and desire to empower people to find their own personal way to vibrant health and restoration, greater mobility and flexibility, and healing from repetitive pattern strain, stress or injury. She has served in the organic natural food/body care industry for almost 20 years and has extensive knowledge of herbs, supplements, and nutrition for the purpose of responsible preventative self-care. She offers classes and private sessions in Nia, Yamuna Body Rolling, Yamuna Foot Fitness, Yoga, and Body Maintenance for both adults and children. Michelle is motivated by a passion to facilitate self-healing in others, encouraging and empowering her clients to participate more consciously in their own personal growth, fitness, balance and healing. For more information about Yamuna Body Rolling visit: www.TheBodyEclectic.net |
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Rachel Greb, Yoga Sprouts, Owner and Founder YogaSprouts' owner and founder, completed her undergraduate studies at Tulane University and was awarded a Master of Arts from Piedmont College specializing in educating children with emotional and behavioral disorders such as Autism. During her studies, she came upon the excellent therapeutic benefits of yoga and consequently, became certified in childrens yoga. Since then, she has and continues to study yoga under renowned yoga instructors in several training programs, including Karma Kids Yoga and studying Anusara Yoga. YogaSprouts' mission is to help all children and young adults achieve their highest potential and experience enduring health and happiness. |
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SJ Ursrey, Vinyasa Yoga Instructor SJ has been practicing Vinyasa Yoga for four strong years. She practiced lots of other kinds of yoga for many years before that, trying to find The One. Vinyasa had her at Hello. SJ received her 200 hour certification with Shiva Rea at Exhale studio in Venice, CA. SJ relishes Shiva's love of dance and fluid movement, which matches her own. And, as a musician, connecting movement with music is something SJ thrives on; her passion is integrating fluid movement into Vinyasa Power Yoga. For SJ, linking breath with movement is totally where it's at. Om, Shanti!
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Steve Ball, Yang/Yin Instructor
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