I intend to play! Energetic vibrations of fun run deep in my veins.  I own Lotus House of Yoga, a vinyasa studio in Omaha, Nebraska. The classes I lead are fun, challenging and filled with love. My godfather is ashtanga and my sister is rock and roll.  Gracefully tip toe along the fierce edge of your practice, expect sweat, love, and OM.

www.lotushouseofyoga.com

Susi Amendola brings over 30 years of experience to her teaching. She is the National Director of Stress Management for the prestigious Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease using Yoga and Meditation in hospital sites around the country. She is a certified Yoga instructor through the Himalayan Institute and holds an ERYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.

From 1978-82, she lived as a resident of the Himalayan Institute where she trained in Hatha and Raja Yoga, Meditation, Yoga Philosophy, Ayurveda and advanced Yogic practices. She has studied with a number of esteemed teachers: Swami Rama of the Himalayas, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Swami Veda, Rolf Sovik, Nischala Devi, Pema Chodron and others. She Founded Omaha Yoga & Bodywork Center in 1983, where she is currently the Director. She has also developed a 200 teacher training (Yoga Alliance Registered) program as a way to support teachers and students in furthering their experiences in Yoga.

In 1993-2004, she taught heart yoga as Stress Management through Immanuel Hospital’s Heart Institute in Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery. Dean Ornish is based out of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI, Sausalito, California). She has developed yoga-based Stress Management programs for schools, businesses, and hospitals throughout the country and has traveled and lectured extensively in the US and India. She continues to teach, study, practice, lecture and travel. Her CD “EMBRACE THE HEART OF YOGA” can be found on iTunes and at DoYogaNow.com.

Theresa Murphy, ERYT-500, is a senior Prajna Yoga instructor and Tias

Little’s most senior teacher, having studied with him since 2001. Her style and approach to teaching is unique, blending classical alignment with myriad yoga asana disciplines and traditions. She currently studies Iyengar yoga with Patricia Walden and Peentz Dubble.

Theresa is completing a 750 hour program with the Insight Yoga Institute directed by Sarah Powers, studying spiritual psychology, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Yin Yoga, Taoist Yoga and Shadow Yoga. She has been teaching yoga for 14 years, practicing the disciplines for 23 years, and studying the wisdom teachings for 12. She was one of the original founders of OneTree Yoga in Omaha, NE where she led yoga teacher trainings for 7 years. Her classes are fun, challenging, accessible, and uplifting, taking you places you never thought you’d go!

 Read more about her and her offerings at
www.TheresaMurphy.net or www.PrajnaYoga.net

Carly Halleen Cummings - 6/17

Carly Halleen Cummings is the owner of the Omaha Yoga School and Hyp-Yoga. She is an Experienced, 200 Hour Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Instructor (E-RYT) and has taught over 4,000 hours. She is also a Certified Hyp-Yoga Master Trainer, a Certified Hypnotherapist with the National Guild of Hypnotists and a NLP Practioner with the NFNLP. 

Carly started teaching yoga in 2001 after being inspired by her mother (and yoga teacher) Becky Grabner who has practiced yoga for over 39 years and who also teaches for OYS and Hyp-Yoga. Carly and Becky, along with their business partner Kim Isherwood own the Hyp-Yoga company that licenses instructors in Hyp-Yoga, sells Hyp-Yoga DVDs internationally and runs the HY-Natural Weight Loss Centers – all started here in Omaha, NE. Carly’s passion is integrating yogic principals into the very mainstream culture of weight loss and prevention.

 www.hyp-yoga.com or www.omahayogaschool.com

Alison King & Lynn Sanchez - 6/24 

Alison King is a runner and dancer turned yogi. After a big knee injury, she turned to yoga for healing. It was in a hot yoga room that she first found healing and SO much more. She was hooked after her first class. Alison teaches at One Tree Yoga in Omaha, NE, where she received her 200-hour yoga teaching certification with Theresa Murphy, at One Tree Yoga Omaha, in 2009. Her teaching style is varied, and each week you can find her teaching hot yoga, vinaysa, hatha, eclectic, and yin because she believes “all styles have something valuable to offer!” She has had the honor of learning from so many amazing teachers, including Theresa Murphy, Tias Little, and Amy Matthews to name a few. Alison is currently working on completing the 500-hour teacher certification with Tias Little in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Alison’s classes come from a hybrid of influences, forming her own style: an energetic, challenging, and alignment-focused asana. Alison believes that combining her active lifestyle with a consistent yoga practice is the perfect recipe for keeping her healthy, relaxed, challenged, focused, flexible, and present….both on and off the yoga mat.

www.onetreeyoga.com

Lynn Sanchez – “I was introduced to yoga in 1993, and immediately fell madly in love. Like all loves, the path has not always been romantic, fun or easy. It has ALWAYS been worth the effort. Yoga is on my top ten list of things that make life awesome, along with dogs, music, ice cream, humor, friends, wine, little kids, dancing and beauty.”

A former journalist, a licensed massage therapist for 9 years and now an independent filmmaker, Lynn Sanchez began teaching weekly hot yoga and vinyasa classes at One Tree Yoga in 2001.

“I want all new students to know that yoga is ultimately not about fancy poses or touching your toes,” she says. “It really is for everybody. Yoga teaches us to use our body and our breath as tools to connect to the here and now. That puts us in the optimal state to experience the gift that is our life.”

Lynn’s yoga education has been shaped by many exceptional local teachers including Theresa Murphy, Libba Harmon, Tippi Denenberg and Annie Brugenhemke. Other key teachers include Buddhist activist/author Thich Nhat Hanh, and yoga teachers Tias Little, Cintra Brown, Baron Baptiste, Erich Schiffman, Dharma Mittra, Adi Amar and Bikram Choudhury.

Lora Haase - 7/1

I have a hunger for life & am blessed to do what I love.  Community is my passion, Yoga is my expression, Rumi is my escape, Family is my soul, Nature is my teacher. People are my heart and the world is my home. Madly in love with love, we meet on the mat as we are and find freedom in the movement.

 Mandy Ryle is the owner and founder of Sound Method Yoga in Omaha, NE and is a Certified Yoga instructor (E-RYT 200) trained at the prestigious White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA with Ganga White and Tracey Rich.  Mandy began practicing yoga in college and has been teaching since 2008. She has well over 2000 teaching hours under her belt and is consistently impressed by the unique character of each group that she has the privilege of teaching. She has seen dozens of times the subtle and dramatic changes that yoga can bring about in people both physically and emotionally and loves to help her students fall in love with yoga. Mandy believes that yoga truly is for everyone and strives to make it safe and beneficial, regardless of your shape, size, age or fitness level.  You can expect to have a class experience that will help you understand your body’s strengths and weaknesses better and leave you feeling calm and wanting more. Mandy’s classes are creative, playful and sequenced to maximize the success of each student. In Mandy’s classes all interests are subjugated to the pace and intention of the breath, cultivating a mindful flow from which self discovery and intuition may blossom. Self compassion is key in a yoga practice and Mandy’s classes prioritize this vital component.  Mandy is a classical musician who holds a Masters degree in Voice Performance. She teaches voice and performs actively in Omaha and uses her experience in dealing with the anatomy of the voice to better instruct bodies in motion. Her knowledge of the structures and physiology of the body is always evolving but consistently centered on the individual. Mandy is wife to Matthew, mom of two amazing kids, “stepmom” to an equaly amazing kid, and “doggie mom” to a couple of schnoodles. Check out Mandy’s blog on yoga, fitness, nutrition and yoga philosophy at theyogadiet@wordpress.com.

Libba Harmon is a licensed acupuncturist and certified yoga teacher. She took her first hippie yoga class in the 9th grade. 10 years later, Libba woke up to the magic of yoga, when Jivamukti Yoga Center in NYC was a 3rd floor walk-up, and serving tea in the kitchen after class. Back when, yoga was a way to stay open and centered during her training as a Muay Thai fighter. Little did she know that yoga would later replace Thai Boxing as her greatest friend and biggest challenge. Libba taught in NYC at Bhava and Kula Yoga Project until the day she moved to Omaha, where she has grown a busy acupuncture practice, and brought sweaty NYC Vinyasa to the midwest set. Libba recently took a 2-year sabbatical in Panama, where she launched a yoga retreat business. Through a long string of good fortune, Libba has had the honor of studying with some seriously inspiring teachers: Sharon Gannon and David Life, Pattabhi Jois, Tias LIttle,  Schuyler Grant…to name just a few. Libba’s signature style has grown into a challenging hybrid of playfully and creatively sequenced, breath-based Vinaysa, with Yin and restorative poses, breath and bandha work, peppered throughout.

bigmoonyoga.com

Lisa Kanne is co owner of YogaMed in Omaha. She has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 10 years. The practice of yoga has changed her life so she feels inspired to share the benefits with everyone. She teaches all styles of yoga with an emphasis on alignment of the physical body along with the traditional teachings of yoga. She is deeply honored to be a teacher and spread the love of yoga to all. 

yogamed.com