How do your practices influence your passions? Alison wants us all to be explorers in this life-long journey. Her own adventure with yoga began with an Iyengar practice in New York City in 2004. Since joining the Denver yoga teaching community in 2011, Alison has spent countless hours exploring different styles of this life-changing practice in her own body to allow for the most authentic expression of teaching in order to inform her students’ practices. With a background in competitive kickboxing and a love of bouldering, she understands the courage we ask of ourselves when venturing to explore a new physical challenge. And with levity, she invites each of us to test the boundaries of what we believe possible. Come practice and unveil the next layer of your own self!

Amy began practicing yoga in 2011 and has been teaching since 2015 when she completed her training in India and Nepal. Her classes are challenging yet lighthearted, and they focus on subtle alignment and creative transitions. She enjoys expanding students' awareness of the world of yoga beyond asana, including mantra, meditation, and breath control. As tools that enrich the present moment both on and off the mat, Amy encourages her students to connect with these and all aspects of practicing yoga.

Being in the body, the mind and in emotional presence without relenting to the desire to escape challenging feelings brings growth. In committing to this process, Annette has found relief from physical and emotional pain and has gained more connection to self, others and her beloved activities. She began sharing her love of movement in 1996 with a degree in kinesiology. And her years as an avid outdoor enthusiast furthered this desire to help others find joy in movement. For 20 years she has worked as a corporate health manager, a trainer and an exercise physiologist for ortho and cancer patients. She has focused on improving quality of movement and tending to all aspects of the human experience. Her yoga study began in 2009 with Anusara. What has grown from this study of east/west is the marrying of biomechanics, yoga and somatics to create a unique tension release and empowerment program called MoYo Movement.

Elan often prefers balancing on her hands to standing on her feet. She discovered yoga in 2010, completed her 200-hour certification in 2012, and has over 2,500 hours of teaching experience. She loves the simplicity of the yoga practice and that it allows us to cultivate tools that we are able to take off the mat. How we do anything is how we do everything, and the yoga practice offers insight into how we show up in both the challenging and easy moments. She is passionate about the Vinyasa and Yin styles of yoga and enjoys the balance between the two. She loves to share a playful, dynamic, and creative flow through Vinyasa Yoga and appreciates the opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and create space through Yin Yoga.

Lucie Geraci is our Yoga Program Manager and has been active in the yoga community for years as a student, teacher, and trainer. Explore and expand the boundaries of your body, breath, and consciousness with her creative and challenging classes. Lucie hopes to apply her yoga practice into any flavor of fitness--off the mat and into the world! She has received her 200-hour certification through Charm City Yoga under Kim Manfredi and Emily Lodge in 2015 and her 300-hour certification in 2016 through Yogaworks under Kim Manfredi and Sarah Cook.

Any general yoga questions? Contact Lucie at lucie.geraci@earthtreksclimbing.com

Michelle has been practicing yoga for 18 years and teaching for 8. She completed her 500-hour certification with Yoga 4 Life (Para Yoga) and nationally graduated in Yoga Therapy. Michelle uses the principles of alignment to restore balance, increase strength and manage personal awareness. She adapts smooth, yet powerful yoga techniques, movement, breath work, meditation and relaxation to mindful grounding and postural ease with a deep connection of the heart wisdom. She works actively in medical clinics as a Yoga Therapist.

Michelle moved to Colorado in 2014, leaving behind her a busy corporate career to dedicate herself to the teaching of yoga and yoga therapy. She is an outdoor person and has found her groove in mountain living.

Missy became a dedicated practitioner of yoga in 2007, and in 2011, she completed her with Vital Yoga. She teaches what she likes to practice: rigorous and playful Vinyasa style with introductions to advanced postures, and she encourages her students to focus on proper alignment. She provides a fun, welcoming environment for students of all levels to practice, and she encourages students to push themselves to their own limits. Missy has done deep spiritual work opening her heart, and she guides students to do the same.

Missy was raised in Colorado and enjoys being an active skier, hiker, and yogini. In addition, she owns Free to Fly, a business focused on helping you break through any blockages keeping you from your full potential. In addition to yoga, Free to Fly offers individual and group psychotherapy using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a mindfulness-based model helping clients with interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation and distress tolerance.

Morgan Rodríguez is a creative. Raised in a family where the hand was an essential tool, her earliest expressions came in the form of musicianship, tactile arts, and visual storytelling. Drawing from her ancestry, Morgan weaves her sequences from the wisdom of the Aztecas and the Cherokee. She routinely uses her instincts to support the needs of her students, rarely repeating the same class twice. A born traveler and linguist, Morgan supplements the flavor of her teachings with experiences gathered from far corners of the earth. With hundreds of hours of teaching experience in Vinyasa, Yin, Prenatal, and Bilingual yoga, her empowering sequences will deliver you to numerous energetic peaks. Whether in a public class or private instruction, her supportive assists and fondness of storytelling will leave you feeling fresh, light, and connected. Morgan Rodríguez is an E-RYT instructor with a 500 RYT.

Rose believes that where you place your attention, you place your energy. She invites students to become both more attentive and more filled with energy by listening to the body by focusing on the breath.

Tiffany is a lifelong student and a yoga teacher since 2004. Teacher trainings at YogaWorks (Iyengar & Astanga), Esalen Institute (Trauma-Informed yoga & philosophy), and Om Time (Vinyasa & Anusara) provide a solid foundation for her balanced teaching style. Ongoing study of anatomy, trauma-informed yoga, various bodywork modalities, meditation, and Tantrika philosophy inspire her to refine. She is especially delighted to teach to fellow climbers and to learn from the creative movement, focus, and breath connection required when moving on rock. In an alignment-based Vinyasa class, we practice mindful precision in body awareness, and rhythmic, creative movement guided by the breath's pulsation. Beyond yoga, she loves climbing, snowboarding, hiking, gardening, cooking, and exploring the wild world with her husband and pup.

Cassie initially found yoga as a fun form of exercise, but quickly realized it had the power to help her reconnect to her body and breath through awareness. She continues to use meditation and yoga to continue on this journey and has completed various vinyasa, hands on assists, and trauma informed trainings. Cassie strives to create a safe environment where her students can feel empowered, while connecting to their body and moving with intention in a playful way. She teaches slower paced flows, focused on alignment, building strength, and increasing body awareness.

Cassie enjoys her time playing outdoors by skiing, hiking, climbing, and paddle boarding! She is studying to become an Outdoor Recreational Therapist, where she hopes to combine yoga and rock climbing in a capacity to work with at risk youth.