Katherine "Kitty" Moore      A graduate of Southern Connecticut Stste University and the Juilliard school, Kitty is the former director of the Connecticut Yoga Center.
She has been a full time yoga teacher for 11years.  She has several Iyengar-based certifications including two 200 hour certifications with Patty Townsend (The Center For Yoga, Amhearst) and Kim Valeri (YOGASpirit Studios),  and is currently working toward her certification in Para Yoga with her teacher, Rod Stryker. Among the many other wonderful teachers she has studied with are Alan Finger, Manorama, Judith Lasater and Lex Gilliam.

Kitty has been working with physicians and mental health professionals to help facilitate healing for many students over the last seven years.  She is experienced in dealing with a wide variety of health issues including hip, knee and shoulder replacement, gastro-intestinal disorders, nervous system disorders, heart related problems, asthma and allergies, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, cancer recovery and a wide range of stress related physical and mental challenges. Kitty teaches classes of all sizes and levels as well as private lessons.

Kitty's classes are Tantra based and a deep but playful mix of asana, banda, kriya, mantra, pranayama, and meditation.  She practices and teaches Yoga as a science of self-realization that leads to a joyous life and ultimate freedom.

Sherri Elman, MSW, LCSW, has been an active member of the Yoga community for over fifteen years completing her initial teacher training in 2000. She has studied in both San Francisco and Boulder, practicing extensively with many wonderful teachers including Sarah Powers and Richard Freeman.  In addition, she has worked with addiction and self-esteem issues as a social worker in a therapeutic setting.  This distinctive background led Sherri to assist one of her beloved teachers, Katharine Kaufman at her women's yoga and meditation retreats at the Shambhala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes.
    Sherri's experience as a social worker, and therapist, gives her a unique skill set for working with each practitioner's experience of Yoga. She creates classes that provide space for each student to get in touch with the love, the joy, and the breath that feeds the inner self and gives rise to the inner teacher. Utilizing a vinyasa flow style emerging from her years as an ashtanga vinyasa practioner, she emphasizes moving with breath and finding our energetic core to help increase strength and stability while at the same time creating an openness of spirit.

Sandra Fleming was first introduced to Hatha Yoga during her High School years, by her mother.  Her practice ebbed and flowed for many years until, following a serious illness in 2001, when she found her way back to the mat and healing.  Since that time she has immersed herself in studying the many aspects of Yoga, believing that the practice is as much off the mat as on the mat.  She has been influenced by several Yoga styles, including Ashtanga, Anusara, Hatha, Prana Vinyasa Flow, and Anjali Restorative. 

Sandra has been fortunate to study with such teachers as Jeanie Manchester, Cindy Lusk, Amy Ippoliti and Desiree Rumbaugh, senior students of Anusara Yoga’s John Friend.  Another beloved instructor is Shannon Paige Schneider whom she recently completed her Anjali Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with. She is recent student of Douglas Brooks, leading scholar of Hindu Tantraism.

A Certified Massage Therapist since 1999, Sandra brings her knowledge of the physical and energetic bodies into her practice, while bringing playfulness, humor, and introspection to her classes.

Katharine Kaufman, MFA, teaches yoga, meditation and movement arts at Studio Be, Naropa Institue, Shambhala Centers, and Longmont Free University.  She also works with students privately.

Katharine has studied in India with Pattahbi Jois and Dr. Shankaranyanna Jois.  A long time student of Richard Freeman's and a 13 year teacher at the Yoga Workshop, she has taught wide variety of people, ranging from heart disease patients to advanced Ashtanga practioners from all over the world.  She is also lay ordained in the Soto Zen lineage by Kobun Chino Roshi.  Steeped in movement arts for 30 years, Katherine continues to choreograph, perform, and write poetry.  Katharine is a warm and precise teacher with a creative style and gentle sense of humor.  For more information, see her website at www.katharinekaufman.com.

Katharine’s classes focus on moving from the inside-out, and enjoying safe alignment in meditative, foundational, flowing, and restorative postures. The relationship between stillness and movement is investigated. Ancient practices are refreshed by current moment knowledge. Honing awareness, we cultivate breath, strength, flexibility, ease and deep rest, and through these practices, come to a greater understanding of our own being. 

Breanna Rogers is a mother, a dancer, a teacher, a choreographer and a performer. She holds a BA in Dance and Performance from Sonoma State University and in 2006 she became a certified yoga instructor through the Denver Institute of Yoga.  After 10 years of teaching dance she found that people felt most comfortable using the architecture of yoga to learn to listen to their bodies. Her classes are influenced by the fluidity of modern dance and the structural foundation of Iyengar Yoga. She is an empathetic and encouraging teacher willing to take the time to help people of all abilities.

            Breanna currently practices full- time the yoga of parenting a 3 year old boy and she also performs with Tin House Experimental Dance Theatre. She hopes that her teaching and her art will inspire others to bring presence and creativity to all of life; from doing the dishes, to singing in the shower, to helping someone change a flat tire.

Emily Rothman received her Pilates training and certification from master teacher Romana Kryzanovska in New York City in 1991. Emily has taught Pilates in NYC and Crested Butte, CO for over 15 years. Emily trained at the School of American Ballet in NYC and danced with the Kansas City Ballet and modern dance companies in NYC. She holds a B.A. from New York University.

Emily moved to Lafayette from Crested Butte with her family in August of ’07. She has studied yoga for 13 years, enjoys taking and teaching modern dance class and is an avid skier, hiker and runner. Her Pilates teaching follows the classical method created by Joseph Pilates over 80 years ago. Emily incorporates gentle yoga stretches and specific core strengthening exercises into her classes as needed.

Asha Wolf holds a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and is a Certified Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institue of Movement Studies.  Since receiving her advanced yoga teacher's training certification at the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City in 1992, Asha has been leading yoga classes and workshops regularly, incorporating a variety of yoga styles and techniques.  Asha's teaching is groounded through her long time apprenticeship with Dr. ranjani Cobo, who blends Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga traditions with Zen practices and Native American spirituality.  asha currently holds a private practice in physical rehab using yoga as the primary modality of treatment.  Asha brings to her teaching over 20 years of exploration of the body through yoga, dance, movement, anatomy/physiology, and a variety of therapeutic body-mind modalities.  For more infomration, go to Asha's website at www.wolfphysicalrehab.com.

Asha is also currently teaching at Studio Be and Richard Freeman's Yoga Workshop in Boulder.