Denver : Cherry Creek
Ashley Phoenix
Ashley was introduced to yoga in the winter of 1999 and was enthralled with the combination of meditation, exercise, balance and breathing. Much to her surprise Yoga provided the aerobic exercise she craved while eliminating the daily damage to her joints that running inflicted. In the spring of 2001 Ashley decided to pursue a career in Yoga and attended the Bikram Yoga College of India in Los Angeles. Ashley's roots in Western medicine and her detailed understanding of human anatomy provided a unique foundation for her new journey. In June of 2001 she built her own studio in Cherry Creek with the vision of combining the benefits of eastern and western medicine. Soon after the opening of her studio Ashley introduced Baron Baptiste's Power Vinyasa Yoga to her students after attending an... Read the profile >>
Billy Potonick
Zenergy
Billy is a Denver native who divides his time being a yoga teacher and a realtor. After years of competing athletically, Billy remembers being attracted to the non-competitive yet physically challenging elements of yoga. The liberation of letting go of the ego (or trying to) and working from the ‘inside-out’ has been beneficial in his own yoga journey and he tries to share that with others. Billy believes that yoga is truly for everyone – no exceptions - (including his little boy who seems to think Crane Pose is pretty cool). Billy is so grateful for the opportunity to guide his students through fresh, fun, and challenging classes with an emphasis on the mind, body, spirit experience. With the infusion of humor (or pathetic attempts thereof) and the crack of a whip, Billy encourages... Read the profile >>
Desi Springer
Vital Yoga
Desi Springer is blessed to have found yoga, her heart’s passion, when she was 23. Her sister took her to a Bikram class and Desi hated it. Over the next year her sister was persistent and persuasive in her attempts and, most often, successful in getting Desi on her mat. This initiated a deep love relationship for Desi with yoga. Desi received her first certification with Bikram Choudhry in 2000. In the years since, she has continued her yogic education with local and national senior Anusara instructors. She is honored to call Micah Springer, Maria Patella, Patrick Harrington, Regina Zwilling, Madhuri Martin, and Anna Forrest her teachers. She is Anusara inspired, and is immensely grateful to John Friend for his 5 universal principles of alignment. Desi sees the potential in all of... Read the profile >>
Jamie Jaeger
Core Power Yoga
Jamie started practicing yoga 10 years ago after realizing how healing it was for her body as a professional dancer. She began dancing when she was six and became a professional modern/ballet dancer at the age of 17. She took her first Bikram class in New York City and fell instantly in love with the deep alignment it brought to her body. She has always been aware of how the mind, body, and spirit all need to be in balance for a life of clarity and success. Her career took her to LA, and Las Vegas until she finally decided to retire in Colorado. Jamie now lives and practices in Colorado. She has had the amazing opportunity to work for CorePower for the last five years and within that time has drempt of owning her own studio. This dream has finally been realized with the opening of the... Read the profile >>
Kylie Larson
Qi, Green Mountain Yoga
Kylie Larson, RYT began practicing yoga eight years ago in an effort to give back to her body for all the work it had done for her in previous athletic endeavors. Somewhere along the line she began to see the benefits of practicing yoga far surpassed the physical and helped to deal with the day to day stress that life throws at you. It soon became a passion of hers. Kylie completed the Green Mountain School of Yoga's 200+ hour training and she is now a registered yoga teacher. Her teaching style is upbeat and energetic, sprinkled with bits of yoga philosophy. She likes her students to have fun during class and get a workout, but also wants them to realize it's not just about the asana. In the fall of 2008 she began to teach spin/yoga, combining the tremendous cardiovascular training... Read the profile >>
Lisa Richards
Lisa's yoga teaching journey began in Washington, DC in 2001--and it's been a wild, exciting and joyous ride ever since. After almost 5 years of teaching vinyasa classes at DC's Tranquil Space Yoga Lisa and her husband Nick moved to Colorado to embark on a new Rocky Mountain lifestyle together. Lisa believes that yoga is the greatest metaphor for life--challenging us to be engaged yet relaxed on our journey. The more she teaches and studies the practice of yoga, the more she realizes how much there is to learn. Lisa's classes are challenging, invigorating and empowering. Her teaching encourages students to tap into their inner courage, have faith and to test their boundaries. In her teaching, Lisa is known for her free-spirited sense of humor, compassion and humility. Her classes include... Read the profile >>
Patrick Harrington
Patrick Harrington was attracted to the practice of yoga because of the unparalleled opportunity for individual and group transformation. "Seeing the look on a student’s face when they have just dropped into a deep Savasana is moving. I feel it is my highest service to our culture; the facilitation of letting go and opening up." Patrick started taking yoga classes in 1990 at CU, Boulder. A consummate weekend warrior, athlete he loved how yoga improved his sports and leisure performance. He was hooked right away. In 2001 he attended his 1st Yoga Teacher Training in Hollywood California with Bikram Choudry. This intense 9 week session proved to Patrick that he had only just scratched the surface of what Yoga offers people. "The physical body becomes a highly tuned vehicle for the mind and... Read the profile >>
Scott Anderson
Vital Yoga & Pura Vida
In 2003, Scott Anderson realized that he had a mission. He wanted to help people discover to truth of their own lives. Leaving the corporate world behind, he dove headfirst into the transformative art and science of yoga. Now an ordained minister and a passionate yogi, Scott seeks to inspire positive change in people's lives from the inside-out. "I want people to know how strong they are. The practice of yoga gives people that insight." Scott's greatest teaching influences include Bryan Kest, Duncan Wong, and Vital Yoga's own Micah Springer. It is the combination of these influences and more that make Scott's teaching style one of a kind. Scott encourages growth, awareness, and plenty of laughter. His classes have been called by many, "yoga for people who didn't think they would like... Read the profile >>
Shannon Sidwell
Qi, Pilates Evolution, Goddess Fitness Camp
Shannon has been working in health and fitness for over 11 years, including her tenure as a personal trainer at Qi Kinesis Athletic Club and co-owner of Goddess Fitness Camp, a boot camp experience for women in the Denver Metro area. An athlete since she childhood, she was inspired by her parents - her father was a college All-American football player and high school football coach; and her mother, a practicing Buddhist and yoga instructor. Shannon’s family taught her of the connection between the physical self and the mind and the spirit, while inspiring a great love for anything physical. Using these tools, she played sports and practiced yoga . . . throughout her childhood into adulthood. While working in the corporate world, she began a distance running career that ultimately... Read the profile >>