In love with the concept of balance, Alicia first saw yoga as a natural counterpart to high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts in 2011 and hasn’t looked back since.  Alicia completed teacher training in 2017, a 30 hour advanced sequencing training in 2018, and a 75-hour advanced level training called “The Art of Teaching Kula Style Yoga: or deconstructing creative alignment based flow with intelligence and precision” in 2019.

Her approach to yoga is focused on developing a symbiotic relationship between movement and breath. Allowing space for the body to work as a whole is near and dear to her heart. An exuberant and inquisitive individual, Alicia strives to bring both characteristics into her classes. In addition to yoga, Alicia also loves contortion, rock climbing, reading, HIIT, and tennis. She is thrilled to be teaching and hopes to see you soon.

Vinaysa & Yin

Since unrolling her first mat in 2014, Amy keeps returning to yoga as a practice of active, curious, and compassionate participation in the many ways life cycles through her body, mind, and spirit. Her hope is to hold a space for each student to feel at home in their wholeness, and will often integrate poetry and music into her classes to inspire and nurture. Amy became a yoga teacher out of a desire to care for caregivers, liberators, and bridge-builders, whether that’s part of your profession or in the everyday ways you support your community and loved ones. Yess Yoga has in many ways been a homecoming for Amy, integrating her background in public health, spiritual care, and the arts.

Off her mat, Amy feels most enlivened while playing cello, exploring Minnesota’s state parks, sharing meals with her beloveds, and having dance parties with her nieces. 

Slow Flow, Yin, & Restorative

Ash began her journey as a yoga teacher in order to deepen her understanding of the mind/body/spirit connection that yoga helps to clarify. Since 2018, she has been teaching in studio and community spaces where she hopes to share with her students the peace, mindfulness, and self-acceptance she has found through her own practice.

Ash believes that all people deserve to experience the benefits of yoga, and works to make her classes accessible and inclusive for every body, background, and ability level. She is especially interested in exploring how asana and meditation practices allow people to care for themselves so that they can better care for one another and our world.

Slow Flow, Yin, & Restorative

Looking for a gentle and intuitive way to move that wasn’t focused solely on fitness or the physical body, Cecely began practicing yoga in 2013. They have continued to practice because, for them, yoga facilitates connection with themselves and their community. Cecely strives to teach and practice in a way that is trauma-informed and true to yoga’s roots in social justice and equity. Cecely’s classes are designed to be options-based, offering people in all kinds of bodies full autonomy in choosing movements and shapes. Cecely is thrilled to be teaching and hopes to foster community through movement, breath, and intention, all while respecting the culture and philosophy of yoga.

Cecely completed training in trauma informed yoga and teaches classes in a trauma aware style.

Vinyasa & Yin

Josh loves yoga because it helps provide a sense of stability in a big and complicated world. He sees yoga as an opportunity to get reacquainted with one’s most authentic self, and a way to sharpen the tools needed to nurture mind, body, and spirit. His hope is that by practicing together in community, we can slowly carve out those small pockets where treating ourselves and others with gentleness, kindness, and love is easier than it would otherwise be.

One of his top priorities is meeting students where they are. He aims to cultivate a space where participants of any background, shape, or ability can leave any judgment at the door, and find happiness through exploratory physical movement and meditative stillness.

Outside of the studio, you’re likely to find him riding his bicycle around the city or floating around on one of the gorgeous South Minneapolis lakes. He also loves to play music and is likely reading too many books at one time.

Vinyasa & Yin

JP has guided humans aged 12-107 through movement, strength and conditioning, and activities of daily living. This has driven their passion to study alignment, posture, and efficient movement to experience more joy, ease, and strength in our bodies and lives.

JP was introduced to yoga in high school as a physical workout, but came to their mat in 2018 to support their mental, emotional, and spiritual health. They began an individual yoga practice with a teacher in a safe and supportive space and found the practice deeply transformational and healing. The stillness and calm they cultivate and sustain from their practice keep them showing up to learn more. Off the mat, JP finds joy in biking, swimming, skiing, and walks in nature.

Hatha

I attended my first yoga class at a low point in life. That class was the first time I moved my body with intention; it was the first time I listened to my breath. I felt a new kind of presence and joy. Attending more classes, I saw my body strengthen and become flexible. I felt more grounded and stable in my mind. I have seen the benefits of mindful living first hand and the powerful, positive changes that come from the practice of yoga.

Today, I have been practicing yoga for over 10 years. I attended my first teacher training in 2015 in Minneapolis, the following year traveling to Rishikesh, India for a 300 hour training in Hatha Yoga. Seeing how movement is medicine, I became a certified personal trainer, trained in Pilates, and completed a 300 hour training in SomaYoga. My teaching philosophy is to explore the practice of yoga for the whole being by integrating meditation, breath work, and, of course, completely nerding in explorations in anatomy. My mission as a teacher is to pass along tools so others create connection, groundedness, and flexibility, not only in their bodies, but in their daily lives.

Qigong

Lisa found qigong over 25 years ago when a class was offered at her gym. She loved the movement, playfulness and variety of qigong. After regularly taking classes for many years from John DuCane and others in both qigong and tai chi, Lisa added yoga to her fitness routine 20 years ago when she started doing triathlons. She no longer participates in triathlons but yoga, qigong and tai chi still play an important part in her wellness routine. Life is all about balance and these softer practices are so very important to aging well.

Off the mat, she enjoys cycling, cooking and spending time playing with her dog and partner.

Michele first encountered yoga while in college and struggling with anxiety. She quickly adopted it as a primary tool for shifting her perspective, re-orienting herself to center, and trusting in the rhythm of the Universe. She completed yoga teacher training in 2010 and has been teaching ever since. She is a scholar of yoga philosophy and the yoga sutras. She believes yoga has a unique way of allowing individuals to perceive their inner landscape and discipline the mind to be a consistent ally. For the past 10 years, she has also been studying the therapeutic use of sound and is convinced of its capacity to heal the nervous system at the deepest level. Her teaching style blends her knowledge of energy anatomy, human physiology, Jungian psychology, astrology, and a sprinkle of humor.

Slow Flow & Yin

Sarah began practicing yoga for the physical aspect but never felt very connected to it until she signed up for teacher training, on a whim. The lightbulb went off and she felt an emotional and spiritual connection like never before. She fell in love with yoga’s deep cultural roots, spiritual teachings and philosophy. She is passionate about community and awareness and how yoga brings these two aspects together so beautifully. Sarah believes that the connection we are seeking already lives within each of us and that we can find this when we turn inward and listen. She encourages her students to be curious, playful and to follow their intuition on and off the mat. She enjoys teaching both slow and quiet classes to allow for space to be created and faster paced classes that are dynamic and energy building. She believes that yoga is for everybody and every-body and that we often practice yoga without ever stepping foot on a mat.

Sarah completed training in trauma informed yoga and teaches classes in a trauma aware style.

Vinyasa & Yin

Timmy came to yoga as a dancer, falling in love with union of breath and movement as a healing and transformational practice. Their background in dance and embodied movement give the practice an emphasis in alignment, intuition and play, as well as a desire to create balance in daily routine. Expect a focus on breath, intelligent and accessible sequencing of postures, and the invitation to experiment and experience your body in new and supported ways!

Victoria has been practicing yoga for over fifteen years and teaching for over seven. With a background in Ashtanga and Vinyasa styles, her classes tend to be physically challenging but lighthearted, in an effort to help students to explore their practice in a different way.  Victoria aims to incorporate yoga philosophy into her classes, as well as to encourage her students to take their yoga off of their mats.

Outside of yoga, Victoria also teaches Geography at a local community college and is involved in advancing sustainability at the college and in the Twin Cities.