Meet the Instructors
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Alyssa Gethings
Alyssa's ultimate passion is encouraging healthy living and empowering others to step into their truth by simply being themselves. Alyssa teaches yoga on the mat but loves teaching how to live your yoga off the mat. Her favorite styles of Yoga are Yin and Vinyasa. In her classes you can expect creative flows that move to upbeat music, breath work and toning. Alyssa discovered her love for yoga in California and obtained her YTT 200 certification in Hawaii where she lived with her family before moving back to Michigan to start the Midland Yoga Co-op. Alyssa is a certified Health Coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and has a Bachelors of Science in Health and Wellness. Alyssa is a USAF military spouse, mom of 3 wild ones and a health junky. She is a forever student and lives by the inquiry of yoga daily. For more information regarding Alyssa's classes please email her at Alyssa.gethings@gmail.com. Visit Alyssagethings.com to get more information on integrative health coaching. |
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Akiko
Akiko began her personal practice and study of yoga in 2003 after she moved from Japan. She has been teaching various styles of Yoga in the Tri City area since 2009. With more than 3000 hours of teaching experience and continuing to take additional training, she creates a friendly environment and provides individual attention with care to her classes. Her classes emphasize alignment, mindfulness, balance and a gentle approach for increasing body awareness, safe and sustainable practice for every body. She completed a 200 hour YTT, and is a certified yoga teacher for Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga and Yoga For All (body positive inclusive yoga for all). For more information regarding Akiko's classes please email her at Akikodyk@gmail.com. |
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Julie
Julie Pierce received a M.S. in Physical Therapy in 1993 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a Certified Group Exercise Instructor (Athletics and Fitness Association of America) with more than 20 years experience instructing a wide variety of class formats. For the past 15 years Julie's focus has been leading fitness classes for older adults (age 50+), including mat yoga, chair yoga, balance/fall prevention, SilverSneakers, Pilates, low-impact aerobics, step aerobics, cardio kickboxing, and strength intervals, although her passion rests in YOGA! Julie and her husband, Jeff, moved to Midland from South Carolina in July 2021. They have one adult daughter who works as an RN in Nashville, TN. Julie's mission statement: to glorify God and honor Jesus Christ by promoting peace and wholeness through exercise for mind, body, and spirit. All are welcome in Julie's classes. Her "word" for 2022 is "PATIENCE". Julie believes that the yoga mat is one of the most perfect places to develop patience with ourselves that then extends to others. Yoga is a PRACTICE in which we can grow toward being the best (NOT perfect) versions of ourselves. Come and see how PATIENCE becomes PEACE. REGISTER: julieannpierce69@gmail.com, PayPal @yogapeacewithjulie, or VENMO Business page Yoga Peace with Julie. (Walk-ins are also welcome!) |
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Sarah
Sarah is a certified yoga instructor who specializes in Forrest Yoga, Yoga Tune Up, and Roll Model Method myofascial release, as well as other mindful movement and meditative practices. Her goal as a teacher is to support and inspire others to feel more at home and empowered in their own bodies, and to hold space for her students to cultivate curiosity about their own inner experiences. She is a huge anatomy nerd, which means her classes are often infused with functional movement and embodied exploration of the body’s inner mechanics. In Sarah's classes, expect to be given choice and autonomy, build strength and mobility, use plenty of yoga toys, learn a little somethin’ about yourself, and maybe giggle together at her terrible corny jokes. On a personal level, Sarah is a Florida girl at heart, an animal lover, nature enthusiast, and creative spirit with a background and degrees in architecture. When not teaching and practicing yoga, she can often be found spending time outside exploring Michigan’s abundant natural beauty with her husband or working from home in her plant-filled mid-century modern house – probably with a cat snuggling in her lap. For more information regarding Sarah's classes please email her at Sarahlissanelson@gmail.com. |
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Kelli
My passion is truly for helping others expand their consciousness, access inner peace, and develop personal power, by becoming healthier mentally, physically, and spiritually. My yoga training is rooted in energetic balancing through practices called MAHA hatha and shapeshifting which brings yoga beyond the mat and into practicality through breathwork, meditation, mindful movement, nervous system soothing, and a focus on healing the spine. I am also trained as a Usui Reiki master, Level 2 intuitive cranial sacral therapist, and 200 hr YTT (currently finishing my 300hr YTT). My classes are accessible to all levels of yoga experience and anyone wanting to live life fully alive, feel good, and present mind, body, soul!
Email Kelli at Kellimason@Kellimason.com
My passion is truly for helping others expand their consciousness, access inner peace, and develop personal power, by becoming healthier mentally, physically, and spiritually. My yoga training is rooted in energetic balancing through practices called MAHA hatha and shapeshifting which brings yoga beyond the mat and into practicality through breathwork, meditation, mindful movement, nervous system soothing, and a focus on healing the spine. I am also trained as a Usui Reiki master, Level 2 intuitive cranial sacral therapist, and 200 hr YTT (currently finishing my 300hr YTT). My classes are accessible to all levels of yoga experience and anyone wanting to live life fully alive, feel good, and present mind, body, soul!
Email Kelli at Kellimason@Kellimason.com
