Katie’s yoga practice began 3 years ago with her first in-studio experience at Chagrin Yoga in 2011. She fell in love with the practice the very first time she stepped on the mat. Katie has taken her love for yoga all around the world as she has been privileged to practice in studios that include Indonesia and Australia. Katie completed her 200 hour Yoga teacher training with Darcy Providente in December 2011 and is a certified and a nationally registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

Her inspiration to teach Power Vinyasa and Vinyasa Flow has come from the teachers she met while in the teacher training program. She also teaches a Basics class so she can share her enthusiasm and passion with newer students. She believes that she is first and foremost a student and that the learning experience is never ending. Katie also believes that all 8 limbs of yoga are equally important, but that we can find deeper meanings of each through breath control and asana.

Her Power Vinyasa class is a faster paced, energetic class for the student that enjoys a more challenging practice. Her Vinyasa Flow class offers students a transition beyond her Basics class.

Katie’s goal is to one day be able to teach in other parts of the world and eventually take part in the Africa Yoga Project, a program which uses yoga to empower communities in East Africa and across the globe.

Erin's journey into yoga began with an intention to quiet self limiting beliefs and find her true self. She left her first class, feeling a transformation in awareness. She saw the breath to the trees, felt the expansive yet pervasive nature of the universe, and knew instantly that yoga was a path worth taking. She has continued a daily practice since then, as well as an enthusiastic study of its philosophies. Her desire to share this love led her to the yoga teacher training at Chagrin Yoga, where she obtained her 200 hour certification with the Yoga Alliance. She was also attuned to first degree in the Usui System of Reiki Healing through this program.

Erin believes that yoga is about easing the mind to connect with our innate energy. She dreams of a world where everyone finds their own edge: the place past fear where we recognize our true capabilities and expand our human potential. She gives you the space and opportunity to do this in every class she teaches. Her classes are fun yet challenging and through a compassionate approach, welcoming to all. Erin has a passion for handstands and inversions and hopes to share her knowledge of them with you in a safe and encouraging environment.

She is deeply grateful to the teachers and guides she has encountered in life, and is excited to continue to learn, with and from you! She is confident that yoga is a transcendent experience for everyone who chooses it, indeed connecting us to our true selves. She is also confident that one day she may be able to smile and breathe in a twisted chair pose, but only time will tell.

Yoga is a process, not a product. No matter what life throws at us, yoga offers compassion resiliency, presence, and strength, even when it’s just laying down and breathing deeply. For two years Carly served as an intern for the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, where she also completed 200- and 500-hour yoga teacher training programs. Before the internship, she taught yoga to veterans and survivors of domestic violence in New York City. Carly has continued to deepen her understanding of yoga as a healing modality with additional teaching certifications in restorative yoga and trauma-informed yoga. Carly is currently the curriculum director and lead teacher of the 200-hour teacher training program at One Love Yoga & Boutique in Kent, OH. She feels lucky to support others on their journeys as yogis and teachers. Yoga helped Carly to know herself better, and she loves to support others on their paths of empowerment and discovery.

After spending years in the fast paced, high stressed corporate world, Tim found yoga at the request of his daughter April and wife Pam. They felt with his diverse background in martial arts, weight training, running, and bicycling, yoga would be a natural fit. It only took one class for him to realize this would be a lifelong practice. Despite a very hectic work schedule including frequent travel, he took advantage of all opportunities to practice yoga. In fact, the travel gave him a much broader perspective of teaching styles and different types of yoga classes available. He practiced everything from basics classes that taught him the importance of breath and proper foundation to Hot Bikram Yoga; an intense and extremely regimented style with focus on proper body alignment, back bending, and core strength.

 

Kimberly Quinn, a busy mother of four and practicing attorney, knows what it's like to live in a hectic world. After finding yoga and honing her practice she realized the potential benefit of helping others through her own style and teaching.

She completed her Yoga Certification, a 200 hour Yoga teacher training course, culminating in January 2012. Always looking to grow, she has attended a number of yoga workshops including Foundations in Action in Miami, Florida with Baron Baptiste, Gravity and Grace with Peter Sterious and an immersion workshop with Sid McNairy and Pradeep.

Kimberly's philosophy centers on healing and strengthening the body, while reconciling the pressures and pace of everyday life with a meditative and spiritually uplifting practice.

Anne Laing started practicing yoga in 1999. She fell in love with the movement, breath and flow of a class. Through yoga, she found her way to pilates and began teaching at The Tom Smith Pilates Studio in 2003. Inspired by her yoga teaching clients, Anne earned her 200 hour Yoga Alliance certificate with T.R.Y. for Life. Specializing in alignment, form and flow, Anne uses her classical ballet background to bring yoga to beginners and seasoned practitioners throughout the Akron area.