Amy Rushlow
Amy began her yoga journey back in 2011 when she took a job working for a company called lululemon. This experience propelled Amy into self-discovery and wellness. It literally changed the trajectory of her life. As a mother of 4 children, 2 with ASD and other physical and mental health disorders, Amy was searching for her purpose. Yoga helped lead her to where she is now, living life with purpose and following her North Star. Amy began her 200YTT back in 2017 but life derailed that journey but didn’t stop her passion. Fast-forward a few years, the arrival of baby number 4, a cross country move, COVID, a career change, Amy was finally able to finish what she started and her teaching career began. Amy is an avid learner and transitioned to her new career as a Certified Health and Life coach, Board Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor and Yoga instructor. Amy completed her training through YogaRenew with certifications in Hatha, Yin, Prenatal, and Children’s Yoga.
Amy found her specialty teaching young children, as well as adults with recovery of injury, injury prevention, alignment, and has never looked back. Her passion to connect with littles ones and enrich their lives brings so much joy to her and her students. Amy’s experience has made her an advocate for accessibility to yoga, meditation, and other wellness opportunities for all.
Amy began her yoga journey back in 2011 when she took a job working for a company called lululemon. This experience propelled Amy into self-discovery and wellness. It literally changed the trajectory of her life. As a mother of 4 children, 2 with ASD and other physical and mental health disorders, Amy was searching for her purpose. Yoga helped lead her to where she is now, living life with purpose and following her North Star. Amy began her 200YTT back in 2017 but life derailed that journey but didn’t stop her passion. Fast-forward a few years, the arrival of baby number 4, a cross country move, COVID, a career change, Amy was finally able to finish what she started and her teaching career began. Amy is an avid learner and transitioned to her new career as a Certified Health and Life coach, Board Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor and Yoga instructor. Amy completed her training through YogaRenew with certifications in Hatha, Yin, Prenatal, and Children’s Yoga.
Amy found her specialty teaching young children, as well as adults with recovery of injury, injury prevention, alignment, and has never looked back. Her passion to connect with littles ones and enrich their lives brings so much joy to her and her students. Amy’s experience has made her an advocate for accessibility to yoga, meditation, and other wellness opportunities for all.
Traci Weber
Traci’s journey to yoga began in 1974 when she luckily came across Richard Hittleman’s book Yoga 28 Day Exercise Plan. It changed, no, it saved her life. In 2013, wanting to deepen her understanding of yoga, she enrolled in a 200 Yoga Teacher Training at Soul Space in Southington, CT. While there, she trained with Rolf Gates and Nikki Myers. Traci is certified in Yoga for Trauma, Yin Yoga, and Meditation. Making the most of the covid lockdown Traci dove deep into a 300 RYT with Michele Young at My Vinyasa Practice. Being an avid outdoor enthusiast, Traci created WalkAboutYoga. WAY is an active, fun, and social way to have a cardio-based yoga experience while exploring the great outdoors of Milford, CT.
Traci’s classes are heartfelt and intuitive, gently challenging, and deeply nourishing. Through creating a safe space and an emphasis on synchronizing the breath with movement, She helps you flow with more ease and grace while deepening your physical and spiritual practice. She uses the teachings of Hatha Yoga, Y12SR training, Yoga4Trauma, and meditation to promote a healthy, conscious lifestyle.
Traci Weber is an innovative yoga teacher, writer, and passionate world traveler. An eternally grateful student, she has trained in countless traditions of the practice and teaches a fusion of the styles she has studied with a strong emphasis on breath, alignment, and anatomical integrity. Traci teaches workshops, retreats, and is widely known for her yoga hikes and her first book, Reclaim Your Wild.
Traci’s journey to yoga began in 1974 when she luckily came across Richard Hittleman’s book Yoga 28 Day Exercise Plan. It changed, no, it saved her life. In 2013, wanting to deepen her understanding of yoga, she enrolled in a 200 Yoga Teacher Training at Soul Space in Southington, CT. While there, she trained with Rolf Gates and Nikki Myers. Traci is certified in Yoga for Trauma, Yin Yoga, and Meditation. Making the most of the covid lockdown Traci dove deep into a 300 RYT with Michele Young at My Vinyasa Practice. Being an avid outdoor enthusiast, Traci created WalkAboutYoga. WAY is an active, fun, and social way to have a cardio-based yoga experience while exploring the great outdoors of Milford, CT.
Traci’s classes are heartfelt and intuitive, gently challenging, and deeply nourishing. Through creating a safe space and an emphasis on synchronizing the breath with movement, She helps you flow with more ease and grace while deepening your physical and spiritual practice. She uses the teachings of Hatha Yoga, Y12SR training, Yoga4Trauma, and meditation to promote a healthy, conscious lifestyle.
Traci Weber is an innovative yoga teacher, writer, and passionate world traveler. An eternally grateful student, she has trained in countless traditions of the practice and teaches a fusion of the styles she has studied with a strong emphasis on breath, alignment, and anatomical integrity. Traci teaches workshops, retreats, and is widely known for her yoga hikes and her first book, Reclaim Your Wild.
Anastasia Pryanikova
Anastasia is a RYT 200 Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Yoga Trapeze, and CirqFit Lyra certified teacher, breathwork coach, and herbalist. Anastasia is passionate about connecting people, movement and plants for health and well-being. Her practice and teachings are rooted in the values of personal exploration, accessibility, playfulness, and connection to Nature. A yoga practitioner for over 20 years and a lover of aerial arts that both excite and challenge the body and mind, Anastasia can help create a practice that is unique to you. As a former lawyer and currently a busy mom and entrepreneur, Anastasia quite literally takes yoga off the mat and into everyday life, teaching “car yoga” in a parking lot, chair yoga in a hotel room, breath-work on a hike, yoga and aerial yoga on a farm field, in a salt cave and in people’s backyards. She believes that you can always take your practice wherever life takes you.
Anastasia is a RYT 200 Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Yoga Trapeze, and CirqFit Lyra certified teacher, breathwork coach, and herbalist. Anastasia is passionate about connecting people, movement and plants for health and well-being. Her practice and teachings are rooted in the values of personal exploration, accessibility, playfulness, and connection to Nature. A yoga practitioner for over 20 years and a lover of aerial arts that both excite and challenge the body and mind, Anastasia can help create a practice that is unique to you. As a former lawyer and currently a busy mom and entrepreneur, Anastasia quite literally takes yoga off the mat and into everyday life, teaching “car yoga” in a parking lot, chair yoga in a hotel room, breath-work on a hike, yoga and aerial yoga on a farm field, in a salt cave and in people’s backyards. She believes that you can always take your practice wherever life takes you.
Nanci Kaczegowicz
Nanci is a nationally certified family nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse, and health and wellness coach. Her additional training as a meditation facilitator, clinical meditation and imagery practitioner, craniosacral therapist, holistic stress management instructor and reiki master allows her to give clients experiential techniques to tap into inner wisdom and resources to promote spiritual, mental, emotional and physical well-being.
Nanci is a graduate of Jiiva’s 100 Hour Meditation Teacher Training and Reiki Master programs in 2018. Having found the healing potential of practicing yoga, she was inspired to complete her 200 hour Yoga teacher training at Jiiva in 2020. After she graduated, she continued her yoga journey with Asheville Yoga Center by completing her 300 hour yoga teacher training in July of 2021. Nanci is a 500 RYT with Yoga Alliance. She is certified in yin yoga, yoga nidra, senior yoga, yoga for chronic pain, and back care yoga. She is excited to be a lifelong yoga student and teacher.
Nanci is a nationally certified family nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse, and health and wellness coach. Her additional training as a meditation facilitator, clinical meditation and imagery practitioner, craniosacral therapist, holistic stress management instructor and reiki master allows her to give clients experiential techniques to tap into inner wisdom and resources to promote spiritual, mental, emotional and physical well-being.
Nanci is a graduate of Jiiva’s 100 Hour Meditation Teacher Training and Reiki Master programs in 2018. Having found the healing potential of practicing yoga, she was inspired to complete her 200 hour Yoga teacher training at Jiiva in 2020. After she graduated, she continued her yoga journey with Asheville Yoga Center by completing her 300 hour yoga teacher training in July of 2021. Nanci is a 500 RYT with Yoga Alliance. She is certified in yin yoga, yoga nidra, senior yoga, yoga for chronic pain, and back care yoga. She is excited to be a lifelong yoga student and teacher.
Angelica Lee
A yoga mat for Angelica is a place of exploration, where she believes we both evolve and adapt, symbolic to her experience out in the real world. By occupation, she is a pediatric Registered Nurse of about six years, three of which were spent traveling within the U.S. She obtained her 200HR YTT in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Pranayama, Meditation and Kriyas in Patnem, Canacona, Goa India at Kranti Yoga back in November 2018. With the miracle of her son Otto in 2022, she found herself looking to her mat in search of the grounding and stability she knew she needed to carry her throughout pregnancy and this new chapter of life in Virginia Beach, VA. This rolled into the reignited spark of her desire to share this practice in a new way. So that brought her to take on the 300HR program at Studio Bamboo Institute of Yoga, with the hopes of truly giving others a sense of what yoga has given her thus far — exploration, grounding, stability, genuine human connection, and rediscovery of the self. Through Studio Bamboo’s 300HR program she obtained 15HR certifications in Mindful Yoga Therapy for Trauma under Suzanne Manafort and Adaptive Yoga Training under Ann Richardson Stevens. She also hosted a Postnatal Workshop for the 4th trimester and beyond that welcomed both moms and babies into class. She is excited to see how her path of life further shapes how she shows up as both a student and a teacher in yoga, but most importantly, how this yoga journey shapes the path of life.
A yoga mat for Angelica is a place of exploration, where she believes we both evolve and adapt, symbolic to her experience out in the real world. By occupation, she is a pediatric Registered Nurse of about six years, three of which were spent traveling within the U.S. She obtained her 200HR YTT in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Pranayama, Meditation and Kriyas in Patnem, Canacona, Goa India at Kranti Yoga back in November 2018. With the miracle of her son Otto in 2022, she found herself looking to her mat in search of the grounding and stability she knew she needed to carry her throughout pregnancy and this new chapter of life in Virginia Beach, VA. This rolled into the reignited spark of her desire to share this practice in a new way. So that brought her to take on the 300HR program at Studio Bamboo Institute of Yoga, with the hopes of truly giving others a sense of what yoga has given her thus far — exploration, grounding, stability, genuine human connection, and rediscovery of the self. Through Studio Bamboo’s 300HR program she obtained 15HR certifications in Mindful Yoga Therapy for Trauma under Suzanne Manafort and Adaptive Yoga Training under Ann Richardson Stevens. She also hosted a Postnatal Workshop for the 4th trimester and beyond that welcomed both moms and babies into class. She is excited to see how her path of life further shapes how she shows up as both a student and a teacher in yoga, but most importantly, how this yoga journey shapes the path of life.
Cheryl Yeager
Cheryl is a licensed Massage & Craniosacral Therapist, Reiki Master, Ritual foot soaks.
Cheryl’s mission is to provide clients with high-quality services and botanical products in a nurturing, safe and therapeutic environment. Her sessions are customized and aim to reduce stress, increase relaxation, relieve or help manage pain and improve mobility. She offers an integrative approach to wellness, intended to compliment other lifestyle changes and healing modalities her clients may be pursuing.
Cheryl is a licensed Massage & Craniosacral Therapist, Reiki Master, Ritual foot soaks.
Cheryl’s mission is to provide clients with high-quality services and botanical products in a nurturing, safe and therapeutic environment. Her sessions are customized and aim to reduce stress, increase relaxation, relieve or help manage pain and improve mobility. She offers an integrative approach to wellness, intended to compliment other lifestyle changes and healing modalities her clients may be pursuing.
Jim LoPresti
Jim LoPresti has been a musician since the young age of 8, playing various instruments then finally embracing percussion. Over the recent years he has connected to steel tonal drums which produce various pitches that offer soothing and healing qualities through beautiful and resonate notes. Having studied Tibetan Buddhism for several years Jim found the drums to be a useful aid for his own meditative practices as well as for friends and family. As a sound bath practitioner he encourages the practice of present moment attention and continues to explore the handpan drum for both a means of entertainment and a tool for removing stress in everyday life.
Jim LoPresti has been a musician since the young age of 8, playing various instruments then finally embracing percussion. Over the recent years he has connected to steel tonal drums which produce various pitches that offer soothing and healing qualities through beautiful and resonate notes. Having studied Tibetan Buddhism for several years Jim found the drums to be a useful aid for his own meditative practices as well as for friends and family. As a sound bath practitioner he encourages the practice of present moment attention and continues to explore the handpan drum for both a means of entertainment and a tool for removing stress in everyday life.