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Barbara Bates
Restorative Yoga
Barbara Bates received her yoga teacher training in October of 2007 at White Lotus Yoga Foundation. The honorable and well-known yogis, Ganga White and Tracey Rich shared their immense love and understanding of yoga during the two-week training in the beautiful mountains of Santa Barbara, CA. Last winter (2009), Barbara received specialized training in Therapeutic / Restorative Yoga with teachers Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peale, also at White Lotus Foundation. Throughout the past 25 years, Barbara has contributed to the southern Illinois community through her work as a childbirth educator, health educator, special education teacher and pre-natal yoga teacher here at one o one yoga, where she has also helped to manage and nurture the studio since its birth in 2006.
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Shelley Hill
Beginner’s Alignment
Slow Flow
Glow with the Flow
A Southern Illinois native, Shelley began her journey into yoga in 1999. She writes: “Once I learned how much my body loved and needed movement, deeper awakenings of body, mind, and spirit began to unveil themselves. I was introduced to Anusara yoga through a good friend and beautiful yogi and resonated deeply with its heart-oriented style and principles of alignment.” Shelley completed Anusara immersion and teacher training in November of 2008 with nationally respected Certified Anusara Yoga Teachers, Sue Elkind and Naime Jezzney, along with Dr. Douglas Brooks. “I feel immense gratitude for my inspiring teachers who taught with bright mind and radiant hearts!” Shelley has also studied under such brilliant beings as John Friend, Anusara founder; Sianna Sherman, Certified Anusara Yogi; and Rodney Yee.
Along with being a yoga instructor and a great lover of dance, Shelley loves being a wife, friend, daughter, and aunt and works at the Women’s Center as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the Rape Crisis Services.
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Sarah Kemp
Therapeutic Yoga
Hatha Yoga and Meditation
Vinyasa I and II
Gentle Beginner’s Yoga
Saturday Morning Yoga
Flowing with Grace
Sarah is a certified yoga teacher who delights in sharing yoga with her community through instruction, combining asanas (postures) with pranayama (breathwork), meditation, stories, and expressive insight. She studied Iyengar yoga at Chicago’s Yoga Circle with teacher Gabriel Halpern in her teens and received her meditation and yoga teacher training at the Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Institute in 2005-2006 under the guidance of Sarla Walter and spiritual teacher Pandit Dabral. She has also studied intensively and attended advanced teacher trainings with master teachers Shiva Rea in Vinyasa yoga, Natasha Rizopoulos, and Anusara master teachers Noah Mazé, Desiree Rumbaugh and Sianna Sherman. Sarah finds inspiration in the practice of yoga, is a national member of the Lotus Yoga Teachers Association and the International Association of Reiki Professionals as a certified Reiki Master and Teacher.
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Mary Simmering
Mary was first inspired by yoga as a holistic form of ecology. Through her training as a naturalist (B.A. Conservation Ecology, Prescott College) she experienced yoga as a poignant lens for the relationship between mind/body/spirit, as well as the natural world, and each other. Mary became certified as a hatha yoga teacher (Vertical Soul Yoga College, Flagstaff, AZ) in April of 2011. She describes her training and focus as integrative, exploring not only the physical, but psychological and spiritual aspects of many varieties of yoga. Her classes are detoxifying and sweat producing, with postures and modifications that are accessible for all levels. Mary leaves ample time for meditation and breath-work. It is important to Mary that students are given the tools they need to build their own, personal practices, with the hope that students will take their yoga “off the mat” and into their daily lives.
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Besides practicing yoga, Mary works intermittently as a Biological Technician at Grand Canyon National Park. Her other interests include Ayurveda, poetry, vegan cooking, bowhunting, and long hikes with her partner, Andrew and labradoodle, Henry.|
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