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Instructors
 Lisa
Needham, RYT
Founder
and Director of Park City Yoga Studio, Lisa Needham
has been a respected teacher of Hatha Yoga since
1984. Her unique style of teaching incorporates
a diverse blend of Anusara, Iyengar, Integrative
Yoga Therapy and Vinyasa flow styles of yoga.
With an emphasis on proper alignment, mindful breath
work and inner body awareness, Lisa has great respect
for individual strengths and challenges and her
extensive understanding of yoga allows her to present
a gentle and compassionate style, which is popular
with students of all levels.
Lisa
is a member of the International
Association of Yoga Therapists and registered at the
highest level with the national Yoga
Alliance. She has also worked with the US Ski and
Snowboarding teams providing yoga as a complimentary training
technique.
Lisa
gratefully acknowledges John Friend (Founder, Anusara
Yoga) as a compelling influence and inspiration in both
her teaching and lifestyle. Her goal as a teacher is
to create an opportunity for students to discover their
own path to peace of mind, health and well-being.
Natalie Adamson
Natalie
developed a strong love for yoga when she discovered
a Bikram studio after moving to the island of
Kauai in 2000. As a massage therapist, Natalie
was aware of the healing benefits yoga brings
to your life.
The
next five years Natalie developed a strong self-practice
while traveling abroad. She incorporated Ashtanga, Anusara
and Meditation into her daily practice.
After
traveling Natalie settled back to her roots in
Utah. She recently completed a 515 hour teacher
training with Dana Baptiste. Her classes reflect
a sense of strength, dedication, and the belief
that we are all capable of much more than we often
think we are; but she doesn’t believe that
one’s practice should be too serious –
she feels that a creative, playful approach will
produce more positive and joyful results on and
off the mat. When Natalie isn’t teaching
yoga she works as a graphic designer.
Marla Berkow
Marla has an appreciation of the self-healing
nature of the human body and of the interactions
between mind and body and has completed the Foundations
of Botanicals and Health and the Introduction
to Ayurveda courses at the University of Arizona’s
Program in Integrative Medicine. Phoenix Rising
Yoga Therapy Level 1 training was completed in
November 2007. Marla studied Early Childhood Education
and received a degree in Cognitive Anthropology
from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Studies
were focused on human language & cognition,
and cross-cultural child faith and religious education.
Marla learned to practice meditation with a Buddhist
Reverend on campus and wrote her senior thesis
on the Buddhist temple’s Dharma School program.
Professional certification is from the Resources
for Infant Educarers (RIE™) facility in
Silver Lake, California, where Marla completed
certificates in Theory (Level I) and Practicum
(Level II).
Marla
has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and
has completed a variety of yoga and meditation
workshops. She is currently in a study program
with professor Paul Muller-Ortega. Marla’s
great love is teaching, and she has worked as
a teacher, has taught karate and gymnastics, was
a teacher for My Gym Children’s Fitness
Center and a Supervisor at The Kid’s Club
in The Sport’s Club/LA.
Becca Brenner
With an extensive education
and experience in yoga and holistic nutrition,
Becca began her studies of the body and movement
through dance and somatic education at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania (BA - 1998) and the
University of Pittsburgh (MA – 2003). She
has also studied movement, experiential anatomy,
and kinesiology at Movement Research; the University
of California, Irvine; and with contemporary dance
companies in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Seattle.
Becca
received her 200 hour yoga teacher training certification
at the Sivananda Vedanta Center in Nassau, Bahamas
and is currently finishing her 500 hour advanced
yoga teacher training through the Himalayan Institute
of Yoga Science.
Previous
to moving to Park City in 2007, Becca owned and
taught at a successful yoga and wellness center
in Pennsylvania. She has recently received her
Ph.D. in holistic nutrition and somatics through
Clayton College and is currently studying Integrated
Movement Studies through the University of Utah.
Deborah Cole
Deborah
teaches gentle yoga with attention to the healing
potential of a yoga practice. Through awareness
of breath, emotional thought and physical alignment,
once can begin to restore health and reduce stress,
one of the major causes of disease. Deborah is a
certified Kriplau Yoga Teacher and a Phoenix Rising
Yoga Therapy Practitioner. She has been practicing
yoga for 10 years and teaching yoga for 5 years
in private studios, high schools and adult rehabilitation
centers.
Mary Lou Coleman, RYT
Mary
Lou has practiced yoga since 1984. Having explored
a number of different styles, she found her heart
drawn to Viniyoga, the tradition of the great yoga
master Sri T. Krishnamacharya. Viniyoga, a meditation
in motion, is distinguished by its emphasis on breath,
careful sequencing, individual adaptation, and by
its unique way of moving into and out of a posture
several times, thus creating a fluid quality to
the practice.
Jane Deblieux
A
graduate of the Bryn Mawr Hospital School of Nursing
and a Board certified Registered Nurse with over
19 years of experience, Jane has worked in various
medical settings throughout her nursing career including
labor and delivery, surgical services, neurosurgery,
open heart and trauma surgery, private physician's
offices and health education.
In
addition to her nursing practice, Jane is a graduate
of the Myotherapy College of Utah for Massage Therapy.
Being a Licensed Massage Therapist and practicing
as an Integrative Therapeutic Practitioner, Jane
blends her education in modern medical teachings
with traditional holistic modalities to assist individuals
in creating a higher quality of life. Jane is also
a Reiki Master. Reiki is an ancient form of Oriental
light-touch therapy that gently channels the body's
energy to promote deep relaxation, healing and an
increased sense of well-being.
Margaret Koblasova, C. A. S.
Margaret Koblasova, C. A.
S. is an Ayurvedic practitioner and Yoga
therapist. She is member of the National Ayurvedic
Medical Association, (NAMA), the International Association
of Yoga Therapists, (IAYT), and founder of Ananda
Ayurveda/Yoga for Wellness, a service organization
dedicated to providing thoughtful, considerate alternatives
to stressful daily living. Maggie is a graduate
of the California College of Ayurveda, Master Yoga
Academy, The Center for Yoga, Silver Age Yoga and
the
International Sivananda Vedanta Centre. Maggie studied
privately for many years under the profound tutelage
of Yogi Lapatraj Sharma, an internationally esteemed
master Yogi. Prior to devoting fulltime attention
to Ayurveda and Yoga, Maggie was a director of a
national Healthcare corporation and a consultant
in the Healthcare industry.
Lauren Lockey
Lauren’s love for dance
was a natural fit with yoga. She studied Modern
dance at the University of Utah and continued on
in Portland, Oregon where she developed a regular
Bikram Yoga practice. Her commitment and curiosity
to learn more brought her to a Bikram and Ashtanga
teacher training in Thailand. Lauren lived and taught
yoga in Thailand for six months. She found this
rare experience of teaching tourists in a foreign
land extremely rewarding.
Lauren
teaches Yoga in Park City full time and continues
to expand her spectrum of teaching styles highlighting
vinyasa flow, core strength, and dance into her
many classes. No matter what style she is teaching,
Lauren encourages her students to be fully present
by connecting breath with movement…a practice
that students will carry off the mat and into each
moment of their lives.
Whitney
Reed
Whitney’s
Yoga class combines a slow, deep breath with creative,
flowing, movement and alignment intelligence. She
unites her thorough knowledge of anatomy with her
experience in yoga/ meditation to form a class that
strives to quite the mind and balance the body.
She was blessed with the opportunity to take her
first teacher training through Laughing Lotus with
Dana Flynn in New York City in 2001. She has been
sharing and teaching yoga ever since. She lived
in India in 2005 for eight months and studied intensive
Iyengar Yoga with Rajiv, Swati, and Usha. In 2007
she completed a 500hr. yoga teacher training with
Dana Babtiste. Whitney’s yoga practice has
been strongly inspired by Vipassana meditation with
S.N. Goenka and she weaves this meditation into
her Vinyasa flow yoga class. She is currently working
with Jack Kornfield, Mark Coleman, Phillip Moffit,
Stephen Cope, Tias Little and others in a 2 year
700hr training which combines Mindful Meditation
with Asana Yoga. She recently received a scholarship
to do a 21day Vipassana meditation intensive with
Joseph Goldstein at Insight Mediation Society.
Jen Sayers
Jen approaches yoga instruction as an opportunity
to assist the student in building a better, stronger
more in-depth relationship with themselves. Through
postures, breath work and deepening the mind-body
connection, students will learn to listen to their
own bodies and to make safe and healthy choices
on and off the yoga mat. Students leave Jen’s
classes feeling rejuvenated and relaxed. Jen is
a certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor and registered
with the Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level. To
get to know Jen even better visit jensayersyoga.com.
Bear Tobin
Raised on Kodiak Island on the ocean shores of Alaska,
Bear is an experienced outdoorsman and an all around
life athlete who believes that yoga enhances one's
adaptability for life's constantly changing and
ever evolving journey. He has been practicing yoga
for fifteen years and teaching the healing art of
yoga for eight years. Bear is ashtanga & vinyasa
flow certified and anusara influenced. You will
find his classes to be organic as nature itself,
yet challenging and inspirational for all life conditions
expressing that the planet is your mat for daily
prayer and meditation, work and study, rest and
relaxation all in divine love, light, and truth.
Sara Valentine
Sara
is certified through Yogamotion and has completed
an extensive study course with Integrative Yoga
Therapy. Registered at the 200 hour level with the
National Yoga Alliance, Sara incorporates awareness
of the spine with precise breathing techniques for
every level of student. Her goal is to help students
find the ways in which yoga can help in their lives
both on and off the mat.
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