Congrats, Yoga Teacher Training Grads!

We’re so excited to congratulate our 17 new Yoga Teacher Training Graduates!

As part of their training, these new yoga teachers wrote their Mission Statements for their teaching. We’re so inspired by their heart, passion, and growth! Here they are in their own words:

The accessibility of Yoga provides ever-expanding opportunities for self-awareness, exploration, playfulness, and growth. I’m grateful for the privilege to bring this practice to a new generation of yogis who have so much to gain from it. 

-Tamara Brown

I want to teach yoga because it has been a lifelong dream of mine to become a teacher, and to get to teach something that has moved me and changed me in so many positive ways is a dream I didn’t even know I had. If I can share with my students even a small portion of the benefits yoga has brought to my life, it will be a worthwhile endeavor in my life. Being comfortable with who I am as a person and where I stand mentally, spiritually, and physically at any given moment in my life is something that I aspire to impart to others through teaching yoga.

-Molly Ankiewicz

As a teacher of yoga, I will serve as a guide to anyone knowingly or unknowingly seeking embodiment. I will strive to create a space where students are welcome to arrive as they are. I will commit to continued learning, and I will remind myself and others with true compassion, "You can do more than you know, Hanuman.""

-Jen Walts

I really love to create warm, welcoming spaces for all the people in my life. I do it in my home for family and friends, I do it in my playgroup for the families that I work with. I have found a new place to create this nurturing and sacred space in teaching yoga. It is my honor and privilege to continue to learn yoga and to teach what I have learned in my community.  

-Mandy Gerry

I want to teach yoga so that I may help people learn skills to heal themselves. I would like my students to feel empowered and to at least begin to practice self love.

-Angelica Lopez

I teach yoga because I deeply believe in the tantric philosophy that encourages each of us to live our lives and cherish our lives, fully embodied, as we are born to do. I offer an invitation for you to come work through presenting challenges in service of your greater self, and in service of a more fully experienced life. I will walk with you on a journey to rediscover that you already have everything you need inside of you, and bear witness as you remember who you truly are.

-Jessica King

My intention with yoga is to gift myself and others with a moment in their day that is dedicated to a self-love practice in action. To engage in listening within; to the authentic voice that is spoken through each pose with reverence for it being our own. To allow the practice to be a resource for building community; especially those with chronic illness and the elderly.

-S.

My mission is to help my students nurture their mind and body by being compassionate to themselves as I guide them through their yoga practice. I want to provide a safe and welcoming space where my students are comfortable to explore and find peace in themselves and with their yoga family.

-Melissa Johnson

Gina Callahan is a newly trained yoga teacher with an appreciation for the varied reasons that bring students to the mat and for the rich, but complicated ways that the ancient practice and discipline intersect with practitioners’ lives in contemporary western society.  Gina uses asana practice as a tool to empower students lived experiences in their bodies and to promote a healthy mind-body connection rooted in possibilities.  There is so much the human body can do and yoga helps us to see and feel these possibilities. 

-Gina Callahan

I am drawn to the healing arts. It is my mission as a yoga instructor to thread yoga throughout my life in order to be more present with my students. I want my students to feel physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually well when beside me.

-Tara Maroney