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Meet our yoga and Pilates instructors by following a link below, or scroll down for all bios:
Ingrid Anderson, MS, RYT
I am grateful to all my teachers and for the teacher training I completed in 1999 at the Yoga Connection with Priscilla Potter in the Kriya Yoga tradition. I continue my study of yoga with many great teachers, including Rama Jyoti Vernon who has helped me understand the perfection of the unity of all beings and unity of self with God. In 2004, I completed a 200-hour Pilates Mat Teacher training with Debbie Rocha and Nancy Woods. The Pilates training has given me a greater awareness of body movement, and of core stability for increasing the long-term health of the back. My Pilates mat classes often include appropriate yoga postures and stretches. Jenny Kendall, MS, RYT
I have been blessed with many wonderful yoga teachers prior to my move to Tucson from central Iowa. It was June 2005 when I was moved to pursue Yoga Teacher Training through the Providence Institute here in Tucson. This training proved to be the perfect complement to my prior experiences, and continues to help me delve ever deeper into the eight-limbs of yoga. My classes emphasize breath with movement and asana as I try to help each student to find his or her own yoga within the community of the yoga class. Through my practice of teaching, I share my learning with great gratitude to all of my teachers. Cynthia Carlisi
Monica Eng
Susan Hamilton
In the spring of 2008, I began teaching the AIS classes at the Yoga House after being trained by Monica Eng, who trained with Aaron Mattes (the educator who developed this breakthrough method of stretching). An eager learner, I continue to educate myself about the nuances of Active Isolated Stretching with Mattes’ and Jim and Phil Wharton’s books, making the stretches as effective as possible and adapting them for people with specialized needs. In the spring of 2010, I took a 5-week, 10-hour Pilates training intensive with Ingrid Anderson. I learned the basics of mat-based Pilates and how to teach Pilates poses, utilizing various props, understanding target muscle groups, adapting poses for people who have trouble with poses and utilizing warm-up exercises. I continue to study Pilates books, DVDs and information to find suitable exercises to add to my mat Pilates classes. I am currently studying for my Group Exercise Instructor and Pilates instructor certification with the American College of Sports Medicine, the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. These NCAA-accredited courses are comprehensive and well respected throughout the fitness industry. This course has also helped me to develop my dance and water aerobics classes. Helping people to be more flexible and stronger gives me joy and great satisfaction. Like a personal trainer, I coach students to do Active Isolated Stretching, Pilates and aerobics to the best of their abilities. It’s encouraging to see them being able to stretch farther, get stronger and develop their muscles, being elated at their progress. Felicia Lowerey
Roxane Ramos
Lois Graham, RYT I discovered and began my yoga practice long before the availability of Yoga classes; first teaching myself with an old paperback book, and later from Lilias Folan on PBS. Besides my yoga practice and teaching yoga, my life long loves include music, dance, books, dogs and all animals and cookies. After years of exploration of various yoga styles I came to recognize the transformative and healing aspects of yoga on all levels of the body - physically, mentally emotionally and spiritually. Following the eight -fold paths of Yoga, I guide the student through a class that is contemplative, gentle yet strengthening, and completely breath - focused. Emphasizing the individuals needs, I encourage students to move with self awareness, and discovery leading to harmony, comfort and joy in the body, mind and spirit. I completed the 250 hour yoga teacher training program at Providence Institute. I also received additional training for teaching prenatal yoga and love working with these students as they prepare for birth.
Kurt Momberger, RYT I began my practice over six years ago when I was working as a Certified Emergency Paramedic. Due to the taxing nature of my work, and a doctor’s diagnosis of high blood pressure and a professional recommendation to begin medication protocols at the ripe age of 27, I took the advice of a colleague and started my study of yoga. She took me to a yoga class in Phoenix, within 4 months of time my hypertension had improved dramatically. I am a great believer in the power of yoga and meditation as a subsequent result of my experience, as well as the impact that it has had on so many wonderful people that I have met as I walk my path. I received my teacher training/ certification from the Providence Institute here in Tucson. I have studied many traditions and styles of yoga including Iyengar, Anusara, and Kundalini and I proudly integrate all of these influences into my classes. I am currently a student of the Sanskrit language and enjoy my continued study of the Yoga Sutras. My personal interests are literature, guitars, motorcycles, the Phoenix Suns, and spending as much time as possible with family and friends. I enjoy working with all levels of students, from beginners to veterans. I pride myself on the idea that my classes can be both challenging and fun. |
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My classes emphasize the joy of connecting to breath in every movement, a building of strength and confidence in the body and connecting to the true self. At the heart of my teaching, I remember that I am teaching people, not asana. I continue to learn and grow with my students and in my own practice. I truly enjoy the connection with so many great people as we travel this path of yoga and I offer all that I know in honor and gratefulness to all my awesome teachers. 
My journey to becoming a yoga teacher did not follow the straightest of paths. I first encountered yoga, as a child, with Lilias on our public television station. On my journey to yoga I studied several martial arts, such as Hapkido and Aikido, did research in exercise physiology for people and horses, and became a statistician. When I encountered health problems in the mid-90s, I found my way back to yoga and knew that my seeking had both ended and just begun. 
Cynthia Carlisi began doing yoga in 1978 while a student at U of A. She was co-owner of Yoga Motion studio in Phoenix, in the 1980s with Anthony "Prem" Carlisi of Ashtangaworld.com (owner of a yoga retreat center in Bali) and she teaches various yoga classes including Yoga Kids, Chair Yoga, Yoga Flow, Life Force Yoga, and yoga in Spanish. She practices Shiatsu based massage therapy and is the author of "Thrashed," an x-rated adventure memoir featuring yoga as life's resolution for challenges. Wilderness adventure yoga is part of her life's story, and she'll show you pictures! Two daughters light up her life.
Throughout my life, I have been involved in sports and knew it was important to stretch, but when I moved to Tucson in the summer of 2007 and was introduced to the Yoga House at Civano, I really began to appreciate how to stretch properly. After taking my first Active Isolated Stretching class, I remarked, “That’s how my body is supposed to feel!” I rarely missed an AIS class after that. 
Yoga House at Civano : 5343 Civano Blvd. : Tucson, Arizona : 520.271.6701 : info@yogahouseatcivano.com
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