INNER FREEDOM YOGA: We are a team of yoga teachers dedicated to helping people achieve inner happiness, peace and optimal health through the transformational practices of Anusara Yoga, Buddhist and Tantric Yoga philosophy, meditation, Somatics, teacher training, and yoga retreats.
ABOUT ROBYN:
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Robyn Smith is the owner and founder of Inner Freedom Yoga. She is thrilled to be a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor
and is proud to have been certified by Forrest Yoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy, and Hanna
Somatic Education. Her dynamic and heart-felt teaching style
is especially influenced by Anusara Yoga, over 10 years of meditation, and study of Buddhist and Tantric Yoga philosophy. Robyn has been studying yoga since 1988 and teaching since 1994. She has completed numerous workshops, teaching and
therapeutics trainings
with Anusara Yoga's founder, John Friend, and hundreds of hours
of workshops and trainings with top Anusara and Iyengar Yoga Instructors. She continues to train with John Friend and top Anusara Yoga teachers annually, and has recently completed a year-long course in meditation and Tantric philosophy with renowned scholar, Paul Muller-Ortega.
Robyn is in awe of the power of meditation, Anusara Yoga and Somatics. She loves facilitating peoples' rediscovery of the experience
of inner freedom through the wisdom of these three transformational
traditions in classes, workshops and yoga retreats. She infuses her teaching with precise attention to alignment,
a joyful spirit, inspirational life stories, poetry, and gentle encouragement of self exploration.
She bows to John Friend for
the tremendous gift of Anusara Yoga and to Sarahjoy Marsh, Hanneli
Francis and Desiree Rumbaugh for incredble inspiration and support.
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ABOUT PATRICK:
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Patrick Harestad is a Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor and Anusara-Inspired teacher. He began his love affair with Yoga at age 16, studying Swami Satchidananda's Integral Yoga for two years, including retreats with Swamiji. Since then he has studied many forms of body/mind/spirit disciplines, including nine years of Aikido, five years of Jiu Jiutsu, and decades of surfing. Since 1997, he has had a regular practice, which has included meditation, Ashtanga Yoga and Anusara Yoga styles. He has been studying extensively with John Friend, Creator of Anusara Yoga, since 202, including Teacher Training, Yoga Therapy trainings and a Master Immersion (over 500 hours with John). He has taught Yoga and Martial Arts both in the U. S. and in Brazil, where he spent two years living in a Buddhist Retreat Center with His Eminence Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
Patrick is currently immersed in a 520-hour structural integration certification program with Tom Meyers, where he is deeply exploring anatomy, kinesiology and myofacil release techniques. He weaves this into his teaching and also offers private sessions in Yoga Therapy, "Deep Swedish," Cranialsacral Therapy, and Structural Integration to help people heal from pain and tension patterns.
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ABOUT KENDRA:
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Kendra Inzer is a Certified Hatha Yoga instructor and Anusara-Inspired teacher who has been teaching since 1999. Her classes are inspired by her training, practice, and love of Anusara Yoga. She has completed 4 Anusara teacher trainings with John Friend, Sarahjoy Marsh, Hanneli Francis and Vanessa Scott, as well as a teacher training with Sivananda Yoga, her introduction to the Yoga path. She supplements her trainings by regularly attending workshops with dynamic Anusara teachers like Sarahjoy Marsh, Jeannie Manchester and Desiree Rumbaugh. She completed Robyn Smith's 2008 Anusara Yoga Immersion Course.
Kendra is incredibly grateful to Hanneli Francis for introducing Anusara Yoga into her life, which has transformed her relationship to Yoga completely. Kendra strengthens her practice through taking regular classes with Robyn Smith, who is a source for continual inspiration and encouragement for her personal growth.
Kendra brings to her teachings an awareness of the healing properties of Reiki. She has been trained and initiated into the 1st and 2nd degrees of Reiki Healing. Also, she has been studying and practicing Sufism for 10 years and brings this Universal, joyful and heart-opening perspective to her teaching as well.
Kendra creates a welcoming environment for students to discover their potential, find freedom in body and breath, and open to the joy of life through Yoga. Her study of Anusara Yoga and Sufi mystical teachings encourage her to open her heart, see the beauty in all, and celebrate life!
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Donvieve has worked as an artist/educator in many domains for the past 35 years. She has always enjoyed nurturing her body, mind and spirit and sharing it through the creative mediums of theatre, dance and yoga. This naturally evolved from a childhood that was nourished by these self-expressions… profoundly affecting her life style, health, and the desire to share this joy and passion for life with others.
She began studying yoga when she was in her teens and fell in love with the practice as it cultivated in her vibrant health and well-being. Her commitment to the practice of yoga and meditation kindled the desire to share with others, so she completed the Anusara Yoga Immersion and teacher training with Inner Freedom Yoga.
She was so inspired by the results she was seeing in the training and in her own life, that she decided to offer yoga classes after work for employees at a small business to help them relax, stretch and become more peaceful. Many months into it, these classes have become a sanctuary where employees look forward to practicing yoga and ending the day relaxed. These classes have also inspired her to create ‘Have Yoga will Travel’ (a yoga practice for local firms to be proactive in taking care of their employees mental and physical health.)
She says, “As we open our hearts to our divine beauty and recognize the light within, a ripple is generated in the universe. We can all make a profound difference in the world by opening our hearts to this infinite light by sharing it. This is yoga, the union of mind, body and soul.”
ABOUT HEATHER:
Heather Kutil began her yogic studies in Seattle at Eight Limbs Yoga, then completed a teacher training in 2002 with Kathleen Hunt at Samadhi Yoga in Seattle. Her teaching began while living in New York and studying with many wonderful teachers including Ruth Lauer, Alex Auder, Barbara Boris, Kevin Gardiner, and Glen Black. In 2003, she also completed a teacher training course in Yin Yoga with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley.
Heather has recently completed Inner Freedom Yoga's teacher training with Robyn Smith and is immersed in the joy of Anusara yoga. Her classes incorporate all the many styles of yoga she has studied over the years with an emphasis on Anusara Yoga.
