Rev. Othene Munson, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher E-RYT  E500  T500, with the Yoga Alliance, Level 2 Usui Reiki Practitioner and  Angel Therapy Practitioner® (ATP) , certified by Doreen Virtue, brings a unique perspective and style of teaching to the practice of yoga, drawing upon her background as a corporate trainer, human resources professional, fashion model and global yoga instructor.She has studied with renown masters such as Ramanand Patel, John Schumacher, Kathleen Pringle, Patricia Walden, David Swenson, Ana Forrest, Aadil Palkhivala, Baron Baptise, Jonny Kest, Manuso Manus, Doug Swenson, Rodney Yee, and Steve Jacobson for two decades, refining her own practice and teaching methods. She completed the Ashtanga Teacher Training workshop with David Swenson with further Ashtanga training from Manju Jois. She has spent time studying at the Sivananda Ashrams in Paris, California, London and the Bahamas. Othene has organized and led Spiritual Trips to Peru, Arizona, Hot Springs NC, Costa Rica, Greece and to Egypt and is currently planning an Eco Safari Yoga Trip to South Africa. She remains committed to her own practice and continues to take teachers training and workshops on a regular basis.

Beth Passehl shares her experience, humor and warmth as a yoga instructor (pending certification as a registered Yoga Alliance 200 hour teacher), family wellness coach and ACE (American Council on Exercise) certified personal trainer. She has worked in a variety of settings in the healthcare field for the past 27 years with two Masters Degrees in Marriage & Family Counseling. In the past 11 years, she has specialized and become recognized as a leading statewide and national expert on the prevention and intervention of childhood obesity.  Her current interests in women’s health issues are motivated in large part from personal experiences with a hormonally impaired household with her own menopausal moon stage and two teenage children.

                Lisa Bergquist has been taking yoga from Othene Munson for nearly ten years.  After having the good luck to stumble upon Othene’s wonderful class in a gym so many years ago, she was hooked!  Lisa completed the YTT 200 certification offered at The Center for Yoga in 2008 and is currently working on the 500 level.  She taught recreational yoga at Kennesaw State University, has co-hosted Family Fitness nights at her son’s school, and has taught a few yoga classes to children at Buffington Elementary, Avery Elementary, and The Hedge home school.  Currently she practices at TCFY and attends weekend seminars and classes to grow and nurture her own yoga experience.  She is also collaborating with her brother on a series of yoga books for children.