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Whitney

Whetten

Through yoga and art, Whitney wishes to bring greater health, harmony, and happiness to individuals, to the community, and to the world. She began her journey with yoga when she took her first yoga class at the age of 15. She immediately knew that she had found a path worth exploring. Within a decade, she went on to receive her yoga teacher certification and has furthered her education with a 500 hour certificate and an aerial yoga teaching certificate. Having received her Bachelor's of Science degree in Biology and her minor in Dance at UNM, her classes are full of creative exploration and anatomical awareness. Through intention, breathing, asanas, and meditation, Whitney aims to leave her students feeling refreshed and renewed after each class.

Roberta

Forester

Roberta has been practicing yoga for many years and is a 500 RYT with the Yoga Alliance. Her classes creatively combine a variety of yoga styles, including Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, Restorative, and Kundalini, and she incorporates breath, energy, and meditation practices. She specializes in instructing pose kramas (stages) and encourages the use of modifications and props so that all students feel empowered to personalize their practice and work safely. Her sincere desire is to create an experience where people can learn to reconnect with their own body, mind, and spirit—and have FUN!

Rhonda Neswald-Potter

Rhonda’s introduction to yoga came at a pivotal moment in her own spiritual growth and during an extended period of chronic pain. She quickly became immersed in a dedicated practice, eventually completing her 200 hour certification through the Yogasaar school. Rhonda is currently completing her 500 hour teacher training, with an emphasis is intuitive movement practice and the study of Tantric philosophy, at Soul Tree studio in Lafayette, Colorado. She teaches her classes from the perspective that yoga is most meaningful when focused on nurturing spiritual experiencing, culminating in an ever greater knowing and loving of self, others, nature and the universe.

Carol Woodland

Carol Woodland has received yoga certifications at both the 200 and the 500 hour levels. She has been a practicing yogini for 20 years, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Archaeology with a minor in Religious Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her studies at UNM included research into ancient human and environment interactions, as well as Eastern mystical traditions, Sanskrit, and Indian and Buddhist philosophy. Carol has been teaching yoga in Albuquerque since 2015.

Brian

Jenks

Inspired by the yogic asana practice, Brian traveled to India and studied under his Guruji, Dr. Omanand to expand his knowledge of traditional yoga philosophy and lived in the Paramanand Institute Ashram, completing the 200 hour teacher training program in hatha yoga. Brian has practiced Yoga for the last 10 years and his overall attitude about life has changed in a very positive way.
Brian is currently a special education science teacher at Manzano High School, and has also had careers in Construction and Engineering. He enjoys traveling and experiencing new cultures.

Noelle

Padilla

After receiving her teacher certification through AngelHeal Hot Yoga, Noelle went on to receive her certification in BUTI Yoga, which is now her primary yoga of choice. In alignment with her beliefs, BUTI is all about honoring the Divine Feminine (present in both males and females), empowering rather than competing with other women, loving one’s body as it is RIGHT NOW through movement and clean eating, and, most importantly, tuning into one’s own beauty, strength, and majesty. Noelle’s goal is for all her students to come to know their own greatness, to appreciate and connect with the greatness of others, and to sincerely love their beautiful body and what it can do. From this new state of empowerment, Noelle hopes to inspire people to create a life they love while ALWAYS loving and believing in themselves along the way.

Shell Harris

Shell is a lifelong educator with APS. She first came to yoga when participating in a yoga class for incarcerated youth and has always wanted to bring more yoga practices to her students since then. She consciously works to cultivate inner stability, develop greater self-awareness, and shift her perspective on the world. Shell completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training here at Yoga Art Space. She also holds an MA in Special Education from UNM and is the current Executive Director of Educational Technology with APS. Shell aims to lead a spacious, fluid, organic practice with a focus on safe alignment, and purposeful sequencing in a Hatha style class. In many ways, she incorporates embodied wisdom from her work as a teacher that specializes in differentiated learners. Shell hopes her students leave class feeling steady, at ease, and confident in their own power and grace.

Bettina Eklund

My Yoga journey began back in 2013 after a hamstring tear. As I waited for the injury to heal, I began the practice of yoga and fell in love with it! In 2015 I became a certified yoga instructor and began teaching at the YMCA and Lovelace Women's Hospital for Breast cancer survivors.

I haven't looked back!

Alexis Mena

Alexis found yoga while studying Political Science at UNM. After graduating, she pursed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Ashtanga Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga. She is also trained in Prenatal Yoga! She is passionate about women empowerment and can't wait to meet you in class.

Jacques Leccia

A native of Corsica (France), Jacques has been in the US for over a decade and has practiced psycho-shamanism for nearly 20 years. Jacques synergizes knowledge from many paths, including Lakota and Toltec Shamanism, Buddhism, transpersonal psychology and the art of Aikido. Jacques calls this path a purification of the Self.

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