I began practicing yoga over 20 years ago while I was in graduate school in Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after this, I was introduced to the Ashtanga method and have been practicing it ever since. After over 10 years of independent home practice, I received my teacher training from Tim Miller in 2014, and Mary Taylor, and Richard Freeman in 2015. I have also received instruction from R. Sharath Jois of Mysore, India. I went on to teach as principal instructor and owner of Mysore yoga shalas in Chicago, and Evergreen, Colorado. Most recently, I taught a yoga teacher training program, led vinyasa classes, and started a Mysore program at Texas Tech University. Throughout this time, I have also taught private and small group yoga lessons.

My teaching is organized around the science of human movement, anatomy, and biomechanics, in addition to a commitment to utilizing philosophical and psychological principles found in Yogic texts as well as current scholarly research. I always seek to teach principles that make movement more enjoyable, expansive, and sustainable—while holding space for open inquiry, encouraging my students to practice with an attitude of patient curiosity with me.

Nadia started her journey in Kirov, Russia and was adopted in 1994. She was raised in Virginia and made her way out to Pueblo in 2018. Yoga found her that year as well. She started teaching and found her way to where she is today! Nadia believes that breath to movement in anyway can heal. It is all about finding what practice calls to you. In her free time you can find her hanging with her dogs and cats and traveling whenever she can. 

Julie was drawn to yoga for its quality as a moving meditation. She has been practicing since 1998 and began formal studies in 2000. Primarily trained in Ashtanga, Julie teaches according to Krishnamacharya's statement that "if you can breath, you can practice yoga". Julie received her initial certification from her teachers Molly Lannon Kenny and Stephanie Sisson, who founded The Samarya Center, in Seattle, WA.

Julie and her husband Matt began Open Studio Yoga in 2010 as an experiment in bringing these teachings into the Pueblo community. They now live in Beulah, where there is space for the wildness of their three growing boys.

More recently Julie studied extensively with Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor and continues to work with Ty Landrum. All of her teachers are similar in these ways; life long students of the practice, committed to inquiry and are flexible in their hearts and minds.

The practice is both refuge and service.

We practice for the benefit of all beings.