Louise Applebome | Candace Bordelon | Maureen Dunn
Bridget Foley | Kate Geddie | Tifany Henderson | MiMi Mears
Melanie Murray | Valerie Rogers | Reanee Spratt
Christiana Stich | Liz Tucker

Louise Applebome Yoga, Restorative Yoga	Louise has enjoyed robust careers in marketing, event planning, retail, arts management and journalism. In 2007, she shifted gears to earn her Yoga teaching certification and begin her teaching practice. Louise studied ballet and modern dance for many years and incorporates that grace and precision into her practice and teaching. She also emphasizes play, laughter and lightness. In Louise's Restorative Yoga classes, students are able to experience pure bliss in supported poses that energize and circulate the breath, and lengthen and brighten the spine. Restorative Yoga is a full-body experience of release and relaxation; and its meditative quality allows the mind to enjoy a much-needed respite from constant churning and thought. Louise unabashedly credits Yoga with changing her life and is grateful for the emotional and physical health benefits and balance it fosters. Some of her greatest pleasure, however, comes from sharing those benefits with others as a teacher.

Candace Bordelon Yoga, Bellydance, Restorative Yoga	Candace Bordelon, R.Y.T., M.A., has been exploring movement since her first dance class at the age of 4. After a 15-year career in professional dance, she discovered the strong healing power of yoga when she was diagnosed with a herniated disc in her lower back. Now a dedicated practitioner of Iyengar yoga, Candace also has a special interest in Restorative Yoga as it permits the body to release both emotional and physical blocks as the transformational and healing energy of yoga emerges from within the body itself. She has spent many hours of teacher training with Judith Lasater, Peggy Kelley, and Dean Lerner. Her teaching method is rooted in honoring the anatomical integrity of the body. Candace holds a Master of Arts in dance and is an Associate Professor of Dance at Collin College. She is currently a Candidate for the Doctoral degree in dance at Texas Woman’s University. With a background in ballet, modern, Middle Eastern and African dance, yoga, somatics, and bodywork, she brings a well-rounded perspective to her classes. Under the stage name Karina Rasheed, Candace performs Middle Eastern dance professionally as a solo artist. She is the founder of the North Texas Middle Eastern Dance Association, a non-profit organization that supports Middle Eastern dance.

Bridget Foley Yoga for Emotional Health, Forrest Yoga	Bridget has practiced yoga since 1998. She completed the Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2001 and the Forrest Yoga Advanced Training in 2004 and has assisted at numerous Forrest Yoga workshops and trainings. While Forrest Yoga is the basis of her practice and teaching philosophy, she supplements it with knowledge gleaned through workshops with Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Charles MacInerney and Russill Paul. Bridget offers group and private instruction, corporate classes, pre/postnatal yoga and yoga/creative writing workshops throughout the metroplex. She also offers hands-on bioenergetic therapeutic healings, based on her studies of energetic healing and Biosynthesis. For Bridget, well-being arises from creating balance in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms of life experience.

Kate Geddie Yoga Flow	Kate was a yogi before she ever knew what that meant. Growing up in England she began doing yoga poses at a very young age. Educated at a Phys. Ed. college near Canterbury in Kent, she specialized in dance and gymnastics, but continued practicing her yoga poses unaware they were an intricate part of an ancient spiritual practice. It was not until 20 years later when she attended a yoga class in Dallas that she realized there were names for the daily poses she had been doing. Her training intensified as she began to study this ancient discipline. As Kate grew in her practice she "accidentally" began teaching one day in 2002 when a teacher did not show up and she offered to lead the class. Already a school teacher of 15 years, her natural instincts to teach guided her through the class. She became the regular teacher of that very class a week later and has been teaching vinyasa flow yoga at various studios in the Dallas area ever since. Kate says, "Yoga is not only my passion but an essential part of who I am today. Our planet is forever evolving as are our bodies. It is essential that we nurture the union of body, mind and spirit. Letting go of our egos allows us to understand that no one is better than anyone else. As we liberate ourselves, we come to accept what is, to live in this moment, and to make each breath the purest breath we will ever have." As well as teaching yoga, Kate is a first grade teacher with an MA in Reading. She has been married for 26 years and all of her family practice yoga. Kate and her husband Alan own an eclectic coffee shop in Addison called Dunn Bros Coffee, boasting the freshest roasted beans in town and great live music events.

Tifany Henderson Yoga, Restorative Yoga	Tifany teaches a blend of Hatha Yoga styles to warm the heart, focus the mind, and strengthen the body. Teaching from the heart what she has learned along her own yoga journey, she helps students increase strength, flexibility, and peace of mind. Modifications are offered for each student’s body type, challenges, and level of expertise. When Tifany took her first yoga class in 1997, she had no idea it would have such an impact on her that she would start teacher training the following year. Under the direction of her teachers Claude Grimes and Ranjana Pallana, she learned how to communicate the essence of yoga and develop her own teaching style. She received her teaching certification from Ranjana Pallana in 2000. Tifany has attended workshops and teacher trainings with master teachers Irene Beers, Kofi Busia, Judith Lasater, Kausthub Desikachar, Rodney Yee, John Friend, Gary Kraftsow and others. Locally she has studied with Cynthia Pierro, Vicki Johnson/Namaste USA, Annette Doody and Ruth Lurie. Tifany has a bachelor’s degree in Business Computer Information Systems from the University of North Texas.

Mireille (MiMi) Mears Viniyoga, Prenatal Yoga, Postnatal Yoga	MiMi attended her first yoga class in 1989 at the University of Namur in Belgium, her native country. Since then, her interest in yoga philosophy and in the ancient science of yoga as a healing modality and as a path to happiness has continued to grow. She has been a Certified Yoga Teacher since 1996 and an Associate of the International Yoga School of England since 1997. She has trained in California and Colorado with Joseph Lepage, the founder of Integrative Yoga Therapy, and has been a Certified Integrative Yoga Therapy Instructor since 1999. She also completed the advanced training in Integrative Yoga Therapy. By 2000, MiMi held 3 yoga teacher certifications, but was still feeling there was much more to be learned. In late 2000, she discovered the Viniyoga style and immediately knew she had found the path of yoga she wanted to explore in depth. The teachings of Viniyoga can be traced all the way back to one of the classical texts on yoga: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In 2001, MiMi completed the prerequisites to enroll in the American Viniyoga Institute’s certification program taught by founder and director Gary Kraftsow. When enrolling in the program, MiMi had no idea she had embarked on a four-year journey of self-discovery and in-depth study of Viniyoga that would take her to Maui, Snowbird resort in Utah, back to her home country of Belgium, and finally to Austin, Texas. MiMi completed the foundation portion of the training in 2003, and in June 2006, she received her Viniyoga Teacher Certificate. Her final project was to create a 6-week prenatal yoga series, applying the principles of Viniyoga to the teaching of Prenatal Yoga. MiMi has been a certified Mamaste(TM) Prenatal Yoga teacher since 2003, and is trained in pre- and post-natal massage therapy, including the "Baby's First Massage" program. Her training and experience as both a registered massage therapist and a yoga therapist help MiMi tailor her classes to the physical and emotional needs of her students. She places great emphasis on the breath as a means to deepen and enliven our yoga practice and on awareness of the movements of the spine in relation to the breath. MiMi’s students enjoy her gentle style, sense of humor and wonderful French accent. Her goal is to help them develop not only greater strength and flexibility, but also a calmer, more peaceful mind. Learn more about MiMi at her website. MiMi has been teaching at MoveStudio since its inception in 2000.

Melanie Murray Yoga, Pilates	Melanie has been teaching yoga for 12 years and has a daily meditation practice that includes chakra energy healing and breath work. She is certified by the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara and has studied extensively with master yoga teachers such as Tias Little, Judith Lasater, Gary Kraftsow, and Elise Miller. Melanie is certified in mat and equipment work by Stott Pilates and the PhysicalMind Institute and has been teaching Pilates for five years. She began training with Joseph Pilates' protege, Romana Kryzanowska, while studying dance in New York. She also directed a Pilates studio in Minneapolis at the Minnesota Dance Theatre. Melanie has taught ballet for twenty years and was a professional ballet dancer with the San Diego Ballet and the California Ballet Companies. She trained extensively at the Atlanta Ballet, the Washington School of Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet School, and American Ballet Theatre School. She earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Modern Dance from Texas Christian University, including advanced training in anatomy and kinesiology, and taught dance for several years at the college level. Melanie has a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and is also an experienced energy healer. She is very interested in somatic psychology and Jungian depth psychology. She uses all of her training and experience in her teaching, which she considers a healing art form.

Valerie Rogers Yoga Flow	Valerie is a 200-hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher and a Registered Massage Therapist. She has a unique, fun, eclectic teaching style. Her abstract approach stems from eight years of studying various styles of yoga including Hatha, Kundalini, Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa. Her deep desire to teach derives from the positive influence and profound transformation of her own personal life through the practice of yoga. Teaching gives her the opportunity to share the joy of self-discovery with her students. She is thankful to the many that have gifted her with guidance along her journey including Rod Stryker, Sri Dharma Mittra, Erich Shiffman, Deepak Chopra, Srivatsa Ramaswami and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa. Valerie’s passion and love of yoga transcends throughout each class. Her dynamic slow flow offers a clear explanation of postures and modifications catering to each student’s individual needs. She brings focus to harmonizing the energy within to reverse the effects of aging, restore vitality, rejuvenate the nervous system, strengthen the body and calm the mind. "Go with the flow, open your heart, focus within and set your spirit free."

Reanee Spratt Yoga Play, On The Ball, Dance Fusion	Reanee started practicing yoga in college and it became a life-long passion and fascination. She has studied many styles of yoga -- Hatha, Kundalini, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar, Bikram, Thai Yoga Massage, etc. -- always seeking out new information and trying to grow. She has been teaching yoga since 1997. Her class is eclectic, blending what she likes most from the various styles and philosophies. Reanee practices yoga for pleasure and believes it allows her to continue to do all the other things in life she loves, such as snow-skiing and Hip Hop, without injury. It also helps her relieve the stress of balancing a career and raising two teenagers. Reanee has been dancing since she was three years old (thanks, Mom!) and teaching dance, gymnastics and fitness since the late 1970s. Her diverse background includes cheerleading and drill team (captain) at Denton High School; dance and journalism studies in college; managing group exercise programs for a fitness club; teaching in universities, corporations, fitness clubs, studios, dance camps, etc.; teaching hip hop and yoga in Vicenza, Italy for nine months in 1999; Pilates Mat certification and much more. Reanee has a Graduate Gemology degree from the Gemological Institute of America and has been an independent legal appraiser and wholesaler of fine jewelry for 25 years. She says, "Diamonds and Dance are a girl's best friends!"

Christiana Stich Yoga, Restorative Yoga	Christiana began practicing yoga in 1995 while in Tokyo, Japan, and started teaching in Dallas in 2003. Registered with Yoga Alliance, she completed her certification at Priya Yoga with Michelle Andrie. Christiana’s ongoing study of yoga has included workshops with Shakta Kaur Khalsa, Judith Lasater, Donna Farhi, Rod Stryker, Shiva Rea, Irene Beer, Ramananda Patel, and Rodney Yee. Yoga has profoundly increased strength, flexibility, joy, love and peace in her life. It is her intention to share these gifts and the many other benefits of yoga with as many people as possible. Christiana encourages increased body awareness and self-acceptance while creating a safe, comfortable and fun environment. In class, she places emphasis on the breath to move deeper into a pose, plus an awareness of physical alignment along with the mind/body/spirit connection. She encourages students of all ages and ability levels to honor their bodies, to listen to their own inner teachers, and to achieve contentment in the pose through compassion, without judgment. She invites her students to explore what yoga has to offer.

Liz Tucker Yoga, Restorative Yoga	While on the road to recovery from a spinal fracture, Liz began practicing yoga in 1994. For the first six years of her practice she was self-taught. In June of 2000 after experiencing her first class in a studio setting, she knew that she needed to touch as many people as possible with the emotional, spiritual, and physical healing powers of yoga. Liz is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and her formal teacher training is in the Para Yoga tradition inspired by Yogarupa Rod Stryker. Liz also has deep reverence for her teachers Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Gurushabd, Erich Schiffmann, and Shiva Rea, whom she studies with on a consistent basis. Liz traveled to India in 2007 which was a tremendous and humbling experience that enhanced her spiritual focus within her yoga practice and thus, her teaching. Liz's teaching style is reflective of her immersion in the teachings of Para Yoga, Iyengar, vinyasa, and kundalini. Each class emphasizes the importance of physical alignment from her Iyengar foundation, while exploring the body's energy centers through pranayama (breathing techniques), visualizations, chanting, and meditation. The vision of the holistic benefits of the mind-body-spirit connection creates a true experience of yoga, not just a physical workout. All that she asks when you come to her class is to be where you are in your practice and with yourself, and to bring an open and receptive heart. "Wherever you are now, call it perfection and know that in this moment it is really enough." ~Leza Lowitz Find out more about Liz at her website. She has been teaching at MoveStudio since 2001.