Jasmine Lok is a Nia Blue Belt with her Green Belt Certification. Her passion is truly to move and dance through life. Jasmine opened Mayama with her business partner, Ali, in October of 2009. It has been an adventure of trust, hard work, and following her dreams. Every day she is thankful for the life she has created. Jasmine grew up dancing ballet, playing tennis, and skiing. Later in life she added yoga, martial arts, and hiking, but it wasn't until she found Nia that she dove deeper and pursued her teaching certification. Nia has changed her life and still changes it daily. When Jasmine isn't teaching or running Mayama, she is either out walking her dogs, playing with friends, hanging with her husband, Ben, or working at Planet Bluegrass... another passion and gift. She loves the Lyons community and looks forward to dancing and laughing with you!

Annie Emmer Grace a natural intuit with an extra large heart, has practiced Qi Gong her whole life & is now certified to teach Qi Gong. She has taught children & adults the cultivation techniques of Dao Yin, The Path of Jupiter, Animal Frolics & 5 phases. She has specialized in standing meditation, Diamond Mudra, Tai Chi Ruler, Earthly Branches Mudras, Daoist 5 forms. She has practiced Biomagnetic Seasonal Qigong with Suzy Balliett, completing 3 years: the Ox, Tiger, & Rabbit years. She also completed External Qi Healing certification with Ken Cohen.

She is looking forward to helping you smile, relax & reach the Qi! Annie is offering a spontaneous drop-in class that is open to all who wish to experience the health benefits of her Qi Gong class.

Dr. Sara Hart is a Naturopathic physician and Acupuncturist. She has been formally initiated into the Jin Jing Gong lineage of qigong after 7 years of rigorous study. For more information on Dr. Hart, please visit www.harthealingarts.com.

Suzy Balliet is a Taoist Shaman, Occupational Therapist, and Artist who has worked in recreation centers, hospitals and private practice. Her honors include: Dean of Biomagnetics in Mumbai India, and First Affiliate Faculty OT dept. at CSU. She has taught Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and Taoist Ceremonial Arts in the Lyons area, for example: Gathering the Moon Cream, Biomagnetic Seasonal Chi Gong and Primordial Breath. She has studied and worked in the Nanjing TCM Hospital in China. She uses the Chi forms prescriptively for healing. In 1981 she taught her first Chi class for Easter Seals to help children with hemophilia to guide the Chi & blood to save their lives in the event of an injury. Suzy created the Path of Jupiter, Chi Gong for children and orphans to rectify the emotions around not knowing your birthday. She is creating a Chi Gong form called Rocky Mtn. Animals Form for Longevity. She has trained with many famous & not famous Chi healers learning Tai Chi Ruler, Fan, Sword & over 25 different forms ancient and modern. She is currently practicing in the Xiantianwujimen Taoism (Pre-celestial Limitless Gate School of Taoism) and Yiquan martial arts and Zhangzhuan. She is currently the Dean of the Biomagnetic Institute. She looks forward to helping you find your three treasures of Jing, Chi, and Shen (essence, internal energy, & spirit).

Julianne Pream is a YogaKids Apprentice and will be a YogaKids Certified Teacher within the next year.  Through the years she has had a strong love for yoga, beginning as a student and progressing to a certified adult yoga teacher eleven years ago. Julianne also has a B.F.A. in Technical Theatre. During her son’s preschool years she had the pleasure of discovering her calling as a children’s yoga teacher volunteering at the Tiny Tim Center in Longmont. YogaKids classes are a fun way for kids to learn and play. Children are interested in moving, making sounds, reading stories, and doing art; not holding poses and hearing about proper alignment. She feels honored to share the gift of yoga with children at Mayama.

Erin Flegle received a Bachelor Degree of Performing Arts from Oklahoma City University.  For over 15 years, she has been a dance instructor of Ballet, Broadway and Rhythm Tap, Contemporary and Modern Jazz, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, and Musical Theatre in Chicago, Denver, New York, Oklahoma City, and in her hometown of Alliance, Nebraska.  Erin has also choreographed musicals including; Chicago, Grease, Guys and Dolls and many others.  Her professional experience includes The American Spirit Dance Company, Gus Giordano’s Jazz Dance Company, Spirit of the Dance, and the principal dancer in A Christmas Carol at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.  Erin provides professional technique and training to young dancers and those who aspire for a career in the industry. 

Casey Beauchamp has studied Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Modern, Improvisation, and West African Dance,and has specialized in Hip Hop dance styles for the past 10 years. He has competed on many levels and is a master b-boy (Break dancer).  Casey's classes combine foundation steps and moves of various hip hop styles such as Popping, Locking, Boogaloo, House and Breakin, while incorporating freestyle to encourage each dancer find his/her own personal flavor. He utilizes improvisational technique from the post-modern dance era to create a fun and dynamic class. Students will learn about community, working as a team, & how to appreciate each persons individual style. While the highlight is on individuality, each student will work to hone and fine tune the movement vocabulary and history of hip hop and break dance.

Wendy Myers began dancing at the age of three in Longmont, CO. Throughout her years of training she has studied jazz, modern, flamenco, ballet, pointe, lyrical and hip hop.  For two years Wendy served as captain of her high school dance team while continuing to train at various studios.  After spending two years as a dance major at CSU she moved to Denver to pursue a degree in Human Performance and Sport and spent time training in New York City and San Francisco.  Since 2005 she has danced with the True II Form hip hop dance company under the direction of Kevin O'Keefe.  Wendy's classes emphasize foundational hip hop dance styles including popping, locking and b-boying/b-girling, while incorporating elements from all other dance styles. 

Qiyra Edmonds grew up in Hill-Top Dance Studios in Kansas City where she spent 20+ years learning and eventually teaching dance. She spent 10 years performing with the Kansas City Dance Theatre Company during that time. After participating in dance scholarships in jazz (Chicago), tap, jazz and ballet (New Jersey) and ballet (New York) she headed off to college where she obtained her Masters in Physical Therapy. She spent years working as a physical therapist and became mama to two beautiful girls. Recently she has performed (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Grand Night For Singing, and Scrooge!) and choreographed (Camelot) at Jester Dinner Theatre in Longmont, often with her children and once with her husband. Assisting creative movement at Mayama and performing/choreographing with Jesters has brought about a return of the dancing bug! Qiyra sees that dancing never left her. She hopes to continue to spread her joy of dancing with all she meets, young and young at heart alike!

Natasha Barbara Cargill is a professional Belly Dancer, a registered Dance- Movement Therapist and a Registered Yoga teacher. She has performed and taught Belly Dancing for over 25 years. Her awe for the healing results of this dance led her to become a body centered psychotherapist and Dance-Movement Therapist.
She has directed three dance companies, currently the “Sahara Silk Road Dancers,” who perform in the Denver metro area. She has trained thousands of professional dancers and innumerable people who want to enhance body, mind and spirit through the world’s most ancient dance. She believes that improvisation is a path to the soul and she combines excellent technique, freedom in the body, emotional expression and improvisation to bring forth the individual in the dance. Her students range in age from 7-75 years old and she knows that:
“YES, you can dance!”

Summer Templin Culp grew up in Telluride, Colorado, where she began dancing at the age of fourteen under the direction of Shirley Fortenberry and Valerie Madonia. Her family moved to Boulder, Colorado shortly afterwards where she continued to train with and be inspired by a wide-variety of teachers including Peter and Ana Claire Davison, Katie Elliot, Jillana, Michelle Ellsworth, Vernon Windsor, Gabe Masson, and Erika Randall. Summer received her BFA in Dance, with an emphasis in choreography from the University of Colorado. Summer has performed independently in works choreographed by Lindsay Pierce, Viki Psihoyos, David Lorence-Schefflers and Angie Yeowell. Summer has appeared in solo and group pieces in the American College Dance Festival and as a company member with Boulder Ballet, the Cabiri and Redd Legg Dance. Her choreography has been performed across the Denver Metro area and in the 2010 Beyond the Threshold: Seattle International Dance Festival.

Summer is passionate about bridging the gap between contemporary ballet and modern dance and helping the next generation of dancers cultivate their artistry through well-rounded, healthful and holistic training.

Georgia English is a basic one Zumba instructor who dances her way through life.  Born in Australia she grew up riding horses on a sheep station. After college in Sydney she found her way to America by training horses in California, Florida, Wyoming and eventually Colorado. She now owns and runs the Lyons Upholstery Shop and when not being a mother, spends her time seeking out live music to dance to. She is excited to be part of the Mayama team and to bring the Zumba joy and party atmosphere to Lyons. 

Erin Dollar Kott was called to yoga as a spiritual practice at the age of 12 . When she was 15 she traveled on a pilgrimage to India and Nepal to study meditation, Vedic scripture diving deep into yoga's root culture. Teaching yoga since 1995 Erin is as passionate about the practice of asana as it's philosophy and how yoga serves the bigger picture of our lives, our ability to live in harmony with our true nature and our relationships with others. Her classes focus on finding serenity and integration of the body, heart and mind through an emphasis on alignment, breath, methodical sequencing and the inspiring wisdom of yogic philosophy.

To deepen her understanding of the human body and the healing art of yoga she completed an interdisciplinary B.A. degree from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University in 2001 in "Yoga, Physical Therapy and Cross Cultural Integration". She completed courses in Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics, Kinesiology, Physical Dimensions of Aging, Medical Anthropology and completed 5 Iyengar Yoga teacher trainings.

Erin and has been privileged to have studied and apprenticed with some of the great teachers of our time and acknowledges them in gratitude - Patricia Walden, Ingela Abbott, Ae Ja Mobley, Glenn Kawana, Mary Dunn, Dean Lerner, Felicity Green, Julie Gudmestad, Ana Forrest, Sara Powers, David Swenson, Mary Freeman, Mark Horner, JJ Gormley.

Erin is the mother of two young sons and is both elated and deeply grateful to have made Lyons her home and community.

Cynthia Weir received her Level One Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and Certification through the Golden Bridge Kundalini Yoga Teacher’s Training Program, Los Angeles, CA at the Boulder, CO location.  Cynthia’s introduction to yoga began when she was 12 years old at the Sivananda Yoga Center with her Grandmother who was a Hatha Yoga teacher.  Yoga would remain in the background of her life as she built a career in Investment Management which culminated in the position of a Vice President with the Harris Bank in Chicago.

Recently, she made her way back to her roots in the West and back to yoga.  As a wife and as a mother of a 12-year old, she is most interested in the work of yoga off the mat.  As a ‘householder’ building a rural life with horses, miniature donkeys and bees, she finds great support and enrichment from her yoga practice and enjoys sharing the wisdom with others, helping them discover the healthy, joyful, prosperous and fulfilling lives that we as humans were meant to create.

Lori Flynn has been teaching yoga since 2006 after completing her in-residence training at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. Her teaching style is the result of various yogic as well as non yoga-specific influences including her time spent living alone off grid on 100 acres of untouched nature, studies in shamanism & consciousness and her work in a Vedic monastery. Prior to becoming a yoga teacher, she held corporate jobs in marketing for a decade and toured for two years as a professional wrestler in the sports entertainment world. She has led classes and served private clientele throughout Malibu, Santa Barbara and the Boulder area. In addition to yoga, she enjoys writing and performing music, stargazing and playing outside. She is a regular contributor to elephantjournal.com and teachasana.com.

Alana Yerman is from Rome, NY. She moved out to Colorado in 2008 after receiving her Master's and Doctorate degrees in Physical Therapy from Ithaca College. Through her experience as a collegiate athlete and physical therapist, Alana has developed a great respect for the human body and all that influences it. Through yoga, Alana has learned to respect and cultivate a more intimate relationship between the inner self and the physical body.

Alana's classes are a mix of a gentle opening and moderate vinyasa flow with emphasis on core strength, postural integrity and breath. The intensity of each class may fluctuate with the feel of the group. May you leave class lighter in step and heart!

Kim Rand found and fell in love with Boulder County in 1990, moving from a small suburban town east of Boston, Massachusetts.  She found herself out west with the space to grow and room to continue to develop her goals in life.  In 1996, Kim graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Conservation. Her strong passion for the environment and love for the outdoors eventually landed her in the small mountain town of Nederland, Colorado, which she now calls home. Kim spends her free time outdoors in nature, hiking with friends and her dog, snowboarding, snow shoeing,  river running and fly-fishing.  She has truly found herself and her passion thru the practice of yoga and she continues to experience the spiritual journey yoga offers.  Her practice and teaching is influenced by Hatha Yoga, Baron Baptiste’s Vinyasa Flow, Jivamutki, Anusara, and most recently, Maya Yoga.

Kim’s passion brought her to Maui in April of 2009 to study “Maya Yoga” with inspirational teachers Nicki Doane and Eddie Modestini.  Her emphasis is on awareness, breath, alignment and the integrity of the asana allowing the space needed to move energy and create positive change in the body and mind.  She feels that the foundation of the pose is essential to a healthy and sustainable yoga practice and it’s through a safe and mindful practice that a student is able to heal their body and quiet their mind.  Kim brings the ancient teachings of yoga philosophy into the classroom cultivating ones connection to self and the wisdom within.  She encourages her students to take yoga off the matt and into their daily lives promoting healthy relationships in every aspect of life.

Lisa Limoge began practicing yoga intuitively as a teenager in Burlington, Vermont. She leads a passionate, dynamic and inspirational class in the methods of Kripalu and Kali Ray Tri Yoga. The blending of these styles offers concise application of alignment, fluid spinal wave-like motion with attention to the inner journey of meditation for connection to spirit and perfect health. Regardless of class size lots of individual attention is given. Lisa is certified as a massage therapist and yoga teacher with 15 years experience. She has studied with many yoga masters in the USA and India.