ANDREAS WEINRICH
Andreas, who has been part of the Bloomington community since 2000, was introduced to yoga in 1998 when he lived at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He participated in a 250 hour Anusara yoga teacher training with Todd Norian in 2008/2009 and has also studied with John Friend, the founder of Anusara yoga. The Anusara system of hatha yoga integrates precise principles of alignment with inner body awareness and a celebration of the heart. Andreas has been teaching lunch time yoga classes at the IU Health Center since 2009 and at Mukti Yoga since June 2010. He is also a massage therapist and works in his private practice as well as for the IU Health Center.
MARISSA MOORMAN
Marissa has been practicing yoga - ashtanga and vinyasa - since 1999. Her classes emphasize linking breath with movement and movement with movement, sometimes to groovy music and sometimes not.
SAMANTHA KING
Samantha is a chanting, vibrating, vinyasa-practicing-yogi-Buddhist-mom, who has found herself humbled at the foot of many great spiritual beings from all sorts of traditions. She completed her yoga teacher training in Toronto, Canada, in 2005, at Downward Dog Yoga Studio under the tutelage of ashtanga yogis Ron Reed, Diane Bruni, and Marla Joy. Samantha has taught yoga and chanting classes in Canada, Costa Rica, Tennessee, and now Bloomington. Samantha comes from long history of athletic mind-training that left her with an aversion to competitive sports, hard-core Russian coaches, and anything smelling like chlorine. From her very first yoga class, this gymnast - turned - diver knew she found her calling. After her athletic career ended, she began her journey as an ashtanga yogi, and has happily (in an unattached way) found herself sitting in zazen with the Zen Buddhists, enduring 10-day long silent vipassana meditation retreats, and under the guidance of her lama Venerable Khenpo Sonam Rinpoche, diving full force into the tantric practices of vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism.
She has practiced various forms of yoga, including yin-yoga from Paul Gurley, ashtanga from Danny Paradise and Matthew Sweeney, Tibetan Heart Yoga from Geshe Michael Roache, and nada yoga from Bhagavan Das. Samantha is working on completing the Yoga Studies Institute Classics of Yoga accreditation. She is the author of thedomesticyogi.blogspot.com
STEPHANIE DEBOER
Drawn to the ways in which yoga helped her to remain open to the changes in her life and in others around her, Stephanie began a daily yoga practice five years ago. Her approach to yoga strives to balance the freedom of an open heart with a strong physical foundation, as a path toward remaining flexible in life and spirit. She was certified through Pure Yoga in Hong Kong, and has been inspired by teachers in the Anusara and Vinyasa traditions of yoga. Stephanie is grateful to her teachers and for the opportunity to share her love of yoga with others. She is also faculty in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University.
YULIA AZRIEL
Yulia Azriel has been an active member of Bloomington community since 2004. Finding yoga has been one of the most transformative experiences of her life. She was introduced to Yoga by Winnie and Hannah Edgerton with whom she has been practicing Hatha Yoga in the tradition of Swami Satyananda and the Bihar School of Yoga. After three years of devotional practice, Yulia went to study with Yogi Amrit Desai, the founder of Kripalu Yoga, and completed Yoga Teacher Training with Yogi Desai in Florida in September 2010. Yulia has been offering her volunteer services by teaching yoga at Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana since February 2010. Yulia is very happy to join Mukti Yoga Studio to offer Amrit Yoga classes.