Shannon LiebelIn her youth, Shannon trained in artistic and acrobatic gymnastics and competed at the elite and international level. Shannon received a BA in Psychology and MA in Clinical Counseling. When she discovered yoga in 2005, it was the perfect balance of the mental work she enjoyed in Psychology and the physical movement of the body that she loved in gymnastics. Shannon received her RYT 200 with Yax Yoga Concepts in 2012 and began teaching right away, and then opened her studio in Lake Tahoe in 2016. Nine months after the studio opened, Shannon had open heart surgery and this experience only strengthened her belief in the power of yoga. In 2018, she furthered her education and trained in Thailand with Beyond Bryce to receive her RYT 500, and also received her FRCms with Functional Anatomy seminars later that year. Shannon strongly believes in the connection between mind, body, and soul, and this reflects in her Vinyasa style teaching. She is the owner of Still Water Yoga Lake Tahoe, LLC, teaches daily classes, facilitates workshops and yoga teacher trainings, runs international yoga retreats around the world, and teaches at a variety of yoga festivals.
website @shannonliebelyoga |
Christine MattFor as long as I can remember I have been in pursuit of a deeper connection to my inner being and the nonmaterial aspects of life. Moving my body in an authentic and rhythmic way, whether through biking, running, or weight lifting has always been a way for me to connect to the deeper parts of myself. Directly after college, I discovered yoga as a form of movement. I found it to be such a beautiful synthesis of movement and stillness, body and soul, material and nonphysical, that I knew immediately this form of movement was a natural fit for me. I have been practicing yoga in its many forms ever since that time. After many years of personal practice, I decided to teach. Teaching is a way for me to share what I am learning and a way for me to inspire others to grow. Primarily, I teach as a way of helping others to feel good in their bodies. I also love encouraging others to find freedom. Just as the primary quality of the ocean is saltiness, our primary human calling is for freedom. To teach is to open the gate to more freedom; mind, body, soul, and spirit.
website @weyogasandpoint |
WakesAda Ketchie and Nathan Getzin are the co-founders of Wakes, where they help people cultivate greater mindfulness, healing, and self-actualization through the ineffable power of music. They are the creators of the Wakes Method and Wakes App, a home for their unique sound bath sessions for sleep, meditation, and emotional health. Their studio albums include the immersive sound healing album Journey through the Chakras, and meditative Christmas Album, Winter Solstice. As popular teachers on the Insight Timer meditation app, Ada and Nathan serve thousands of people through their free weekly live sound baths (affectionately called ‘Wakesday’ by fans). They have toured extensively throughout the West Coast USA, Costa Rica, Ireland, and the UK, and have Wakes community members in over 25 countries around the world. website @wakes.life |
Brietta LeaderBrietta is a teacher of dance in its many forms of healing, prayer, play and conditioning. She grew up as a dancer and discovered her path as a healing artist in 2001, while traveling in Asia. The combination of Brietta’s devotion to the dance, her gypsy spirit, family roots & passion to support herself and others into an embodied conscious awakening has birthed her own trademarked movement form called WildCore™. Her years of study as a conscious dance leader and mentor for Soul Motion® began to blend her years as a Nia® Teacher, Massage Therapist, Shamanic student, devoted yogi, pranic healer, reiki practitioner, apprentice to mother-nature, energy enthusiast & performer. All of which contributed to WildCore’s development. Brietta loves to inspire self-healing through movement and offers classes, workshops & co-creative retreats and performances to her hometown of Sandpoint, Idaho, surrounding areas and internationally.
website @wildcoremovement |
Susan Jane Hall"A spiritual alchemist and guide, sound healer, artist, and visionary, Susan inspires to create experiences that enhance, uplift, and support mind/body transformation." I am certified in both Vinyasa Hatha Yoga (400 YTT, Spokane, WA.) Yin Yoga (200 YTT Paul Grilley) and Kundalini yoga (400 YTT Seattle WA.). I have a passion for the ‘roots of yoga’, the deep traditions and philosophical teachings of yoga. With a thirst for learning and adventure, I spend a good portion of my time traveling and engaging in new cultures and people to enrich my understanding of community and the practice of compassion. I am a classically trained singer, whose love for music and sacred sound is expressed through the chant of Mantra (Bhakti Yoga). Beyond the teaching and practice of yoga, I perform Kirtan with my band Bījāa. We have been together 5 plus years now and have developed a unique blend of sounds that we believe truly elevates the human spirit.
website @satyayogachant |
Jessica DragoJessica’s teaching weaves the power of the breath into anatomically aligned movement to help build body awareness and strengthen the relationship with our mental/emotional/spiritual selves. Her journey started with an attempt to nurture a rock climbing injury. Taking a yoga class, she discovered an endless adventure towards self awareness. Honoring the profound transformation that was taking place both on and off her mat, Jessica pursued Teacher Training with Bridget Lyons and Tiffany Wood. Having suffered and recovered from various sports injuries, and having completed workshops certifying for Physical Therapy Aide and Massage Therapy Aide, and Certified Yoga Health Coach, she has an understanding of how to offer the body what it needs to recuperate as well as rebuild. Coupling her passion for yoga and body mechanics, with over a decade of experience in the healthcare field as a Certified Nursing Assistant and training in Body Alignment and Structural-Muscular Balancing, Jessica is passionate about using her knowledge to help others in their individual pursuit of an active and balanced lifestyle.
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Matthew ChavezAs one of the Pacific Northwest’s only SOMA breath facilitators, I am inspired to share the life-changing process with as many humans as possible. I have always had a deep curiosity and drive for exploring the inner space of the human body/mind. Experiencing a traumatic back injury at age 18, I needed a long-term solution for managing and healing the pain. Committed to a deeper healing journey I discovered Soma Breath. It was through Soma Breath I unearthed a sacred connection to breath, what has become an essential relationship to nurture. The powerful effects and positive impacts of breathwork became very clear after a consistent daily practice, which I still maintain till this day. Following the intuitive nudge, I decided to train and become certified as a Soma Breath facilitator. For the past 3 years I have been working with clients 1:1, hosting monthly group workshops and facilitating at events/retreats. My passion for sharing this modality continues to grow as I reap the benefits of my own personal practice as well as witness the magical, beautiful and healing experiences that occur each time I have the honor of facilitating a breath journey.
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Kristine RaeKristine Rae is a Myofascial Release Practitioner (John Barnes trained) and a licensed physical therapist. She treats clients in her private practice Kristine Rae Physical Therapy & Myofascial Release in Sandpoint, Idaho. She considers Myofascial Release to be a sacred healing technique and feels honored to assist her clients through their healing process of releasing trauma and pain from their bodies. Kristine considers Myofascial Release to be the most caring, effective, holistic healing modality that she has used in her 16 year career as a physical therapist. Kristine is a song leader and a song carrier and is a graduate of Lisa G Littlebird's Flight School for Songleaders across the world. She has studied voice with the Sandpoint Music Conservatory, with Jonathon Brinkley in Portland, OR and sung in the Pend O’reille Chorale & Orchestra. Kristine considers singing to be an ongoing spiritual practice and one of her favorite ways to connect with others.
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Barb OviattI am the owner and operator of the Mat Yoga studio in LIberty Lake for the past 13 years. I have been working in the fitness industry and have studied Taekwondo for over 30 years. Over the past 20 years my focus has turned to mind body fitness and nutrition integration. I am RYT certified yoga instructor with extensive training in Baptiste Power Yoga. As a nutritional coach, I enjoy helping my clients better understand macros and how to apply intermittent fasting into their nutrition routines. I am also a certified Integrated Human Performance Coach. Empowering people with tools and practices to improve their most valuable relationships and as a result impact the lives of their children, teams, and communities.
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Jody PignoletI received my yoga teacher training certification in 2015. Later that same year I was introduced to the practice of Authentic Relating, also sometimes referred to as "relational yoga". The exposure to that yoga level of presence while being with others landed in me in a profound way and I have used those experiences to enrich my yoga teaching practice and my relational practice. In 2021 I created a YouTube channel called Authentic Now Yoga, offering yoga classes, tips and tools. I am also currently writing a book on Authenticity and hope to have that available for the event.
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Liz KarkulaBalance has always been a central theme in my life. The first years of my balance practice were spent perfecting skills as a gymnast. As that journey came to a close, I was left trying to find a practice to take it's place. I attended my first yoga class in 2006 and was instantly at home. I began slacklining in 2007, became a certified YogaSlackers teacher in 2011, and completed my yoga teacher training in 2012. Since that time I have been balancing teaching and working in my full time private practice as a Certified EMDR therapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing individual therapy and EMDR Intensives.
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Erika DixonI share the practices I do because they are the ones that have guided me over the years. These practices helped me develop my steadfast resiliency, meanwhile allowing spaciousness for contemplative reflection. Whether it's teaching meditation to teachers in a public school, guiding groups of middle schoolers toward a state of calm while in my office, leading a group of experienced yogis into longer held poses, or playing outside on slacklines fastened to tall PNW fir trees, my intention is simple; to guide my students and community toward an experience of wholehearted and integrated peace.
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Ara LymanAra Lyman began her yoga journey in 2001 at Harmony Yoga in Spokane, WA after experiencing painful tendonitis. Yoga asana immediately helped and she never turned back from the practice as a means to stay healthy in body, mind and spirit. She has been teaching full time since 2009 with a 200hr certification from Spokane Yoga School, 350hr Hot Yoga certification from Beth Gallis, a private Baptiste training from Rhea Slichter, 200hr KRI certification from Guru Singh and Sada Simran, 500hr Radiant Body certification from Kia Miller, level 3 sound certification with Geoffrey Torkington and continues to learn from many teachers. She is currently studying for certification as an Ayurvedic counselor. Her classes and trainings are steeped in philosophy, safe, energizing movement, mantra, pranayama and sound healing with himalayan, alchemy crystal bowls and gongs. She currently teaches Hatha vinyasa, hot 26&2 and Kundalini yoga. Ara is committed to a regular asana practice and a daily sadhana consisting of mantra and pranayama. Ara teaches and practices yoga as a means of Self liberation, realization and healing. "Heal the world by healing yourself."
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Rob and MelissaRob and Melissa are kirtan singers and yoga teachers devoted to sharing their love of kirtan and Bhakti Yoga wherever they go. The husband and wife duo is based in the Pacific Northwest, but they lead kirtans, workshops, and retreats all over the world. They have shared their music at numerous yoga festivals in the US, including Bhakti Fest, Shakti Fest, Prana Fest, Samsara Fest, and the Northwest Yoga Feast. Their music has been described as “heart-opening bliss,” “joyful medicine,” and “love and devotion materialized!” Whether you’re new to kirtan or a life long devotee, Rob and Melissa create a fun, accessible and sacred space...the perfect setting for a joy-filled celebration of the divine!
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Tish HegelWith a practice of yoga that began in 1987, Tish has developed a knowledge of Yoga that as evolved and deepened throughout many life stages. She has practiced Yoga through child bearing years, injury rehabilitation, chronic back pain and two hip replacements. These life experiences, along with the experience of gaining and losing excess body weight, have enabled Tish to empathize with the many challenges to a practice of Yoga. Tish draws from these experiences, along with her knowledge of body mechanics learned while earning her BS degree in Kinesiology from Arizona State University, in every class she teaches. Her enthusiastic and passionate approach to Yoga is conveyed through constant encouragement of her students and efforts to make a Yoga practice accessible to anyone who is eager to improve their mobility, functional capacity and ultimately their quality of life.
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Michael WelpMichael Welp helps leaders grow partnerships and cultures where everyone can thrive. He greatest focus is on inclusion & equity. (see wmfdp.com). Michael is a certified facilitator of authentic relating, circling, and four relating skills originally developed by Carl Rogers. Michael is the author of Four Days To Change and is a TEDx speaker and host of The Insider Outsider Podcast.
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Holly WalkerHolly Walker is an artist and art teacher living in her hometown of Sandpoint, Idaho. She works within the community on collaborative art projects, bridging the gap between students, artists, organizations, and community members. Holly received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Idaho and her Masters in Art Education from Boise State University. She had been teaching high school art at a rural charter school for 17 years. She also teaches art classes and workshops to adults, empowering them to express their unique creative visions. Holly’s personal work is currently focused on acrylic and watercolor painting and illustration, rooted in nature. She sells paintings, greeting cards, stickers and prints through her Etsy shop, the Farmers Market, and regional craft fairs.
Holly grew up exploring the shores of Lake Pend O’reille and the meadows of the Selkirk Mountains where she frolics in the sun and snow with her friends and family. |
Mary DennyMary started practicing yoga in 1998 and has been a yogi ever since. In 2018 she took a 200 hour teacher training course from Ara Lyman and taught at Spokane Yoga Shala, now Shala Living yoga. For her professional life she owned and operated Anemone Paper Flowers since 2002 spreading joy one flower at a time for all these years, teaching countless classes. 2017 she started installing art and teaching at music festivals around the world. 2018 started working with and learning ancient wisdom from indigenous tribes from many countries and lineages. All of this past experience brings her to this special crown of power class she has prepared for the Yoga Feast. We will work with energy, practicing harnessing it from the earth, sharing with others, and protecting it.
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