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Leslie Ellis, OTR, eRYT500 founded HeartSong Yoga and Wellness Center in November of 2004 as a place to grow community and to ground her desire to share the joy she had received through yoga. In practicing yoga for 20+ years and teaching since 1998, Leslie has developed an approach to yoga instruction that is heartfelt and fun while also being challenging and technically precise. In Leslie's classes at HeartSong Yoga she leads you through a discovery process exploring the capacity of the body, the expansiveness of the heart and the celebration of life through yoga. Leslie is deeply passionate about the influence that yoga can have on all aspects of our lives. It teaches us how to honor ourselves, respect others and live from our hearts. She is grateful to all of her yoga teachers which include those she actively studies with and all of the students who share their practice and lives with her.
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Kayci Cavenah, RYT has been dedicated to yoga, in its broadest sense, since the mid 1970’s. She began studying and practicing yoga asanas in 1993 and has become passionate about the physical benefits of yoga and awed by its power to transform one’s consciousness. After years of personal study and practice, she decided to deepen her commitment by sharing her love of yoga with others through teaching. She received her 200 hr certification from ‘amrita, a sanctuary for yoga’ in 2008 and completed a mentorship program here at Heartsong in 2009. She is grateful for the opportunity to help guide and inspire others through their own experience of yoga.
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Lani Jelen, RYT has been a student of yoga for more than 30 years and through teaching yoga has encouraged and inspired students at all levels of practice for the last 20 years. Discovering the power and depth of yoga is her passionate interest and sharing this discovery with her yoga students is a great joy in her life. Lani teaches with a focus on the inner experience of yoga; through breath and movement she guides students to access their deepest inner strength and to sustain awareness of its presence throughout their yoga practice. She honors her yoga teachers John Friend, Richard Freeman and Rodney Yee and continues ongoing studies with many yoga instructors.
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Lynn Morrison RYT, LMT has been practicing yoga for more than 15 years all over the world as she traveled and taught outdoor skills and leadership. She is passionate about the human body and sees it as the most marvelous machine. She loves teaching yoga and helping others increase their knowledge, awareness, and acceptance of their bodies. Her style of teaching yoga is enthusiastic and supportive. She is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 200-hour level and has also recently become a massage therapist. Lynn is grateful to her teachers Lynne, Sarahjoy and John Friend and continues to participate in specialty yoga workshops and weekly yoga classes with others.
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Jeannette Phillips, RYT was introduced to yoga in 1998. Through positive early experiences, her eyes were opened to the great therapeutic benefits of yoga and in 2003, inspired to share the love of yoga that she had developed, she began teaching. She is honored to have had the opportunity to teach yog to a wide spectrum of people at both fitness centers and in the community through the parks and recreation system in Beaverton and Portland. The positive feedback received from her yoga students has strengthened her belief that yoga can make a positive impact on all those who open their hearts to it. She feels yoga can be a lifelong journey of health and self exploration.
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Kara Ebbutt, RYT was fortunate to be introduced to yoga early in life and has returned to the practice time and again for physical conditioning, stress reduction, and most recently mental/spiritual challenge and growth. She earned her 200hr certification in 2009 from Holy Yoga and then in 2010 worked through the mentoring program with Leslie here at Heartsong.
Since making teaching a regular part of her life, Kara has had the privilege of working with a gorgeous cross-section of fellow yoga students, from curious and energetic kiddos to the experienced and venerable members of our community. More than anything else, she loves that the practice of yoga offers a life-long path of learning, whether one is taking or teaching the class.
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Molly Spangler, RYT is an RYT at the 500 hr level as well as a graduate of Baron Baptiste's Level 1 Teacher Training. Molly discovered yoga in 2001 and loves everything about the practice, especially the feeling during practice and the enlightenment afterward. She feels that yoga offers us a continuous chance to learn and grow in body and spirit. Molly has now been teaching yoga for seven years and believes that yoga can give individuals strength and focus in all areas of their lives and that with regular practice we can all bring more awareness and openness into our lives. As a teacher, Molly brings an understanding that each student is different and unique and her focus is to help to guide them on their particular journey.
Molly studied Iyengar Yoga in Pittsburgh, PA at Yoga on Centre. She thanks her teachers Sara Azarius, Manouso Manus, Laura Blakeney, and Baron Baptiste. Molly also holds a BA in Marketing and loves the outdoors and traveling. She enjoys spending time with her husband and their two children.
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Jessica Halpern, E-RYT has been practicing yoga for 17+ years and has been teaching since 2007. She draws inspiration from the depth of yoga's many teachings and is fascinated by yoga's ability to physically strengthen, balance and integrate the body and the mind. Beyond the physical benefits, what intrigues her most, are the subtle aspects of yoga practice: the growth in awareness, presence and inner strength that has supported her in her 20+ year marriage and allows her to rise to the challenge of raising 3 daughters along with balancing the complexities of life.
Jessica is registered with Yoga Alliance at the E- 200-hour level (experienced yoga teacher), is a certified K-8 Yoga Ed. Instructor and a trained Living Yoga Volunteer. Jessica is grateful for the continued support of her family, to her ongoing studies with Leslie Ellis at HeartSong Yoga, and to the insight, inspiration, and dedication of her students and fellow yoga teachers.
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Eugene Lewins', LMT, passion is movement--preferably outdoors, including hiking, skiing and climbing. He provides cross-training and a thirst for exploration--both physical and interior-- through yoga, massage and leading outdoor trips. A scary accident in early 2011 reaffirmed his faith in yoga as primary tool for healing.
Eugene has been teaching yoga since 1999, studying with Indian yoga master Aadil Palkhivala and Yoga Journal's anatomy expert Julie Gudemestad. He graduated with a 4.0 in massage from East West College in 2009, balancing his masters in economics from Cambridge University. He instructs climbing for the Mazamas, the largest mountaineering organization in Oregon. He and his wife Sarah are blessed with two busy teenage children.
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Karen Rouchleau believes that the practice of yoga can help heal the body, mind and soul. She knew the first time she practiced yoga that it would change her life. A feeling of being centered and grounded washed over her, and with those feelings came a sense of freedom. Teaching others about yoga felt like the next natural step. When teaching her goal is helping the students find that sense of feeling grounded, and bringing their awareness into the moment through the sensations they are feeling in their body.
Karen completed a 200 hour Teacher Training with Leslie Ellis here at HeartSong and is registered with the Yoga Alliance. She continues her studies with Lani and Leslie at HeartSong and through workshops with visiting teachers.
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