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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 and is most influenced currently by Mary Paffard, Angela Farmer and John Friend.
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Emilee Coulter-Thompson, MSW, RYT? discovered yoga in 2000 while finishing her Master of Social Work degree. She was profoundly influenced by the ways in which yoga helped her to reconnect with her body and breath, and yoga has inspired her ever since. Teaching and practicing yoga supports Emilee's strong vision and commitment to social justice work, including over a decade of work with trauma survivors and advocacy to end violence and promote women's health. Realizing yoga's potential to empower individuals and transform communities, in 2006 Emilee became a Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher and Living Yoga Volunteer Teacher. She also completed the teacher training and apprenticeship at Amrita Sanctuary. Now she is thrilled to be a member of the HeartSong Yoga community in Beaverton, Oregon. As a teacher at HeartSong Yoga, Emilee aims to create a safe space for students to explore their own healthy alignment and loving self-awareness through their yoga practice.
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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 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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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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Jessica Halpern, RYT? began her yoga journey 14 years ago while pregnant with her second child. She draws inspiration from the depth and breadth of yoga’s many teachings and is fascinated by yoga’s ability to physically strengthen, balance and heal the body. Beyond the physical benefits, what intrigues her most, are the subtle aspects of yoga practice: the growth in awareness, presence, inner strength and fortitude that allows us to face the complexities of modern life with fluidity and grace.
Jessica is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 200-hour level and is a certified K-8 Yoga Education Instructor. Jessica is grateful for the continued support of her family, to her teachers at the Ananda Mandir in Beaverton, to her ongoing studies with Leslie Ellis at HeartSong Yoga, and to the insight, inspiration, and dedication of her students and fellow yoga teachers.
Jessica currently teaches corporate yoga classes for HeartSong Yoga.
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Molly Spangler, RYT? is the most recent addition to HeartSong's wonderful collection of teachers and 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.
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.
In her classes at HeartSong, Molly says that her focus is to understand that each student is different and unique and help to guide them on their particular journey. Molly teaches at HeartSong on Saturdays.
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