2016 Teachers at Yoga Outerach Columbus



Meet our 2016 teachers from left to right:

Elizabeth Miller is a certified yoga teacher in the viniyoga tradition through American Viniyoga Institute, registered nationally with the Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour professional level, and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has been practicing yoga for seventeen years, and has studied extensively with many renowned teachers including Gary Kraftsow.

In addition to her yogic studies, Elizabeth also holds a Bachelor's degree from Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio) in English Literature with special emphasis in Religious Studies and Visual Arts. She holds certification in Thai Yoga Massage from the Lotus Palm School in Montreal, Canada; Nerve Touch in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and the Sunshine Network in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In 2015, Elizabeth received certification as Grief Recovery Specialist through the Grief Recovery Institute.

In addition to teaching yoga, Elizabeth worked for several years with the Omega Institute, a leader in holistic education based in Rhinebeck, New York, and The Crossings, a progressive learning center just outside Austin, Texas. Through these progressive centers of education, Elizabeth has been able to learn and incorporate seeds of wisdom from many traditions in her classes and private sessions.

Elizabeth's gentle, yet powerful, teaching style helps students accept themselves as they are and uncover their sacred perfection. Following an ancient tradition honoring the five dimensions of humanity, Elizabeth weaves a class that touches the physical, mental, energetic, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of our being.

Loretta Zedella is an experienced yoga teacher and a certified Yoga Tune Up® instructor with over thirteen years yoga teaching experience. She has been teaching yoga since 2002 and teaching at Ohio Wesleyan University and Dublin Recreation Center since 2004. She is respected by students throughout the area for her practical yet light-hearted teaching methods.
Loretta specializes in using yoga therapy balls and therapeutic movement to help us each reveal ease of body and peace of mind. She has shared these workshops with thousands of people at many varied locations including Franklin Park Conservatory, Dawes Arboretum and many yoga studios. She also teaches this work weekly at job sites.
Loretta has studied with countless yoga teachers including Jill Miller of Yoga Tune Up® and Erich Schiffmann. She has immersed herself in developing a deep understanding of body alignment and movement.
She is the founder and CYO, Chief Yoga Officer, of Yoga Outreach Columbus, a charitable organization dedicated to uniting the local yoga community and benefiting local community assistance groups.
Assisting Mark Zedella, The Duke of Fork as we present cooking classes to help you live a healthy life.
Creating and sharing yoga inspired jewelry created with good intentions since September 2015. 
"You knead these balls" 
                                                                                                                  
Jennifer Gebhart, E-RYT 200, RYT 500, an Urban Zen Integrative Therapist and mentor, Prenatal Teacher and Trainer and a Licensed Yoga 4 Classrooms Trainer and, a Laughter Yoga Leader. She has been teaching Yoga for 11 years. She teaches to many populations with varying abilities including, Yoga for MS, Prenatal, Postnatal, children, seniors, vinyasa flow yoga, HathaYoga, Restorative Yoga and therapeutic yoga, etc. She has a deep passion for yoga and meditation and the many benefits they have to offer. Her focus is helping people feel better physically, and mentally.
Jennifer is a co-teacher in the DVD Gentle Yoga For MS.
 
Abby Dorn received her 500 hour teacher training certification from Yoga Zone/BeYoga with Alan Finger in New York City in 2002, and she has been joyfully teaching ever since. She and Holly Moretti are Bhakti Mamas a Kirtan duo who have graced Yoga Outreach Columbus and Central Ohio music lovers with song for years.

She is influenced by many teachers including Mark Whitwell, Rodney Yee, Ana Forrest, Sharon Salzberg, and Lois Nesbitt. In 2003, Abby completed a prenatal yoga training with Carrie Parker Gastelu, and in 2004 she became certified to teach Itsy Bitsy Yoga TM for babies and toddlers. Originally from Delaware Ohio, she lived and taught in Brooklyn, NY for 8 years and moved to Columbus in 2008.

Abby owned a yoga studio in New York City where she taught for years. She currently teaches a wide range of populations at Balanced Yoga in Clintonville, Grow Yoga in Grandview, and The Cancer Support Community, Jamescare for Life. Abby is trained in the ISHTA style of yoga which is a blended style of hatha and vinyasa yoga that incorporates detailed alignment. Abby sees yoga as a practice of active gratitude for the life we are given, as a time to honor and nurture our bodies and to celebrate our vitality, and as a time to connect to ourselves and each other through heart opening and mindful attention to the breath. She is eternally grateful to all her teachers (including her students!) who share their yoga and help to guide her on the journey.

Beaker Prince teaches yoga and the Alexander Technique (AT) in Columbus, Ohio, integrating the two disciplines to facilitate a mindful and anatomy-informed yoga practice.

Beaker completed her 200-hr through Integrative Yoga Therapy, and her 500-hr training at Samyoga Institute (formerly ShivaShaktiSynthesis) with Janice George. She certified in AT after a 6 year apprenticeship with Dale Beaver. She is influenced by many teachers, including Aadil Palkhivala, Richard Rosen, and Doug Keller.

Beaker has taught yoga at the Ohio State University in the Department of Human Sciences (formerly the School of Physical Activity and Exercise Science) since 2002, and is currently a full-time lecturer with the department. She also teaches yoga at the German Village Meeting Haus and McConnell Heart Health Center, and AT at the OSU Center for Integrative Medicine and in private sessions.

In 2005 Beaker initiated Holiday Charity Classes at a local yoga studio, a tradition that lasted for ten years, through December 2014. The program grew to include many other local teachers, nurtured the local yoga community, and raised thousands of dollars for local and humanitarian causes.

Michelle Mineo, E-RYT 200, loves sharing the practice of yoga with yogis seriously from ages 5-75. She teaches in studios, in gyms, in schools, in businesses and anywhere else where people need to find the time and space to take care of themselves. When she's leading the class, there is bound to be a fun playlist accompanying the practice. Off the mat, she is a wife, mother of three crazy boys, a half marathoner, and a speech therapist working with non-verbal individuals. And because giving back is important to her, Michelle teaches year round fundraising classes benefitting cancer research, Children's Hospital and her South Bexley Neighborhood association. Her personal mantra, adopted from Lennon and McCartney "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

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