Elise Stansbery is an avid yoga practitioner and 14 year yoga teacher.  She has been trained and certified in hatha yoga from the Temple of Kriya Yoga in Chicago .   Elise believes every body can do yoga.  Knowing when to ask for help, get more support with life and with yoga come with practice.  This Cancer Support Community yoga group is a fabulous group that is in of itself healing and fun to be with.   Come explore something new and take home more energy and more calm.  This is a class that offers gentle movements, breathing and mindfulness.  Beginning and continuing students welcome. 

Julie Garland, a certified yoga teacher from Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, has been teaching yoga classes since 2003. She leads an easy-to-follow class and encourages listening to your body. She uses Pranayama, asana, and “meditation-in-motion” throughout her classes. Julie trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn in mindfulness meditation practice and co-founded Mind-Body Stress Reduction programs both at Masterpeace Studios and Grace Hill Medical Center. Yoga feels magical; everyone can do it and discover the wonders within themselves.

Kate Walsh is an experienced certified yoga teacher from the lineage of the Himalayan Institute tradition. She has been teaching yoga since 2001 and was certified in 2002. She has further trainings in yoga anatomy with Tias Little, Paul Grilley, and Leslie Kaminoff; restorative yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater; and Yoga of the Heart™ with Nischala Joy Devi. Kate is also a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has been practicing yoga in one form or another since her early teens.  A chronic and painful health condition in adulthood drew her deeper into the study of yoga for therapeutic and restorative benefits it provides. This personal experience and love of the science and philosophy of yoga is what informs her teaching in a gentle way for the participants at the Cancer Support Community.