About Us: Bios

Allison Clan Terracio

Allison has received a teaching status of "Anusara-inspired yoga teacher." Anusara Yoga is a system of hatha yoga founded in 1997 by John Friend that integrates the Tantric philosophy of intrinsic Goodness with Universal Principles of Alignment.

Allison came to yoga through classes at her gym and realized that she could get a full-body workout and a massage all at the same time! She started out coming home and showing her sweetie the cool things she did, and then the focus shifted from what she was doing to what she heard from her teachers about yoga 'off the mat.' When her friends gently pointed out to her that all she talked about anymore was yoga, she began to look for a studio to call home in New York City and found Virayoga, an all-Anusara studio. She has studied intensively with Certified Anusara teachers Lois Nesbitt and Julie Dohrman, amongst many others, to whom she is eternally grateful.

Allison is a native Kentuckian who attended Centre College and studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She brings a love of learning and a love of life to the mat and is continually inspired by lessons from her teachers and from her students.

Nate Terracio

Nate became a yogi and Allison's first student on the same day. Since that day, Nate has found pincha mayurasana (forearm stand) and putting his leg behind his head to be quite invigorating. His other teachers include John Friend, Lois Nesbitt, and Dana Lewis. When not practicing (and sometimes teaching) and helping out with the Infinite Bliss website, Nate works with the Aquila Theatre Company of New York.

Nate was raised in Columbia, South Carolina. He attended the University of South Carolina where he received a BS in Chemistry (Honors).

Catherine Graber
A couple of years ago, Catherine was measuring her children and marking their heights on the kitchen door. Her son suggested she measure herself, and she was astonished to find she had grown from almost 5' 4" to nearly 5' 5". Always an active person, Catherine could only think to attribute this growth to her participation in a three times a week Pilates practice under the direction of Debra Moore. More excited than ever about the benefits of Pilates, Catherine earned her certification to teach mat-based Pilates classes through AAFA. Her growth theory was verified when several of her Pilates students began to report these kinds of positive physical changes.
No matter what your fitness level, you can enjoy the benefits of strengthening and toning your muscles, increasing your flexibility, and improving your posture. Pilates is the perfect addition to a yoga practice. Focus is on the abdominal, lower back, hip, and buttock muscles. Balance your body, reduce stress, improve circulation, enhance endurance, look better and feel great with a non-aerobic Pilates mat-based program.

Kyle Jackowitz
A dancer from the time she entered first grade until she finished her second year in law school, moving mindfully has always been a big part of Kyle's life. She 'discovered' yoga in the 90's and new perspectives opened to her. She began teaching in January, 2006 after having studied yoga for several years in various gyms and studios. Her teaching is influenced by her studies in Anusara, and by other styles she has practiced, including Iyengar, Ashtanga and Bikram. She has to admit teaching wasn't her idea: a teacher suggested she give it a try, and now she's hooked. Kyle quickly realized she loves introducing others to discover what yoga brings to them, and what they bring to yoga.

Kyle's classes foster the mindful integration of alignment, strength and flexibility, and are based on an underlying celebration of who we are and who we can be, on and off the mat.

Ashley-Brooke McGinty

Ashley-Brooke continues her yoga practice as a certified instructor directly from the Nosara Yoga Insitiute in Costa Rica having completed their Interdisciplary Hatha Yoga Teaching Training. Under the supervision of Don and Amba Stepleton, Ashley-Brooke learned that the gift of yoga is in your breath (prana). True bliss can be reached through yoga by allowing prana to flow freely. Students will be provided with a sense of body awareness and connecting spiritually with their inner self. In her class you will learn how to relax and start letting your prana take your body to infinite bliss!

Teresa Phelps
Teresa shares the gift of yoga with a playful and compassionate touch. With an emphasis on the breath (prana) and fluid motion (vinyasa), Teresa takes you on journey to experience the full range of yoga. From the sweaty purification of a dynamic and seamless flow to a calming, stress reducing, therapeutic restorative practice, she helps you connect with your inner beauty, peace, strength and grace. She has trained with master teachers Shiva Rea, Judith Lasater, Angela Farmer, Victor van Kooten, Anna Forest, Barbara Benagh and Don and Amba Stapleton. She has been a practitioner for over 9 years and continues to be a student of yoga. Her training, studies and practice infuse her approach to living her yoga and embodying the flow with grace – one moment at a time.

Kara Price

Kara is originally from Evansville, IN and is excited to come back to the area with her husband to be closer to family. While she was away, she found a few passions: Pilates, Yoga and dancing. She’s been dancing professionally for more than 15 years. Her dancing brought her to Chicago, where she found Pilates and Yoga.

Kara took her first Yoga class while in Chicago. Her fellow Pilates teacher told her to go to a level 2/3 Astanga class because she was a dancer and flexible. Needless to say she felt she was thrown into the ocean and then told to swim; and swim she did. Yoga was something Kara knew she wanted to delve more deeply into. She continued her yoga journey and completed OM’s Joining Heaven and Earth teacher training program in NYC.

Pilates came fairly easy to Kara because of her dance background. However, Kara quickly found through teaching Pilates that it is accessible to any and all people. Whether healthy, injured, young, old, big or small, Pilates is an exercise technique that anyone can master. Kara loved that and has continued teaching Pilates for the past 9 years.

With each class Kara gives, whether Pilates or Yoga, she focuses on alignment, breath and a sense of smile. She believes that keeping a lighthearted approach will take you somewhere you have never been—physically, mentally and/or spiritually.

Infinite Bliss Yoga, 1500 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40205
On the corner of Bardstown Road & Eastern Parkway, 2nd floor of the Schuster Building
502.485.0121 or Allison@infiniteblissyoga.org