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Allison Clan Terracio

Allison is a Certified Anusara® 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™.
The yoga journey goes like this: Allison
hears about her hero, Madonna, doing yoga and decides to take
a class at her gym in NYC (will Madge be there??); as her
interest in yoga waxes, her interest in her corporate job
at The Bank wanes; one dark day in December, she walks in
to the last weekend of an Anusara Immersion at Virayoga and
commits to teacher training; during a road trip vacation to
Kentucky, Allison drops in to visit Infinite Bliss. This is
where you enter the journey.
Allison is a native Kentuckian who attended
Centre College, where she was a Kappa Kappa Gamma, on Dance
Team, and studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (all
three equally relevant!). 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.
Look for Allison's monthly 'Om' column in Underwired Magazine,
inspired by Rajanaka Yoga philosophy from Professor Douglas
Brooks and the expereince of the sublime in the everyday.
Allison has studied extensively since 2005
with John Friend (Teacher Training, Therapeutics, Master Immersion),
Douglas Brooks, Sianna Sherman (Teacher Training), Zhenja
LaRosa (Immersions), Naime Jezzeny, Sue Elkind, Darren Rhodes,
and many other of Anusara's top teachers.
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).
Katharine Ann Donan
Katharine Ann is a Anusara-Inspired™
yoga teacher with over 500 hours of training with Certified
Anusara teachers. She is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic
Massage and Bodywork. Katharine Ann has been teaching in the
Anusara style since 2003 and has taught in San Francisco,
CA and Jackson Hole, WY. She has recently moved to KY and
is new to the area and our yoga community. Please join Allison
and the rest of the teachers in welcoming her to our kula.
Teresa Phelps Martin

Teresa is an Anusara-Inspired™ Teacher. Teresa shares
the gift of yoga with a playful and compassionate touch helping
you skillfully weave your inner beauty, strength and grace
on the mat and out in the world. Her first teacher was in
college that helped her open her heart & eyes to the possibilities
that life offers. She did her initial teacher training with
Don & Amba Stappleton in Nosara Costa Rica and continues
to contemplate the Interdisciplinary Hatha Yoga Certificate
she obtained in 2003. In her journey she has studied and encountered
amazing teachers (she has also learned a great deal in the
every day life and encounters with every day people). There
are a few that have radically shifted her perspective on life
and yoga... Shiva Rea helped her recognize the creative power
we each hold and how to weave the breath and spirit into our
every day life to be a more embodied being. Through Shiva
Rea, Teresa meet Paul Muller Ortega and participated in a
year long study and meditation practice. Paul’s teaching
methods of intellectual knowledge & experiential understanding
continues to reveal the great play of life that illuminates
& sparkles in every moment. In her time with Paul she
connected with an amazing kula (community) and began to recognize
the amazing practice of Anusara Yoga. She is currently studying
with Sianna Sherman and immersing herself into
the gifts of Anusara yoga. She continues to abide in her heart
as she steps into the currents of grace, and will help you
align your heart with the great dance so that we all can love
this life.
Laura Patterson
Laura is an Anusara-Inspired™ Teacher.
Laura's yoga practice began at the International Shivananda
Institute while she was in college, studying in Quebec City,
Canada. Back then, her primary goal was to meet boys, but
soon grew to include teaching. By 2000, life had brought her
to Lexington, KY, where she shared the Shivananda method with
her students.
Laura's Anusara Yoga practice began with
retreat to Costa Rica with Allison and Lois Nesbitt in February
2007. She followed that up with a year of yoga at Infinite
Bliss and began Teacher Training in 2008.
Laura sees the good in the everyday and shares
with the world her own particular goodness as a singer, sewer,
and swimsuit model.
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.
Tracy Elizabeth

Tracy strives for balance in her daily life
and finds that when she practices yoga she can achieve this.
Tracy grew up in Crescent Hill (Louisville) and went away
to Emory University in Atlanta to study Anthropology and English.
She returned to Louisville several years after graduation
to attend law school, to be closer to her family, and because
of her commitment to this community and desire to give back
to it. She credits happily surviving her first year of law
school to her yoga practice.
Tracy continues to work to align her yoga and her life. She
believes focusing on heart expansion supports breathing life
in deeply and laughing more.
Denise Stottmann

Denise Stottmann is an Anusara-Inspired™
Teacher. She is a native of Louisville and has enjoyed athletic
activities such as cycling, volleyball, and running her whole
life. In December 1987, she graduated from University of Louisville
Speed Scientific School with a Master of Engineering and she
also married her husband, Ed Stottmann. After working as an
engineer for five years, she chose to stay home with her children.
She discovered her passion for teaching while attending music
classes with her three children. She currently teaches music
and spiritual life lessons to over 200 preschool and kindergarten
aged children, coaches middle school volleyball, and teaches
yoga. She became interested in yoga several years ago when
one of her daughters did yoga for physical therapy and she
has been practicing Anusara Yoga since 2006. Denise continues
to be amazed at how the alignment principles continue to benefit
her varied athletic endeavors both as a participant and a
teacher and how the heart qualities of Anusara Yoga inspire
her in both her teaching and personal life.
Infinite Bliss Yoga,
1507 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40205
Corner of Bardstown Road & Eastern Parkway, between Objects
of Desire and PizzAroma
502.485.0121 or Allison@infiniteblissyoga.org
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