Infinite Bliss Yoga: About Us: Bios

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 to over 200 preschool and kindergarten aged children along with teaching 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 student and a teacher and how the heart qualities of Anusara Yoga inspire her in both her teaching and personal life. She became the owner of Infinite Bliss Yoga in July 2011.

Laura Beasley
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Carrie Burr

Carrie started practicing yoga in 2004 at Infinite Bliss. Her desire to learn more about yoga and her own practice allowed her to explore the many styles of yoga offered in Louisville. She wanted to deepen her practice even more when she move to Los Angeles where she participated in her first Rasa Vinyasa training with Shiva Rea in 2005. Carrie completed her Anusara level one teacher training at City Yoga with Anthony Benenati and Camilla Bergstrom in West Hollywood. She continued her training primarily in Anusara and has completed two therapeutics training and the Anusara level two training with Naime Jezzeny and Sue Elkind at Yogaphoria in New Hope, PA.

What Carrie really loves is to go upside down and backwards sometimes at the same time! That doesn’t happen often but it is really fun. She loves the transformation that characterizes each students practice and the joy it gives them.

Laura is an Anusara-Inspired™ Teacher. Laura's yoga practice began at the International Sivananda 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 through sewing. Laura makes lots of lovely dresses, tops, and yoga mat bags you can find for sale at Infinite Bliss Yoga.

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 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.

Heidi Vaught

bio coming soon!

Infinite Bliss Yoga, 1507 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40205
Corner of Bardstown Road & Eastern Parkway, next to StudioWorks
502.485.0121 or infiniteblissyoga@gmail.com