About Us: Bios

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