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Yoga Instructors

Laurie Geiger - Yoga Program Director
A certified Hatha Yoga teacher, Laurie has a BS degree in Physical Education/Recreation and has taught other activities including Spinning and Nordic skiing.

Inspired by Power Flow Yoga, Laurie leads lively flowing sequences, emphasizing breath, core strength, balance and flexibility.

Grace Bullock
Grace is a passionate, creative, joyful Anusara Inspired yoga teacher and student. She believes that the practice of yoga offers unlimited possibilities for opening and softening the mind, body, heart and spirit, and for cultivating mindfulness and healing. Through clinical research, and the study of spiritual philosophy, her classes emphasize the luminous energy within and around us, and self-awareness though inquisitive discovery. She welcomes the honor of sharing the practice of yoga with others, through grace, enthusiasm, humour, and quiet reflection, and embraces each moment as a blessing on and off the mat. Her students include individuals, adults, families, and youth.

Grace is a Registered Yoga Teacher with a Ph.D. in Psychology specializing in clinical interventions with families. She is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. In collaboration with Street Yoga, she is working to provide yoga to families in need, and to research its impact on family well-being. She also studies Yoga Therapy at the American Viniyoga Institute, under the tutelage of Gary Kraftsow and T.K.Desikachar.

Michele Bulgatz
Michele is an enthusiastic Anusara Yoga teacher and student. She teaches with passion, energy and humor galore. Each persons unique spirit is honored and helps to co-create a radiant community light. From this deep place we can respond in the highest to whatever comes our way. We embrace life! She loves to sing, dance, create, play outside and laugh out loud.

Diane Butera
Forrest Yoga trained Diane Butera describes her journey as including many styles of yoga, including Ashtanga, Anusara and Iyengar. “I arrived at Forrest Yoga as I sought healing for not just the chronic back pain I was experiencing but for healing the emotional and spiritual upheaval that permeated my midlife experience. My yoga wisdom is the anchor that keeps me connected to my wiser self.”
Join Diane as she wholeheartedly assists you through your own personal transformation on and off the mat. Her focus of breath and body awareness opens the gateway to wellness. Using the Forrest Yoga model of healing and wellness, combined with years of yoga practice, she provides foundational tools of alignment and breath work, insight and enthusiasm to guide her students of every age and fitness level to emotional, spiritual and physical wellness.

Tom Clark
Tom started his practice of yoga in the Ashtanga vinyasa style in 1995 and is now completing his training in Anusara Yoga. Grateful to experience masterful teachers, he sees yoga as a path for optimizing our own evolution as spiritual beings. Using clear explanations and visualizations, he guides the yoga practitioner to explore not only the body but the essential nature of the heart.

Jennifer Hartman
Jennifer Hartman passed away March 20th. She was a longtime Tamarack Yoga Instructor and practiced yoga with Four Winds Yoga from its inception. Jennifer also worked the very first volunteer shift at the Tamarack main desk in 2004.

Jennifer embodied the true essence of living yoga. She was a vibrant, healthy and exuberant woman. Jennifer was passionate about yoga and she approached her personal practice with a deep conviction and awareness of her own body and spirit.
As a teacher, Jennifer ably conveyed this deep understanding to her students and she inspired in them a strong sense of dedication toward their own yoga practices.

The Jennifer Hartman Memorial Fund has been established to help Tamarack Yoga instructors continue their Yoga education. For donation information, please inquire at the front desk.

Janet Hollander
Janet has taught chair-based exercise since 1982. With a B.A. in gerontology, specializing in older adult fitness, she joyfully shares her expertise and years of experience in working with older adults to facilitate a sense of health and wellbeing.

Karen Lackritz
Karen is a Certified Advanced Rolfer, a Rolf Movement Practitioner, and faculty member at the Rolf Institute. She has been studying yoga intensively with Sianna Sherman and John Friend for the past 5 years, and is now an Affiliated Anusara Yoga Teacher. She has also studied Ashtanga Yoga with Richard Freeman.

Her class reflects her therapeutic background and impeccable knowledge of the body structure; encouraging integration, flow, and ease of movement for practicing yogis.

Will Mitchell
Will Mitchell started his yoga practice over 25 years ago in his native Australia. He started teaching in 1992 in Hawaii, and has taught classes in Japan and throughout the U.S. He has studied B.K.S., Prashant, and Geeta Iyengar in Pune, India, and has attended workshops with such teachers as Aadil Pahlkivala, Ana Forrest, and David Swenson. Blending Iyengar yoga's attention to form, detail, and alignment with the flow and fire of other approaches, Will brings a gentle humor to his eclectic blend of yoga styles. Will also studies Ayurvedic nutrition, maintains a meditation practice, and is trained as a professional artist.

Donna O’Neil, RYT
A natural and lifelong teacher, Donna was certified to teach hatha yoga in 1995 through Ananda Yoga. She is also certified to teach Meditation, Therapeutic, Cardiac Rehabilitative and Restorative Yoga, and continues her studies in Anusara yoga. In her practice of yoga she feels a joy and freedom she loves to share with others. Her classes guide the student in a deep experience of the body and into the heart of our Highest Self. A perpetual student as well as teacher, Donna is grateful to the teachers who have guided her.