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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.

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.

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.

Jennifer LaBoda Jamieson
Jennifer found her love of Yoga in 1996, and has been studying and practicing ever since. Her Yoga journey began with basic Hatha and Iyengar Yoga. In 2000 she was led to Anusara Yoga where she felt completely at home.

Anusara Yoga is at the heart of her practice, yet she is open to and curious about other Yoga styles and philosophies. Jennifer's classes focus on healthy alignment of body, mind and spirit; following breath to calm the mind, and healing principles for core strength and flexibility.

Jennifer is forever grateful to her teachers: Sarahjoy Marsh, Michele Bulgatz, and John Friend for their knowledge, inspiration and guidance.

Karen Lackritz
Karen is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Certified Rolf® Movement Practitioner, LMT, and Anusara Inspired Yoga Instructor. She has studied yoga with Sianna Sherman and John Friend, and is now an Affiliated Anusara Yoga Teacher. Her class reflects her therapeutic background and impeccable knowledge of the body structure; encouraging integration, flow, and ease of movement for practicing yogis.

Kristen Mico
Kristen's practice is focused on realizing yoga's capacity to enhance and bring greater meaning to life beyond the mat. Seeing yoga as a practice to prepare the body, mind and spirit for all of life's joys and it's trials. Starting with the outer body, she aims to help students build strength, openness and vital energy flow throughout the entire body that can be translated to 'real' life. Her curiosity for yoga at a young age has taken her to explorations in YinYoga, Anusara yoga, Atma Yoga, Thai massage, and modern dance. She has a degree in Family and Human Services from the University of Oregon where she focused on yoga as a modality for healing trauma, affirming her experience of yoga not only as a tool to heal, but powerful in preparing one for difficult situations. Kristen has been practicing yoga for over ten years, with the strength and flexibility of the practice continually guiding her to places of beauty and wonder. She comes from a family of evolving yogis and realizes yoga as a realm of existence, grounded in love and truth.

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.

Xóxó Solrana
Xóxó teaches to address the individual needs of students and to help students find their edge for a challenging, fun and rewarding class. She credits yoga with helping her accept her body, quiet her mind, deepen her breath, and approach challenges gently but steadily and without self-judgement. Xóxó holds a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from the University of Oregon. Off the mat she enjoys herbalism, gardening, biking, hiking and reading fiction.

Steve Woolf
Steve was initially introduced to yoga during staff training for wilderness guides in 1996. He began practicing in earnest when he moved to Berkeley in 2003. In Berkeley, he studied many forms of yoga before discovering Anusara at YogaKula, where he studied under Bo Srey, Pablo Mueller and Kimber Simpkins. He has also studied with John Friend as well as practicing a variety of yoga methods in the bay area, Portland, Eugene, and Coeur D’Alene, where he was trained to teacher yoga. Steve interweaves alignment, breath, and wisdom traditions with immediacy, warmth and a dash of mirth for good measure.

Steve holds a BA degree in Psychology from Mount Union College, a MS.Ed in Counseling from Northern Illinois University and three years of study in the psychology doctoral program at the Institute of Imaginal Studies (now Meridian university), where his area of emphasis was cultural leadership. His primary areas of research include: establishing presence, transformative interpersonal and community making practices and the emergence of human capacities within transformative learning communities.

Steve’s professional career includes public and private guiding, teaching and counseling in wilderness, clinical, college and university settings in the US and abroad. He teaches yoga, and provides transformative soul work for groups, couples and individuals. But most of the time he is either in the kitchen, doing household chores or playing with his son: all things that he finds replenishing.