Ellen Berman

Ellen has been studying and practicing yoga with for 7 years, teaching for 3, and recently completed her her training with Sacred Art Yoga and is a certified yoga instructor at the 200 hour level. As a painter Ellen discovered that the two disciplines – yoga and painting – complement each other in that both ask you to observe closely (be mindful), to look within yourself, and to move at your own pace rather than someone else’s.

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Carla Daws

Carla has been a yoga enthusiast since the mid-1970′s. She is a graduate of the Living Yoga Program of Austin, Texas, and completed her 200-hour certification following her 9-day intensive study at the Barsana Dham Ashram. She currently teaches restorative and chair yoga, as well as eclectic hatha yoga. She is available for private yoga instruction. Her dream is to have her own studio for folks over 60 and provide transportation to and from class in a yoga bus. She is passionate about sharing her love of yoga with everyone and feels it is the way to a life of health and prosperity. She continually studies yoga and meditation, and is a first level reiki healer. Carla is a stage and film actress and shares her home in Wimberley, Texas, with her husband John, her son Stacey, and several four-legged family members.

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Esther Huisman, RYT200

Esther is the owner of a small green-built yoga studio offering weekly classes, private classes, as well as workshops in the Texas Hill Country. Esther is trained in Hatha yoga and is a certified restorative yoga teacher, having trained with Judith Hanson Lasater. She has also studied with Donna Farhi.

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Becky Jordan, CYT, E-RYT 500

Becky Jordan created Heart of Texas Yoga after she and her husband Greg moved to Wimberley in 2001. Heart of Texas Yoga offers public and private yoga classes, workshops, retreats and advanced trainings. Becky has been a student of yoga for over 25 years and has been teaching since 1995. She is a certified yoga teacher and is registered as an E-RYT 500 (Experienced Yoga Teacher, 500 Hour Level) with the nationally recognized Yoga Alliance. Becky also co-founded Sacred Art Yoga, a 200/500 hour national advanced studies program located in Wimberley and Houston. She has taught at national and regional conferences and leads retreats and advanced trainings around the country. Becky brings a sense of play to her classes while focusing on alignment principles that allow the student to take their yoga practice to a deeper level. Practicing safely and having fun is of the utmost importance!

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Jan McGowan
Jan has been teaching her own style of Hatha Yoga for 38 years.  Receiving instruction from Lilias Folan in California, she embarked on her own healing journey as she shared her knowledge with public and private school teachers, children of all ages and the general public.

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Helen Stutchbury

Helen is an off-the-mat, hands-on teacher who brings a ton of information, energy, and joy to her teaching. Helen specializes in fitness yoga with a passionate interest in muscular symmetry, so if you always seem to have one side tighter than the other,  Helen’s unique Healing Power Yoga techniques mixed with traditional hatha yoga poses can fix it. The magic of Healing Power Yoga also applies to Seniors, using subtle variations on traditional Hatha postures to strengthen, align, balance, and stabilize the body in a gentle class format. Helen is also one of the developers of TreeYoga, a fun and deeply strengthening outdoor yoga practice, and she owns and runs Camp Utopia Yoga, a workshop, retreat and teacher training program here in town. She has been practicing yoga on and off since the age of 3, and became a teacher in 2005.

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Ann Zbylot

Ann has been teaching and practicing yoga for over 10 years, and received her teacher training @ Sacred Art Yoga Training, right here in Wimberley. Ann says, “Hatha yoga revitalizes and relaxes my body so that my mind and heart can go to greater depths of peace and clarity.” Ann’s training and experience as a professional counselor support the concept that the body and mind are interrelated and that their interaction creates health and well being. Ann believe hatha yoga is a practice that grounds the mind and body so that students have a felt sense of the physical changes that occur through their focused effort.  Yoga is an opportunity to learn and explore more about the structure of our body and its capabilities.  Keeping this exploration fresh and new is one of Ann’s aims as a teacher.