Michele Murphy - Teacher/ Owner
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Michele's love for yoga started in 2005 when she needed a PE credit in college so she signed up for yoga and fell in love. She practiced Iyengar yoga for about 2 years and then stopped practicing for about 7 years. After having a child and going through a divorce, she felt very lost. Michele began practicing yoga again to get connected and grounded. She instantly picked up where she had left off and fell in love with the practice again. Michele started a daily practice in Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow. She submitted a picture for a yoga contest to win a yoga teacher training in Thailand. She won the contest and completed her 200 hour teacher training with Kosta at Vikasa Yoga in Thailand in 2016. Her love for yoga and traveling has only grown since. Michele quit teaching elementary school to teach yoga full time to adults and children. In her free time you will find her traveling the world, practicing yoga in amazing places, with her 7 year old daughter.
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Tiffany Hilgendorf - Teacher/ Owner
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I started my yoga journey in 2011 at the behest of my then oncologist. If you had told me that I was going to be a yogi all these years later I would have laughed in your face, because at that time, I had this convoluted idea that all you did was sit around in linen pants and chant, drink Kombucha and talk about chakra alignment. It’s funny now, but at that time the idea of yoga scared me. Ask me about my first hot yoga class if you want the laugh of the century. Seven years later, I am in remission and I couldn’t be happier with my yoga lifestyle.
For three years, I practiced Hatha style yoga at various studios both in New England and in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve competed twice in the USA Yoga Federation state competitions, and I’ve qualified once for the National competition. In 2012, I decided to yoga around and I found a heated vinyasa studio and fell head over heels in love with flow style yoga. In 2013, my mentor urged me to go to teacher training, with his help and the help of two other instructor friends, we created a “yoga lab” at our studio and they helped me study and sequence to prepare for my training. My two loves are teaching and Vinyasa. In my own practice, I enjoy several different styles of yoga: Vinyasa, core power, Tripsichore, and Hatha. And that’s why I appreciate seeing what Vinyasa can handle. It’s my passion to put together a flow where there are no ends to postures just beginnings of the next, with as many different style of yoga added in. Along the way I’ve had the pleasure of practicing and teaching with some incredible yogi mentors that I am proud to say have helped guide me into the teacher I am today, and for that I am ever in their debt. |
Tamara Bronson Mills - Teacher
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I discovered yoga 5 years ago while recovering from an injury. After taking a year break from regularly practing I rediscovered my love for it after going to a class with my friend. I began my regular practice once again and decided I wanted to go deeper into my understanding of the mind, body, spirit connection. I completed my 200hr YTT with Cassandra and Carrie at Gilbert Yoga and I have grown to better understand the importance of yoga in practice both on and off the mat. I also have a strong belief that meditation is just as important for the mind as physical training is for the body. I love helping to guide students through their practice and hopefully assisting them further their appreciation and understanding of the yoga practice.
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Andrea Borkowski - Teacher
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My name is Andrea and I am an LMT as well as a 200-hour graduate of S.W.I.H.A.’s yoga teacher training program. I have been practicing yoga for three years and massaging for two and a half. Well-being for the body, mind, and spirit has called to me since I became a young adult. I believe that through connecting breath to movement you can silence the chatter of the mind and open yourself to spirituality. Through stretching shortened muscles and strengthening the weakened, you can ease pain in the body by correcting disfunction. Please join me for unheated flow on Mondays and Wednesdays and Yin on Thursdays to find your silence, heal your body, and explore the spirit within.
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Tracy Lynn La - Teacher
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“Tracy loves teaching yoga classes that cultivate strength along with stretch in a Hatha style flow, but is also a firm believer that restorative classes help to add balance to today’s hectic, stress-filled, technology heavy world. She has been teaching yoga since 2013 and is a registered member of Yoga Alliance. In addition to yoga, she instructs Stand Up Paddle Boarding, Paddle Board Yoga, Cardio Barre, TRX and various other fitness classes. Her favorite ways to unplug, aside from yoga, include golf, stand up paddle board, hiking, camping and snowboarding.”
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Cheri Prange - Teacher
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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”
~ Abraham Lincoln ~ My journey of yoga has developed into a passion for learning more and more about all aspects of the yoga lifestyle. I took my first yoga class at a local gym and couldn’t get enough of it. Tiffany (Exhale Yoga owner) was one of my first instructors and her passion and commitment to the practice of yoga strongly influenced me which led me to join a yoga studio. I personally experienced deep healing through the consistent practice of yoga. I practiced 2-3 times a day and found myself falling in love with the whole experience of yoga, wanting to learn even more. I went through a certified yoga teacher training program to deepen my knowledge and experience of yoga. This training course inspired me to want to share with others the joy and physical healing that comes through the practice of yoga. Currently I am enrolled in the HEY (Healing Emphasis Yoga) program to become certified as a Yoga Therapist. I am honored and grateful to share this great gift of yoga with others.
I am also a passionate self-taught nutritionist. I admit, I am an avid label-reading geek of ingredient lists, which all started from looking at what was in dog food. I strongly believe that nutrition is the foundation of all health while yoga is a great addition in living a robust, healthy life. There are many layers to health and I am on a journey of discovery into the holistic lifestyle. I share what I learn with my family, even the health benefits and taste testing of the kombucha I make! My husband and I share an ‘empty nest’, except for Timmy, our little desert tortoise and our two doggie babies, as both our other children are married with their own families. We have two beautiful grandsons, with another one (maybe a girl?) on the way! I am honored to be a part of the team at Exhale Yoga, who are all highly skilled, compassionate and devoted yoga professionals. I look forward to the privilege of guiding and supporting yogis in their own personal yoga journey. Hope to see you soon! 😊 |
Kelli Davis - Teacher
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ASU in 2006 with a degree in Early Childhood Education. Kelli began practicing yoga shortly after her daughter was born in 2006. It was after an instructor introduced Kelli to vinyasa yoga and arm balances that she became hooked. She began a daily yoga practice in 2014. She took her first hot yoga class the same year and loved it from the very first class! She completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in 2014 and has been teaching and practicing around the valley ever since. Kelli currently lives in Mesa with her husband, two kids, two cats, and a tortoise! Kelli’s classes are high energy, vinyasa/hatha style, with a focus on alignment. Don’t be surprised to see an arm balance or two mixed into her classes. Kelli’s classes are for all levels, she believes that yoga is for everyone. If you can breathe, you can do yoga
“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”
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Tristen Reis - Teacher
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Yoga has been a part of my life for many years and was what catapulted me into transformation. I didn’t know it then, but I was showing up to yoga class to connect to my True Self. I knew that being a yoga teacher was part of my path when I started overcoming anxiety and depression through the practice of yoga. I wanted to share what I found with others. At the end of 2015 I decided it was now or never to take the leap of faith. So on the 1st of the year, I followed my intuition, packed my car with some belongings and my dog and moved back to Arizona from Massachusetts setting the intention of self-discovery and non-attachment. I completed 800 hour Advanced Yoga Teacher and Healing Arts Practitioner program at SWIHA specializing in Polarity, Yin, Sound Healing, Transformational Yoga Coaching, Prenatal, Restorative, and I AM Yoga Nidra. Yoga is the foundation of my self-discovery; the unearthing of myself. The most rewarding part of teaching is holding sacred space for my students while they unearth their True Selves.
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