YOGA

Previously a circus-performing lawyer yogi in Australia and Japan, Amy took a break from her corporate career to run away with the circus and learn more yoga. She performed as an adagio acrobat in Australia, studied at circus school in China, street performed in Serbia, travelled with clowns in Mexico and practiced plenty of yoga along the way. Today Amy is a qualified Sivanada Yoga teacher, Partner Acrobatics teacher, and co-founder of CircAsana Yoga. She teaches CircAsana Yoga at Magnific Rock in Nicaragua, where she also manages the yoga retreat program and coordinates CircAsana Yoga community circuses.

Nicole Krumenacker is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher who has developed a unique and raw approach to the practice and teaching of yoga. Nicole has extensive teaching experience ranging from beginner to advanced studio classes as well as in other specialized areas including community yoga in the park, children’s yoga, and work place yoga. Nicole’s mission is to continuously expand her knowledge and love for yoga by teaching others the self-improving techniques, philosophy, ethics, and lifestyle that it offers.

Alexis is a Florida native, born in Miami and relocated to Jacksonville Beach in 2009. Growing up she struggled with her weight, asthma and scoliosis and was never very active or healthy. She found the practice that she says saved her life in 2010. "Yoga has brought vitality, self-acceptance, balance, health, and a sense of well-being to my life. I'm scared to see where I would be without it," Alexis has stated. She began practicing at home with a DVD to hopefully relieve some of her lower back pain and began to feel the benefits of the practice. It wasn't until she went to her first yoga class that she fell in love. Just a little over a year later she registered for her first teacher training and since then has completely submerged herself in the community. Now with almost 600 Hours of intensive teacher training, Alexis has experience teaching stand-up paddle board yoga, kids yoga, chair yoga, thai yoga, yin yoga, Baptiste Power Yoga and The Ashtanga Primary Series. She leads a powerful vinyasa class that focuses on coming in to each pose at your fullest expression and not trying to fit in to a mold of what you think the pose is "supposed" to be like. She reinforces proper alignment and muscle engagements to help you grow in each posture wherever you are in your practice. She applies her knowledge to keep you safe and help you work with any ailments. Alexis always gives modifications and offers props for her students, allowing them to accept their bodies and really make the practice their own. She has found her way to a tiny little beach town on the Pacific Coastline of Nicaragua that she now calls home. When she isn't practicing or teaching, she can be found around the beach surfing or hiking with her dog Bear. She is following her dreams and living a simple life. She teaches regularly scheduled yoga classes and hosts workshops at her favorite retreat center, Costa Dulce, and studio, Zen Yoga. A couple days a week she hosts sailing charters on the Nica Sail & Surf Catamaran. As Alexis goes about her own journey with her yoga practice she has set the intention to help others continue theirs. She has worked globally with non-profit organizations that utilize the practices and teachings of yoga to help others heal and reach their fullest potential such as the Africa Yoga Project and Yoga 4 Change. She is currently learning to speak and eventually teach yoga in Spanish to be able to give back to her new community. When she isn't sailing or in a studio, you can find her either surfing, crafting or hiking with her dog Bear. She loves cheese, feathers, donuts, back bends, avocados, red wine, michaladas, Thai food and honey.

As a certified Anusara yoga teacher, Zivile offers group and private instruction, focusing on the precise body alignment necessary for a safe yoga practice. Participants of her practice can expect to take away a wealth of information, via detailed alignment oriented instruction, into their everyday 'yoga of life'. Zilvile’s ample experience working one on one with individuals, as well as with groups, to address and heal therapeutic issues is the source of inspiration from which she constantly references in extending the gift of yoga to others.

Kate's passion for yoga came through years of self practice and the desire to help others. Guiding people through their practice Kate encourages balance, flexibility and strength, to reconnect with oneself and challenge our minds and bodies. Kate loves to incorporate meaning and play into her yoga practice and teaching. Through years of self-discovery and learning from teachers around the world, her inspiration behind her practice shines through her classes as she inspires and encourages students to love themselves, their bodies and their practice.

Yoga came into Ashley's life in the fall of 2010. She was naturally drawn to the grace and elegance of yoga, having grown up a dancer, so she began her teacher training through YogaFit the following spring. In her personal practice, Ashley has goals of attaining transitional arm balances, but in teaching a class she prefers to lead a gentle, self-massage-like flow that is accessible to all levels. Ashley strives to continually learn from her students and share a peaceful, open-minded environment. She feels so grateful for the opportunity to give the experience of wellness in mind and body to others.