Yoga Bridge TEam
Susan Reeves |
Co-founder of Yoga Bridge®
Yoga Bridge® Yoga For Cancer Teacher and Teacher Trainer MA, E-RYT 500, YACEP with Yoga Alliance For over 18 years, Susan has been practicing yoga and teaching prana flow, gentle, and restorative yoga. She is the co-founder of Yoga Bridge®, a nonprofit organization that offers free yoga to cancer patients. She graduated with a B.S. in Education from Baylor University, and a M.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of North Texas. She spent 10 years at UNT as a Spanish professor before she discovered yoga. And it's been yoga ever since. Yoga Education: Yoga for Cancer, Shiva Rea Prana Vinyasa ® Yoga, Pre/Post Natal Yoga Relax and Renew® Certified Restorative Yoga Instructor w/ Judith Lasater Completed Oncology Training for Yoga Teachers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, July 2012 Most of us have friends and family who have been affected by cancer. We see what they are going through and often feel helpless to do anything. Hopefully this program can be a support on a physical, mental, and emotional level to people who really need it. |
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Co-founder of Yoga Bridge®
Yoga Bridge® Yoga For Cancer Teacher Trainer LMT, E-RYT 200 **Instructor of Yoga Fundamentals, Thai Yoga Massage*LMT licensed massage therapist with over 900 hours of education, certifications in Swedish, sports, shiatsu, neuromuscular and Thai massage*Massage therapist to Dallas Cowboys' Bradie James, and Olympic Gold Medalists, Nastia Liukin and Carly Patterson*Travels regularly to India to study yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda |
Pamela Ryan |
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Yoga Bridge® Yoga For Cancer Teacher and Teacher Trainer
RYT 200 Shanna attended her first yoga class, a simple hatha practice, one evening in 1998, and became a lifelong fan. She completed 200-hour teacher training in 2009 and Yoga Bridge's certification to teach recovering cancer patients in 2013. She redefines the phrase just-in-time-training, as she was diagnosed with breast cancer the following year. Through personal trial and error, Shanna learned adaptive ways to modify poses and regain her strength and range of motion after her double mastectomy. Her goal as a teacher is sharing her love of and knowledge about yoga with her students, whether new or experienced in their practice. Her day job is as a licensed therapist, focused on mindfulness and psychological flexibility to adapt to life's challenges. |
Shanna Nasche |
Cindy Atherton Epp |
Yoga Bridge® Yoga For Cancer Teacher and Teacher Trainer 200 E-RYT Cindy began her began her personal practice of yoga 15 years ago to combat stress and anxiety. After personally experiencing its many benefits, she wanted to share yoga with those around her and began teaching in 2004. She completed 200 hours of training and became certified with Yogafit Instructor Training in November 2006. Cindy continued her studies with numerous trainings to more fully understand alignment, breath and energy. After seeing the effects of cancer in her own family, coupled with the desire to help, the door was open to study and complete training with Yoga Bridge in March 2014. She continues to use many resources to learn and grow as an instructor for the benefit of her students and herself. In class, Cindy encourages students to find strength in the alignment of the body, to use the tool of breath to create health and peace, and to enjoy life in the present moment. It is always her goal to have students not only feel these wonderful benefits on their mat, but as a daily experience in their lives. |
Karen Fenton
Karen Fenton
Yoga Bridge® Yoga For Cancer Teacher
500 E-RYT
I have been practicing yoga for 18 years, since completing teacher training with Inspire Yoga in 2012, and I have been teaching since 2017. Other trainings I've completed are Silver Sneaker Yoga in 2015, and Yoga Bridge - Yoga for Cancer in 2017.
From my first yoga class, I knew I was in love. It gave me such a wonderful, calm and relaxed feeling. I love to help others to create that feeling for themselves. I teach Vinyasa, Yin, Chair Yoga and Yoga for Cancer.
I attended the Yoga Bridge training because there have been so many of my family and friends touched by cancer and cancer treatment, I wanted to get involved in helping others feel better in their bodies. The classes I teach with Yoga Bridge are slow, gentle, and calming.
Yoga Bridge® Yoga For Cancer Teacher
500 E-RYT
I have been practicing yoga for 18 years, since completing teacher training with Inspire Yoga in 2012, and I have been teaching since 2017. Other trainings I've completed are Silver Sneaker Yoga in 2015, and Yoga Bridge - Yoga for Cancer in 2017.
From my first yoga class, I knew I was in love. It gave me such a wonderful, calm and relaxed feeling. I love to help others to create that feeling for themselves. I teach Vinyasa, Yin, Chair Yoga and Yoga for Cancer.
I attended the Yoga Bridge training because there have been so many of my family and friends touched by cancer and cancer treatment, I wanted to get involved in helping others feel better in their bodies. The classes I teach with Yoga Bridge are slow, gentle, and calming.
Paula Hopkins Favre
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Paula Hopkins-Favre
Yoga Bridge® Yoga For Cancer Teacher 200 E-RYT I discovered yoga after moving to Texas from New York state in 2008. It quickly became my passion. Yoga offered the intensity and gratification I craved, but always left me feeling energized and optimistic! I received my RYT-200 certification from Yoga Tree Plano in 2012, and have been teaching yoga ever since. I got my certification from Yoga Bridge in 2014. I love teaching for Yoga Bridge. As an instructor, there is truly nothing more gratifying than sharing my knowledge of yoga with others, and watching them embrace the inner power that a consistent yoga practice brings to them. |
Dee Dee Burington
Dee Dee Burington
Yoga Bridge® Yoga for Cancer Teacher
E-RYT 500, YACEP
Dee Dee has been teaching fitness and yoga for over 22 years in Dallas TX. She is a passionate people-person and has yet to meet a stranger. She prides herself in being trained by local Dallas talent: Jo Dene Stokes, Toni Farris, and Brook Armstrong.
This year brings great hope. As an ERYT-500 and YACEP, she aspires to continue to train those practitioners that want to become instructors with her yoga teacher training curriculum.
As a breast cancer survivor, her next goal is to teach online Yoga Bridge classes that bridge the gap between cancer treatment and yoga therapy. Dee Dee delights in witnessing the miraculous benefits that yo-gah brings. She looks forward to seeing you on your mat.
Yoga Bridge® Yoga for Cancer Teacher
E-RYT 500, YACEP
Dee Dee has been teaching fitness and yoga for over 22 years in Dallas TX. She is a passionate people-person and has yet to meet a stranger. She prides herself in being trained by local Dallas talent: Jo Dene Stokes, Toni Farris, and Brook Armstrong.
This year brings great hope. As an ERYT-500 and YACEP, she aspires to continue to train those practitioners that want to become instructors with her yoga teacher training curriculum.
As a breast cancer survivor, her next goal is to teach online Yoga Bridge classes that bridge the gap between cancer treatment and yoga therapy. Dee Dee delights in witnessing the miraculous benefits that yo-gah brings. She looks forward to seeing you on your mat.
Jean DiCarlo-Wagner
Jean DiCarlo-Wagner
Yoga Bridge® Yoga for Cancer Teacher
MA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, RYS, Yoga Being School, Certified for Reiki, Patient Navigation, Death Doula
Greetings! I will be teaching on Mondays at 10am, CST. I’m so excited to have this opportunity to get back to my first love: teaching yoga for cancer patients. I am a 22 year survivor of late-stage colon cancer. My prognosis was grim. I was 46 years old and had a 15 year old child, a husband, and an aging mother, who all needed me.
When I thought about what I wanted to do with any time I had left, I knew I wanted to teach yoga to other survivors. I had a twenty year practice of yoga before I had cancer, but I couldn’t find a class that was gentle enough for me to make my way back to a “new normal”. I felt very alone and frightened. I didn’t want anyone else to feel the way I felt during treatment. I was very sick with weekly treatments and could do very little physically. I was retired from a 25 year teaching career because of my poor prognosis. “Other cancer patients must have felt like I was feeling,” I thought to myself.
When I was a bit stronger, I looked for yoga trainings that were designed for cancer patients. I couldn’t find anything. I decided to take a training in chair yoga for seniors. I felt like a senior, myself. My memory was foggy, my joints hurt, my stamina was zero, and my thyroid gave up and shut down. Let’s not even talk about hormone disruption, anxiety, and sleeplessness. I needed yoga!
Long story short, I’ve been teaching cancer patients, doing legislative advocacy work for cancer patients, being a certified cancer navigator, and training other yoga teachers to work with cancer patients.
My classes are therapeutic or restorative. I focus on breath stamina, that’s where recovery starts; getting our breaths back. And then range of motion in joints and some supine (lying down postures) and the class ends with some form a mediation. My classes are beginner friendly, but advanced students will find that slowing down and being in tune with our bodies is a deep practice of patience and self-love.
Classes can be done in bed, on a couch, in a lazy chair or on the floor. I encourage students to follow their yoga and listen to their bodies. We are different everyday and we learn how to honor where we are in the day.
Yoga Bridge® Yoga for Cancer Teacher
MA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, RYS, Yoga Being School, Certified for Reiki, Patient Navigation, Death Doula
Greetings! I will be teaching on Mondays at 10am, CST. I’m so excited to have this opportunity to get back to my first love: teaching yoga for cancer patients. I am a 22 year survivor of late-stage colon cancer. My prognosis was grim. I was 46 years old and had a 15 year old child, a husband, and an aging mother, who all needed me.
When I thought about what I wanted to do with any time I had left, I knew I wanted to teach yoga to other survivors. I had a twenty year practice of yoga before I had cancer, but I couldn’t find a class that was gentle enough for me to make my way back to a “new normal”. I felt very alone and frightened. I didn’t want anyone else to feel the way I felt during treatment. I was very sick with weekly treatments and could do very little physically. I was retired from a 25 year teaching career because of my poor prognosis. “Other cancer patients must have felt like I was feeling,” I thought to myself.
When I was a bit stronger, I looked for yoga trainings that were designed for cancer patients. I couldn’t find anything. I decided to take a training in chair yoga for seniors. I felt like a senior, myself. My memory was foggy, my joints hurt, my stamina was zero, and my thyroid gave up and shut down. Let’s not even talk about hormone disruption, anxiety, and sleeplessness. I needed yoga!
Long story short, I’ve been teaching cancer patients, doing legislative advocacy work for cancer patients, being a certified cancer navigator, and training other yoga teachers to work with cancer patients.
My classes are therapeutic or restorative. I focus on breath stamina, that’s where recovery starts; getting our breaths back. And then range of motion in joints and some supine (lying down postures) and the class ends with some form a mediation. My classes are beginner friendly, but advanced students will find that slowing down and being in tune with our bodies is a deep practice of patience and self-love.
Classes can be done in bed, on a couch, in a lazy chair or on the floor. I encourage students to follow their yoga and listen to their bodies. We are different everyday and we learn how to honor where we are in the day.
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Yoga Bridge Yoga for Cancer Patients Teacher Trainings
Certified Yoga Bridge®
Yoga for Cancer
Teachers:
Lerna Clearman, RYT 500
Kristina Shiroma, RYT 200
Debbie Simon, RYT 500
Leslie York
Mary Dunklin, RYT 200
Paula Hopkins-Favre, RYT 200
Billie Jo Neubauer, E-RYT 500
Cindy Atherton Epp, RYT 200
Dee Dee Burington, RYT 200
Shanna Nasche, RYT 200
Trisha Leonard, RYT 200
Charles Arnett, RYT 200
Melanie Iriye, RYT 200
Sherri Mariani, RYT 200
Susan Schrader, E-RYT 500
Liz Vilmar, RYT 200
Amy Beatty, RYT 500
Jennifer Alterman, E-RYT 500
Janet Spain, RYT 200
Nanette Labastida, RYT 200
Kathy Newland, RYT 200
Bob Ferry, RYT 200
Jill Hance, RYT 200
Gina Caruso, RYT 200
Jo Moore, RYT 200
Carla Self, RYT 200
Anna Trimm, RYT 500
Jean Wilbert E-RYT 500
Lesley Butler, E-RYT 500
Kari Horneck, RYT 200
Crima Pogge, RYT 200
Leslie Sharp, RYT 200
Maria Beatriz Malard
Jane Forbes, RYT 200
Summer Smith, E-RYT
Cindy Russell
Nancy Lozano, RYT 500
Trish Kinder, RYT 200
Carolyn Martinez, RYT 200
Tabatha Knickerbocker, RYT 200
Rebekah Spurrier, RYT 200
JoAnn Ezell, RYT 200
Jodi Dunaway, E-RYT 200
Lydia McMillan, RYT 200
Amy Kelley, RYT 200
Teri Conover, RYT 200
Noleen Mcmenamin (Northern Ireland)
Meghan Mcgreevy (Northern Ireland)
Monika Löber (Switzerland)
Carmen Patricia Kasper, RYT 200
Tania Sode
Mary Beth Dahlstrom Green
Nancy Migliozzi, RYT 200
Sheila A. Richards
Jessica Abou Jaoude, RYT (Dubai)
Online Small-Group Yoga for Cancer Teacher Training/Mentorship
Contact [email protected]
Yoga for Cancer
Teachers:
Lerna Clearman, RYT 500
Kristina Shiroma, RYT 200
Debbie Simon, RYT 500
Leslie York
Mary Dunklin, RYT 200
Paula Hopkins-Favre, RYT 200
Billie Jo Neubauer, E-RYT 500
Cindy Atherton Epp, RYT 200
Dee Dee Burington, RYT 200
Shanna Nasche, RYT 200
Trisha Leonard, RYT 200
Charles Arnett, RYT 200
Melanie Iriye, RYT 200
Sherri Mariani, RYT 200
Susan Schrader, E-RYT 500
Liz Vilmar, RYT 200
Amy Beatty, RYT 500
Jennifer Alterman, E-RYT 500
Janet Spain, RYT 200
Nanette Labastida, RYT 200
Kathy Newland, RYT 200
Bob Ferry, RYT 200
Jill Hance, RYT 200
Gina Caruso, RYT 200
Jo Moore, RYT 200
Carla Self, RYT 200
Anna Trimm, RYT 500
Jean Wilbert E-RYT 500
Lesley Butler, E-RYT 500
Kari Horneck, RYT 200
Crima Pogge, RYT 200
Leslie Sharp, RYT 200
Maria Beatriz Malard
Jane Forbes, RYT 200
Summer Smith, E-RYT
Cindy Russell
Nancy Lozano, RYT 500
Trish Kinder, RYT 200
Carolyn Martinez, RYT 200
Tabatha Knickerbocker, RYT 200
Rebekah Spurrier, RYT 200
JoAnn Ezell, RYT 200
Jodi Dunaway, E-RYT 200
Lydia McMillan, RYT 200
Amy Kelley, RYT 200
Teri Conover, RYT 200
Noleen Mcmenamin (Northern Ireland)
Meghan Mcgreevy (Northern Ireland)
Monika Löber (Switzerland)
Carmen Patricia Kasper, RYT 200
Tania Sode
Mary Beth Dahlstrom Green
Nancy Migliozzi, RYT 200
Sheila A. Richards
Jessica Abou Jaoude, RYT (Dubai)
Online Small-Group Yoga for Cancer Teacher Training/Mentorship
Contact [email protected]
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