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Breathe into your HeartAgain

Your breath gives you control over your state of mind and your body’s chemistry. Working with your breath can be a transformational practice that reduces stress and anxiety, help to overcome trauma, regulate your nervous system and provide an overall sense of well-being and relaxation.

I will give a full description of what you might expect before we start the practice. It is important to me that you are fully aware of what class will look like and that you know you are in full control of your experience. You will get out of the practice what you are willing to put into it.

I teach circular breath-work or conscious, connected breathing that involves breathing through the mouth in a circular pattern. We will breathe in this way actively for close to 30 minutes or about 6-8 songs. After the active breathing is complete, you will have plenty of time to reflect and be with yourself.

What to bring:

  • Comfortable clothing that isn’t too tight
  • Water bottle, as hydration is important
  • An open mind
  • A Journal for after class if you wish

We can provide these if you do not bring your own:

  • Yoga Mat
  • Blanket (body temperature can fluctuate during breathwork)
  • Bolster
  • Eye Pillow

Price: $25

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Location

Thrive Yoga, Crested Butte

326 Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Colorado

Instructor

Julie Pomerantz

Julie is an E-RYT 500 trained instructor with additional certifications as a 300-hour teacher of Yoga Therapy, Trauma Informed Yoga Therapy, Ayurvedic Health Counselor and Adaptive Yoga. She discovered yoga in 1996 after breaking her back. Through a dedicated home practice she gradually regained mobility, reclaimed her active lifestyle and developed a passion for the healing power of yoga. Her strength lies in her unique eye for body mechanics cultivated from years of athletic endeavors. This vision enables her to adapt postures for individual students while teaching to the whole class. Her classes combine breath centered integrative movement with traditional yogic philosophy to cultivate a sense of grounded liberation.

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Kaitlyn Grace Seifert

Kaitlyn Grace Seifert is a Crested Butte native, a mountain girl at heart, who loves to travel, create community spaces for heart-centered connection, and study healing modalities .  She is a registered RYT 500hr Yoga Teacher, specializing in therapeutic yoga and mind-body connection. Her classes focus on deepening self awareness and cultivating more ease in the body.  All of her studies, including Incan Shamanism, cognitive science, and quantum physics come together in her classes through holistic sequencing. Kaitlyn believes that yoga is about balancing strength and softness that ripples out into every area of life.  

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Juli Colucci

Juli has a diverse background in practicing and teaching movement modalities. She started teaching PiYo and has most recently been trained to teach Prana Vinyasa Yoga. Juli is currently pursuing her 500-Hour Yoga Certification, all while managing running her company, and her beautiful family. If you want a living example of strength and balance, you will want to come practice with Juli.

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Ashley Sargent

Ashley has great interest in the therapeutic benefits of yoga, which she continues to foster with on-going classes, workshops, and mentorships. She has been teaching since 2006, and practicing yoga regularly since the 90’s. Ashley is a 500-RYT certified teacher in the Iyengar method, and she has completed extensive training with Francisco Kaiut and Luciana Ross in the therapeutic method. She studied personally with the founder of the original hot yoga, and she is a Master Practitioner of Reiki. Ashley is happiest playing outside and spending time with her family and friends. She continues to teach classes and workshops in Paonia and at various studios across the Western Slope of Colorado.

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Guy Ciulla

Guy Ciulla, L. Ac. has been teaching yoga since 2003. He is a passionate acupuncturist, herbalist, and also received his Level 3 Reiki Attunement.

He has practiced and taught almost every style of yoga but he found Kaiut in 2013. He now teaches Kaiut exclusively and studies directly under the founder; Francisco Kaiut.
Kaiut Yoga is accessible to all ages and skills levels.

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Chynna Collins

Chynna is an Oklahoma native that has been competitive and professionally dancing since age 3. After being diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and told she could never dance again- and was pointed towards yoga – “it was love at first flight.” She spent 6 years practicing yoga extensively while teaching dance and fitness. She obtained her 200 hour RYT in Ashtanga from Rishikul Yogshala in Rishikesh, India. After traveling in India and soaking up as much knowledge as she could, she has made the permanent move to Crested Butte where she continues to share and develop her practice.

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Macy Vinther

Macy grew up in the Seattle area and began her fitness journey after being somewhat reluctantly convinced to join cross county, track, and cheer in highschool. She soon fell in love with the joy of movement and quickly became a fixture at her local fitness studio while pursuing athletic excellence in her high school activities. As time passed, Macy began to take an interest in teaching and received greatly appreciated encouragement, mentorship, and teaching opportunities from the instructors at her local studio. In 2021, she became a NASM-certified group fitness instructor and began teaching regularly while attending college classes online during the pandemic. In the summer of 2023, Macy became certified as a Barre Intensity instructor and enjoyed teaching pop-up Barre classes to her fellow students while finishing her degree in both Vocal Performance and Humanities at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California. In Macy's Barre and Sculpt classes, you can expect an encouraging and motivating atmosphere where each participant is propelled towards reaching their fullest potential, leaving each class feeling mentally strong and physically accomplished.

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Kendra Ryan

Kendra Ryan began practicing yoga in 1999 as a way to relax from her job in the Navy. She facilitated classes onboard ships for many years and then received her 200hr training at Salt Spring Center of Yoga in 2009. Afterward, she continued to teach aboard research ships and on a cross-continent bicycle trip. Kendra loves the mental, emotional, and physical benefits that yoga brings into peoples’ lives. Her continued training focuses on yoga as one method of healing wounded warriors, Yoga for First Responders®, and Calming Kids®. When not practicing yoga, Kendra works in research and deployment of wind energy and enjoys time in nature with her family.

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Christie Hicks

Christie has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 25 years. She still draws inspiration from her earliest teachers: Max Strom, Saul David Raye, and Shiva Rea. Her vinyasa classes focus on connecting deeply with breath, properly aligning the body, gently opening the heart, and mindfully building sequences to an accessible peak pose. 

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Jen Laggis

Jen is a Certified Iyengar yoga instructor. She has been a student of Iyengar yoga for over 25 years and has been teaching regularly since 1999. She is passionate about the subject of yoga and enjoys the process of self study through the yoga asanas. Jen’s main inspiration is drawn from Senior Iyengar teacher Nancy Stechert of Hotchkiss, CO.

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Sunny Nicole Swaggerty

Sunny began exploring yoga in the early 2000s at a local YMCA and quickly discovered the practice as more than just movement—it became a deeper somatic journey. After training with inspiring teachers such as Felicity Green and Nicki Doane, she followed the call to teach and completed her 200-hour certification with YogaWorks in 2019. The following year, she deepened her studies with renowned teacher Amy Ippoliti, completing a 300-hour advanced training through Vesselify Yoga. Sunny brings a blend of mindful alignment, thoughtful sequencing, and breath-centered awareness to her classes. Her teaching is rooted in accessibility and authenticity, offering practices designed to nourish, restore, and explore yoga as a practice that extends beyond the mat into everyday life.

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Carin Lockhart

Carin is a Colorado native that began her yogic journey over ten years ago. The beautiful, holistic pull of yoga drew her to complete her teacher training in 2011 and then to leave the corporate world to teach full time and pursue her advanced 500 certification in 2013.  A believer that Yoga Nidra can basically save the world, Carin pursued and completed her Amrit Advanced Yoga Nidra certification in 2018.  Carin’s passion is creating a space for other yogis to deepen their practice with classes that integrate yogic teachings, nurturing physical poses and lots of loving energy.  www.yogoonthego.com

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Margaret Loperfido

Margaret stepped into her first yoga class over 18 years ago and fell in love with the practice at once. She completed her 200 hour Prana Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in 2013. Margaret’s style of teaching incorporates vinyasa flow with attention to alignment. She strives to challenge each student mentally and physically, while incorporating a sense of levity and humor as a reminder to not take ourselves too seriously. Her hope is that each student will walk out of her class feeling a bit more connected to the earth, to each other and to their own quiet space within.

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Kait Lewis

Kaitlin is a 250hr RYT Yoga Instructor and Energetic Practitioner - Reiki 1 & 2 Usui, Shamanic and Lightening Attuned. She is so grateful to circle back home to the Gunnison valley. Kaitlin lives from her heart and that is what brought her back. She lived in Gunnison from 2017-2020. Since then she has lived in New Hampshire and Massachuesetts, where her focus was education, healing and having her work come from a heart centered place. Kaitlin loves teaching and learning; she finds them both so valuable in her life. She enjoys nature, the elements, her dogs, staying active and hanging on the hammock to meditate or read. Kaitllin's classes are intuitively led both in sequencing and dharma, and every class is unique to the day, season, moon and energetics of the room and what is needed. She was originally drawn to Yoga and Energy work as her early years were filled with immense trauma and she had not found any healing ease or relief through western medicine.These experiences have brought her understanding and wisdom that she now gets to share with the communities she lives in. Kaitlin is currently training as a Medicine Woman and is eager to get her EMT training, to bridge Western and Eastern Medicine, for a total tool belt to help her community.

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Allie McFarland

A native of Crested Butte, Colorado, Allie is an ardent movement facilitator, and has an extensive background in Dance Instruction and Choreography. Since receiving her RYT 300 certification, she has expanded her movement knowledge to include teaching Vinyasa, Slow Flow, and Power Yoga. Allie’s love for Yoga is rooted in her passion for body awareness and the desire for conscious living through the integration of body, mind, and spirit. In her classes, you can expect a focus on creative sequencing and alignment, with hints of her choreography experience interwoven throughout, to create a streamlined and powerful flow.

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Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth has studied various forms of yoga for the past 35 years. Her love of yoga led her to Elemental Rhythm Breathing. Recently, she discovered the transformative and healing benefits of conscious breathwork. She is excited to share the benefits of Elemental Rhythm Breathwork with others.

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