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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

Kevin Hartigan

Kevin Hartigan has lived in the Gunnison Valley for 26 years. After owning the Last Steep Bar & Grill for 21 of those years, he has transitioned into the wellness industry as an orthobionomy practitioner and transformational breathwork facilitator. He currently promotes wellbeing as owner of the Gunnison 24/7 Gym. Kevin appreciates sharing his gifts through various offerings, including sound healing experiences at Thrive Yoga.

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Andrea Ouimet

Andrea Ouimet is a heart-centered energy and sound healer. Andrea facilitates immersive sound bath experiences with the powerful healing sounds of crystal singing bowls, tuning forks and other sound instruments. She began her journey into studying sound healing in 2019, to learn more about her own growth and healing and is happy to share it with her community.

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Annie Tunkey

Annie discovered a love of yoga in her twenties after taking an Iyengar workshop in Crested Butte. The connection of body and breath in yoga led to a 200RYT certification in Prana Vinyasa and then continuing education in Restorative Yoga. Annie desires for each class to cultivate space for students to deepen the connection to themselves through their yoga practice.

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Silvia Zavarella

Silvia is a 200-hour RYT Yoga Teacher who found yoga organically through her love of movement and exploration. Over time, yoga became a space to reconnect and move with more ease and compassion. Off the mat, Silvia enjoys staying active outdoors and snuggling her dog Lincoln. Her classes blend strength, mindfulness and grounding moments to help students find more ease both on and off the mat.

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Molly McIntyre

Molly McIntyre is an Acupuncturist/ Herbalist and a Registered Nurse. She practiced nursing for a few years and then decided to study Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine to help people with holistic health and wellness. In Molly's training and world view, physical and mental health are interrelated, since she started practicing in 2005. She has focused on helping people heal their Body, Minds and Spirit and has added Medical Intuition, Applied Shamanic techniques, Ketamine Assisted Journey Work and Emotional Freedom Technique, clearing trauma from the energetic system and tapping, to help get underneath the health problem to solutions. Molly has also added a frequency biofeedback technology, IMaet, that helps harmonize genetic expression, clear pathogens and sensitivities from the system that may be associated with disease and healing for individuals.

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Dina Ferrante

Dina has been teaching yoga since 2001 and, in over two decades, has experienced her yoga practice and teaching style evolve and serve different populations. Always consistent in her teaching style is her ability to guide students slowly and thoughtfully through the process of releasing physical tension and emotional holding that has been held hostage in their bodies. She emphasizes self-nurturing, ease and grace along with flexibility, balance and strength.

Most recently she has devoted her teaching enthusiasm to the "Stiff Men Stretch" class at Thrive, creating a safe and fun environment for this population to experience the benefits of yoga. She is also extremely passionate about her mission to teach Yoga to First Responders, starting right here in her hometown of Crested Butte.

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Salle McDaniel

Salle began her yoga journey in 1985 right here in Crested Butte, igniting a lifelong passion for movement and mindfulness. Over the decades, she has explored a wide variety of yoga styles, including Iyengar, Forrest, Ashtanga, Bikram, and yoga-based workout classes, attending studios across the globe as her life’s path unfolded. No matter where she moved, establishing a home studio remained a cornerstone of her practice.

With the last of her five children now grown, Salle has embraced the next chapter of her yoga journey by completing Yoga Sculpt training. She is currently pursuing Barre certification and has plans to deepen her knowledge with a 200-hour yoga teacher training this spring. For nearly 40 years, yoga has been Salle’s touchstone—a source of strength, balance, and inspiration that she is excited to share with her students.

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Grant Prince

Grant is a Licensed Massage Therapist and student of the Feldenkrais Method certified in teaching Awareness Through Movement classes. He has lived in the valley since 2002 and currently owns and operates Summit Massage in Crested Butte with his wife Danii. Grant believes body awareness is key to understanding efficient movement patterns and healthy living. 

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Lilavati Eberle

Lilavati started practicing yoga in 2006, and quickly realized that becoming a yoga instructor was her path! She graduated from a 200-hour residential training in Integral Yoga Hatha at Satchidananda Ashram – Yogaville in the fall of 2007. After which she decided to continue living at the ashram, to deepen her practice. That one-month training turned into a her home for the next twelve years, not only practicing and teaching yoga on the mat, but living yoga. After completing her 500-hour training at Yogaville, she has since continued her studies to be certified in Yin Yoga and Accessible Yoga. Lilavati became the owner of Thrive Yoga Crested Butte in November of 2022.

“The teachings of yoga have been my guiding light for well over a decade now, and my life is so much richer and happier for it. I believe every body deserves yoga, and I love to share the teachings of yoga with those who want to learn."

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Courtney Watson

Courtney has been practicing and teaching Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation for over 20 years. She first discovered these practices while dealing with stress and searching for balance in her life. Mindfulness Meditation and Philosophy became powerful tools for managing stress, and she integrates them into her daily life and teachings. Courtney's yoga training includes Hatha, Ashtanga, and Yin, with over 700 hours of study in both India and Colorado. She has worked with her teacher Diana, founder of Encinitas Mindfulness Community for 15 years, and completed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher Certification at UCSD's Center for Mindfulness. Additionally, she is a certified breathwork instructor, having completed Level 1 and 2 certifications with Nordic Flow, specializing in breath training and cold therapy. These combined experiences have led her to create The Mindful Way, a holistic approach that integrates breathwork, yoga, and mindfulness meditation to help students navigate life's challenges with greater ease and awareness.

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Monica Mesa Dasi

Monica Mesa Dasi is a Tantra love and intimacy coach, devoted Bhakti yogini, and longtime teacher of yoga and the sacred arts. For over four decades, yoga has been her path, and for more than 30 years she guided the Crested Butte community as a dedicated teacher, studio founder, and heart-centered presence in the valley.

Rooted in the power of practice and the devotional path of coming home to the body, Monica’s work weaves yoga, breath, mantra, meditation, and living Tantra into a grounded, heart-led experience. Her signature offering, Tantra Yoga Sadhana, is a living transmission that integrates body, heart, and spirit—inviting students into embodied self-love, awakened sensuality, conscious relationship, and love as a spiritual path.

Now based in Costa Rica—though Crested Butte will always feel like home—Monica continues to guide women, men, and couples into deeper intimacy with themselves and with life. Everything she shares flows from lived devotion, including the immeasurable love and loss of her son Cheyne, one of her greatest teachers. That passage has deepened her compassion, her presence, and her unwavering commitment to love as a healing force.

Her invitation is simple: let your practice become your path. Return to your radiance. Live as who you truly are—rooted in self-love, awake in your body, and devoted to embodying love as a transformative force in the world.

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Susan Leety

Susan Leety, LPCC, is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, relationship educator, Ayurveda practitioner, yoga teacher, and personal trainer. Drawing from a 30-year yoga practice and training in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Bikram-style yoga, she integrates movement, mindfulness, neuroscience, and evidence-based counseling approaches to help individuals and couples create meaningful, lasting change. Susan specializes in relationships, emotional wellness, trauma, and neuroplasticity, teaching practical tools that strengthen resilience, improve communication, and support whole-person health. Her engaging and interactive workshops combine science and real-world applications, leaving participants empowered with skills they can use immediately in their daily lives.

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Saul David Raye

Saul David Raye is an internationally recognized master teacher with over 30 years of experience in the healing arts. Drawing from a rich foundation of Hatha Yoga, Bhakti, Tantra, Buddhism, Thai Massage, Pranic Healing, and Shamanism, he has developed an inspiring, heart-centered approach that bridges timeless wisdom with modern life. He is also a musician; his first album 10,000 Suns — Music for Healing, Peace & Awakening reached #3 on the iTunes World Music Charts. He continues to offer his work through workshops, online programs, sacred journeys, retreats, and live sacred music performances.

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Sara Herrera

Sara is a high spirited Colombian, deeply in love with Crested Butte and with yoga. She began her practice in 2013, and it truly deepened in 2019 after moving to the US. She has found that yoga provides a mind-body-spirit connection that helps her navigate life, heal and evolve.

She got her 200 hour teacher training in Bali and has been teaching for the past three years, specializing in Hatha and Vinyasa. Her classes are grounded yet energizing, blending intention, breath, and flow in a way that feels both accessible and meaningful.

Sara is passionate about sharing the wisdom of yoga with her community and sees it as a powerful tool for self growth and transformation.

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Alex Lambro

Alex has over 30+ years experience in the health and fitness industry, and as a wellness professional loves sharing the transformational opportunities a daily yoga practice has had in her own life. Alex felt compelled to complete her first teacher training in 2008 in the Iyengar method when asked to teach at Yoga for the People. As an avid multi-sport enthusiast, her initial introduction to yoga began in 1991 due to a ski injury which impacted her well being and her ability to get back out skiing competitively. With this physical challenge a lifestyle change was in order and yoga was the key that ensured her ability to heal and to regain movements lost by trauma. Yoga has allowed her to find inner joy while gaining a deep understanding of how all traumas can affect the body, mind and spirit leading her to find ways to transform mentally and physically. With 35 years of practice in the Iyengar method, and 17 years of practice in the Kaiut method, Alex has been delighted in the evolution of her own experience in the world of yoga.

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