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Phil
Davis has been teaching yoga since 2005 and practicing since 1999.
He has studied several styles of Hatha yoga including Bikram, Iyengar, and
Anusara. Phil has been to many workshops with John Friend and other
certified Anusara teachers. He completed a teacher training with Desiree
Rumbaugh and Noah Maze. Phil brings humor and lightness to his classes.
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 Theresa
Barnett has been practicing Hatha Yoga since the mid 1980s and
serving as a teacher since 1994. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and
yoga therapist. Theresa helps students access the innate wisdom and
intelligence of the body through movement and awareness cultivated from her
own practice. She assists her students in experiencing greater strength,
spaciousness and trust of their own bodies through the practice of “movement
as meditation.” She has studied with Erich Schiffmann, Rodney Yee, John
Friend, and continues to be in apprenticeship with Diane Long. Theresa
utilizes the body’s own healing properties as a certified Neuro-Muscular
therapist and Cranio-Sacral therapist as well. Her classes cultivate
wellness of the body and guide her student’s focus naturally toward their
own inner landscapes for a sense of wholeness.
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 Rusty
Moore started practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga in New York City in
2000 with Paul Dallaghan, a certified ashtanga teacher and founder/owner of
Centered Yoga and Yoga Thailand Retreat Center. After practicing in New York
for two years, Rusty moved to Thailand to continue to study with Paul and
other great yoga teachers to whom he feels intense gratitude. While there,
he completed a 200-hour, one-month teacher training in ashtanga yoga and
studied pranayama with Sri O.P.Tiwari (head of the Kaivalyadhama Yoga
Institute in India). He lived at Yoga Thailand and continued a daily
ashtanga practice and learned to teach. From there, Rusty moved to Los
Angeles where he began practicing all types of yoga and continued to study
ashtanga yoga with Chuck Miller and Maty Ersatz, both of whom are certified
ashtanga teachers. Rusty moved to Atlanta in December of 2008. He just
completed a 200-hour teacher training at Springs Yoga Studio in June 2009.
Rusty follows the teachings of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and other great yoga
teachers and is beginning to embrace the practice and study of Anusara yoga.
He is intensely interested in the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga and
sees the practice of yoga as a meditative one that we live daily. He tries
to balance classes with tying the physical practices to the breath,
awareness and the principle of non-harm. He is deeply committed to the
practice of yoga and hopes to impart some of the powerful, life-changing
aspects of yoga he has learned to his students. He is eternally grateful to
all of his teachers and has great gratitude and respect for David Aukamp and
RuthAnn Martin of Springs Yoga. |
 Leslie
Dean has been exploring and sharing yoga for over 10 years. She has
had the privilege to study yoga and yoga philosophy with Richard Freeman,
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Tias Little, John Friend and many many other gifted
teachers. Although she continues to delve in many forms of yoga, her
practice and teaching are deeply rooted in the Ashtanga tradition.
Leslie’s love and devotion for this ancient form are easily conveyed through
her style of teaching. She emphasizes the breath, bandhas, drishti and
alignment. Her approach is precise, challenging, fun and from the
Heart! When she’s not teaching yoga, you may find her on the mat next
to yours or out being walked by her three dogs. |
David
Aukamp
"Anusara-Inspired
™"
is the director of Springs Yoga Studio and
co-founder with his wife RuthAnn.
Having come from a healthcare background David uses his knowledge
and understanding of the human body to help the student enhance movement
and function. He brings a
calm demeanor to class and encourages the student to pursue the essence of
an inner yoga practice linking breath and postures.
David has studied with Jonny and Bryan Kest, David Swenson, John
Friend, Thom and Beryl Bender Birch, Baron Baptiste, and many others.
Participating in workshops at least four times a year David is
continually working on deepening his understanding of yoga for himself and
his students. David received
his doctorate in Chiropractic in June 1994 and is a certified Hatha Yoga
Teacher.
RuthAnn Martin
Tiffany
Nixon began exploring the Ashtanga Vinyasa style of Hatha Yoga in
1999. She always felt drawn to practice, especially because of the spiritual
and physical benefits. She has studied at a variety of yoga studios across
the country, allowing her teachings to portray a variety of styles. Tiffany
completed her 200-hour Teacher Training in June of 2009 at Springs Yoga
Studio with David and Ruthann Aukamp and Mitchel Bleier. Tiffany feels each
student should honor and give gratitude to their body, mind and spirit and
reach individually to find their divine light. 
Amy
Haysman's yoga practice began in 1995 and soon revealed itself as
the answer in her quest to feel better, experience life more fully and
participate in making the world a happier place. Amy is the co-founder of
Grounded:yoga.laughter.elevation. Her life's work and passion is
grounding kids and teens. Noticing that the parents in their lives
often need to be grounded too, she began teaching adult yoga classes in
2009. She holds a Masters Degree in Middle Grades Education, A 200
hour RYT certification, certifications in a variety of children's yoga
programs, an affinity toward spending long weekends in yoga workshops and a
commitment to earning Anusara Inspired teaching status in 2010. Amy
has trained hundreds of yoga teachers from around the globe to teach yoga to
kids and co-created the highly acclaimed Tools for Schools yoga program.
Her two teenage boys help fill her heart with so much love and delight that
she joyfully shares in Grounded classes and trainings all over Atlanta.
