Tracey Lanham , RYT

Tracey has been practicing yoga since 2000. After studying with Erica Kaufman, the founder of Lila yoga, she became a certified Lila yoga teacher in 2005. Tracey strives to teach classes that are accessible to all students, focusing on mental clarity and meditation in motion. Her classes explore living in the moment and accessing the joy that is available to us all.  She believes in the power of yoga to help find
balance in life and to help people be comfortable in their own skin. While not practicing or teaching yoga, Tracey works as a neurophysiologist assisting surgeons in the operating room.  Tracey is a happy new co-owner of Pearl Street Yoga.

Leah Persky, M.A., RYT

Leah is a registered yoga instructor who also holds an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Denver; she is currently working on her dissertation to complete her PhD in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. She first came to yoga as a way to recover from running injuries while training for a marathon. Yoga quickly became much more than a physical practice, as Leah found it helped to bring her more clarity, patience, joy and evenness to both body and mind. She has been practicing yoga for 9 years and strongly believes in the healing and transforming effects it can bring to all people. Leah has been teaching Vinyasa and power yoga for almost five years, most recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her classes are fun and challenging; they will uplift and challenge both body and mind. Leah looks forward to guiding her students in proper alignment, a challenging asana practice and time for spiritual reflection and growth. She is a a native of Chicago and when she isn’t doing yoga or working on her dissertation she enjoys travelling, running, walking her dog, all types of skiing, cooking and spending time with family and friends.

Janet Casson , RYT

Janet has been a teacher since long before she was old enough to have a career as one. She has used her skills as an educator to teach drama, music, and yoga to students of all ages. Janet believes that yoga can create greater ease and presence in every body. Her yoga classes are accessible and challenging, playful and insightful, smart and exploratory.  Get yourself up early and try her class at 6:30A on Thursdays -- it will be the greatest start to your day that you can remember!

Meredith Wakelyn, RYT

Yoga has been a passion for Meredith for more than a decade. She teaches a vigorous Flow 2 class on Wednesdays at noon that will not only challenge you physically but will also encourage you to explore how your thoughts and judgements impact how you live your life off of your yoga mat. As a psychotherapist, Meredith has been exploring and integrating how mindfulness practices such as yoga, meditation and breath awareness have a tremendous impact on how we think and feel about our lives. As a parent, yoga has been a refuge and an anchor during the process of raising her two spirited children. Meredith is dedicated to helping you make yoga a priority in your life so that you will become stronger both inside AND out.

Rebecca Tsvetkov, RYT, B.S. Integrated Sciences

Rebecca Tsvetkov found yoga over five years ago and was hooked by its peaceful effects. She believes that yoga allows us to explore our bodies and minds to create a deeper sense of self-awareness. She especially loves working with families, being a mother of two she understands how yoga can help any family through the daily ups and downs. She incorporates yoga nidra and pranayama into her classes while creating a safe and inviting space to practice.

Roseanna Frechette, RYT

Roseanna’s teaching is infused with a dynamic and spirited vitality. Interpretive dancer and performance poet as well as yogi, she has a way of blending the classic beauty of asana practice with a contemporary understanding of the individual's need to move with personal meaning. Her sessions are charged with poetic metaphor and inner exploration as well as physical logic and kinesthetic awareness.

Roseanna has studied with a variety of masterful teachers. She is an experienced registered yoga teacher at the highest level (eRYT-500), with additional registered status for children’s and prenatal yoga, and she is fitness certified by the American Council on Exercise. Roseanna has shared her well-loved integrative approach with all segments of Denver's population for many years. As Founder and Director of Inner City Yoga teacher training she has trained many yoga teachers in foundational skills. She finds great joy in sharing a balanced range of yogic practices, including meditation, as holistic tools for transformation and wellbeing.

Keileen Dillon, RYT

Keileen's yoga journey began after taking her first yoga class with the great Rodney Yee in the quiet confines of her bedroom in the late 90's. She quickly fell in love with how intentional each breath and movement were formed to unify and balance her mind, body, and spirit. Keileen eventually found herself immersed in the beautiful and traditional practice of Bikram yoga.

"It's so much all about the breath. No matter what is going on in life I know I can always simply return to my breath and find myself in asana. That is what I love so much about this practice. I want to share it in hopes that others can find love in it as much as I do." Keileen enrolled in 200 hour teacher training and completed the certification as well as additional extensive teacher training. Keileen also has attended various workshops including Ayurveda, Chakra, Yoga Anatomy, The Art of Assists, and Thai Yoga Massage. "Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you have for sure."

Rebecca Kreger, RYT

You find Rebecca subbing our regular and prenatal classes. One of Rebecca’s strongest passions is dancing! She has 15 years of classical ballet training from The Milwaukee Ballet School and danced in Milwaukee Ballet’s Professional Performance of The Nutcracker, and Cinderella for many seasons. Beyond ballet, Rebecca also studied jazz, hip-hop, modern and African dance. Today Rebecca enjoys all types of dance, and loves to move her body to fun up-beat music.

Here’s what Rebecca has to say about yoga: When people ask me about myself I can sum it up in one word…yoga! Yoga is my therapy, exercise, heart, passion, balance, my best friend AND like any good relationship, it also challenges me daily! I fell into yoga by accident when I moved to Denver. I wanted to become more active; however; I didn’t want to run or do anything harsh on my joints. I was sold right away with all of the yummy stretching and breathing that takes place in yoga and since I come from a strong dance background this was a perfect transition for me. Throughout the years the practice has taken me a lot deeper than I ever originally imagined and it dawned on me that I must pass on this beautiful practice and was destined to become a teacher. In the fall of 2008 I became a certified yoga instructor by completing Samadhi Center for Yoga’s teacher training program. I love to balance myself by practicing all types of yoga but have become particularly fond of Anusara, Hatha, and Yin Yoga. I can’t wait to meet you and share our practice!

Brooke Lyn Seiz , RYT

Brooke Lyn Seiz discovered yoga through her experience in dance and performance. She began teaching in 2004 in New York City, balancing her work as an actress, singer, and dancer. In the last seven years, she has routinely taught yoga for her fellow artists, combining the breath and grounding of yoga with the focus performers seek before walking onstage. Brooke went on to become a 500-hour registered yoga teacher in 2009 through Yogaworks of NYC. She’s volunteered in Ghana, West Africa, teaching yoga to local drummers & dancers, and moved to Denver in 2010 to begin a two-year holistic nutrition program at the Nutrition Therapy Institute. Brooke’s classes include a balance of flow with alignment. She hopes to provide a space for people to discover, grow, and find peace in their own lives.

Christopher Hill Edwards , RYT

Chris received his B.A. from Naropa University in Boulder and is a 500 hour RYT. He says "I had a hunch before Naropa that my mind and my body were more intertwined than either would ever readily admit. I was correct in my hunch, but had no idea how vast and subtle a subject I was about to get into. Oftentimes today I feel that I still don't have a clue how big the space of Yoga is, and this brings me back to a great pleasantly persisting question-"what is Yoga?" He learned at Naropa to match questions with practice and practice with questions and feel deeply as the process that happen. He's happy to say that this keeps going on today as he does his best to share the experience of Yoga practice with others.

Rebecca McMath Maddison , RYT

I came to yoga after years of mentally and physically beating myself up. To say there was a need for ‘self acceptance’ was an understatement. I had searched many avenues including religion, education, unhealthy habits, diet, exercise and relationships that had no healing qualities. I was left with the thought that “I am who I am, no matter what.”

At the prompting of my doctor I decided to devise a workout plan. I knew joining a gym didn’t work for me. I needed something deeper. A coworker suggested yoga. I started right at the new year of 2006. That first yoga class changed everything. I laid in savasana and felt my ego, heart and body break. Instead of being sad I felt a relief larger than any problem or negative thought I ever faced. I was home. This is when my true journey began and that very day I decided to be a yoga teacher at some point in my life. I couldn’t keep all this to myself!

Yoga is all encompassing and if you let it, it will change your life from the inside out. Although our bodies tend to change in shape from a regular practice; our heart, ego, spirit and mind melt into something extraordinary. I no longer think, “I am who I am, no matter what.” I was able to break that falsehood thanks to a lot of sweat, surrendering on the mat and the knowledge of every wonderful teacher, writer and yogi before me.

And, I'm grateful for the unconditional support of my best friend, fellow yogi and husband, Marc. We welcomed our first child in May 2009. He is such a blessing. I took some time off to care for him and partly myself. Upon returning to my mat I realized that taking care of myself is really, in turn, taking care of my family. Yoga has taught me to be more patient, compassionate and loving. As a new mother, I can’t urge others enough to return to whatever makes you happy. When you ‘lose’ it and it comes back, you really understand the value.