KATHI KIZIRNIS, RYT, CO-DIRECTOR
Kathi discovered yoga while pregnant with her first child and was quickly drawn in by the physical, mental and spiritual depth and scope of its traditions. After entering a teacher-training program to deepen her practice, she fell in love with teaching and completed Yoga Alliance certification in 2004. Today she considers teaching the heart of her yoga practice.
Kathi’s Vinyasa classes are inspired by the principles of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga. She also teaches traditional Ashtanga, Prenatal, Postnatal and Baby & Me yoga. She is one of very few Ohio instructors to specialize in Mamaste® Prenatal Yoga. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Ohio University (and loves to write about yoga!).
Kathi has practiced and studied with many renowned teachers, including David Swenson, Baron Baptiste, Tim Miller, Richard Freeman, Ray Long and others. She is inspired most, though, by the Practice community, ‘everyday’ yogis and the endless potential for growth through practice.
KIM CARTER, RYT, CO-DIRECTOR
A lifelong fitness enthusiast and classically trained ballet dancer, Kim is a Certified Yoga Teacher, nationally registered with Yoga Alliance. After years training for and performing modern dance and classical ballet, Kim found yoga asana to be a way to counter physical stress and injury in the body.
Raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, Kim was perhaps first led to yoga through her innate intellectual curiosity of the mythic, the ritualistic, and the religious in all its forms. While earning her B.A. in the Humanities at Antioch University, she studied academically the Eastern wisdom traditions of Buddhism, Vedanta and Taoism as well as the Western mystical traditions of Sufism, Kabbalah, and early Christian Gnosticism.
She received her teacher training and certification through Yoga on High in Columbus, Ohio, where she studied and assisted teaching traditional Ashtanga yoga with Martha Marcom, the first person in the Midwest blessed by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (founder and director of the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore India) to teach the Ashtanga Primary Series. While at “YoHi,” Kim was blessed to teach advanced Mysore practitioners alongside Martha, and through this experience, Martha transmitted traditional Mysore asana adjustment techniques to her.
Kim has studied traditional Ashtanga asana, pranayama, and philosophy with internationally recognized Ashtangis Tim Miller, Manju Jois and Rolf Naujokat – three of only a few dozen teachers worldwide who are certified by Pattabhi Jois to teach the entire Ashtanga system. She has completed teacher trainings with Tim Miller, David Swenson, and Rodney Yee, and is currently pursuing 500-level certification.
AMY FECHER
Amy is passionate about yoga. She finds pleasure in instructing students as well as cultivating her practice both on and off the mat. Amy has been a certified fitness trainer for almost nine years. She has attended numerous yoga workshops and trainings over the past five years, and is working toward 200-hour RYT certification with Sianna Sherman at Shine Yoga Center in Cincinnati. Working one-on-one with clients and teaching group classes has given her the opportunity to help individuals of varying fitness levels manage their weight, gain strength, recover from various injuries, and reduce their stress. When she’s not on her mat, Amy enjoys spending time with her husband and two small children.
SUSAN HONER
Susan is a multimedi
a choreographer, dancer, improviser, and teacher. She holds a BA in Dance and English from Hollins University and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/American Dance Festival. Susan is a certified Pilates trainer through the PhysicalMind Institute in New York City. She has studied the Pilates method for over 12 years with teachers and body-workers in New York, Virginia, and North Carolina. In 2008, Susan studied with renowned teacher and choreographer Irene Dowd in her course “Our Ecological Bodies.” Susan encourages her students to explore their own unique movement journey and to find strength, confidence and possibility within movement.
