OUR TEACHERS

CYNTHIA HUGHES is an Affiliated Anusara yoga teacher beginning her study and practice of yoga in 1997.  She has also completed the Anusara Therapy Training and Special Training on Assisting and Making Adjustments, she is currently studying with John Friend.
 
Her classes are fun and challenging as Cynthia encourages her students to feel and experience the goodness and beauty of life in all aspects of the practice.
 
When she is not teaching or practicing yoga, Cynthia can be found exploring the infinite gifts that nature offers.  Some of her favorite indulgences include cooking, biking, tennis, hiking, sking, diving and reading.
 

SUE BROOKS. Sue’s involvement with the aspects of physical movement and mental well-being started at a young age with participation in dance and martial arts and evolved over time into aerobics and professional ballroom dance instructor. Her migration to yoga was a natural one where she immediately connected to the Anusara principals of "Opening to Grace".

Beginning her yoga practice with Vicki Beilharz in 2004, she quickly immersed herself into a schedule of attending Anusara classes over 4 times a week and maintains that practice with strict discipline. In her classes, Sue's uplifting attitude helps people develop their flexibility, strengthen their endurance and most of all connect to their inner beauty. Her plans in the future include studying for her Anusara Certification.

KIM UDELL began her practice of yoga 3 years ago attending classes at Woodlands Yoga. In October of 2007, Kim received her certification in Hatha yoga from the Yoga Institute of Houston. Under the guidance of Vicki Beilherz, Kim’s yoga teaching style is Anusara Inspired. She is presently completing the application for RYT at the 200 hour level.

Though her initial interest in yoga was to attain greater strength, fitness and flexibility, she quickly discovered that yoga which focuses only on the body is not a complete package. Kim is passionate that the body, mind, spirit connection and the Anusara principle of opening to grace is what makes Anusara Yoga so rewarding to practice and to teach.

Kim resides in The Woodlands with her husband, Bob and children, Kayla and Alec. Outside of her yoga practice, Kim is an active volunteer within the community as a member of the steering committee of the United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council. She also enjoys participation in her children’s school and church related organizations.

AMPARO RODRIGUEZ, E-RYT. A yoga practitioner for almost 20 years, Amparo is certified at a professional level by the Omega Institute of Rhinebeck, NY and by the Nosara Yoga Institute of Costa Rica. Her experience as a professional classical ballet dancer gave her, since very early in life, ample awareness about the science of body movement. During her dancing career, Amparo trained in the Pilates method with Lolita San Miguel, one of the only two people alive today who trained with Joseph Pilates himself.

For Amparo, teaching Yoga Urbana in the United States, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Switzerland and Japan has been an exciting opportunity to experience how other cultures around the world are approaching the practice of yoga. She is registered with the Yoga Alliance as an Experienced Yoga Teacher, with more than 2,000 hours of experience teaching yoga.

INDRANI GORADIA has been a student of yoga for many years, but only became devoted tothe practice in 2001 when she found Anusara Yoga.

In addition to teaching yoga, she is a life coach certified by Dr. Martha Beck and has clients around the country and locally.

When she is not life coaching or teaching yoga, Indrani enjoys quilting, reading, biking, and running. She is a marathoner and a triathlete and continues to train for a major goal each year.

She is constantly amazed at hte openings in her students and considers each one a gift in her life. She would like all her students to fully understand that they are not simply "human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience."

HOLLY SASSELLA Holly has been involved with fitness from young age. Her first exposure to yoga in a serious way happened in Malaysia 2001 where she met her teacher Manoj Kaimal, the founder of a style named Manasa Yoga. It is a style where the instructions on asanas and pranayama are continuously interweaved with insights from great yogic scriptures such as patanjali yoga sutras, kashmir shaivism etc. This integrated body, mind, spirit approach of yoga immediately struck a chord with her, and she has been an avid practitioner of yoga ever since. She completed her teachers training course with Manasa yoga in 2003. Her classes would be physically challenging, yet mentally calming and spiritually awakening. Holly also has experience in teaching pre-natal yoga as well as yoga for children.