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Teacher Profiles Academy of Yoga Director & Instructor Monica has practiced yoga since 1994 and has taught during the past five years in Grand Junction and New York. She is an RYT 500-E registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and holds an Iyengar Certification as well. In 1998, Monica traveled to India to study with BKS Iyengar, Geeta and Prashant Iyengar. She has studied at the International Iyengar Institutes in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Florence, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Los Angeles, Denver and New York. In 2001, after Monica attended the Yoga Odyssey with Geeta Iyengar in Pasadena, CA, she came to Grand Junction for another teacher training at the Academy of Yoga where she earned her 200-hour teacher training certificate and began to teach. In Australia, she attended 6-1/2 weeks of the 8-week teacher training in 2000. In 2002, Monica again came back for part of the teacher training given at the Academy and and in 2003 she came to Grand Junction to substitute teach classes and again attended the 7-week teacher training. In 2004, she participated and assisted during the 2 Teacher Training Courses given at the Academy of Yoga with Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher Nancy Stechert. Since 2004, she has been assisting in teacher trainings at the Academy and has earned her RYT 500-E certification with Yoga Alliance. Monica is always involved in the "yoga scene" and she had attended workshops, conferences, and conventions all over the country. She has studied for the past decade with the most prominent yoga teachers in the world. She is very grateful for her past teachers, mainly Sylvie Terree. She is also grateful to Rodney Yee, David Life and Shanon Gannon, John Friend, Erich Schifmann, Jason Brown, Kevin Gardiner, Kevin Durkin, Donita and Gary Reitze, Ecknart Easwaran, Nicky Knoff and Nancy Stechert for being so inspiring. She thanks John Cullinane, her husband, and co-owner of the Academy, for teaching her what really yoga is and for making her dreams come true, and of course, she thanks a Higher power. ***** Instructor Analii is certified in various styles of dance, yoga and kinesthetic movement, giving her teaching an integrated approach. She works with individuals helping them rediscover the innate intelligence of the human body through yoga, alignment, movement and breath. She holds a degree in dance from CU in Boulder and has led workshops in Honolulu, Aspen and Grand Junction where she currently lives. She has taught for Mesa State College, the Academy of Yoga, and operates her own business with private clientele, Movement Therapies. She has over 20 years of teaching experience and continues to develop methods that blend her talents to effectively help individuals build strength, flexibility and awareness in mind, body and spirit. ***** Instructor Early in 2003, Christen had the opportunity to devote more time to her love of yoga by becoming an instructor. Christen has taught classes for fitness centers, dance schools, Yoga & Pilates studios, university continuing education programs, on-site corporate wellness programs and Montessori schools.
***** Instructor Kim completed Foundation I training with Monica Cullinane in November 2005, Foundation II training in August 2007, and was certified RYT-200 by the Yoga Alliance in May 2008. Kim is AAAI/ISMA (American Aerobic Association International/ International Sports Medicine Association) certified (March 2006). She regularly teaches at Ultimate Fitness in GJ, part-time at AY and for Yoga-to-Go. She looks “forward to the lifetime of learning opportunities yoga provides, from the physical and mental, to the emotional and spiritual.” She lives/loves with husband Al Kreinberg, R-5 High School Teacher, river raft guide, yoga instructor and life companion.
***** Rhysa Ferris Instructor Rhysa is a dedicated yoga instructor of 7 years with the intention of teaching for the next 7 decades. In Rhysa's class expect detailed alignment advice amongst a warm community of practitioners. She welcomes women seeking safe prenatal yoga to her class. Come share her love of yoga!
***** Academy of Yoga is a proud member of Live Well and Steps to a Healthier Mesa County. |
Monica
Zielke-Cullinane 
Christen
joins the Academy of Yoga from the Santa Fe area of Northern New Mexico.
She has been a student of yoga since 1992. Christen has practiced
with a Senior Iyengar instructor for twelve years and had also been a
student of classical Hatha and Kundalini yoga. Over the years she
has attended various conferences and workshops with such prominent teachers
as Rodney Yee, Patricia Walden, Erick Schifman, Judith Lasater, Gary Kraftsow,
Jon Friend, John Schumacher, Mary Dunn, etc. Christen obtained her
Pilates certification in 2003 and has found it to be a wonderful compliment
to her yoga background. She has attended Yoga Fit training and a
variety of other training sessions on the Feldenkrais Method, Somatics,
Spinal Stabilization, etc.
