Lisa is the Founding Director and Senior Teacher at the Studio.  She has been studying and teaching yoga, philosophy and Dharma for over 15 years with the foremost teachers of yoga from around the world, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama.   She recently completed a 2-year study of the Yoga Sutra with her heart teacher Mira Shani, Senior Teacher at the Yoga Studies Institute in Arizona. 

“I have experienced life long joy and tremendous health benefits from my yoga practice.  My deepest desire is to share these benefits with our community and provide a safe haven for peace."

"My goal in founding the Studio was to invite authentic, professional yoga teachers into Macomb County, and to use the peaceful yogic philosophies in serving our precious students.  Here, people truly come first.  Our student's and teacher's love the compassionate atmosphere, which is always candle-lit, and humming with vibrational music.  Students have come from all over North America and say their experienc here is 'one' of the best they have ever had."

Namaste'

Tanis discovered the joy of practicing yoga in the summer of 1999 when she was searching for a low impact workout. With her newly found enthusiasm for Yoga, she soon began substitute teaching for her yoga instructor through Romeo and Washington Parks and Recreational Center. To further enrich her experience, she ventured into the yoga studios with a variety of teachers that continued to inspire her passion in yoga. These interactions lead her down a path to further develop her yoga practices and teaching skills, from 2004-2005 she completed the Yoga Teacher Training Program with Michael Johnson at Updog Yoga Center of Rochester and is currently a Registered Yoga Teacher through the Yoga Alliance.

In addition to yoga, Tanis has over 20 years of experience in the automotive

industry at General Motors Vehicle Engineering Center, which she feels draws a parallel to her yoga. These many years working with technical precision and extensive methodology training have served as a firm foundation for which she has built her development of yoga practice and style of teaching upon.

Please welcome Jean, our Massage Therapist, and yoga teacher. Jean is a graduate of Carnegie Institute School of Allied Health in Troy.  Completig her externship at The Center for Healing in Sterling Hgts.  She was quickly employed by the Center and has enjoyed continuing her massage education.  She is trained in deep tissue and therapuetic techniques, reflexology, aromatherapy, spa training, Reiki and the Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massge. Jean enjoys utilizing the techniques learned to help her clients in their own restoration of a more balanced state of mind, body and spirit.

Debbie was inspired to begin practicing Yoga by her friend Liz Fulsher. Within a few years she realized how much Yoga can impact and change your life. In the fall of 2005 she began a deeper spiritual journey by taking the teacher training with Michael Johnson. This spiritual awakening has led her, with great enthusiasm, to teach others.

Debbie has been a Montessori Teacher of 3-6 yr. old children for over 20 years. Her true goal is to bring the union of the mind, body and spirit of Yoga to children of all ages. She is a certified instructor of the YOGA ed. K-8 program. This program’s mission is to inspire, educate, facilitate and support children in developing physical health, emotional stability and self-awareness through informed and experiential study, self-exploration and yoga. Debbie is a wife and mother of two.

Christie has a life-long interest in physical fitness.  She is an avid runner, and will even run outside until iciles are hanging from her eye lashes.....laughing while she does it.

After three consecutive years of being pregnant, Christie gained 60 pounds and had a difficult time getting it off.  She then began running again and incorporated weight training in her weekly regime-and the weight came off.  Loving how shel felt, she decided to make a career of helping others obtain their fitness goal by becoming a certified personal trainer in 1997.

She became a student of the Yoga Studio in 2002.  Instantly there was a feeling of completeness for her, she then completed the 200 hour RYT program with Michael Johnson, RYS in 2006.

Christie believes that optimal physical health requires the synergy of cardiovascular exercise, weight resistance, and flexibility.  She is passionate in helping others enrich their bodies and minds. Namaste'

Melissa began practicing yoga in 2000.  She fell in love with it instantly and the peace and harmony that it brought her.  After having her fourth child she began to teach because she wanted to share that joy and harmony with others.  As a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance, she is very thankful to have been able to study with wonderful teachers and seeks to be a reflection of the teachings of Michael Johnson, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Seane Corn, and Shiva Rea.  She teaches a flowing vinyasa based on Ashtanga yoga and in her classes emphasizes the unity of body, mind and spirit created through pranayama, asana and meditation.