Instructors
Lisa Tokarz – E-RYT200
Lisa is the Founding Director and Senior Teacher at the Yoga Studio of Shelby. She received her BBA from Walsh College and has been a professional adult educator for 26 years, working in the financial markets during the great Bull Market’s of the 1990′s. During that time she became interested in the question of, “where true happiness and peace of mind come from”. This hunger for knowledge lead her directly to Yoga. Her study of yoga, philosophy and dharma began in 1993. She retired from Corporate life in 1999, to raise a family with her spiritual partner and husband, Drew. Lisa began teaching yoga in 2000.
Over the last 18 years she has studyied with the foremost teachers from around the world, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She has studied with, and the works of, Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally, and Lama Sumati Marut from Yoga Studies Institute, in Arizona. She completed a 2-year study (100 hours) of the Yoga Sutra’s, the main book of yoga (2007-09) with her teacher Mira Shani, also a Senior Teacher at the Yoga Studies Institute, and received a certificate for 200 hours of training from Clearlight Yoga Shala’s, Michael Johnson in 2005. During the last two years she has spent 50 hours with John Friend, the founder of Anusara yoga, as well as Desiree Rambaugh, Sara Davidson, and Heidi Peters, Anusara Inspired Teachers.
“I have dedicated myself to living a “yogic lifestyle.” I strongly believe that through ethical living, combined with the physical and mindful practices of yoga, we can ALL receive the many benefits yoga has to offer.”
The Yoga Studio of Shelby was the first yoga center in Macomb County. My goal in founding the Studio (2002) was to share an authentic lineage of yoga with the residence of the County, and to use the peaceful yogic philosophies of generousity and kindness to run the business end. 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’
Liz Fulsher – RYT
Liz is a dedicated student and teacher of yoga for 10 years. She completed her 200 hour training in 2009 with Yoga for Life’s, Heidi Peters, Anusara-Inspired, E-RYT, ND. Liz holds an associate degree in Radiological Technologies, which compliments her teachings with a strong professional background in anatomy and skeletal alignment. Liz is a wife and mother of two growing boys and is highly active in her community.
Meaghan Zeoli - RYT
Lori Krajenke, RYT
Lori discovered yoga in 2001 when a dear friend encouraged her to try it out through a local community education program. She fell in love with the practice and began a regular study under Michael Johnson and Lisa Tokarz at the Yoga Studio of Shelby.
Lori began her yoga teacher training program shortly after the birth of her second son, recognizing that a regular yoga practice is what can heal the aches and pains that accompany carrying and delivering children. Lori has a passion for prenatal yoga and empowering women to have the birth they desire.
Lori wants her classes to be a safe place for her students to enjoy the present moment and cultivate peace, happiness and well being for themselves and the world.
Ashlee Sheridan, RYT
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Ashlee has been sharing the gift of Yoga Freedom since 2008. Educated locally, taught by well-respected Michael Johnson with Clearlight Yoga Shala, Ashlee earned her 200hr Yoga Certification. Passionate about Yoga, Ashlee began her teaching immediately at The Yoga Studio of Shelby, several gym/fitness/dance centers and private practices, as well. In search of new horizons, Ashlee moved to sunny Ft Myers, Fl, where she continued to share Yoga at studios and gyms. Just as Yoga speaks, life is constantly evolving and transforming, which lead Ashlee’s life exactly back to where it all started, Michigan! From behind the chair, Ashlee helps to unlock one’s outer beauty through hair art; On the mat, Ashlee asks that you join her to unlock your inner beauty, moving through your authentic expression of Yoga Freedom… |
Marilyn Bird - RYT
Marilyn became a dedicated student of yoga in 1998 after the loss of a dear loved one prompted her to reconnect with her spirit.
Marilyn received her Bachelors of Science in Occupational Therapy in 1986 from Wayne State University. She has worked in mental health for the last 25 years and has incorporated the healing benefits of yoga in her therapeutic interventions with people of all ages and abilities since the beginning of her professional career. After her oldest son graduated from high school, Marilyn completed her certification in massage therapy at the Flint School of Therapeutic Massage followed by her yoga teacher training in 2007 at Namaste’ Yoga in Royal Oak, under the guidance of Linda Makowski, E-RYT. Registered with the Yoga Alliance, Marilyn also received her certification in Prenatal Yoga and is a Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists.. She completed an Anusara Immersion and Anusara teacher training under Katherine Schaefer in 2009 and also completed several teacher training hours with Karen O’Donnell Clark, John Friend, Jamie Allison, Desiree’ Rumbaugh, Douglas Keller and Arthur Kilmurray, as well as with several other knowledgeable and gifted yoga practitioners. Marilyn was recently accepted as a member of the Yoga Association of Greater Detroit and is excited about this opportunity to share her passion for yoga throughout the greater Detroit area.
Marilyn has been blessed with many opportunities to teach students that are new to yoga and has been inspired by the light of awareness shining in the hearts of all students of this divine practice and fellow students of life. She hopes to assist her students in discovering the wisdom of the teacher within.
Thomas Machi - RYT