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William Prottengeier,
founder and director of the Minneapolis
Yoga Workshop, is a Certified Iyengar instructor. He
has been practicing yoga since 1975, and teaching yoga
since 1979. He studied with Swami Veda Bharati (Pandit
Usharbudh Arya) for 15 years. Williams teaching flows
from the Hatha Yoga tradition of B.K.S. Iyengar, with
Ramanand Patel as his primary teacher in the U.S. His
other major influence are the Vipassana and Advaita
Vedanta traditions. Williams teaching weaves these traditions
into the practice of asana. His teaching blends and
balances concentration and precision in asana practice
with mindfulness and compassion in daily living.
William: (612) 253-5115 or mplsyogaworkshop@hotmail.com
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Velma Wagner
is a certified B.K.S Iyengar instructor who has been
teaching yoga since 1982. She was William Prottengeier's
first apprentice. She also completed a two-year teacher's
training with Mary Dunn. She has studied three times
with the Iyengars at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in India.
Her dedication to yoga is evidenced by having served
as president of the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Association
of Minnesota and on the Coordinating Committee of the
2004 National Yoga Convention held in St. Paul.
Velma: (612) 824-4719 or vwyoga@yahoo.com
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Betsy Ricker
has been studying Yoga since 1986 with William Prottengeir.
She is certified and continues to study Kripalu Yoga.
she also studies with Beryl Bender Birch. In 2007, she
was certified to present Yoga Ed's "Tools for Teachers"
professional development program. Betsy volunteers weekly
at the Courage Center, assisting Matt Sanford's Adaptive
Yoga program. Her teachings emphasize the development
of compassion and inner wisdom through the awareness
of the mind, body and spirit connection.
Betsy: (612) 722-7540 or betsyyoga@earthlink.net
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Laura Kennedy,
received certification to teach yoga in 1996 from Mount
Madonna Center in California. She continues to study
Classical Yoga with Baba Hari Dass at least twice a
year at Mount Madonna Center. She has taken pilgrimages
to the Himalayas in Northern India and Mt. Kailash,
Tibet. She also studies with William Prottengeier. The
practice of Yoga has the potential for us to experience
the fullness and ease of the present moment.
Laura: (612) 343-8851or casamaya@MSN.com
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Clare Welter
has studied yoga with William Prottengeier since 1990
and has taught since 2001. She has also been a certified
nurse-midwife since 1997 and practices at Fairview Riverside
Medical Center. She offers a prenatal yoga class at
Minneapolis Yoga Workshop.
Clare: (651) 646-4656 or clarewelter@hotmail.com
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Maria Gomez-Tierney,
MFA, RYT, is a certified Hatha Yoga instructor.
Maria’s teaching is directly influenced by her
training and practice of B.K.S. Iyengar’s teaching
via William, as well as training in the Ashtanga tradition
with Manju Patabi Jois, Govinda Kai, and David and Doug
Swenson. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in performance
arts and has been a professional dancer, choreographer
and teacher for more than 17 years. Maria lovingly blends
these sensibilities of the body, mind and spirit into
her yoga teaching.
Maria: (612) 722-5220 or mtierne2@yahoo.com
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Kris Cory
has primarily focused on an asthanga-based
vinyasa asana practice. Her teachers include Erika Halweil,
Lisa Belfiore, and workshops with Beryl Bender Birch
and David Swenson, among others. Her practice has been
deepened and refined through study in the Iyengar tradition
with William Prottengeier and through study in Vipassana
meditation with Mark Numberg. Kris’s vinyasa classes
invite practitioners to find freedom and focus in breath
and movement, and to carry these possibilities off the
mat.
Kris: (612) 872-1133 or coryx001.umn.edu
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