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Meet Our Instructors
All of our instructors are passionate about teaching yoga with a wide variety of training and background. At Rakta Hot Yoga, we believe in providing classes that inspire, rejuvenate, and restore you back to center.
Holly
Dickhausen
Owner
Sculpt & Flow, Fire Hot 26
Holly has called the Yampa Valley home since 2008. Holly became a Certified MassageTherapist in 2005 and owns her own massage therapy business. She started practicing yoga in 2012 and was initially drawn to Yoga Sculpt and Hot 26. Holly first became a Yoga Sculpt teacher in 2015 and followed with a Hot 26 Teacher training in 2018.
Holly’s passion is helping people heal physically and emotionally and she is fascinated by the mind body connection. She is the mother of three young mento dogs and four cats!
Holly loves the outdoors, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. She is always seeking to learn, evolve, and practice self-improvement.
AJ
Kublie
Buti Fire Vinyasa
Coming Soon...
Bevan
Mitchell
RYT500
Power Flow
Bevan’s yoga journey began in 2003 with an Ashtanga book she discovered in a small town in Ecuador. Seeking to deepen her practice and share her passion with others, she completed her first 200-hour teacher training in 2005. Since then, she has accumulated over 500 additional hours of training with renowned teachers, including Sarah Powers, Eric Schiffmann, Tiffany Cruikshank, Cristen Malia, and Janet Stone.
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Bevan believes in the transformative power of yoga and meditation to quiet the mind, challenge the body, and cultivate acceptance in every moment. Her teaching emphasizes the grace of movement and breath, helping students integrate mindfulness into their daily lives.
Erin
Gessell
Pilates Flow
Erin grew up in her local YMCA in Norfolk, Nebraska, which led her to a lifetime career in fitness and wellness--she likes to say she can teach anything that doesn't require rhythm! Erin has almost 20 years of experience in the fitness industry, and her passions include trail running, all forms of yoga, writing, and coaching youth slam poetry. Her favorite yoga classes include plenty of core work, creative transitions, and full-body strengthening and lengthening.
Jonathan
Barrett
RYT500
Sculpt & Flow, Vinyasa Flow
It is my intention as a yoga teacher to create and hold a safe space for students that encourages self exploration and growth. Primary modalities include meditation, yoga nidra, restorative yoga, vinyasa flow and yin, with emphasis placed on elasticity and the mindbody.
Having grown up with a controllable form of epilepsy and experiencing multiple grand mal seizures has created a heightened sense of awareness of my central nervous system. Additionally, in ‘20-’21, I worked through a full-recovery from Guillain-Barré Syndrome. This rare autoimmune disorder causes ascending paralysis from the autoimmune system creating antibodies and mistakenly attacking its own peripheral nervous system.
These experiences have significantly expanded my yoga practice with a focus on the regulation of the nervous system and healing.
My asana, meditation and pranayama practices have allowed myself to learn how to slackline, complete Ironman 70.3 distance triathlons (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and 13.1 mile run) and also play ice hockey competitively for more than three decades.
Kaela
Miller
Fire Hot 26
Coming Soon...
Kaitlyn
Mueller
Hot Yoga
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Karen
Nann
Hot Yoga
Karen Nann has been teaching yoga since 2002. She is certified in ashtanga, vinyasana, sculpt and assorted group exercise classes. When Karen isn’t teaching she is working as a veterinarian at Pet Kare or chasing around her two children Malia and Colin, and spending time with husband Gerry!
Kristen
Keravich
MTN Flow, Slow Your Flow
Coming Soon...
Michele
Meyer
Fire Hot 26
Michele's passion for fitness and a desire to learn more, led her to become a certified personal trainer and 200 hour RYT in 2005. She is also a certified part time ski instructor and Executive Director at a local nonprofit organization, Community Agriculture Alliance. Michele has a love for hot yoga and all the benefits it brings to our bodies and minds.
Taylor
Hebel
Power Flow
Taylor is a dedicated yoga instructor who has been immersed in the practicethroughout her adult life. She is Baptiste and Vinyasa trained, and her classes are creative, taking you on a journey through breath and movement. Her passion forsharing this practice shines through in her teaching as she helps her students leave feeling both challenged and nurtured.
Veronika
Merchant
Breathwork Release
As a Certified Breath Coach, I guide individuals through transformative Breathwork and Meditation sessions. By employing conscious diaphragmatic breathing techniques, I facilitate the release of stagnant energies, paving the way for profound emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. This practice creates space for love, the true foundation of the healing process, enabling participants to reconnect with their authentic selves and embark on a journey of self-discovery.