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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.
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.
Halston Bruce
Kaela
Miller
Fire Hot 26
Coming Soon...
Betsy Cook
Rakta Flow
Coming Soon...
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!
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.
Veronika
Merchant
Breathwork Release
Sam
Simon
Vinyasa Flow
Sam is a Certified Yoga Instructor with specialized training in power vinyasa. She is passionate about facilitating deeper connection to self and community through movement and breath. Sam cultivates feelings of power, strength, and belonging with her students in all of her classes. When not teaching or practicing yoga, you can find her enjoying the outdoors or enjoying a good book.
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.
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.
Jackie is the Lead Instructor at Rakta Hot Yoga and has been part of the Rakta community since its earliest years. A lifelong mover, yoga teacher, and fitness professional, Jackie brings together intelligent sequencing, purposeful heat, and soulful intention to create classes that are both challenging and deeply grounding.
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As Lead Instructor, Jackie helps and guides the evolving vision of the studio while honoring its roots. She is passionate about creating a space where effort and ease coexist, where community matters, and where movement becomes a tool for connection, both on and off the mat.
When she’s not teaching, Jackie can be found soaking up mountain life in Steamboat Springs with her family, finding inspiration in nature, music, and the quiet power of showing up fully.
Jackie
Harrell
Lead Instructor
Sculpt & Flow, Rakta Journey
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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.
Michele
Meyer
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Fire Hot 26
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.
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.
Halston Bruce
Kaela
Miller
Fire Hot 26
Coming Soon...
Kaitlyn
Mueller
Hot Yoga
Coming Soon...
AJ
Kublie
Buti Fire Vinyasa
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!
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.
Sam
Simon
Vinyasa Flow
Sam is a Certified Yoga Instructor with specialized training in power vinyasa. She is passionate about facilitating deeper connection to self and community through movement and breath. Sam cultivates feelings of power, strength, and belonging with her students in all of her classes. When not teaching or practicing yoga, you can find her enjoying the outdoors or enjoying a good book.
Power Flow
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.
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.
Halston Bruce
Kaela
Miller
Fire Hot 26
Coming Soon...
Kaitlyn
Mueller
Hot Yoga
Coming Soon...
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!
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.
Sam
Simon
Vinyasa Flow
Sam is a Certified Yoga Instructor with specialized training in power vinyasa. She is passionate about facilitating deeper connection to self and community through movement and breath. Sam cultivates feelings of power, strength, and belonging with her students in all of her classes. When not teaching or practicing yoga, you can find her enjoying the outdoors or enjoying a good book.
Power Flow
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.
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.
Jackie is the Lead Instructor at Rakta Hot Yoga and has been part of the Rakta community since its earliest years. A lifelong mover, yoga teacher, and fitness professional, Jackie brings together intelligent sequencing, purposeful heat, and soulful intention to create classes that are both challenging and deeply grounding.
Her signature style blends strong vinyasa flow with longer, Hatha-inspired holds, inviting students to build strength, resilience, and presence from the inside out. Influenced by yoga philosophy, seasonal rhythms, and years of teaching across multiple movement modalities, Jackie’s classes are designed to feel like a journey, one that meets you exactly where you are and invites you home to yourself.
As Lead Instructor, Jackie helps shape Rakta’s class offerings, supports teachers, and guides the evolving vision of the studio while honoring its roots. She is passionate about creating a space where effort and ease coexist, where community matters, and where movement becomes a tool for connection, both on and off the mat.
When she’s not teaching, Jackie can be found soaking up mountain life in Steamboat Springs with her family, finding inspiration in nature, music, and the quiet power of showing up fully.
Jackie
Harrell
Lead Instructor
Sculpt & Flow, Rakta Journey
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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.
Halston Bruce
Kaela
Miller
Fire Hot 26
Coming Soon...
Kaitlyn
Mueller
Hot Yoga
Coming Soon...
AJ
Kublie
Buti Fire Vinyasa
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!
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.
Sam
Simon
Vinyasa Flow
Sam is a Certified Yoga Instructor with specialized training in power vinyasa. She is passionate about facilitating deeper connection to self and community through movement and breath. Sam cultivates feelings of power, strength, and belonging with her students in all of her classes. When not teaching or practicing yoga, you can find her enjoying the outdoors or enjoying a good book.
Power Flow
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.