Instructors
Wendy Andersen
Wendy is the owner and director of Shine Yoga Center. A former corporate litigation attorney, Wendy retired from the practice of law in 2002 to open Shine, teach yoga and create a family with her husband Scott (and now Luke and Sam).
Wendy is a certified teacher of Anusara Yoga and has also studied Iyengar and Ashtanga Yoga. She is known for the clarity of her alignment instruction and for her ability to express energetic action in an understandable way. Her intention is to help students at Shine connect more fully to their own inner wisdom.
Shalini Latour
Shalini (E-RYT 500) began her journey into hatha yoga while living in an Ashram. She practiced yoga, meditation, chanting, studied philosophy, and traveled to India twice during her 10-year stay there. She has been dedicated to the study and practice of Anusara Yoga since 1989. Shalini is a certified Anusara instructor and is known for her fun loving, light-hearted teaching style. The therapeutic aspect of yoga is of special interest to her and she enjoys sharing the knowledge she accumulated thru her extensive studies and her own injuries. Shalini is also a pastry chef, she creates unique cakes from her home kitchen. Visit her web site at www.shaliniscakes.com
Rosanna Juncos
Rosanna is an Anusara Yoga certified teacher and has studied extensively with John Friend, Rodney Yee, Judith Lasater, Sianna Sherman, Mitchel Bleier and many other excellent teachers. She has been an ardent and committed yoga practitioner since 1991 and has been teaching in the Cincinnati area since 1996. Her classes focus on mindfulness and helping students find optimal alignment in the poses, in part so they can reap maximum benefit from their practice, and also because she believes yoga is as much an exercise of consciousness as of the body. She brings her playfulness and love of poetry and philosophy into her classes, liberally sprinkling them with beautiful thoughts and quotes from whatever book she's reading at the time.
Kathleen Noble
The inspiration for my teaching style is rooted in the poetry and celebration of everyday living. My greatest hope is to help my friends and students find a deeper level of insight, comfort, and joy in their unique experience of life. I am eternally grateful for the transformative practice of Yoga and feel blessed with the opportunity to share it! As well as yoga for grown-ups, I lead the various family based Yoga classes her at Shine and teach Yoga for Pregnancy. I am devoted to helping women feel empowered as they transition into motherhood.
I fell in love with teaching movement based classes very early on. I taught my first gymnastic lessons at just 14 years of age. After college I became an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and achieved the affiliated Anusara Yoga Instructor status in 2002. When I became pregnant in 2003 I began my pre-natal training and received certifications in pre- and post-natal fitness and yoga from DSW Fitness and Mother-Well Maternity Fitness and Yoga. You can find more about me and my work at www.flourishunlimited.com or e-mail me at katenoble@fuse.net.
Karen Johns, RYT
Karen has been practicing asana for over 10 years, and intends to practice until she’s a happy, silly old lady with well-lubricated joints and a knowing smile. Karen teaches Beginner, New Beginner and YogaChant classes at Shine with a particular fondness for the newbies. She remembers what it was like to try to touch her toes when she first started, and makes yoga do-able with humor, empathy and solid alignment instruction to help students feel safe, good and encouraged to continue.
Karen also loves writing, singing and playing devotional music and has to pinch herself to be sure that it's real when she wears the hat of office manager here at Shine.
Karen is certified through Shine's Teacher Training program as a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.
Brenda Villa
Brenda has been studying Anusara at Shine since it opened more than 5 years ago, and has accumulated over 300 hours of study with John Friend, Sianna Sherman and Mitchel Bleier. Her teaching style is dynamic and joyous, and her classes are not to be missed.
David Martin
David Martin has been practicing yoga for 6 years and wonders what he did without it. He began studying in the Iyengar tradition and was drawn to Anusara yoga in 1999 after experiencing its capacity to open the heart and inspire. He has trained as an Anusara teacher for over 300 hours with Senior Anusara teachers Sianna Sherman, Mitchel Bleier, Naime Jezzeny and Sue Elkind. He has also attended 100 hours of workshops with John Friend, Anusara Yoga’s founder. David has had a daily meditation practice for ten years and remains a student of meditation teacher, Sally Kempton.
During the day, David trains and coaches corporate executives and delivers a leadership develop program called Momentum to build their leadership skills and accelerate their successes. David teaches beginning classes at Shine because he loves to share the practice of yoga and because he is grateful to be with the awesome people Shine attracts.
Alan Hundley
Alan Hundley, LMT, LLC, has been working for over 30 years in the area of mind/body integration. He has practiced yoga, dance, tai chi, qigong and other body-centered therapies. Alan is also a massage and Watsu therapist, a wonderful way of releasing the body in warm water. He and his wife Kathleen own and operate a retreat center in Kentucky where small groups can come to re-connect with the sacred in themselves and with the natural world. To learn more, visit www.threewaters.com.
Donna Covrett
Donna has been a student of yoga since 1974, living in the Sri Rudrananda Ashram for five years studying Kundalini and Tantra yogas. Since then, she’s had the great fortune to study with many gifted teachers in a variety of yoga styles, all of whom continue to inspire her classes and daily life. She brings sincere respect for the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of yoga through her lively classes.
Joy Sherry
Joy Sherry has studied & worked in the health, healing & metaphysical world for 20 years. With over 10 years of yoga teaching experience, primarily committed to the style of Anusara Yoga, Joy is known for her inspiring, healing & fun approach to yoga. She has an ability to communicate with ease & clarity weaving the alignment principles with contemplative themes. Joy is sensitive to the varying levels and needs of students and is dedicated to inspiring and encouraging each one to connect and align with their own heart and true potential. Joy is continually grateful, amazed, & inspired by her students' beauty & openness and loves witnessing their insights & heartfelt openings as the Universal Principles of Alignment unfold for them. Joy presently teaches classes at Shine Yoga Center & Joy's Space & she is available for workshops, private yoga & yoga therapy.
Bev Palmer
Bev has been a member of the Shine community since we opened our doors seven years ago. Coming to yoga as the result of a serious condition in her spine, Bev has experienced first-hand the therapeutic benefits of a regular yoga practice. She has studied with all of our teachers at Shine and, in addition, with all of our visiting veteran Anusara yogis, including founder John Friend, Sianna Sherman, Betsy Downing, Desiree Rumbaugh and many more. Bev infuses her classes with the joy and enthusiasm of a heart-centered practice, balanced by competence and a solid understanding of the principles of alignment. She is committed to helping each student find the optimal blueprint for his or her unique physical challenge and to encouraging self-love, compassion and gratitude as the foundations for healing and growth.
Patsy Baughn
After living in Cincinnati for more than 15 years, Patsy Baughn moved to Los Angeles, CA where she spent 5 years training and teaching in some of the most well-known Anusara studios. Patsy completed her first teacher training in 2001. She became an Anusara Affiliated teacher in 2004 after studying more than 300 hours with Anusara certified teachers and more than 100 hours with John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga. Patsy received her prenatal training under the tutelage of certified Anusara instructors with prenatal specialization and also taught Mommy and Me classes for more than two years. Patsy is honored to be invited to teach prenatal classes at Shine.
Kim Nietch
Kim Nietch, a former New Jersey yoga studio owner, offers her adept skill as a teacher and yoga practitioner in all of her classes whether teaching here or at her home studio. Her classes flow and move beautifully to her own fabulous music mixes. Her classes are unpredictable, creative and challenging. A perfect opportunity to apply your alignment principles in a more flowing practice style.
Melanie Wright
Melanie is back! Melanie's skill and understanding of the Anusara principles comes from extensive experience in her young years. Her practice is inspiring, and her depth of understanding continues to deepen and unfold.
Beryl Donenfeld
Beryl Donenfeld, M. Ed., is the owner of Beryfit LLC, a personal training company. She has received national recognition as one of a small group to have received "triple gold certification" from A.C.E., the premier fitness professional certification organization. Beryl's A.C.E. certifications include Personal Training, Group Fitness Instruction and Lifestyles and Weight Management Consulting. She is also certified by Mad Dog Athletics and Johnny G. as a SPINNING instructor and by The Physicalmind Institute as a Pilates Coach and instructor. Beryl is certified by The American Arthritis Foundation to work with people with arthritis, and has nearly completed the requirements of the Shine Teacher Training program to become a Yoga Alliance certified teacher.
Jo Griffith
Jo has studied Anusara extensively for many years and has an excellent understanding of the principles, biomechanics and philosophy of Anusara Yoga.
Kenn Day
Kenn Day is a nationally recognized lecturer with over 15 years’ experience delving into the mysteries of the human spirit.
He began his studies in alternative healing techniques with Hypnosis, NLP and creative visualization techniques as a founding member of the Institute For Human Development.
Kenn has studied various indigenous forms of shamanic practice, as well as shiatsu, movement technique, jin shin do, and other body centered therapies. Kenn was on the founding faculty of the Academy of Chinese Acupuncture in Lebanon, Ohio teaching medical qi gong and tai chi. He is licensed by the Ohio State Medical Board and certified as a Structural Therapist.
Kathleen/ Patsy
Kathleen Noble and Patsy Baughn will alternate the teaching of the Saturday prenatal class.
Leslie Kreines
Leslie and Wendy have been on a parallel hoola hooping mission for a while now, and have even attended some hooping events to learn the finer points of hooping. Leslie's class will focus on a core workout. Please note: Leslie's Tuesday class goes until 9:20 rather than 9:30, as the schedule says.
Lauren Boehm
Lauren first learned her sun salutations and the age of 16 and has experienced a deeper commitment to her practice and instruction each day since. Over ten years later, her passion for service and kindness to others has opened the doors for the opportunity to lead Shine's Baby Yoga classes. Studying under an Ashtanga school, Lauren still enjoys a vigorous vinyasa flow as well as a meditation retreat. Her goal is to invite mothers and fathers to begin or continue their practice with their children in a kind environment, where trying new things, receiving, and letting go all come together each time Lauren (and daughter Zoey) welcomes you to the mat.
Brenda/ Jo
This class will be taught alternately week-to-week for the summer by Brenda Villa and Jo Griffith.
Josie Caruso
Josie teaches in many locations in Cincinnati, and will be teaching the Yoga Nidra class for the summer.