Teachers

Tracy is a passionate life-long learner and is fascinated with the healing nature of yoga and all aspects of meditation, mantra and evolutionary consciousness. Her training is focused in alignment-based anusara vinyasa, energy dynamics and yoga therapeutics. She weaves challenging postures, self-awareness and intention into her classes for a well-rounded, fun and focused vinyasa experience.

Jody has a deep appreciation and love for the power of yoga to reunite one’s body, mind and spirit after the busyness of everyday life, and the way it brings a deeper connection to one’s true Self. And she just finds it fun! She received her 200-hour certification in Greece, in Transformational Hatha Yoga. Jody has also worked with a local non-profit organization bringing yoga to teens through the school system and the Juvenile Justice Center. As a member of the Gypsy Divas Dance Troupe, she gets to enjoy the benefits of movement through dance as well.

Meggie Cafferty

Movement through dance was a part of Meggie Cafferty's life from childhood. In 2010 Meggie came to know the practice of yoga. After graduating from the University of Idaho in 2011, she decided to make yoga a more influential and permanent part of her life, and completed her first 200 hour teacher training program in 2014, under the direction of Tiffany Wood, Certified Anusara® Yoga Teacher. Meggie has a passion for using one's optimal bio-mechanical alignment to move in and out of asanas. Her classes are flowing, playful, and fun, and she strives to meet her students exactly where they are.

Tracy Fox

Amber Kohal

Amber is a Sandpoint native and long time yoga student. She recently received her yoga teacher certification and is excited to be offering accessible beginner level classes to the community.

Brietta Leader

Brietta is a teacher of dance in its many forms of healing, prayer, play & conditioning. She grew up as a dancer and discovered her path as a healing artist 14 years ago while traveling in Asia. Brietta is a Certified Soul Motion Teacher, a Brown Belt of the Nia Technique, a Licensed Massage Therapist, the Director and Choreographer of the Gypsy Diva's Dance Troupe and a student of the shamanic practices of the Peruvian Inca. Brietta is devoted to her path as a healing artist and loves to educate and inspire both children and adults to self-heal through movement and massage.

Peter Mico

Peter Mico has been a student of yoga since 1995. While spending the first five years of his practice healing various ailments and injuries to his body Peter learned the practice of Hatha yoga; specifically from the lineage of Iyengar yoga. This was the beginning of Peter’s extensive yoga training path. In 2000 he began a long term study with Rodney Yee, an Iyengar senior teacher. He was drawn to Rodney’s casual teaching style and effective methods of mixing metaphor, philosophy and anatomy while appropriately incorporating humor into the teaching. Peter then attended Rodney’s Advanced Teacher Training in Northampton Ma. He has also studied with Manouso Manos in San Francisco and Patricia Walden in Estes Park CO. In 2006 he began his 500 hours yoga training and studies with Tias Little of the Prajna Yoga Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Peter remains an active member of the Prajna Yoga Sangha and attends Tias’s workshops around the country. In 2011 he received his teachers certification in Garuda fitness with James D’Silva in Toronto Canada. James D’Silva created the Garuda system of body conditioning using yoga, pilates, dance and reformer workouts. James’ techniques are uniquely qualified in working with the body’s myafascial systems, which is of particular interest to Peter’s work in Yoga therapy.

Peter Mico is owner and currently on the teaching staff at Downtown Yoga in Sandpoint, Idaho.

Nicole Murray

Nicole immediately fell in love with the freedom and contentment she received from yoga when she took her first class 13 years ago. She continued to study and eventually completed her 200 hour Teacher Training with 8 Limbs Yoga Studio as well as Level One and Two Teacher Trainings with Baron Baptiste of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga. Nicole spent two years in the Mentorship Program at Shakti Vinyasa Yoga in Seattle assisting and learning the art of teaching. Yoga has dramatically shifted the path of Nicole's life, compelling her to share the gift of yoga with her students.

Linda Ries

Yoga moves Linda Ries everyday and she discovers something very important on the mat; herself. She brings that same spirit of self-acceptance and vibrant exploration to her popular classes. Linda Ries R.Y.T has studied and taught yoga for 25 years and owned and directed The Sandpoint Yoga Studio for twelve of those years. Linda has a eclectic approach to her teaching style. She combines years of continuing studies with various styles of yoga which include Iyengar, Ansuara and many others. Linda also includes the personal knowledge she has gained through sitting in vipassana meditation.

On transformation: "I've watched it happen again and again people come to yoga in search of more flexibility or strength. Which they gain, of course. But then something else happens. They develop a passion -- and begin to step into a life of greater joy, connection, and courage. Yoga can be a doorway to that."

On practicing: When you ask Linda about the benefits of yoga, she laughs, "How much time do you have? Vitality, energy and flexibility, of course. But yoga is also the gateway to a richer, fuller, more authentic life."

Sarah Rusnak

I am a yoga teacher, mother and self-care evangelist. I teach people how to find balance in their day to day living. Along the way we learn to love being in our own skin. We use yoga as a tool to keep our body, mind and soul evolving in health. We develop practical skills to refine the ART of self-care. Together we travel from being "too-busy-to-have-balance" towards a supple, strong YOU that lives and ages with grace. Yoga has been my dear friend for over 20 years. I've trained extensively with master teacher Ana Forrest and have been sharing the wisdom of yoga with others since 2006. I am committed to studying the human body, how we take in nutrients and let go of the old. It is my aim to generously offer what I learn to our community in a down-to-earth way.