Yoga-Well-Being is the healing yoga of wisdom, wholeness, and serenity through yoga practice. Small classes attempt to work with students’ physical issues and emotional stressors and immediately help balance the body and mind. Since they are based on how students are feeling at each class, no two classes are alike. Come for the way your body feels after a class and stay for what it does long-term to your spirit.
 
INSTRUCTORS
  
Sipra Pimputkar
 
Yoga has slowly, subtly changed my way of thinking, my attitudes, my life objectives, and my health and spirit.
 
I grew up in India, in the Himalayan Mountains, in the old summer capital of the British Colonials when they ruled India. Living 8,000 ft. up in the mountains, my education was from the West with Irish Nuns in a convent school. In my home, my parents kept us in touch with our traditional Indian roots, with the celebration of Indian rituals, yogic ethical values and customs, along with our westernized lifestyle. My father practiced yoga each morning, and I absorbed a lot of it from him without even trying to. My father was my first and only teacher. He never felt he was an instructor, but gave me his discoveries with yoga in a gentle, low-key way that made me want to experiment with it on my own. My mother meditated daily on a regular basis, and carefully observed the devotions and charity works that are such an important part of yoga. About twelve years ago, I took a Vedantic ‘initiation’, and have since practiced meditation on a regular basis. There is a ‘stillness’ that meditation brings to the practitioner - it makes me feel as if I am the pilot of a spaceship that is my life, but I can keep it on a steady course as I hurtle through this oftentimes stormy journey.
 
Through good and bad times, I have personally found that Yoga has provided me with a constant sense of well-being or euphoria, that keeps me on a perpetual “high”. I notice that I am rarely sick, and almost never catch those endless colds and other sicknesses. The occasional aches and pains are quickly worked out of the system with the powerful stretches. It is this certainty that I can help impart this quality to your life – good health, good spirit, and a quietness that comes through the practice of regular Yoga, which motivates me to teach yoga and create a studio within your budget. My students include people of all ages, including adults, seniors, convalescents, children, athletes and pregnant women. I work with special needs populations such as DD, Cerebral Palsy, cancer, MS, stroke and heart patients. Classes try to ease the discomfort of sinus infections, asthma, diabetes, headaches and depression.
 
Becca Alexander 
 
Becca Alexander first came to yoga for relief from stress and a desire to seek out her most essential self. Discovering a love for yoga and a desire to share its benefits with others, Becca received her 200 hour certification from Namaste Yoga School in Sagamore Hills, Ohio. She is currently pursuing a 500 hour yoga as therapy certification and has a particular interest in yoga as emotional and physical healing. Her study with teachers of different styles inspires her and feeds her holistic view of the practice. Becca seeks to promote joy, energy, peace, and community in her classes.

Mary Ann Frye
 
Mary Ann began practicing yoga in the basement of her home following the instruction of Rodney Yee on DVD. In 1999 she attended her first yoga class in Columbus and knew then that she wanted to continue to study and explore yoga more deeply. Mary Ann continued to practice at various studios in the Columbus area but it wasn’t until she met Donna Winters and began the Teacher Training at Balanced Yoga that she knew that teaching yoga was the next logical step after retiring from a very satisfying career in education.
 
As a speech/language pathologist and later as a school administrator, Mary Ann’s goal was to build confidence, support, and encourage students to be the best they could be. That is also what she aspires to offer to students in her yoga classes. She wants her students to understand the depth of yoga and know that it is an individual practice. What is right for one person is not necessarily right for all. But, when practiced consistently, it can give health and wellness benefits now and well into your later years.

Taylor Hunt
 
Taylor has enjoyed 7 years of Ashtanga Yoga practice, in addition to Vedic chanting and sutra studies. He is devoted to not only asana practice, but a well rounded learning of yoga. Within 2 years of practice, Taylor started a 200-level hour TT program, which he completed with dedication. He takes every opportunity to learn from Certified or Authorized teachers such as Tim Miller, Kino Macgregor, and Laruga Glaser, as well as ongoing studies with Matthew Darling in Royal Oak, Michigan. He most recently studied with KPJAYI director R. Sharath Rangaswamy in Mysore, India.
 
As a teacher, Taylor brings experience from his own practice as well as a sense of humor to the classroom. He is a dedicated practitioner with much respect and admiration for the system.

Kori Tien Kinard
 
Kori Tien Kinard grew up in Columbus. She started doing yoga after being introduced to it in her high school gym class, and soon after began studying dance and doing yoga mostly on her own. She attended a liberal arts school in Colorado, graduating in 2010, and in 2011 returned to Columbus and decided to reinvigorate her yoga practice. Soon after, she discovered Forrest Yoga. Determined to take a teacher training with Ana Tyger Forrest, she completed her 200-hour certification in the Fall of 2011. Her teacher training inspired her immensely to share yoga and its power to free us to become more alive and authentic.