2026 Returning YogaFest Teachers

Alyssa has been practicing and instructing yoga now for over 20 years in her adopted home of Montana. With over 700 hours of training completed, she has crafted her individual training style to focus on strength, mobility, flexibility and an overarching focus on movement. For Alyssa, yoga has always been an enhancement for her love of skiing, running and hiking.  Alyssa's classes have always focused on being fun yet challenging while being accessible to everyone.

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Class: Summer Solstice Celebration

Robyn Lund, 500 E-RYT, came to yoga in college as a way to manage anxiety and stress. Having practiced for 15 years, she undertook her first Yoga Teacher Training in 2012, becoming Montana’s only Certified Curvy Yoga Teacher. Robyn has continued to study with Anna Guest-Jelly, founder of Curvy Yoga, Jivana Heyman of the Accessible Yoga Foundation, and Rachael Getecha of the Trauma Center for Trauma Sensitive Yoga, amongst others. 
 
In 2013, Robyn opened the Gentle Healing Center in Helena, where she, along with several other teachers, lead weekly classes. In 2019, she founded the Montana Yoga Movement, a 501(c)3, aimed at bringing yoga to at-risk populations such as women’s shelters, in-patient addiction centers, homeless shelters, and more. In 2022, she developed the Ahimsa Yoga Training,  a Yoga Alliance accredited 200 hour program, which she leads annually.
 
Robyn focuses on bringing yoga to your body, the one you have right now. Using props, specialized sequencing, and techniques to make classes accessible and enjoyable for everyone, no matter size, shape, ability to background.

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Class: Somatic Yoga

Cici has been teaching and sharing different modalities of yoga for almost a decade. As an athlete from an early age and a coach in her late teens / early twenties, becoming a yoga teacher just seemed to be the natural next step. She completed her first yoga teacher training (vinyasa) in her mid twenties and hasn’t stopped since, keeping the goal and mindset to always be a student - always be learning. Cici also has certifications in Thai Yoga Massage, Yin Yoga, Mobility, and Rocket Yoga.

Cici’s teaching style defies a single label. Instead, she draws from her extensive training to create fluid, intentional practices centered around the specific needs of her students. Her work focuses on balance, mobility, and recovery. Cici’s classes are more than sequences—they are spaces for students to explore, grow, and find their way “home” within themselves.

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Class: Flow with Cici

Class: Thai Massage

For the past 30 years, Erin has worked in elite fitness clubs in New York City, Los Angeles, as well as Minnesota. In 2013, Erin opened Bring It! Studios and CrossFit Chanhassen and was Owner/Program director for the next 8 years, where she ran the Peak 10 Program.

Erin came to yoga after searching for a way to heal her
exhausted body. She received her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training from Jason Crandel, and is certified through AFFA and ACE (Group Exercise and Pre/Postnatal), and The Fitness Institute of Training (Personal Trainer) as well as carrying multiple
certifications in Pilates, Barre, Kettlebell, Post Rehab, and Flexibility Training.

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Chris came to yoga in her 20s. It was an evening Hatha Yoga class taking place in an old Bavarian building where the rooms had high ceilings, and it was quiet and peaceful. Chris has since returned to yoga every time when her mind and body longed for peace and quiet. Chris found her way back to yoga and became a regular at Gentle Healing in 2020 . Yoga allowed Chris to reconnect to her mind, body, and spirit, and recreate a sense of wellbeing that seemed lost.
 
Having been an advocate for people with disabilities, Chris was intrigued by Robyn Lund’s Ahimsa Yoga Teacher Training with a focus on accessibility. Chris participated in the first round of Gentle Healing’s YTT and finished her 200-hour YTT in March 2023. She’s been teaching regular classes at the Gentle Healing Studio, always with a focus on helping her students find slowness, presence, and reconnect to their breath.

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Nadine has been teaching yoga for 8 years, and is an

Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500 hour level of teacher training with 2,300+ hours of

teaching experience. Growing up as a short and curvy ballet dancer Nadine spent her youth, and well into

adulthood, fighting her own body, and wishing it were different. She was initially drawn to yoga by the

poses, and she approached her practice very much like the way she used to force her body into ballet

poses. This started to change as yoga began to work its magic on her, and she eventually learned to

collaborate with her body rather than fight against it. Collaboration led to unconditional self love, and self

respect. Nadine endeavors to pass these lessons on by teaching poses according to anatomical truths,

giving students space for self-inquiry, and sharing how simple things done well can have a huge impact

toward self regulation. She also enjoys weaving yoga philosophy into her classes. Students often say that

her classes unfold like the telling of a story. Nadine is the creator of Your Yoga: Seven steps through the chakra

system to develop a home yoga practice, a program she offers in group settings, and also in private instruction.

Nadine lives in Great Falls, MT with her incredibly talented and musical husband, Joel Corda. Their son

recently flew the nest, but thankfully, lives nearby. Nadine is usually found tending to her flower and herb

garden, cooking wholesome meals, practicing yoga, teaching yoga classes at the Peak Health and Wellness

Center, and coaching private yoga clients

​Danae Robinett is a yoga teacher, retreat leader, and care-giver based in San Francisco. Practicing yoga since 1999, she’s been teaching for 20 years. Her classes are warm, welcoming and precise.

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Class: Shake your Asana

Lou received her first yoga instruction in the heartland of India from Yogi Vishvketu-ji and has been guiding ever since. Always being spiritual and an outcast of traditional western society, Lou combines traditional eastern modalities into our modern culture to help create wellness on all the layers of the body. She lives in southwestern Montana and travels extensively throughout the United States teaching at massage schools, conferences and festivals. Lou leads an online kundalini yoga teacher training immersion each spring and uses astrology tied into her offerings. She is beginning to transition her focus towards a more virtual client experience through coaching individuals into their own sovereignty, empowerment, and deep inner/spiritual healing through the Inner Alignment Soul Retrieval system for healing childhood trauma.

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Class: Shamanic Journey

Class: Kundalini Tantra 

Deb Halliday is a yogini, mama, artist and musician in Helena. She is trained in the
Tantric tradition of the divine feminine, and delights in introducing the Goddesses of Yoga to
practitioners as a way to connect into the creative, loving Universal flow. Deb is a 300-hour
certified Prana Vinyasa® + Soulful Wellness teacher with the Samudra School of Yoga and is a
certified Energy Medicine Yoga® practitioner. Through her yoga, Deb invites us to explore the
sacred tremor of spanda, and our energetic body in motion. Deb teaches at Gentle Healing
Yoga. Check out her project, Juicy Purusha, at www.juicypurusha.com.

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Class: The Energy to Heal

Workshop: Living in Rhythm

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Stephanie is an abdominal therapy and energetic/spiritual healing practitioner, herbalist, teacher, and potion maker; she is the owner of Bitterroot Botanicals and Hawthorn Holistic Health, both businesses rooted in physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Her journey as an herbalist began in the early 1990's as she was beginning a career in biology and eventually led to obtaining her certification to practice massage therapy in 2004, which led to her journeying multiple times to Belize beginning in 2018 to learn abdominal massage and spiritual healing techniques. Weaved into all of that she also offers medicinal plant and plant wisdom classes as well as health and wellness classes focusing mostly on digestive and women's health. All of her practices are deeply grounded in the wisdom and beauty of the Earth with the goal of always celebrating abundance, health, family, and friends.

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I'm Carolyn, and I believe movement is medicine. There is power and magic in gathering together, feeling the energy, and moving our bodies. Being on my mat, is my safe place, and my way back to the best parts of me. I'd love to make magic together!