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Melissa Longfellow, E-RYT 500

Program Director and Lead Instructor: is a world-class yoga teacher based in Bellingham, WA who is out to create empowerment and inspiration through her teaching and training programs. She is an Experienced, Registered Yoga Teacher Trainer with Yoga Alliance, a Senior Level Baptiste Yoga Trainer (www.Baptisteyoga.com), Certified Stand Up Paddle Yoga Teacher Trainer, Mother of 2 boys and 13-year Bellingham resident.

Melissa has the experience, knowledge, patience and compassion to challenge and uplift you. She lives the humble and courageous life path of a yogi, and will lead you with love through this transformational process. She has trained with the most influential teachers of our time and continues close ongoing study with her main teacher, Baron Baptiste. She continues to walk the path of a student by devoting several weeks each year to workshops, trainings and retreats. Melissa also teaches Baptiste Yoga programs around the country.


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Julie Finley, E-RYT 200
Julie is a Certified Baptiste Yoga teacher, E-RYT 500, Certified Stand Up Paddle Yoga teacher and a Certified Personal Trainer.  She lives in Bellingham, WA where she teaches and co-facilitates teacher trainings at Power Yoga Academy. Her primary teacher is Baron Baptiste and she continues to study with him on a regular basis. Yoga has powerfully impacted Julie's life and fuels her desire to share yoga with others. Through her yoga practice, meditation and self-study she finds endless possibilities to create her life in new and inspired ways. Julie will lead you through an igniting power yoga class influenced by Baptiste Methodology.  She will support and encourage you to listen to your body and stay connected to your breath. Her passion for yoga is undeniable and you will know that she is fully present for you. In Julie’s classes there is space for curiosity, connection, love and an opportunity to create something new for yourself. It is her purpose to empower others to discover their own greatness, elevating themselves, their communities and the planet. A willing spirit is all that is needed. When not teaching and training others Julie spends time with her family and friends, cooking and gardening. She spends several weeks each year committed to her own growth by being a student at trainings and workshops.

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Tina Templeman, E-RYT 500
 
Tina Templeman, certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher, licensed massage therapist 14 years in practice, attended Bastyr University’s cadaver anatomy course and is a 2011 lululemon Ambassador. Tina teaches Yoga and Anatomy for Yoga with exuberance stemming from the passion she feels towards the very thing that healed her life: yoga.  In 1998 when severe back pain brought her to the brink of back surgery, yoga became a large part of her rehabilitation and also became one of her greatest joys. Her anatomy courses are very experiential, allowing you to actually feel how the muscles work and create support and movement for the body. By using creative sequencing as well as the spiritual focus that Baptiste Yoga methodology offers her classes will challenge, strengthen and stretch you physically and mentally, on and off the mat. Incorporating muscular and kinesthetic awareness to her yoga classes empowers students to be successful at any level. This expertise coupled with 20 years of ballet and dance training along with several modules of Shiva Rea’s Fluid Power teacher trainings makes Tina's yoga classes challenging, fun, and energetic for all. Tina lives in Seattle where she teaches and trains teachers at BeLuminous and Shakti Vinyasa Yoga.