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Honored Guest Guides
Guides visiting our Community
Our elite yoga professionals bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to each class. With small class sizes, we guarantee personalized attention to enhance your yoga journey.
Emily W | E-RYT 500
Practicing yoga has been a part of Emily's life for over 20 years, it's hard to remember a time that she wasn't on this journey. Coming first through meditation and then asana, she found her home. Her previous "life" in health care revealed to Emily the power of the breath and what this practice of yoga can do for so many others. As the COVID pandemic hit, her priorities shifted once again, as did for so many others. She felt the need to dive deep into the teachings and found her way to completing RYT 500 with Janet Stone. Continuing to share those teachings with her students and explore this journey together fills her with such joy and gratitude. Emily's daily ritual and teachings are a blend of Ashtanga Vinyasa and Bhakti (devotion). Her classes are a blend of gentle functional mobility, strength and stability, fluidity and curiosity, and a deep reverence for the breath. She hopes to hold space for whatever comes up for students. Compassion and loving kindness is a constant theme in classes and we show up however we can. She loves playing the harmonium and chanting, Qi Gong, and any energy work. Being a constant student and following the 8 Limb Path of Yoga is her greatest journey. When she's not practicing (or even when she is), Emily is surrounded by 2 precious children and wonderful, supportive husband, probably outside in nature or curled up with a book. OM Namah Shivaya
Jackie H | YA RYT 200
Yoga has been part of Jackie's life since 2012. She was immediately attracted to the physicality of it. Her asana practice was irregular as she was intrigued by a variety of physical activities but over time, she noticed that yoga settled her body and mind. Years ago, a friend had asked her, “If money was no concern, what would you do?”. Her response was that she would teach yoga. That was the lightbulb moment that yoga was one thing that she would always came back to. With that, the journey of learning more about the discipline of yoga and incorporating it into everyday life evolved into the desire to share it with all.
Whether it's Vinyasa, Yin, Energy Medicine Yoga, or a unique blended style, Jackie guides students of all levels through a practice that hopefully produces some level of self-realization and connection to Self. At the very least, she holds space for others to leave their day at the door and think about nothing else than moving their bodies and purposefully breathing.
Penelope P | YA RYT 500, E-RYT 200
Penelope is a Yoga Alliance RYT-500®, E-RYT 200®, YACEP, Vibrational Sound Practitioner, and Ceremonial Cacao space holder. Her work is rooted in presence, gentleness, and deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom to heal when given safety, time, and compassionate support.
Her first steps toward healing began over 20 years ago, and through the years her journey has been developing and expanding by practicing yoga. Penelope’s passion and curiosity for yin yoga was awakened later in life, leading her into stillness. Yin yoga became her anchor—a way to reconnect with her body, regulate her nervous system, and rebuild trust within herself. In the years that followed, Penelope traveled to Bali and Thailand to study and immerse herself in yin yoga philosophy, deepening her understanding of yin yoga as a lived, embodied path rather than a physical practice alone.
Today, Penelope weaves yin yoga, vibrational sound, breath-work, meditation, and ceremonial cacao into intentional spaces of rest, reflection, and heart connection. Her cacao ceremonies are held as sacred containers—spaces where participants are invited to soften, listen deeply, and reconnect with themselves at their own pace. Cacao is offered with reverence, not as something to fix or force, but as a gentle ally that supports emotional clarity, self-compassion, and inner balance.
Penelope’s philosophy is to serve people through life’s challenges by creating peaceful, grounded experiences that help restore balance during difficult times. Her work is an invitation to slow down, return to the heart, and remember that healing unfolds not through striving, but through presence.
IG: @themoonharmony
Candace Van D | Energy Medicine Practitioner
Candice Van Dertholen is an Energy Medicine Practitioner, speaker, retreat facilitator, and founder of The Warrior Within Healing. She works with high-performing professionals and entrepreneurs to reduce stress, reconnect within, and gain clarity through nervous system regulation, embodiment practices, and energy healing.
At retreats, Candice creates supportive, intentional spaces where participants can slow down and reflect. Her facilitation blends guided energy practices, grounding techniques, and intuitive insights. Participants leave feeling restored and equipped with tools they can carry into daily life.
Adam D | NASM, FRC
Adam Dickerson is a Colorado native and Colorado College alum (Art Studio, ‘13). After training under Patrizia Herminjard and Debbie Mercer at CC, Adam moved to NYC to perform with Graham 2, H.T. Chen & Dancer’s, Amy Marshall Dance Company, and Paul Taylor Dance Company. Adam founded Fooju Dance Collaborative in 2014 as an experimental performance art group that sought to subvert the expectations of classical dance by dancing anywhere but on stage. While performing and touring as a dancer, Adam turned to the world of group fitness for additional strength and conditioning training. In 2015 he began teaching at Physique 57 and in 2018 at Obé Fitness, which would lead to his certifications: Personal Trainer (NASM) and Mobility Specialist (FRC). Past group fitness opportunities for Adam included teaching in boutique fitness studios in Manhattan, Brooklyn, LA, the Hamptons, and highlighting self-care and motivation techniques on ABC News. In 2024, Adam moved back to Colorado Springs to combine his passion for dance, music, and healthy movement with a mobility joint-training class called Up&Adam. In the Spring of 2025, Adam was a guest teacher at CC for the Body in Motion 8th Block. Now in the coming 2025-2026 school year, Adam will join faculty at both UCCS and CC to teach Mobility, Ballet, and Contemporary Dance. Adam looks forward to continuing coaching dancers and pedestrians alike to learn how to move pain-free in their bodies by fortifying the mind.
Follow Adam at http://upandadamcos.com
Alexandria G | YA RYT 200
While Alexandria is now an experienced instructor with a grounding presence, she was once the youngest in a family that moved often, wondering where home was and how others seemed to feel so at ease in their bodies.
Over time, she began to understand that neither home nor ease arrives by chance or is achieved by the perfect posture. Home and ease are practices of intention toward how we hold ourselves when no one is watching.
Peace, rest, and belonging are not luxuries, but essential parts of being human, a birthright. For this reason, Alexandria weaves extra time and space into her classes for students to feel.
She views the mat as a place of healing and reclamation.
It is okay to soften. To speak honestly. To move with meaning.
Alexandria creates spaces that love you for being you.
All are welcome.