Our Teaching Team

My yoga teacher training at Samadhi has opened doors into my spirituality, my whole yoga practice, and my complete life, which I didn’t know existed. Every time I step foot into the studio, I know I have made the right step, into the right place, at the right time. I feel safe there… safe to expand… safe to explore.

Your Samadhi Yoga Teacher Training team is a collective of esteemed professionals in the yoga community from all around the Denver and Boulder area who have dedicated their lives to service. We strongly believe in supporting one another and spreading the truths of a yogic path. This team is devoted to creating powerful, positive change on our planet. We ache to serve in the highest manner possible and we focus our devotion on developing programs that we feel have the potential of creating deeply profound change within the hearts of many. Together we literally have hundreds of years of experience. We are ever grateful to be at your service.

We invite you with hearts wide open to dive into the ocean of possibility!
Jeremy Wolf

Having an interest in the mind/body relationship since an early age, Jeremy practiced martial arts before finding yoga.  It was through the practice of yoga nidra and meditation back in 1993 that led him to explore asana, bhakti, and the Eight Limbs.   In 2006 he earned his yoga teaching certificate in the Classical Eight Limbs at Yoga Vidya Dham in Naasik, India.  Jeremy is also a Reiki Master and sees all of his practices as various methods for bringing himself and others back into the most natural state of being.

Cheryl Deer- EYRT 200, RYT 500

 

Many have found themselves mesmerized by her passion, moved by her honesty and changed by her insights. Cheryls classes are fun and motivating, have great energy and will leave you awakened. She is known for great adjustments, teaching for all levels and delivering an intelligently sequenced challenging class.Cheryl has studied yoga for 12 years and taught for 11. Her greatest teaching influence comes from her students. She completed Basic and Advanced Teacher Training Intensives with Ana Forrest and Ashtanga Teacher Training with David Swenson. She has also studied Iyengar, Power, Vinyasa, Anusara and Jivamukti yoga. Cheryl is a 500 Hour RYT with Yoga Alliance.”I want to be present and pure enough to reflect to my students their own light so that they can be as touched and rejoiced by it as I am. I believe the truths and peace we find on our mats have an instant effect on the whole world!”- Cheryl Deer

Karin Bustamante- ERYT 200, RYT 500

 

Karin is an experienced registered yoga teacher, at the 500 hour level and will be teaching the Sanskrit portion of our training.  She completed over 1000 hours of Hatha Yoga training taught by Hansa Knox at the PranaYoga and Ayurveda Mandala in Denver and she holds the designation of Certified iRest® Teacher from the Integrative Restoration Institute, a specific approach to yoga nidra as taught by Richard Miller, PhD. Karin has studied Sanskrit at Naropa University and is currently pursing a Masters in Contemplative Psychotherapy.   Learn about Karin at www.karinyoga.com

Beth Sanchez – ERYT 200

Beth’s classes are deeply inspired by her primary teachers, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn, and Ayurveda Master Practitioner, Alakananda Ma.  She is also deeply influenced by the teachings of Richard Freeman, and Adyashanti.  Beth has been teaching Yoga since 2000 and Ayurveda since 2005 and  Vegetarian Cooking Classes since 2010.  Her aspiration is to help students access their own awakened nature using powerful tools available through Yoga, Ayurveda, and Mindfulness.  Check out her offerings at www.bethsanchez.

We are incredibly fortunate to have Beth share her magnificence through teaching and as co-coordinator of this most excellent program!

Anne Hart – ERYT 200, RYT 500

Anne is a deeply experienced yoga teacher, having recently completed her 500 hour ERYT training with Tias Little.  She creatively co-teaches anatomy using slide shows to depict anatomical structures which also appear in animals, art and architecture.  Following her presentations, she guides students through asana practice focusing on those same structures experientially. She ignites passion for the complexity of the human body.

Paul Ryan-Haffey – ERYT 200

Paul Ryan Haffey is a graduate of the Denver Institute of Yoga and hopes to complete his 500 hour training with  Tias Little in the near future.  He has studied various modalities of yoga in the US and in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Paul has performed human dissections at the graduate level at the University of Colorado, and he will soon be attending the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.  In addition, Paul teaches restorative yoga classes that focus on the therapeutic and healing elements of asana.

Wendy Correa – ERYT 200

Wendy Correa LMT, RYT, CCCE is a licensed massage therapist certified in Swedish, Prenatal, HotLavaStone and Ashiatsu massage.  She is also a Yoga Alliance registered yoga instructor (hatha, vinyasa flow, prenatal, gentle) and a nationally certified childbirth educator, breastfeeding counselor, CPR instructor and doula. In addition she has training in hypnosis for childbirth and is a contributing writer for Mothering Magazine. For more information

about Wendy, visit orwendy@urbandesigner.com

 

 

Sara Mesmer- ERYT 200

Sara Mesmer is a renowned teacher of Yoga, meditation, Vedic studies, and sacred music. She has taught thousands of students. On her their behalf, Sara regularly travels to India to receive initiation from her teacher in advanced meditation and healing techniques. Her desire is to help her students rise to the highest possibility of knowledge and happiness and share that awareness with everyone around them.

Annie Freedom | Program Visionary & Director

It has been Annie’s lifelong desire to serve others and improve the planet we inhabit. Annie (with the help of many others along the way) created Samadhi over nine years ago to fulfill this dharma. It is through our joined vision that we have created this outstanding program that consistently transforms lives for the better.

Establishing a strong yoga teacher training program is an important step to awakening the masses to our own glorious truth. It is Annie’s heartfelt wish that many will not only learn about how to teach profound and transformational yoga classes, but will also discover a deep and powerful awakening in themselves. This, she believes has the power to positively and radically transform the world.

Guest Teachers

Samadhi is grateful to include guest teacher Todd Garcia of Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment for our super intriguing cadaver lab piece.