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Our Staff
Director:
Kristi Fulkerson
Kristi Fulkerson is a perhaps one of the most educated and experienced yoga teachers in Louisville area
Teaching yoga full time for a living since 1998, she was certified originally by Bikram Choudhury and the Yoga college of India in Beverly Hills. She ran Bikrams San Francisco studio and then returned to Los Angeles to expand her education with Ana Forest in 1999.
In 2001 she was certified in the Yoga Challenge 1 and trained in the 84 asanas by Tony Sanchez of the Academia de Yoga (formerly the U.S. Yoga Association). She is also certified as a therapist/educator in Yamuna Body Rolling.
Kristi has been a top producing instructor in some of the top health clubs in the nation. This included the Sports Club/LA and Crunch fitness. She was also the top producing teacher for the Funky Door Yoga's original studio Yoga World.
Kristi returned to the Louisville area to bring her yoga to her hometown. She opened Yoga on Baxter in 2007. After the first year it was voted #2 by Leo magazine and in its second year voted #1.
Teachers:
Holly Holland:
After spending more than 20 years in the stressful fields of journalism and publishing,Holly turned to yoga to bring better balance to her life. Originally a student of the Hatha yoga style, she fell in love with the rejuvenating powers of Rocket yoga, a dynamic form of Ashtanga yoga that adds in more core abdominal moves, inversions, hip openers, backbends, and twists than traditional yoga classes. Holly has studied directly with Larry Schultz, the founder of Rocket Yoga in San Francisco (www.itsyoga.net) and is a graduate of the affiliated teacher training program at Yoga Ah! in Cincinnati. She is certified through Yoga Alliance. Holly received her Pilates training and certification through Integrated Balance LLC, which is recognized by the Pilates Method Alliance.
In addition to teaching at Yoga on Baxter and several other locations in Louisville, Holly is an Acquisitions Editor at Stenhouse Publishers (www.stenhouse.com) and the founder of the Sudanese Refugee Education Fund (www.sudaneseinkentucky.org).
Joanne Matson
Joanne embraces yoga in all aspects of her life. She is a certified Hatha yoga teacher (Sundara College of Yoga, Encinitas, CA), and incorporates Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara and Vinyasa into her teaching style. Her classes are a tapestry of movement, meditation and music with particular attention to proper alignment.
Joanne found yoga as a form of healing from Crohn's Disease and has the unique ability to balance our modern hectic lifestyle with deep yoga. In addition to living yoga, she is certified in Reiki and is a student of Ayurveda with the Kerala Ayurveda Academy. She is also a student of Kriya Yoga through the spiritual teaching of Paramahansa Yogananda with the Self-Realization Fellowship. Her intention is to share her experience in healing by helping others find peace and balance in their everyday lives.
Beth Tantanella
Beth Tantanella started her practice six yeas ago. She has always had a strong interest in yoga and decided to deepen her practice in 2009. Beth completed a 200 hour certificate through Corepower Yoga in Denver, Colorado. Since moving to Louisville, she has been able to expand and grow with Yoga on Baxter. When she is not teaching yoga, she is teaching beginning acting classes at the University of Louisville while pursuing an MFA in Performance Art, specializing in movement. She is excited and honored to be teaching at Yoga on Baxter.
Abby Mudd
Yoga has become a strong influence in Abby’s life. She has been practicing for six years and was certified at It’s Yoga in Sonoma, California. Her classes reflect the Ashtanga practice which largely emphasizes posture, alignment, breath and movement.
Besides teaching Yoga, Abby is also a student at the University of Louisville. Abby was inspired to teach after taking Holly Holland’s class at the University. The discovery of yoga has helped her overcome several challenges throughout her life and has taught her the meaning of inner happiness. Abby’s goal is to share what she has learned with the world. “I believe that with the knowledge and practice of yoga, people would be happier and the world would be a better place to live in.”
Susan Schroeder
Susan began her yogic path in high school as she was introduced to the physical aspect of the yoga tradition. She followed her heart to Los Angeles where she received her first 200-hour teaching certification at Karuna Yoga. It was here she opened herself up to meditation, breathwork, the eight-limbed path and her practice expanded to new levels of divine connectedness. Her heart brought her back to Louisville where she began sharing this practice with her hometown. Having completed her second 200- hour training, Susan teaches yoga full-time at studios & campuses around the city, and is the director/founder of the Louisville Yoga CoOp. Susan teaches her unique style inspired from personal experience with Kundalini, Anusara, Bikram traditions. She also passionately infuses her classes with inspiration from the Mayan Natural Time Calendar, aligning with the universal harmonies encouraging all to reach towards their highest potential in life. Susan is a certified Usui Reiki practitioner and is a facitilator of the SourcePoint Practice, offering private yoga/meditation/energy work sessions.
Ashley Thursby
Ashley received her training through Lotus Pilates in Bloomington, IN during her time at Indiana University. She completed her comprehensive Pilates Teacher Certification Program with training based on the original methods of Joseph H. Pilates.
Ashley began Pilates as a supplement to her focus in dance. Once she felt the effects of what Pilates had to offer, she knew that she wanted to learn more so that she could share the benefits of Pilates with others through teaching. Now living in Louisville, KY, she is excited to be an artist with the Louisville Ballet, as well as teaching at Yoga on Baxter!
Roland Landers
Roland Landers was first introduced to yoga when he was 15 teen years old at the local YMCA in his home town of Nashville TN. Since then his passion and persuit for all things yogic has grown expodentially, ultimately leading him to the ashtanga vinyasa system as taught by the late Pattabhi Jois. After discovering the Ashtanga vinyasa method Roland underwent a 200 hour teacher training program through Shanti
Yoga studio in Myrtle Beach SC in order to broaden his understanding of the unique and sublte art of the vinyasa practice. In class roland teaches the Astanga system as he has learned it, altering it only slightly so as to accomodate to the setting of a led class. The vinyasa system he teaches in particular places heavy emphasis on breath and how it relates to posture and the transtions between postures. As a teacher roland seeks to bring alive the ancient practice of yoga by both quoting from the sutras of patanjali, who systemized the practice of yoga as a school of thought and practice in India around 200 AD, and relaying the method it conveys through interpretation thats both physical and mental. Though no previous practice is necessary and students of all levels are welcome, one should still expect to be challenged as the ashtanga tradition is designed to bring you to your own personal limit. Roland hopes to one day travel to India to begin his training with the current head of the Ashtanga vinyasa system, but untill then is happy to be able to share what he has learned thus far with the community of Louisville.
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