Instructors

Carol Ann Bauer

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Cyndi Simpson

Cyndi has been part of the Midland/Odessa fitness community since 1983. She taught aerobics/step aerobics at First Baptist Church for seventeen years. She became a Master Trainer and Choreographer for Church Recreation Specialties in 1985 and traveled throughout the US training aerobics instructors and teaching choreography from 1985-1998.

Cyndi has been teaching yoga since 2001 and completed her Yoga Alliance 200-hour Certification through YogaFit Training Systems in 2006. She teaches a Vinyasa class - one in which postures are linked together with breath, creating a fluid movement that is powerful and energizing.

Cyndi has received advanced training on our wonderful ropes wall, and each of her classes includes new ways to utilize this amazingly effective tool for deepening your understanding of each pose's alignment principles.

 

JP Yousha 

JP has been an ardent Yoga student since 1995 and is currently undergoing intensive Iyengar Yoga training with Tias Little in Santa Fe, and Carol Ann Bauer in Midland. She expects to register at the 200-hour level through Yoga Alliance in 2008. With a formal science background and graduate work in both philosophy and biology, her interests range from a western focus on anatomy to an eastern interest in comparative philosophy.

JP’s classes will focus on yoga as a health motif, offering improved flexibility and strength in a setting that emphasizes safety and individual pacing for those new to the idea of yoga. Her future plans include courses on yoga as a holistic lifestyle, incorporating her love of food, for example, in a “Taste of Yoga” class that will offer tasty recipes for a fit and happy lifestyle.

 

Niki Widmayer

Niki is a 50-something certified yoga instructor with almost 7 years of practice, and 17 years of meditation practice, and 29 years living in Midland.  I am definitely a Kapha (a body/mind type from the Ayurvedic medicine approach) and so are my classes-meditative and earthy. My first rule in class is "ahimsa"--don't hurt yourself! ”