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Jeani Mackenzie |
Jeani Mackenzie is the founder, director, and primary instructor at the Davenport School of Yoga. She has been practicing and teaching yoga longer than most of the area’s other instructors combined. For many years she was Quad Cities yoga, keeping the art alive in the “dark ages” before it became fashionable. Her own practice began in 1974. Her initial study with B.K.S. Iyengar, author of Light on Yoga, at his institute in Pune, India in 1979 laid the foundation for her classical, Hatha approach. Other teachers she has attended are too numerous to name, but include Shandor, John Friend, and her current teacher, Diane Long, student of Vanda Scaravelli.
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Kelly Harris |
Kelly Harris was introduced to yoga in 2002 and began teaching in the spring of 2006. She is a certified yoga instructor, trained under Jeani Mackenzie of the Davenport School of Yoga. She has also completed a 35-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa teacher intensive with Richard Freeman, as well as a 5-week stay at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, practicing under the guidance of Sharath Rangaswamy. Kelly’s broad experience with the various styles, techniques, approaches, and viewpoints of asana practice continues to shape the evolution of her daily practice and teaching – at the same time pure and integrative. Her curiosity has landed her in classes with many of today’s best teachers, including Eddie Modestini, Nicki Doane, David Life, Paul Grilley, and Scott Blossom.Additionally, since becoming a yoga instructor, Kelly has been trained and certified in Thai Yoga Massage. Within this modality, she finds that clients are able to access a further, deeper understanding of identity with their physical and energetic bodies, developing freedom of movement and peace of mind. For more information about Kelly's massage and bodywork options, take a peek at her blog: Blissful Bodywork. For more info on Kelly and her husband's ongoing yoga adventures, check out their blogspot at: Subtle Bliss.
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Evan Harris |
Evan Harris is one of the most enthusiastic, qualified, and advanced asana practitioners in the area. A certified yoga instructor, he completed his teacher training through the Davenport School of Yoga in 2005. Additionally, he has completed a 35-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga teacher training with Richard Freeman, his primary teacher.Evan’s endless yoga wanderings have landed him in class with some of the leading asana teachers of today, including David Life, Paul Grilley, Eddie Modestini, Nicki Doane, and Scott Blossom. Most recently, he studied in Mysore, South India, including Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga under Sharath Rangaswamy at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute and Indian philosophy and the Yoga Sutra under Prof. Narasimhan of the Anantha Research Foundation.An avid student of philosophy and the world's contemplative and mystical traditions, he brings the rasam - the taste, the essence - of each to class, seeking ways to give the depths of these insights life in the body.
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Jen Smith |
Jen Smith is a Yoga Alliance 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and has practiced yoga for more than 10 years. She has studied many styles and their blending informs her own teaching, as does her background in dance, rock climbing and martial arts. She thanks her many inspirational teachers, including Jeani Mackenzie, David Vendetti, Aaron Cantor, Kathleen Anderson and her greatest teacher, her son Isaac.
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Michelle Gugelmeyer |
Michelle Gugelmeyer was introduced to yoga as a child through her father's practice. She began her own self-study in 1996 as a way to cope with pain from orthopedic issues and began teaching in the fall of 2004. Michelle is a certified yoga instructor who has trained and continues to practice under the guidance of Jeani Mackenzie of the Davenport School of Yoga. Her teaching reflects her knowledge and fascination of the human anatomy and biomechanics. Her massage therapy background brings a 'hands-on' approach to all who attend her classes.
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Johanna Welzenbach-Hilliard |
Johanna began practicing Hatha Yoga in 2001, and received her 200 hour teacher training certification under the tutelage of Jeani Mackenzie in 2007. Since then she has continued to study under Jeani and has become increasingly attracted to the Vinyasa system of Yoga, which she studies under Evan and Kelly Harris. She reads extensively on all aspects of Yoga and related topics continuing her intellectual studies with Evan Harris.
Johanna teaches All Level Yoga at the School of the Ballet Quad Cities in Rock Island on Saturday mornings, beginning Hatha Yoga through the Davenport Parks and Recreation, and is a substitute teacher and Happy Hour Yoga teacher for the Davenport School of Yoga. Johanna’s travels have taken her to: Yogaville in Buckingham, VA (an ashram begun by Swami Satchidananda) where she took a workshop with Erich Schiffman; to Maui where she met and studied with Ted Surman, a student of Gary Kraftsow’s Viniyoga Institute, and, most recently to San Francisco for the January Yoga Journal Conference. There she was delighted to take an all-day intensive with Gary Kraftsow & Rod Stryker, and two excellent workshops with partners David Life and Sharon Gannon who founded the Jiva Mukti system of Yoga. |
Karen Stollen |
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James Wesson |
Known around the Quad-Cities as "The Yoga Guy", James has been teaching yoga since completing teaching training at DSOY in 2009. Interested in yoga for many years, he began taking classes ten years ago. Through his own practice, he has found yoga to be an amazing tool for finding both strength and flexibility: mentally, physically, and emotionally. He looks forward to bringing this balance for the whole being to all of his classes, and looks forward to working with yoga students of all levels, learning from them as he hopes they are learning from him |
Carol Mackel |
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Tammy Long |
Tammy Long is a certified yoga instructor through the Davenport School of Yoga, attending her first class with Jeani Mackenzie in 2000. She continues to study under Jeani’s guidance. With her own daily practice, she discovers new things about herself and her body every day. She has 4 children and 4 grandchildren. Yoga has helped relieve stress and calms her busy life. She loves sharing her knowledge of yoga and learning from each of her students. Tammy believes yoga is beneficial to everyone, with new discoveries in every practice. She applies that in every class she teaches. |
Andrea Bunch |
Andrea Bunch grew up in the Quad Cities and lived in Chicago for the last |
