About Us

Hatha yoga is the physical practice of yoga and there are many varieties of hatha yoga. Read below for each instructor's style to find what speaks to your heart!

Janie Gunn - Janie is the owner of the center and is grateful to share the gifts of yoga with all who walk through the doors.  She is an Anusara-inspired™ instructor. She began practicing yoga in 1996 and has over 1800 hours of teacher training. Her first teacher was also the founder of the Indiana Yoga Alliance, Barb Badger, who ignited her desire to share yoga with passion and compassion. She plans to continue studying with a focus on Anusara Yoga® . She has also studied with Desiree Rumbaugh, Gary Kraftsow, Todd Norian, Ann Greene and a variety of instructors. She completed a teacher training program with Anusara founder, John Friend and also completed Todd Norian's Anusara teacher training program in May 2009. Janie teaches a heart-opening practice that includes creating a theme for each class. She believes in the power of setting intentions, then breathing them fully into the body, mind and spirit during the class. Skillful alignment principles are taught that enables students to enhance the flow of energy in the body. This has proven to be an empowering way to build confidence and a strong inner core to co-create a life of joy and light. Yoga has been personally transforming to Janie and she wishes to motivate others to open up to yoga as an amazing tool for their own transformation. The possibillites are truly amazing!

Laura Spriggs - Laura began practicing yoga in Cincinnati in 2000 and in 2002, her path led her to Anusara Yoga. This style of Hatha Yoga uses Universal Principles of Alignment™ to align the body, mind and spirit; celebrates the goodness in people and in life; and draws people together toward a sense of community (kula). Laura has been blessed to study with Anusara Yoga founder, John Friend, as well as many other Certified Anusara Yoga teachers including Sianna Sherman, Desiree Rumbaugh, Todd Norian and Betsy Downing. Laura is a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, and is an Anusara fully certified™ yoga teacher. Laura's teachings offer the invitation to step into one's heart to courageously find deeper meaning and joy that helps to create sensitivity, awareness, and openings in the body. By creating deeper meaning and aligning in optimal ways, we can more easily step into the dance of life to celebrate our innate goodness and to respond to life in ways that are life-affirming, enhancing our lives and the lives of all those that come into contact with us. Laura's classes offer a dynamic practice for students from active beginner to intermediate/advanced levels. Alignment basics, strengthening exercises, as well as some more challenging poses may be taught. Demonstrations and variations are given to accommodate students of all levels.

Eric Bryant - Eric began his study of yoga in New York City in the spring of 2000. He is certified at the 200 hour level through the internationally recognized OM Yoga Center, directed by Cyndi Lee. His classes incorporate a lively vinyasa flow to harmonize the breath and the body. Then an attention to alignment is added to find space in each pose as well as mindfullness to what is going on in the body and mind in each moment. His classes also include strengthening standing poses, toxin shedding twists, fear challenging arm balances, heart opening back bends and perspective changing inversions.

Barb Manley brings a gentle nurturing spirit with years of yoga training and experience. She has worked with Deepok Chopra and is also a wholistic nurse and an Ayurvedic practitioner. She is a wealth of yoga information that she joyously shares with others. Her classes are nurturing and supportive as she uses blankets to create a space for your body to relax and allow the stresses you carry to melt away. Barb often includes the Tibetan Rites in her classes: a series of movements that are proven to reduce aging from the inside out. She includes pranayama (breathing exercises) in all of her classes as well.

Laura Cisler Laura’s classes most often manifest as a combination of gentle flows, slow, deep stretches and spontaneous, fun asanas. She received her certification with Don Wenig, at Dancing Feet Yoga in Northwest Indiana, and is in the process of receiving her 200 hour registration with the Yoga Alliance.  Laura has since gone on to study Anusara yoga and will receive her Anusara-inspired certification soon. The most wonderful gift she has recieved from her yoga practice as of yet is the ability to love herself, and it’s that quality that she most wishes to instill in her students.

Lauren Windle  A devoted student at Source Yoga for the past two years and a mentee of Janie Gunn.  You have probably met her at our front desk or spoken with her on the phone.  She became so inspired about yoga's health benefits that she decided to become a yoga teacher herself.  Lauren recently completed her 200 hour level hatha yoga teacher training with Dr. Sally Brown-Bassett of Peace Through Yoga.  She brings her passion for yoga to life this fall by teaching introductory yoga classes at the center.

Julie Gordon Julie has been a student at the center since 2005 and completed her teacher training with Eric Bryant and Ahna Hoke in 2010.  Julie brings a joyful heart to her teaching as she shares her passion of yoga with others.  She got her start teaching two years ago by teaching at her church and continues to learn and grow as a teacher.  Julie plans to continue immersing herself in teacher training workshops and immersions with a focus on Anusara Yoga.

Yvonne Rodriguez was introduced to yoga through a friend in 2005, and from that first experience, her love of yoga was born.  Since then, she has been drawn toward both the spiritual and physical components of yoga and the constant challenges that it provides.  Yvonne believes that anyone can benefit from practicing yoga.  Yoga meets you where you are and through its practice, can provide guidance for one's life toward positive transformation and enlightenment.  Yvonne teaches a flowing practice with emphasis on alignment. She has recently completed her second 200 hour teacher training under Eric Bryant and Ahna Hoke. Her style cultivates a playful environment where movement with breath and the yoking of body, mind and spirit is encouraged.