Troy : Somerset Collection
Alicia Cutaia
Alicia Cutaia is a member of Eisenhower Dance Ensemble in Detroit MI. She earned her BFA with honors from Point Park University with a double major in Ballet and Jazz. Her previous training includes Lou Conte Dance Studio’s scholarship program, North Carolina Dance Theater, and River North Dance Company. Alicia has worked with and performed pieces by many renowned choreographers, including Lou Conte, Lynn Taylor-Corbett, Daniel Ezralow, Choo-San Goh, Alan Hineline, Harrison McEldowney, Kevin O’Day, Frances Patrelle, David Storey, Margo Sappington, Christian Holder, Joel Hall, Michael Foley, and Kiesha Lalama-White. She has previously danced with Hubbard Street 2 Chicago and Giordano 2 Jazz Dance Chicago. She has also choreographed for Revolve Dance Theater in Pittsburgh, PA and... Read the profile >>
Brian Granader and Kate Beane
Brian: I have been a student of yoga since 2000. I decided to deepen my practice by taking a teacher training program in 2001. From there I left my Real Estate career to pursue a life of yoga. I opened Red Lotus Yoga in 2003 and have been teaching yoga full time since then. I direct the Red Lotus School of Yoga, where I teach others to teach yoga, I work as a small business coach where I focus on helping people balance out their lives by incorporating yoga and meditation into their business life. My teachers are Geshe' Michael Roach, Lama Sumati Marut, Anne Chukyi, David Swenson, each one of my students, my dog Maya and my home Lama Kate. In my free time you will find me hiking, doing yoga, meditation or working with Camp Mak-A-Dream a non-profit camp for children with... Read the profile >>
Eric Stockmann
Mission Statement Expect the best from yourself by setting an intention for your day. As your personal trainer, I embrace the challenge of transforming your daily intentions to a lifetime of performance. Biography My goal is to engage life to its maximum potential, and to explore as much of what the world has to offer as possible. I began my education at the Brooks Institute of Photography, and also spent several months with Semester at Sea. My travels around the world taught me to embrace the richness and variety that different cultures offer and commit my life to becoming an advocate for personal development. My career started in commercial fashion photography and progressed to working as a coordinator/producer for automotive photography, as well as brochure, billboard... Read the profile >>
John Vincent
Yoga Shelter
Hey everybody, My name is John Vincent, or Johnny V if you feel daring. However, this is not about me, its about you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here. I used to have a nice flowing mane of dread-locks, and for some of you, that's all I need to say. I was deep in the use of mind altering substances, pretty much anything that came my way. I am in recovery now thanks to yoga, none of these things define me, and I have found that the power to fly is inside of all of us. I see that each of our lives is built around a certain belief structure and that each one is different. We all touch, taste, feel, hear and see this world in a unique way that gives us the potential to be individuals. I don't mean we should sit in a room all our lives and think about why everybody is wrong... Read the profile >>
Justin Barnes
Center For Yoga, Red Lotus Yoga, Yoga Now
Justin believes there is a benevolent force in this universe that turns acorns into oak trees, caterpillars into butterflies and cosmic energy into human beings. This intelligence is all around us and within us, never leaving us, it is with us always and in all ways. It is us who choose to leave it. When we practice this ancient science, we link up with this boundless source once again. Looking for credentials? How many years of study? Justin believes credentials, titles, and certifications belong with the mentality we're trying to break free from. How about this, Justin is a human being, living in this world and searching for the light. Know anyone like that? SCHEDULE MONDAY: 9:45-11am Vinyasa, 11:30-12:30am Slow Flow @ CFY West Bloomfield TUESDAY: 10:30-12pm Vinyasa @ Red Lotus,... Read the profile >>
Linda Kay
Yoga Shelter, Beverly Hills Club
Linda Kay has been an avid student of the art and science of yoga since 1978. Her career has included teaching yoga at psychiatric hospitals in correlation with a drug abuse/rehabilitation program, working with closed head injury patients, and with inmates at the Southfield City and Oakland County Correctional Facilities. In 2001 she opening YogaChi in downtown Birmingham, a studio that was heralded by Style Magazine as "Best Studio of the Year" for several years in a row. Currently, Linda teaches at Yoga Shelter and Beverly Hills Club, does massage at Yoga Shelter, and continues to study and practice the amazing "life" practice of yoga! SCHEDULE: TUESDAY: 4:30-5:30PM - Slow Flow on the Wall @ YS Birmingham WEDNESDAY: 9:45-11:00AM Sanga Vinyasa, 11:15-12:15PM Slow Flow,... Read the profile >>
Lisa Mills
Lisa was first introduced to pilates in 1997 while living. In Coral Gables, Florida. After embracing her newly found workout for five years as a client, she decided to take the plunge and become a certified instructor. Lisa started her Stott training program in 2002 and has since gone through additional certification programs including Power Pilates and Balance Body. Workshops include Balls and Bands, Fitness Circle, Injury, Jump Board on the Reformer, Athletic Conditioning and Special Population. Her newest joy is the Balanced Body Exo Chair. It is through continuing education classes that Lisa brings new and exciting challenges to her clients. One of her biggest strengths is teaching clients to love their body from within while giving them a well rounded and challenging... Read the profile >>
Matthew Darling
Matthew Darling is the director and instructor Ashtanga Michigan. He has been a devoted student of his teacher, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore,India and the Ashtanga method since 1995. In 2002 Pattabhi Jois authorized Matthew to teach the method of Ashtanga Yoga. He is one of only two instructors in the Midwest to receive his blessing. Over the years he has made numerous trips to the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India to study under the guidance of his teachers, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson, Sharath Rangaswamy. He continues to be inspired by and deeply respectful of their life's work to maintain and uphold the purity of this traditional method of yoga. Matthew seeks to preserve the traditional Ashtanga method by maintaining a daily practice and teaching his... Read the profile >>
Nikki Fayne
Nikki Duberstein has been in the fitness industry for six years. She is certified as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA). Currently, she is the personal trainer for Beaumont Hospital’s executive health program. In addition, Nikki teaches land and aquatic group classes and trains individually in several gyms around town. Nikki’s passion comes to her rightfully after major weight loss of one hundred and fifty pounds. Her transformation was achieved solely through simultaneous discipline of mind and body. Nikki uses the experience of her own life to help move her clients forward. She believes exercise is 90% mental and 10% physical and that a strong mind is a strong body. Her own training regimen consists of... Read the profile >>
Tina Boos
Tina is a certified Pilates instructor and owner of BodyPure (formerly The Pilates Institute of Birmingham and Studio Surge, respectively). Tina has been involved in the fitness industry for more than 18 years, but it wasn’t until she first discovered Pilates that she decided to dedicate her life to health, fitness and the perpetuation of the work of Joseph Pilates. SCHEDULE: MONDAY: 6:30a, 7:30a, 8:30a - Reformer Open TUESDAY: 5:30p Reformer Intermediate, 6:30p R2 WEDNESDAY: 6:30a, 7:30a - Reformer Open THURSDAY: 9:30a - Reformer Intermediate FRIDAY: 9:30a - R2 SATURDAY: rotating instructor schedule, but often teaches 7:30a Reformer Open, 8:30a Mat w/Props & 9:30a Reformer Open Read the profile >>