Our Teachers
Kate Blyth: Kate has been teaching Pilates mat classes since 2015 when she completed her certification with Power Pilates. As a Pilates instructor, Kate helps her clients improve their posture, increase flexibility, gain strength, and develop body awareness. She works continuously to learn more about the body and how to help others through Pilates.
George Kridler: George’s yoga journey started 19 years ago when he attended an integral yoga class. He has been blessed over the years to have had many wonderful teachers who all generously shared their wisdom and skill. Having recently completed the 200 hour teacher training at the Satchitananda Ashram, he how has the opportunity to return to his yoga community the many gifts he received as a student. It is George’s desire to bring yoga to as wide an audience as possible in a safe, supportive, non-competitive environment.
Serena Popoae: Serena’s yoga journey began in 2007 in Athens, Ohio. Serena initially came to yoga to help with chronic pain from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident years ago. Yoga quickly became more than a source of pain management; it became a tool for life transformation. Serena completed her 200 hour certification, at Open Space Yoga studio in Hawaii, as a Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance with Mary Bastien and Jennifer Reuter in 2015. Serena is also a student of Ayurveda, and applies basic Ayurvedic principles to asana practice. Serena is passionate about living a healthy well balanced life full of meaning, growth and an abundance of love. She is dedicated to her meditative practice where she feels she can access great wisdom, love, and presence. Her classes are mind-fullness based and steeped in philosophy, flow and alignment. Serena is dedicated to sharing the beauty and magic of what Yoga can bring to life.
Stephanie Robinson: Stephanie began learning yoga in 2005 and after seeing the changes in her own life that came from moving body and breath attended yoga teacher training in January 2016. She completed her 200 hour training with Marianne Wells Yoga School in Cahuita, Costa Rica. Aligning the movement of breath and body, Stephanie focuses on a slow flow - holding poses to develop both strength and endurance as we breathe through a moving meditation. Slowing down, connecting to breath and generating a closer connection to all that is are the main goals of her teaching style. Stephanie teaches both slow flow and restorative yoga to help facilitate these goals.
E. J. Waskiewicz: E. J. aka Mr. W is the music teacher at Amesville Elementary and is directing the Amesville Community Singers.
Ms. Emily Thomason, MFA Painting + Drawing, BFA Painting: Emily is an accomplished artist, trained in oil, acrylic, and watercolor painting, drawing, printmaking, and bookmaking. She is currently enrolled at Ohio University where she will obtain a second Masters of Art in Art History in spring of 2020. Emily studied with the San Gemini Preservations Studies Program in San Gemini, Umbria, Italy, learning art restoration practices, specifically in traditional book binding. She will be returning there in the fall of 2019 to advance her own skills as well as complete her Masters’ Thesis, focusing on the frescoes of Sant’Ignazio Church in Rome.
George Kridler: George’s yoga journey started 19 years ago when he attended an integral yoga class. He has been blessed over the years to have had many wonderful teachers who all generously shared their wisdom and skill. Having recently completed the 200 hour teacher training at the Satchitananda Ashram, he how has the opportunity to return to his yoga community the many gifts he received as a student. It is George’s desire to bring yoga to as wide an audience as possible in a safe, supportive, non-competitive environment.
Serena Popoae: Serena’s yoga journey began in 2007 in Athens, Ohio. Serena initially came to yoga to help with chronic pain from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident years ago. Yoga quickly became more than a source of pain management; it became a tool for life transformation. Serena completed her 200 hour certification, at Open Space Yoga studio in Hawaii, as a Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance with Mary Bastien and Jennifer Reuter in 2015. Serena is also a student of Ayurveda, and applies basic Ayurvedic principles to asana practice. Serena is passionate about living a healthy well balanced life full of meaning, growth and an abundance of love. She is dedicated to her meditative practice where she feels she can access great wisdom, love, and presence. Her classes are mind-fullness based and steeped in philosophy, flow and alignment. Serena is dedicated to sharing the beauty and magic of what Yoga can bring to life.
Stephanie Robinson: Stephanie began learning yoga in 2005 and after seeing the changes in her own life that came from moving body and breath attended yoga teacher training in January 2016. She completed her 200 hour training with Marianne Wells Yoga School in Cahuita, Costa Rica. Aligning the movement of breath and body, Stephanie focuses on a slow flow - holding poses to develop both strength and endurance as we breathe through a moving meditation. Slowing down, connecting to breath and generating a closer connection to all that is are the main goals of her teaching style. Stephanie teaches both slow flow and restorative yoga to help facilitate these goals.
E. J. Waskiewicz: E. J. aka Mr. W is the music teacher at Amesville Elementary and is directing the Amesville Community Singers.
Ms. Emily Thomason, MFA Painting + Drawing, BFA Painting: Emily is an accomplished artist, trained in oil, acrylic, and watercolor painting, drawing, printmaking, and bookmaking. She is currently enrolled at Ohio University where she will obtain a second Masters of Art in Art History in spring of 2020. Emily studied with the San Gemini Preservations Studies Program in San Gemini, Umbria, Italy, learning art restoration practices, specifically in traditional book binding. She will be returning there in the fall of 2019 to advance her own skills as well as complete her Masters’ Thesis, focusing on the frescoes of Sant’Ignazio Church in Rome.
