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Tonya Phillips ~ Owner/Instructor
Tonya Phillips, the owner of PM Yoga, is E-RYT 500 certified with over 16 years of teaching experience in studio, private and corporate sectors.
Her passion is improving people’s health by making yoga accessible to everyone, whether it be on a mat or in a chair. She teaches beginner as well as advanced classes and believes yoga doesn’t have to be complicated to be beneficial. Tonya is a Christian, prefers to be outdoors in the sunshine and loves all types of movement. She has been married for 35 years, is mom to three adult sons and loves laughing and making memories with her growing family and friends. |
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Tara Durnil ~ Instructor
Tara Durnil has been a student of yoga since 2013, when she began taking classes after the birth of her son. She fell in love with yoga where it became an integral part of her life. This led her to receive her 200 RYT certification in June of 2019, under the study of Erin Smith, at The OM Place in Winchester Kentucky. She also completed her 300 RYT in April of 2020, under the tutelage of Laura Burkhart, through Laura Burkhart Yoga. She believes yoga is for Everybody and Every Body and that yoga will meet you wherever you are on your own life journey. She loves to offer challenging classes, while paying attention to safety through form, alignment, and modifications; then rounding it out with some self-care through breathing and longer held stretches. By degree, she holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Louisville, and her Bachelor of Arts Degree, focus in Vocal Music, from Bellarmine University. She’s been a returning member of the Kentucky Opera Chorus since 2006. She has been with her husband, Michael, for over 17 years, and is the Mom to a viola playing college aged daughter and video game loving little boy.
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Denise Moser~ Instructor
Denise Zanni Moser began her teaching career in group fitness & personal training at Greater Louisville YMCA 30 years ago. She discovered yoga 20 years ago after her father passed away. Yoga helped her find a sense of peace.
Denise is YogaFit certified,a member of Yoga Alliance, and recently received her 200 hour RYT training from Wildfire Yoga in Lexington, Kentucky. Denise has been married to her husband Art for 40 years and has four grown children and four amazing grandchildren. Along with teaching yoga, she also loves to travel with her family, walking, cooking, working her Mary Kay business, and catching God’s amazing sunsets every day. She is looking forward to sharing the practice together on Saturday mornings. |
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Lauren Riley~ Instructor
Lauren Riley is a 200 hour RYT through Yoga Alliance. She received her training from the Kentucky Yoga Collective. Lauren found yoga during the pandemic, thanks to the generous invitation of a fellow yoga teacher and friend. She loves the healing impact it has on her body, mind and spirit as well as the thoughtful community she encountered at Pm Yoga. Her goal is to make her classes accessible, flexible, and welcoming.
Lauren has been married to her husband(and fellow Pm yogi) Beau for 20 years and is the proud mom to daughter Lucy and son Michael.
When not on her mat, she is operating her management consulting company and singing with the Kentucky Opera Association or Louisville Master Chorale.
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Leslie Bailey ~ Instructor
Leslie Bailey, RYT 500, has been practicing yoga for more than a decade. Her classes are deliberately sequenced to focus on alignment. Her goal is to help you move your body and calm your mind. Leslie’s classes are creative and accessible for all levels. She believes wellness encompasses mind, body and spirit.
Off the mat, you can find her playing tennis, reading and enjoying time with her husband and two young daughters. She received her 200 hour certification in June 2019 from The Om Place and her 300 hour in August 2020 from Laura Burkhart Yoga.
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