Ron Felix, BS, MPH, RYT

Ron is a health educator, registered yoga teacher, hypnotherapist and owns and operates the Knoxville Yoga Center (KYC). Ron moved here in 1977 and opened Therapeutic Hypnosis, Knoxville's first hypnosis clinic. After completing his Master's degree in Community Health Education from the University of Tennessee, he spent two years in Key West working as the health director of a European style spa & health resort. It was in Key West that he began regularly attending Bikram's style hatha yoga classes, and in 1990 he returned to Knoxville and opened the Knoxville Yoga Center. In 1992 Ron attended his first week long teacher's training in the B.K.S. Iyengar tradition of hatha yoga, in Miami Florida, and was so impressed with the use of props and the attention paid to alignment that he has since dedicated himself to learning and teaching that style. Since 1992 he has participated in over 45 workshops and/or five day teacher's trainings and has studied with some of the most experienced and knowledgeable teachers in the Iyengar tradition including Ramanand Patel, Rodney Yee, Gabriella Giubilaro, George Purvis, Judith Lasater, Mary Dunn, Dean Lerner, John Schumacher, Patricia Walden, Joan White, Donald Moyer, Manouso Manos, Laurie Blakeney, Lillah Schwartz, Roger Cole, Jan Campbell and Judi Rice. Ron has  been teaching in Knoxville for over 15 years and is registered  with Yoga Alliance as both an RYT  and an E-RYT , at the 500 hour level.

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Jeanne Lane

 A long time hobby gone serious! Jeanne has been a yoga student since her college days (1974-1979). Becoming particularly dedicated to her own practice in 1995 she has grown to prefer the Iyengar method and fitness flow / vinyasa styles of yoga. Jeanne is certified for fitness level water aerobics through the Aquatics Exercise Association  and is also certified for yoga instruction through the American Aerobic Association International / International Sports Medicine Association. She has taught private classes and at local health facilities since 1982, always incorporating yoga into her workouts. Yoga instruction became her main focus in 1998 when she came to truly appreciate the total health benefits of her own daily practice. Seeing the need to improve her yoga teaching skills, better understand proper alignment in the poses and provide instruction for the use of supportive props, Jeanne became a student of the Iyengar style of yoga in 2000. Since this time she has been a dedicated Iyengar student and has participated in numerous workshops with noted names in the Iyengar tradition including George Purvis, Dean Lerner, Laurie Blakeney and Jan Campbell. Jeanne is currently teaching beginners classes (level 1) at KYC.

Marga Hayes-Ingram
Marga has been practicing yoga for 15 years, beginning in Phoenix, AZ at Mesa Community College. She continued her studies in Nashville, TN, with June Lasalvia, a student of Erich Shiffmann. In 1988, she began concentrating on the Iyengar method - and studied at the Yoga Room in Nashville, TN; with Betty Larson. Over the past 15 years she has studied with such notables as Rodney Yee, Erich Shiffmann, Ramanand Patel, and Lillah Schwartz. Marga is now studying meditation, breath work, and the Kundalini process from Swami Chandrasekharanand Saraswati of Rishikesh, India. Marga teaches an eclectic style of yoga; making use of the many methods and ideas of her teachers, and of her personal studies in the science and art of yoga.

 

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