Our Instructors
Barbara Bates
Restorative Yoga
Barbara Bates received her yoga teacher training in October of 2007 at White Lotus Yoga Foundation. The honorable and well-known yogis, Ganga White and Tracey Rich shared their immense love and understanding of yoga during the two-week training in the beautiful mountains of Santa Barbara, CA. Last winter (2009), Barbara received specialized training in Therapeutic / Restorative Yoga with teachers Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peale, also at White Lotus Foundation. Throughout the past 25 years, Barbara has contributed to the southern Illinois community through her work as a childbirth educator, health educator, special education teacher and pre-natal yoga teacher here at one o one yoga, where she has also helped to manage and nurture the studio since its birth in 2006.
Sarah Miller
Vinyasa I and II
Hatha Yoga and Meditation
Gentle Beginner’s Yoga
Saturday Morning Yoga
Sarah is a certified yoga teacher who delights in sharing yoga with her community through instruction, combining asanas (postures) with pranayama (breathwork), meditation, stories, and expressive insight. She studied Iyengar yoga at Chicago’s Yoga Circle with teacher Gabriel Halpern in her teens and received her meditation and yoga teacher training at the Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Institute in 2005-2006 under the guidance of Sarla Walter and spiritual teacher Pandit Dabral. She has also studied intensively and attended advanced teacher trainings with master teachers Shiva Rea in Vinyasa yoga, Natasha Rizopoulos, and Anusara master teachers Noah Mazé, Desiree Rumbaugh and Sianna Sherman. Sarah finds inspiration in the practice of yoga, is a national member of the Lotus Yoga Teachers Association and the International Association of Reiki Professionals as a certified Reiki Master and Teacher.
Toni Morris
Yoga Therapy
Toni began her yoga practice in 2000 to decrease her suffering from arthritis. Finding it life-changing and pain-reducing, she dedicated herself to the practice, and began teaching Power yoga in 2002. Toni is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) with certifications in Levels I and II of Power Yoga from master teachers, Jimmie Barkan and Toni Sanchez. In 2009, Toni became certified as a Yoga Therapist. In Yoga Therapy, Toni works with individual clients using yoga to manage, treat and heal a wide range of health concerns including plantar fasciitis, sacro-illiac instability, back pain, heart disease, fibromyalgia and many more.
Sallie Schramm
Earlybird Yoga
Yoga Nidra
Sallie is a certified Yoga Teacher/Facilitator in the Phoenix Rising method and a practicing psychotherapist. Sallie’s teaching assists individuals in focusing on what is happening moment-to-moment; combining breathwork, spinal warm-ups, physical postures, mindful reflection and relaxation.
Brandi Schumacher
Moving in Stillness
Brandi found her yoga passion in 2002 in Scottsdale, AZ. She was trained at At One Yoga studio by Astangi, Dave Oliver. Brandi’s interest in yoga grew from a then unrecognized need to open physically and spiritually. She is a firm believer in the adage, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Brandi’s influence has come from yoga teachers who promote fluidity, openness and rhythm, such as Shiva Rae, Donna Helm-Yost and Max Cohen. She has been teaching variations of Power, Vinyasa Flow and Yin yoga for five years and values practicing all types of yoga.
Shelley Smothers
Gentle Beginner’s Yoga
A Southern Illinois native, Shelley began her journey into yoga in 1999. She writes: “Once I learned how much my body loved and needed movement, deeper awakenings of body, mind, and spirit began to unveil themselves. I was introduced to Anusara yoga through a good friend and beautiful yogi and resonated deeply with its heart-oriented style and principles of alignment.”
Shelley completed Anusara immersion and teacher training in November of 2008 with nationally respected Certified Anusara Yoga Teachers, Sue Elkind and Naime Jezzney, along with Dr. Douglas Brooks. “I feel immense gratitude for my inspiring teachers who taught with bright mind and radiant hearts!” Shelley has also studied under such brilliant beings as John Friend, Anusara founder; Sianna Sherman, Certified Anusara Yogi; and Rodney Yee.
Along with being a yoga instructor and a great lover of dance, Shelley loves being a wife, friend, daughter, and aunt and works at the Women’s Center as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the Rape Crisis Services.
Tommy Wolf
Morning Vinyasa
Tommy trained at Kripalu with Jonny Kest who developed two Vinyasa styles (Hot Vinyasa Flow and Slow Flow), both rooted in Ashtanga Yoga. Tommy has taught and practiced various marital arts for the past four years, which led him to yoga. He writes that, “like may people who begin a yoga practice, I felt that something was missing in my life. So about two years ago, I found an old yoga DVD and book and began to teach myself yoga. I subsequently practiced under Toni Morris and Sarah Miller. Yoga continues to give me greater control over myself.”