2021 Yoga Class Schedule
2021 Yoga Class Schedule
2021 Yoga Class Schedule
Meet The Team
Anneli Virkhaus
CEO & Spiritual Guide
Sign: Sagittarius
Chinese Zodiac: Rat
Enneagram Type: 4
Founder and owner of the studio. Anneli's passion is to help people gain awareness of themselves and habits and to develop self-care practices that enhance their daily lives. She is available for private sound healing and spiritual guidance sessions in the Chattanooga area. Anneli travels around sharing her gifts of music and sound facilitation. To learn more visit: issa707.com
Outside the studio you can find Anneli hiking in nature, exploring through a cave, relaxing somewhere with a book and heated device, and going to ecstatic dance. Read more about Anneli's Story Here.
Oliver Maddox
COO, Tech, Designer/Builder, Visionary
Sign: Sagittarius
Chinese Zodiac: Ox
Enneagram Type: 5
Founder and co-owner of the studio. Oliver is the visionary who helped design and build all the spaces. He is in charge of all the technological and book keeping aspects of the business. Oliver is also a talented sound engineer and musician and collaborates with Anneli for the sound bath journeys.
Outside of the studio you can find Oliver out on lakes, rivers, and going on caving adventures. He is also a certified Rope Access Technician and travels around the world fixing wind turbines while dangling hundreds of feet in the air!
Shao-Nian Bates
Tai Chi Teacher
Sign: Leo
Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
Enneagram Type: 1
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Shaonian is the Tai Chi teacher. She is trained in multiple forms of martial arts such as Kung Fu, Bhag-wa, Qi-Gong, and Wushu. Shaonian is an accomplished chef and wrote a memoir of her life, "Memoir of A Small Chinese Woman."
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Outside of the studio you can find Shaonian building new creative projects at her house, cooking delicious food for the Sewanee students, and tending to her garden.
Tom Camp
Marriage Family Therapist, Yoga Therapist, Workshop Facilitator
Sign: Scorpio
Chinese Zodiac: Rooster
Enneagram Type: 6
Tom is a certified yoga therapist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and united Methodist minister. He offers private marriage and family psychotherapy sessions and teaches workshops and the weekly mobility and flexibility class.
Outside the studio you can find Tom spending time with his family and grandchildren and enjoying a nice class of wine.
Pippa Browne
Yoga Teacher
Sign: Capricorn
Chinese Zodiac: Dragon
Enneagram Type: 9
Pippa is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher. She teaches the Mixed Flow and Kundalini class and also has a strong personal practice. She is also a talented visual artist with a regular creative practice. Some of her art work is hanging in the studio.
Outside of the studio you can find Pippa painting, swimming laps in the lake behind her house, and enjoying a daily walk in the woods.
Helen Stapelton
Yoga Teacher
Sign: Aquarius
Chinese Zodiac: Rooster
Enneagram Type: 9
Helen received her certification in 2005 from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Beersheba Springs. She teaches general hatha yoga. Each class features pranayama, sun salutes, balancing poses, strengthening poses, and inversions. The spine is stretched forward, backward, sideways, and twisted with special attention to the hips and shoulders. Helen works at The University of the South with the language department.
In her spare time Helen enjoys hiking, gardening, and cooking food that she grew.
Stephanie Myers
Yoga Teacher
Sign: Piesces
Chinese Zodiac: Rooster
Enneagram Type: 2
Stephanie is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher and teaches slow flow vinyasa. She lives locally and also teaches a free yoga class to people in need on Coalmont, TN. Stephanie has
a master’s degree in counseling and is a certified life coach and SEL Facilitator. She teaches 6th grade at Tracy City Elementary.
Her hobbies include bicycling, cooking, hiking and journaling.
Emily St. John
Substitute Yoga Teacher
Sign: Capricorn
Chinese Zodiac: Snake
Enneagram Type: 3
Emily has her 200-hour yoga teacher training and loves teaching a gentle and flowing yoga. She is a substitute teacher and fills in when needed. She is trained in gentle yoga, Vinyasa, and focuses on finding ease in each pose.
Outside the studio you can find Emily rock climbing, leading people on rock climbing adventures through her husbands company Pinnacle Mtn. Guides, and spending time with a good book. She is also in school to become a nurse.