Matthew Rohr

Matthew is owner of CLHA, certified 600 hour Aveda Institute Massage Therapist and certified 240 hour Aura Yoga Hatha Yoga Instructor. Through ten years of massage therapy and five years of yoga instruction, Matthew has facilitated increased range of motion, improved balance, reduced pain and stiffness, and fostered whole body health in his clients and students.

Matthew currently teaches Yoga I and II classes. Students are welcome to attend any of the classes offered at CLHA. Matthew offers deep tissue massage service by appointment. Day and evening appointments are available. If you are interested in private yoga instruction or in home bodywork services please call for more information and rates.

Amy Jendro

Amy Jendro began her yoga practice at CLHA in the fall of 2006.  Her interest in yoga began as a way to find balance in her body and heal her injuries from the impact of her running.  After training with CLHA, she began to understand the strength yoga can build as a counterpart to increasing her flexibility.

As her yoga practice grew into a daily routine, as well as a daily lifestyle, Amy decided to pursue her passion for yoga and began teacher training.  She is currently in training at Yoga North Studio in Duluth, MN for her certification as a 500 registered yoga teacher (RYT), and will be completing the program in December 2011.

Between her practice and training at CLHA, and her current teacher training at Yoga North, she has come to understand the importance of finding a balance between flexibility, strength and stability by using breath, movement and mindset.

Amy’s path has led her to share her teachings with fellow yoga students. She believes each individual person has to develop their own yoga practice; each is to understand their own bodies, breath and motivation. Her goal is to provide guidance to support others in understanding their own bodies and offer the tools necessary to define, understand and eventually overcome individual personal limits.

Maureen Farnsworth

Maureen has been practicing yoga for 12 years. She is a (RYT 200) Registered Yoga Teacher with the National Yoga Alliance. She holds degree from the University of Minnesota in Occupational Therapy and with her husband has raised two boys now 22 and 20.  She comes to CLHA from Mankato where she has taught Hatha Yoga classes at Sun Moon Yoga Studio. She is an affiliate of the Art of Yoga Project and has taught at risk teenage girls through referral from the Southern Minnesota Child Mental Health Initiative.

 Her style of teaching Hatha yoga combines breathing, alignment, and stability in the core. She enjoys teaching slow flowing yoga postures to create a “ meditation in movement experience.“  She will often invite self -inquiry to facilitate the mind, body and spirit connection and other times sprinkles her classes with creativity, humor and wisdom.

 She believes that what we experience on the mat directly influences what we do off the mat.  “If we can stand firm and strong in Mountain Pose feeling grounded and confident we can draw on that feeling when the stresses of our lives require us to stand strong in confidence and firm on our own two feet.”

 Yoga for Maureen has been healing, empowering and transformational.  The nature of turning inward and connecting with her breath through yoga poses helped  her to simply feel better. Her continued yoga practice led her to become more mindful of her thoughts feelings and reactions. She believes that yoga not only has helped her build and sustain strength, balance and flexibility but the mindfulness learned through yoga helps her navigate her life with more grace and ease.

 It is out of gratitude for the practice that she desires to teach and has respect for the journey and intentions each student brings to class. She wants her students to leave feeling good and empowered to affect their own health and wellbeing so that they can bring forth their very best in this world in their own way.