*All teachers are trained through Yoga Alliance approved schools.
Certified Teacher Training is provided at this location. It is modular and you can begin at any time, just call 214-770-4095.
Anne Patterson, Owner & Certified Teacher (500 E-RYT)
Anne spent 22 years in a stressful high tech industry for a large corporation (training, sales management and marketing). This journey brought Anne to yoga searching for a new definition for success. Through her nine years of practice and studies she has found a new journey traveling inward instead of across the country on a plane.
Anne is a certified Scaravelli instructor and studied under Michelle Andrie through Priya Yoga. She is a 500 E-RYT and has been teaching for over seven years. Anne believes in a gentle approach to her teaching style that appeals to all ages. She has learned additional techniques through Donna Farhi, Alan Finger, Judith Lassiter (Restorative), Angela Farmer, Chase Bossart (Yoga Sutra Chanting), Rodney Yee and Rod Stryker. Anne is currently studying with Rod Stryker for certification in Tantric. Her techniques include the integration of the mind, body and spirit that focuses on the breath. She includes the use of ball therapy to awaken the spine and enhance a deeper opening for your yoga practice and emotional release. She currently teaches Priya Yoga's 200 RYT Certification class at A Breath of Yoga.
Anne has integrated her past journey into her yoga by offering workshops such as: Yoga Tee Time for Golfers; Yoga for Professionals; Yoga at the Office and Yoga on the Plane. Anne has taught well over 2,000 yoga classes. She invites you to join her in this life enhancing experience of yoga.
Serina Shouna-Leaher
Serina Shouna-Leaher is a very popular teacher in Dallas, Texas. She was first introduced to Yoga when she was 9. After a back surgery in her mid 40s, she began her yoga study in earnest. Serina has been teaching yoga now for seven years and has a 500 hour certification through Namaste International, a lineage of Krishnamacharya, Desikachar, B.K.S. Iyengar, Vanda Scaravelli and Irene Beer. She has invested another 500 hours in continuing education by working with many outstanding yoga luminaries, such as Esther Myers, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Angela Farmer, Donna Farhi, Joan Miller, Gary Kraftsow, Rodney Yee and others. She also taught workshops each year for three years in Mexico.
Shanon Buffington
Shanon began practicing yoga in college as a supplement to teaching aerobics, weight-lifting, and running. But what started as exercise became much more. After years of suffering from pain caused by degenerative discs in her neck, Shanon began to find that the more she practiced yoga, the less pain she suffered. And as her practice deepened, she realized that yoga not only helped her body, but also helped her mind. She began teaching yoga in 2002 as a favor to a friend, but it wasn't long until she discovered that her true passion was to share yoga with others.
Shanon graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla with a Bachelor and Master of Science in Engineering Management. She spent 6 years working in the software consulting industry. In 2002 she left her career in consulting and started her adventure with yoga. Shanon co-founded the Surya Center for Yoga in December 2003 with the hopes of providing yoga to anyone open to receiving it.
Shanon's teachings are influenced by the Tantric tradition of Sri Vidya and the lineage of Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas. She aims to bring an authentic experience of the yoga tradition to each class as well as to everyday life. She is one of the few teachers transmitting an authentic, living tradition that has been practiced and taught from teacher to student for thousands of years.
Shanon's training includes certifications from the Yoga Institute and Para Yoga. Her training is in classical Tantra, Hatha, and Raja Yoga. She is a member of the Yoga Alliance, with over 400 hours of yoga training. She has studied with her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, considered to be one of the pre-eminent yoga and meditation teachers in the United States, since 2005.
Shanon lives in Coppell with her husband of 11 years, Gary, their son Jack, and two cats.
Jessica Holloway
Jessica began practicing yoga 8 years ago to help lower her blood-pressure due to a high stress corporate environment. She found that her yoga practice not only helped cope the stress of
everyday life but bolsters her through the rough patches along the way. After several years of practicing yoga she realized how little others knew about the benefits that yoga provides.
Seeing her friends and family go through back pains and a few surgeries she began to strive to help other discover the wonderful freedom of a stress and pain free body. Jessica became a certified 200hr yoga alliance teacher under Michelle Andrie through Priya Yoga. She has
studied the Scaravelli Lineage style of yoga and the use of ball therapy under Anne Patterson.
She has been teaching for the past 2 years at A Breath Of Yoga and like Anne believing that a gentle technique can bring deeper release of the body, mind and instill stronger sense self-ease. Currently she a on going yoga teacher/continuing art student that has taken root here in Carrollton for the past 6 years with her husband of 11 years and her 2 cats.
Brett Bodily - 200 RYT
Brett had always felt curious about Yoga until a beloved friend, noticing that Brett’s dissertation was causing him incredible stress, gave him a gift certificate to a Yoga studio. At that moment, Brett’s journey in Yoga materialized. He eventually enrolled in a teacher-training program with A Breath of Yoga in Carrollton, Texas in order to explore Yoga in depth. Over the years, Brett has studied a variety of Yogic approaches: Scaravelli, Tanric Hatha, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara, and a few others. His Yoga philosophy, practice, and teaching style are eclectic and intuitive as he strives to live life with a receptive mind, body, and spirit. Brett is also a Creative Writing and Literary Studies Professor at North Lake College. As a scholar and professional teacher, he has discovered the power of Yoga in academia- its transformative effects in the lives of learners. This exploration extends to horses as well. Brett professionally develops and teaches a form of equitation that emphasizes relationship building between horses and humans.
Sherri Colby- 200 RYT
In her early college years, Sherri occasionally watched yoga videos in hopes of learning more about the discipline. Shortly after completing her terminal graduate degree and three triathlons, she turned to yoga to help alleviate stress and reduce severe ankle, knee, and neck pain. Through yoga, she discovered the healing, restorative benefits of this ancient art. As a teacher, she embraces a variety of yogic styles and seeks to offer a balanced perspective to her practice. In particular, she especially appreciates the works of Donna Farhi, Judith Lasater, and B.K.S. Iyengar. Sherri is also a professor of curriculum and instruction and Texas A&M University-Commerce, and she uses the wisdom gained from yoga to teach her students about emotional intelligence, healthy living, and mindfulness. She completed her RYT 200 in 2010 from a Breath of Yoga in Carrollton, Texas.