Adrienne White
Adrienne White is the founder of Yoga Muse- Custom Yoga, Karma Yoga Fest, and co- owner of The Collective. She is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT-500) with Yoga Alliance. She is also a YCEP (Continuing Education Provider) through Yoga Alliance, and certifies students in: 200-hr YTT, 300-hr YTT, Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, Stand Up Paddle Board Yoga, and Aerial Yoga. Adrienne also provides personal coaching through yogic philosophy and practice, meditation, and fasting protocols. No matter what she is teaching, true radiant health, vitality, and beautiful movement is emphasized during practice paired always with conscious breath and meditation.
Adrienne has traveled all over the world to study with some amazing teachers and she can’t wait to share what she has learned over her past 30 years of practice and 1,200+ hours of training she herself has undertaken. She specializes in Tantric Hatha and Meditation (600-hours of Yoga and Meditation training w/ Zuna Yoga), (120-hours of Tantra) w/ Yoga Rupa, Rod Stryker, Vinyasa (continuing education w/ Seane Corn), Pranayama, Chakra Study (w/ Anodea Judith), Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra (Certification w/ Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra), Aerial Yoga, SUP+Yoga, Anatomy (Training w/ Ray Long), Kundalini, Yin Yoga, The Fire Practice (Yoga for detoxification and hormone health), Meditation in Motion (Level II Certification w/ Heather Eirling), and Level II Tantra (100-hrs) training in women’s health and sexuality w/ Psalm Isadora. Adrienne has led multiple groups through 200/300-HR Yoga Teacher Trainings and international retreats and she is excited to help guide you on your yoga journey!
Luke Andresen
Luke is a Seabee veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan turned holistic health coach. His affinity for minimal intervention and natural lifestyle, free of drugs and modern crutches, has put him on this path. He has sustained multiple, severe, injuries over his life and learned to treat all of them naturally and now he works with all sorts of cool people who wish to do the same! His passion is all things strength-training, fasting, and yoga. His work with yoga has made him a more useful person to those around him, balanced his thoughts and aligned his body mind spirit. His practice blends cold water therapy, breath control techniques, strength cultivation, human movement patterns, facilitated stretching, yoga asana, pranayama, and GOING DEEP to uncover our true selves. Luke is certified through StrongFirst (SFGI), GMB Fitness, Yoga Muse 300YTT, Mindful Yoga Therapy, and past certifications as Functional Movement Specialist Level II FMS as well as multiple specialized certifications.
Maria Vettraino
RYT-200 BS Exercise Science Restorative + Aerial Certified Maria has always had a love for movement. She started ballet training as a young girl, having 28 years of experience in dance. She studied exercise science and dance, graduating with a BS from Western Michigan University. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City working as a Physical Therapy Aide and trained in Pilates. She has taken yoga classes throughout her life, but in 2014 she really started to delve deeper into her yoga practice. She attributes yoga to helping her overcome fear and depression – to start trusting herself and find more joy in each day. Maria moved to St. Joseph in 2015 with her partner, Reece. She completed her RYT-200 in 2019 at The Collective and began teaching right away. She strives to create a safe environment for her students, to feel welcome and comfortable. Her classes focus on correct alignment, connecting breath with movement, and clearing the mind. As a yoga teacher, Maria wants to integrate and utilize all of her training and experience to help improve the lives of others. Off the mat, you can find Maria spending time with Reece and their pooch, Buster. Her other passion is her small business, Mia Maria Candle Studio, in which she shares her all natural candles and spa products with a focus on aromatherapy.
Eryn Love
RYT 200
Eryn was born and raised on the south side of Chicago and moved to Saint Joseph in 2016. She loves living right by Lake Michigan, and the small-town charm of this area. She enjoys nature, animals, new experiences, and is a self-diagnosed spiritual and psychic junkie. She has been an Occupational Therapist, MA, OTR/L, since 2014 and works with pediatrics as a feeding therapist and with adults in neurological rehab and pain management among other things. She first discovered yoga in college and noticed that it helped her to sleep better at night. She came back to it a few years later with a more consistent practice and felt so many benefits from it. She has not stopped practicing since. Eryn completed her yoga teacher training here at the Collective in 2018; and received an additional certification in Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga training shortly after. She has always been interested in holistic medicine and treating the root cause of any illness; rather than only treating symptoms; and has felt drawn to incorporating yoga into her work as a preventative and healing measure. She now enjoys teaching class in the community as well and loves seeing people’s energy lift from the start of the class to the end. She looks forward to sharing yogic philosophy and using music as part of her classes.
Sally Gregory
Sally Gregory began practicing yoga in 1999, when a new studio opened near her workplace. Although Vinyasa has always been a part of her practice, she has been drawn to different styles of yoga based on life experience: from Bikram in her 20s, to prenatal and Hatha in her 30s, and now to the practices of Yin and Restorative in her 40s. Out of curiosity, and not intending to teach, in 2019 Sally began her RYT-200 training in order to learn more about the physical, spiritual and emotional concepts behind yoga. She was surprised when she felt a deep desire to teach, but has grown to love both the meditative aspects of teaching, as well as the lessons that her students teach to her. Sally believes that yoga meets you where you are in life, and offers benefit to everyone.
Sally is a Kripalu-certified Yin Yoga instructor. She believes all people can benefit from slowing down and feeling deep sensation in the body, as opposed to avoiding it. Yin can also highlight sensations within the mind, providing an opportunity to calm the mind and create a meditative experience. Sally holds additional certifications in Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra, and has experience teaching Restorative/Yin Yoga to cancer survivors.
Kate Conner
From the start of her life journey Kate’s heart has felt called to help other people. That calling has led Kate down many paths in life, and is what has drawn her to the practice of yoga. Kate has been practicing the physical asanas of yoga over the last eight years and has memories of finding meditation to be a freeing place of enlightenment since she was a young child. After a trying life with many opportunities to foster strength Kate was pushed to her breaking point. From this point, the practice of yoga was there for her to work through the pain of her past and use it to move forward into light. Kate found something deeper happening in classes, something beyond strengthening herself physically. Through the physical asanas and breath work, things began to surface and she began to heal.
Kates previous career in environmental engineering had been filling her heart’s calling to help others, however, she began to question if she was doing all that she could. When her adored teacher approached her about becoming a yoga instructor she was taken aback. She had never considered teaching yoga, or being someone who could help others in this way. Halfway through the life changing experience of her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program at Yoga Life Studio something shifted in Kate. It became clear that this is what she was always meant to do. She decided to make yoga and the sharing of its philosophies her life purpose and sole career focus.
There is no life path free of pain and hardship. This reality connects us all, it gives us the ability to feel empathy and compassion for one another. Kate is devoted and committed to helping others on their life's path to find freedom from past pain, freedom from the worry of tomorrow and empowerment in the joy that comes from internal work. Through the practice of the physical asanas, breathwork and meditation Kate believes the freedom and joy of each present moment is accessible to anyone. Kate believes she is here as a catalyst to help each and every person who comes her way find that freedom and joy within themselves. A path that of helping others that truly fills her heart.
Angie Cooper
Angie is a Mindfulness Instructor, Kids/Family Yoga Instructor, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has her masters degree in Social Work with emphasis as a trauma therapist for children and families.