Our Instructors 

Cherry

Cherry has been a resident of Tracy for nearly 15 years. She grew up in Southern California until the late 1980’s when she left her family to pursue a new life in Sacramento. She relocated to Tracy in 1994 for a new career and found Tracy to be a wonderful place to raise her two young children.

Cherry began practicing yoga in early 2000 and developed a passion for the practice. Over the years, she enjoyed the benefits from practicing yoga on a regular basis and was introduced to teaching in a health fitness facility setting. Cherry’s practical experience and education through the YogaFit Training Systems has solidified her passion and commitment to yoga. She continues to enjoy sharing her love of yoga with others, as well as being a student herself in a yoga class.

Corey

Corey comes from an athletic background and loves working with others on their personal paths to creating and maintaining healthy lifestyles. She believe that a healthy lifestyle is a continuum of physical, intellectual, and nutritional choices that grow, change, and deepen with each experience. She is a fitness instructor/trainer- coming up on 10 years now, and loves every aspect of the industry. Corey began teaching yoga 8 years ago. At first she found that it complimented other physical activities in regards to strength and flexibility, but then she fell in love with yoga because of its benefits beyond the physical. Yoga balances the bouts of energy that we use in our busy lives and aerobic activities, which can be more competitive and external in nature. Corey's yoga classes will challenge participants physically while teaching them to use their energy with an internal focus on mind, body, and breath. It truly is a fitness experience that unites greater body awareness and mindfulness into our daily lives. At the same time, it provides us with an excellent full body work out based in strength and core initiated abdominal movements.
Her classes connect movement to breath with an emphasis on strength, balance, and body alignment through the use of imagery and cues. She begins each class with a flow of asanas, followed by strengthening poses, balance and stretch, and relaxation. The techniques you will learn are meant to be practical and will easily transfer into your active lifestyle. You will find that you have a better range of motion and flexibility, increased balance, excellent posture, and longer, leaner, stronger muscles. You will also be delighted in the endless opportunities there are to use your breath and centered strength to reduce stress and improve focus in your daily life and the lives of others.

Patrice

Patrice Niebergall is originally from Northern Minnesota where the weather is cold and the Aurora Borealis is prevalent during the Winter season. She has now made CA. her home and enjoys the friendlier weather here. She has a degree in Public Health which is a nice combination with Yoga. When she is not teaching Yoga, she teaches Cartooning and Gardening classes to the community. Kripalu Yoga is called the Yoga of Consciousness and Compassion. Spending time exploring postures, gaining insights and having one good workout is what Kripalu lives up to. Three stages of the Yoga can be combined with Mudras, Meditation, Postures and Flowing movements. The Kripalu approach encourages students to take 'their' Yoga off their mats and into the world. When Patrice is not tending to her favorite pastimes she enjoys traveling and studying Ancient Languages such as Sanskrit and Gaelic.

Beth

Beth Middlekauff is relentless in her pursuit to help individuals discover and achieve their true potential and goals. She is a native of California and is highly respected in the communities she frequents as a coach, instructor and leader. In her 12 years of experience, she has reached the needs of a large spectrum of enthusiasts of all ages looking to improve their health and wellness or appearance and their quality of life. She enjoys having a positive effect on so many people on a daily basis be it one-on-one or in the studios and group exercise rooms and often, just in passing in the community. Beth has been practicing yoga and Pilates for 12 years and began teaching in 2006. Her yoga focus is primarily Hatha Yoga and she also specializes in Pilates with apparatus. Her mind-body training and experience has been through both Yoga Fit and Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA), to name a few. She holds other certifications from some of the most prestigious sports medicine and conditioning organizations in the world. She also coaches other fitness professionals and group exercise instructors to assist them in prospering in their own careers.

“It is such a blessing to do what you love and have it affect so many people. I strive to help people find their true happiness and potential in their life every day. It is truly inspiring to look forward to a their moment in which they feel triumph!”

Marina

Marina has lived in Tracy for over 16 years. She was drawn to Tracy for it's small town feeling and has found it to be a great place to raise her two kids. Marina has always loved to dance and has been taking Zumba classes for over two years. She has been teaching as a certified Zumba instructor since August of 2010. She is an active member of ZIN, the Zumba Instructors Network.

Maria

Maria Gapasin is a dedicated Instructor and enthusiastic student. Maria completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training and is currently working towards 500 hours. She is a member of Yoga Alliance. Maria’s Ashtanga Vinyasa teacher certification was granted through It’s Yoga of San Francisco “The Masters of Modification,” under the dedicated guidance of Larry Shultz and Marie Hajjar-Shultz. Larry’s teacher was Sri. K. Pattabbi Jois, the Yogi Guru responsible for bringing Ashtanga Yoga to the United States. Maria has studied and taken seminars with Rodney Yee of Yoga Journal and Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland. She has also studied with David Life and Sharon Gannon of Juvamukti Yoga in New York to name a few.

Maria’s Yoga journey began in 1993 while attending college in San Francisco. 10 years into her practice she endured a major car accident resulting in a broken back and punctured intestine. She has permanent hardware in her spine reinforcing a fusion of the low back. Maria’s personal experience with injury and a passion for alignment guided her to teaching Yoga with an emphasis on modifications, anatomy and proper alignment. Maria enjoys working with students of all levels of ability, encouraging deeper awareness of and appreciation for the body and self. She believes that healing from the inside out and being compassionate with yourself through consistent practice will create spiritual and physical transformation. Maria is also a Holistic Massage Therapist and Esthetician in Tracy and is currently applying to Nursing School.

Holly

Holly grew up in Hawaii and lived there until 1990, when she graduated high school and left to pursue life on the “mainland”, in Sacramento, California. She quickly began a career in management at Trader Joe’s where she met her husband in 1997. After her first child was born in 2002 she left her career behind and began her life as a mom.Holly started her Yoga journey in 2004 when her hectic life as a mom compelled her to seek an outlet to help her relax physically and mentally, and soon felt the difference it made in her life. She quickly fell in love with Yoga and decided she wanted to share her passion, and start teaching. Receiving her YogaFit certification in 2010, she continues the pursuit of education to strengthen her teaching skills. Holly feels that Yoga has helped her to be more present for the people in her life and is grateful to be able to share the gift of Yoga with others: flexibility, strength, endurance, an open heart and a calm mind, and teaches us to live in harmony with ourselves.


                Flow Yoga Studio,      3602 Mars Way #125, Tracy CA 95377     (209) 830-0405