Checking-in with former YTT graduates!
By Sarah Millman
How have graduates from the Mindful Life Practice’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training programs applied the knowledge and skillsets that they have gained in their communities?
We decided to check-in with some former students to see what they have been up to in their home towns!
Leanne Golding:
Leanne has been an MLPC member from the very start! She first joined the Mindful Life Practice in June of 2020 during lockdown, and she has since participated in the MLP’s 30 Hour Sober Curious course in addition to the 200 Hour YTT!
Leanne’s yoga teaching career started off with teaching a Zoom class for the MLPC in 2021-2022. In 2022, Leanne also taught her first in-person class during the MLP retreat in Mexico.
In 2023, a studio owner asked Leanne if she would consider teaching a weekly yoga class. Although she momentarily hesitated and was debating as to whether she was ‘good enough,’ Leanne’s friends (including Alex McRobert) encouraged her to go for it!
Leanne began teaching at One Heart Yoga & Apothecary in the Cayman Islands in December of 2023, and she absolutely loves it! She always looks forward to teaching her Saturday morning class!
Erica Tiedje:
Erica graduated from the 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program in March of 2024, and she immediately hit the ground running when it comes to sharing her expertise with others!
She is currently teaching Trauma Yoga at both the Humana Military USCG Key West US Naval Base, as well as the US Coast Guard Sector Key West.
Additionally, she leads “Power Tools Sober Circles” on Sundays at 7pm at Kava Culture in Key West!
Renee Garner Jernigan:
Renee began her yoga practice in the early 2000s as a complement to running and strength training. She practiced off and on for 20 years before participating in the 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with the Mindful Life Practice.
Renee currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and she teaches yoga once a week at her local gym, the Wheelhouse Academy. She loves creating flows that spark mindfulness, self-awareness, self-inquiry and play!
Sarah Millman:
Sarah graduated from the same YTT group as Renee in October of 2023.
Sarah has substituted and offered free classes for the MLP quite a bit in 2024, and she had the opportunity to be one of the instructors on the MLP 200 Hour YTT in Bali this summer. She is also currently offering a biweekly yoga class at the DC LGBTQ+ Community Center. Her class combines breathwork, meditation and asana (the postures of yoga).
Fun Fact!: A fun fact about Sarah and Renee is that they both attended the Mindful Life Practice’s yoga retreat in Todos Santos, Mexico during the summer of 2022 where they had the opportunity to teach their first full yoga classes to retreat participants!
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