Vida Studio & Body Balance Fitness

Silvana Busch, (owner) Certified Yoga teacher , Massage therapist, Personal Training.
I was born and raised in Brazil. Left Brazil in 1995 to travel around the world working for Club Med resort, great times!! Come to Boulder in 2000 for a quick trip and never left. What can I say, Boulder is a awesome place! Here in Boulder I took my first yoga class, coming from a world of only fitness I found myself constantly in pain; shoulders, back, hips, hamstrings.... Yoga has helped me heal those injuries and thought me how to exercise correctly. I believe in the power that the body has to heal itself. With proper fitness, yoga, and healthy eating habits you can transform your self.

Cecile Desire found support and understanding in the practice of yoga while she was faced with personal challenges in her life and decided, after having spent 10 years in the corporate world, to incorporate yoga into her professional life in order to share its beautiful healing and opening powers. With over 700 hours of professional trainings including the indepth study of the therapeutics of yoga, Cecile has an very strong understanding of the biomechanics of the body and its connection to the subtler parts of our being. The deepest intention at the heart of each of Cecile’s class is to communicate and share the tools she learned through both studies and her own life experiences in order to empower people’s own ability to grow and heal themselves, while holding the space for a light hearted and playful time. Cecile holds a certification in Hatha Yoga from the Shambava School of Yoga and is a licensed Anusara-Inspired™ yoga teacher. Cecile is registered with the Yoga Alliance. To learn more about Cecile, please visit her website at www.khromayoga.com

Christopher McCooey is a Certified Yoga Instructor through the University of Hyderabad (India) in the Ashtanga Tradition of Patanjali and the Hatha-yoga practice born from it.

Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Chris was introduced to Hinduism in High School and the Yoga and Advaita Vedanta philosophies struck Chris immediately. After taking an introductory series of classes at a local studio, he began to incorporate the poses into his routine stretching and exercises. As a young, male athlete, stretching was never something that was emphasized in his life, but the new practice opened up his body's range of motion and his practical strength. As a wrestler, the practice became indispensible to his ability to avoid injury and recover from those he had already acquired.

Chris' interest in Yoga and Yoga philosophy never waned and he spent every spare elective exploring Hinduism, Buddhism, and the various other aspects of Indic and Asian religions and philosophies while studying at Elizabethtown College. In the Fall of 2009, Chris went on a study abroad trip to Hyderabad, India where he studied at the University of Hyderabad and took the Three-Month Certification Course. He placed in First Division in Theory and First Division with Distinction in Practicals. Upon returning to The U.S., he began to share his knowledge with friends, classmates, and teammates to help them in their own endeavors for strength, flexibility, and tranquility.

Having graduated with a BA in Religious Studies, with concentrations in both Pre-ministry and Asian Religions, Chris is now studying for his MA in Contemplative Religious Studies with Sanskrit at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, where he currently resides and teaches Yoga. He has great love for the Yoga Tradition, a passion eclipsed only by his joy of sharing it with others!

Visit his website at www.yogimccooey.com

Elysabeth Williamson has been a teacher and innovator in the world of Yoga for over twenty years. Her unique, heart-centered teaching style comes from over thirty years of training and practice in a variety of yogic traditions. She has spent the past twelve years developing Principle-Based Partner Yoga™ techniques and recently published ‘The Pleasures and Principles of Partner Yoga’ through Wisdom Arts, LLC, a company she co-founded in 2004.

Along with facilitating Partner Yoga workshops nationally and abroad, Elysabeth has been training teachers in the art of Partner Yoga since 1998 and is accredited through Yoga Alliance as a E-RYT, experienced, registered, Yoga teacher.
Elysabeth offers private healing work as a Yoga Therapist, a healing modality based on the ancient science of yoga along with elements of contemporary body-centered psychotherapy. She has studied and incorporates into her private and public teaching a wide variety of healing modalities including Thai Yoga massage, Cranial Sacral, Shiatsu and various meditation techniques. Elysabeth also incorporates the healing energies of the Amethyst Bio Mat into her individual sessions.

Elysabeth has a particular gift for transmitting and articulating esoteric teachings in ways that are accessible and practical for everyone. She believes that yoga is a dynamic and creative process that is adaptable to each individual and his or her evolving needs.

Darius is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) trained in the classical style of Hatha Yoga. He specializes in more modern variations such as Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Vinyasa, Gentle Hatha Flow, Bhava Vinyasa, and Restorative. Darius designed and teaches Embody Flow, a fun and unique fusion of somatic and spontaneous/expressive movement, ecstatic dance, and Hatha, Yin, and Restorative Yoga and artistic processing. He offers private Yoga instruction in the Boulder County area, where he currently resides as a graduate student of Naropa University’s Transpersonal Counseling Psychology program and assists Shannon Paige as a mentor for Boulder Om Time’s 200-hour Tillai Yoga Teacher Training. Darius’ work as a teacher is fueled by his passion to share with his students what his personal practice of Yoga continues to teach him: “That which brings me face-to-face with my true nature also lends strength to my ability to cultivate a profound capacity to courageously welcome, lovingly accept, compassionately heal, deeply integrate, and authentically embody every aspect of my entire being— mind, body, and spirit.” Please visit Darius’ website at www.myownyoga.net or email him at yoga4you@rocketmail.com for information about private Yoga instruction, special group classes/workshops, and much more!