Meet Our Dedicated Teaching Staff
Our Team is Knowledgeable and Committed
Mia Tarduno
Owner at Thrive Yoga Summit, Founder of Move Create Radiate
Mia’s mission is to create gathering spaces for others to share knowledge, express themselves, and be supported. Her yoga classes aim to reconnect people with their natural states of being to restore balance in their health, lifestyle, work, and relationships. She is a 500hr Registered Yoga Instructor, Certified Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher, Registered Restorative Yoga Instructor, and Certified Professional Life Coach. She specializes specifically in yoga for women’s health and cyclical living in her business Move Create Radiate. Her classes and offerings blend the tools of yoga, ancient wisdom, breathwork, rituals, somatic movement, and exploring vulnerable moments and conversations to help heal and nourish the soul.
Brittany Phelps
Founder at Thrive Yoga Studios.
Take time to make your soul happy
chelsea Carter
Breathwork & Meditation
Chelsea’s higher purpose is to hold space for humans on their healing journey, to embody her highest self and to connect with nature. She uses her knowledge as an Advanced Breathwork Facilitator, Chopra-certified Meditation teacher, Reiki Master and more to provide opportunities for self-love and healing in each class. Her classes help people reduce stress and negativity, increase mindfulness and feelings of gratitude, activate abundance, improve relationships, tap into inner guidance and increase clarity, efficiency and productivity. When she isn’t leading Breathwork and Meditation classes, Breathwork Workshops and Cacao Ceremonies at Thrive Yoga Summit, she is: meditating, backcountry skiing, breathing, backpacking, holding space, sipping cacao, photographing, hiking, tending to her indoor jungle and outdoor veggies, writing for Girl Boss Colorado Magazine, teaching skiing and Leave No Trace, scuba diving, cooking, enjoying a craft beer at Outer Range and loving her partner.
Angela Light-Smith
Hatha, Vinyasa and Restorative & Meditation
He who controls his breath controls his mind.
Erin Buena
Vinyasa
Erin endeavors to lead with an open heart. Her personal promise is to be present with her students, to honor her truth every day so that her students can feel comfortable showing up in theirs, and to lead and learn with compassion. She teaches Hatha and Vinyasa yoga with the goal to help students get out of their minds, get into their bodies and get what they need out of their personal practice in that moment. Her yoga practice began in 2012, and after 9 years of study, she received her 200 hr certification at Yandara Yoga Institute. Erin’s sequencing allows for safe and conscious opening of the breath and body, with movements radiating from a strong core, and progress to peak postures that inspire confidence from within. She finds joy and grounding with her family and in the outdoors: practicing yoga, snowboarding, mountain and road biking, rock climbing, paddle boarding, camping and hiking.
Mary Greenwood
Hatha, Yoga for Graceful Aging
Mary Greenwood has been teaching yoga for a very long time, and loves to guide her students in a safe, fun, and meaningful class. She holds an MS in Exercise Physiology, and a Masters in Divinity as well as over 500 hours of yoga teacher training.
Energy cannot be destroyed, only changed.
Sarah Woodward
Vinyasa
JENNA DUNCAN
Jenna has been practicing a variety of yoga types for the past 13 years and has had the honor of teaching for the past 7 years. She has recently become a mother and has enjoyed blending yoga into motherhood from the beginning of her pregnancy to her daily life with her baby. She believes yoga can be found in all moments of life, whether riding a bike, spending time with loved ones or practicing in a studio, she hopes to help everyone she encounters ignite their yogi flame and experience peace and happiness.
Yoga is the dance of every soul with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity & harmony
Emily Jones
Gentle Yoga
Emily’s intention is to practice gratitude, and to allow source energy to guide her offerings. She hopes to cultivate brave spaces and high vibrations! Emily’s yoga journey flourished in New Zealand in 2016. There, she completed her 200 Hour YTT in Integrated Yoga at Kawai Purapura, and was introduced to a diverse array of offerings from teachers and friends. Emily became a Certified Sound Healer in 2020, studying with our very own Emma and EJ! Most recently, she became a First Degree Reiki Practitioner in 2021, learning from the lovely Janette. All of this love and guidance from her community further enriched Emily’s personal practice, widened her perspective, and sweetened her offerings.
Callie bredice
Vinyasa
Like a tree, you have to find your roots and then you can bend in the wind
Elizabeth Jane "EJ"
Yin, Sound Healing
Elizabeth Jane “ EJ” (E-RYT 500, Certified Sound Healer, and Breathwork Facilitator) creates a safe, nurturing space that allows for a depth of healing and opportunities to touch the seed of the divine within us. Her intention is to serve as a catalyst for change and self-love, to help others cultivate self-knowledge, face their shadows, and shed limiting beliefs. She has served as lead teacher for multiple 200hr Yoga Teacher Trainings around the world from India, to Malta, to Indonesia. She created and hosts a Sound Healing Certification Course in Breckenridge, Colorado. To her, these ancient tools (Breathwork, Sound, and Yoga) serve as profound medicine that help us return to our inquisitive, joyful, natural Self. She has been teaching, studying, practicing, and sharing yoga all over the world for over 9 years.
ALEXA STILLWELL
Hatha, Vinyasa
Rhiannon Mcguire
Pop Pilates
Rhiannon is a pilates instructor with a love for movement and fitness. Her love for fitness started at an early age, and continues to be a huge passion for her . If shes not hiking a trail in one of the many here in this beautiful state , or snowboarding, she enjoys Rollerkskating. With the high impact nature of some of her activities is where she found her love for yoga and pilates , a way she can still physically challenge her body without some of the damaging effects.She loves to share her passion of fitness especially to others who need to explore other options due to injury. The few moments she isnt moving she enjoys cuddles with her dogs and cat and reading a good book.
Lisa Kaufman
Lisa’s playful spirit and reverence for Mother Nature are the North Stars that guide her yoga teaching, personal practice, and creative pursuits. She leads with passion and purpose. She is a nurturer at heart, fostering warm and welcoming spaces for all.
Now a new mother, her pregnancy inspired an evolution of her yoga practice to foster connection with her baby, trust in her body’s wisdom and honor the sacredness of emergent Motherhood. She now seeks to cultivate opportunities for women to celebrate the potency and richness of their own journey into Motherhood as a Prenatal Yoga Teacher and aspiring Birth Doula.
Lisa weaves community by facilitating Women’s Circles and has studied the art of ceremony with teachers steeped in Earth-based philosophies. She trained in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga with the Samma Karuna School of Awakening, is a certified Reiki II practitioner through the Orion Healing Center and completed her Prenatal Yoga Teacher and Doula Trainings with Awakened Spirit Yoga.
hannah cammoun
Vinyasa & Gentle Yoga
Hannah began practicing yoga in 2015 to help with anxiety. She found immense relief in linking movement with breath and with the simple yet profound feeling of her feet planted firmly on the earth. Since then, yoga has been her saving grace. She says that “it impossible to use language to describe the ways in which this beautiful practice continuously heals her spirit on and off of her mat, it is an experience that can only be felt.” Hannah hopes to be a space-holder for those who wish to go deeper and choose to use this practice as a way to facilitate internal transformation within their own hearts.
Lisa Kaufman
Lisa’s playful spirit and reverence for Mother Nature are the North Stars that guide her yoga teaching, personal practice, and creative pursuits. She leads with passion and purpose. She is a nurturer at heart, fostering warm and welcoming spaces for all.
Now a new mother, her pregnancy inspired an evolution of her yoga practice to foster connection with her baby, trust in her body’s wisdom and honor the sacredness of emergent Motherhood. She now seeks to cultivate opportunities for women to celebrate the potency and richness of their own journey into Motherhood as a Prenatal Yoga Teacher and aspiring Birth Doula.
Lisa weaves community by facilitating Women’s Circles and has studied the art of ceremony with teachers steeped in Earth-based philosophies. She trained in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga with the Samma Karuna School of Awakening, is a certified Reiki II practitioner through the Orion Healing Center and completed her Prenatal Yoga Teacher and Doula Trainings with Awakened Spirit Yoga.