Dana Robert
Dana Robert opened the Yoga Boutique in February 2007 as the culmination of a life-long interest in fitness. She minored in Dance at the University of Iowa, received a Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois and has been teaching dance and fitness since graduation. Concurrently she took a job as a bond trader. Everything in her life soon became intense, from her career as a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, to her passion in extreme sports such as Ironman, marathons, triathlons and boxing. It was a bittersweet event that guided Dana towards yoga. After severely injuring both shoulders from boxing Dana turned to yoga for physical therapy. The doctors thought that her fitness days were going to be minimal and a double shoulder surgery was to be in her future. She took her future into her own hands and used Yoga as a means of physical therapy. After she learned to relax and slow down her mind and body on the mat she took her learning off the mat. She received her Yoga Alliance certification from Frog Lotus Yoga Studio in Massachusetts. Soon after this she quit her job as a Trader, turned in the keys to her “Beamer” and decided to find the true pursuit of happiness…yoga!

Danny Benoit
Danny was turned onto yoga through a girlfriend in 1997. His relationship with yoga is as strong as ever! At first it was a love affair with the physical benefits yoga can bring. Today it is a growing love of "taking yoga off the mat" and into his daily life. After years of unfulfilled corporate work Danny left Southern California for a year long road trip throughout the US and Mexico to clear his head and rediscover himself. This clarity led him to Nepal where he taught Nepali's to fly airplanes in the Himalayas'. He searched throughout his village of Bharatpur for a yoga studio. He discovered through his students the only yoga studios in Nepal were in the major cities... where the tourist are, not in his village. Inspired by conversations with his students, he started teaching yoga in the flight school airplane hangar. The "Asana Courses" in B.K.S. Iyengar's book "Light on Yoga" would be his teaching guide. After nearly a year in Nepal he headed back to the U.S. and settled in Chicago close to his family. Through his travels he discovered what he wanted out of life. To teach. "The peaks of joy I've experience in seeing a student achieve their "next level" is a driving force in my life. Be it a student soloing an airplane or standing on their head for the first time. Using my knowledge and experiences to help others grow is as gratifying as it gets for me." Danny is a 200hr Certified Yoga Instructor with a focus in Power Vinyasa Yoga inspired by Baron Baptiste and Ana Forrest. When he is not in the studio he enjoys flying airplanes, riding his motorcycle and bicycle, taking photos, making people laugh, chasing sunsets and watching sunrises.

Elizabeth Dell
Liz was certified to teach Integral Hatha Yoga at Satchidananda Ashram in Buckingham, Virginia. She combines meditation, asana, breathing practices, chanting, and peaceful teachings into a deeply relaxing yet challenging class. Her focus is on balancing strength and flexibility while creating an environment of tranquility, acceptance, and non-competitive practices that both beginners and advanced can share in reconnecting with a sense of peace and well being.

Denise Donovan
Denise Donovan is a Columbia College graduated who has been dancing since she was three years old. Denise has almost 20 years of dance experience, focusing on ballet and jazz. Exploring new ways to fuse classic dance technique and fitness is her passion. Cardio Bar is a perfect blend of classic ballet sculpting movements and cardio circuits to help you get in shape and gain strength and flexibility. Denise is very excited to join the Yoga Boutique team and share her passion of fitness and dance!

Charlotte Munn
Charlotte is living proof that yoga can change your life. Like so many others, she came to yoga to combat the aches and pains of being a workout enthusiast and what she found was astounding positive change in all aspects of her life. After a week of regular practice she just didn’t feel right unless she went to yoga. Charlotte began attending classes six days a week and saw how it changed her body and settled her mind in ways that impacted everything in her life. It was a natural path for her to become a teacher and she completed multiple Yoga Alliance certifications in a variety of different styles. She teaches in yoga studios and wellness centers throughout the Chicago area and enjoys teaching to students of all fitness and experience levels. Her classes encourage students to push their physical edge while learning to love and listen to their bodies with a gentle and accepting mind. With a lifelong background as a theatre artist, she has found that teaching and practicing yoga aid in her continued quest for ultimate truth and transformation.

Anna Schabold
Anna has studied Forrest Yoga since 2005 and has completed the Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Foundation Course. She emphasizes the benefits that the sanctuary of the yoga mat offers from the demands of hectic daily life. Drawing from the strength she discovered in herself through her practice, Anna left her corporate position in June 2008, and embarked on a journey of self-discovery. Realizing that her passion lay in sharing yoga with others, she decided to answer her calling to teach and became certified in April 2009. Compassionately holding safe space for joyful exploration, Anna empathically guides her students with a supportive voice, strong breath, and healing touch. She desires to lead others to breathe deeply with mindfulness, connecting to their bodies and creating awareness, and discover the gifts of yoga: quieting the mind, strengthening the body, and nourishing the spirit. Her training off the mat includes a B.A. in International Studies from Loyola University Chicago, a Green Belt in the Degerberg Academy of Martial Arts International Blend System, and is studying Burmese Bando Yoga, comprised of Dhanda, Longi, & Letha Yoga.

Linnea Schlegel
Linnea, a recent college graduate of Loyola University Chicago has been a dancer all her life. With a degree in Physics and minor in dance, Linnea aims to exercise her participants in mind, body, and spirit. She frequently uses dancer-inspired exercises in strategic ways to elongate, strengthen, and stretch muscles, promoting a long and lean body. Linnea now dances professionally for AMEBA Acrobatic and Aerial Dance Company and teaches cycling, core strengthening, dance and many other classes around Chicago.

Sarah Will
Sarah Will has a background in dance (ballet, aerial, modern, butoh, etc...) Although she no longer performs she takes several workshops throughout the year and is on the Board of Directors for Breakbone Dance Company. Sarah wandered into her first yoga class while she was still in college and hated it. Several years later, after sustaining mulitple repetitive use and traumatic injuries, she decided to give yoga another try. This time she wandered into an ashtanga class and loved it! She has been hooked ever since. Sarah received her first teacher training certification in 2006, and has been building on it for the past three and a half years. She is now a very well rounded teacher with primary focuses on Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Power Vinyasa, Yin, and most recently, Taoist Flow. You may also notice at times she may add Feldenkrais method and anatomy training into her class. In Sarah’s free time she operates a German Shepherd Rescue (CFWGSDR), as well as provides transportation for other rescue organizations.

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