MEET THE INSTRUCTORS

Danielle came to yoga begrudgingly, trying several styles and teachers through the years before falling in love with vinyasa flow. In the movement and breath, she found stillness and calm. In the strength and flexibility, she found confidence, power and playfulness with pushing the possibilities. Danielle teaches a fluid power vinyasa yoga that emphasizes strength, flexibility and a sense of play that asks each student to find their individual potential within their current ability. Her classes are very down to earth and creative. You can expect to be challenged as you breathe, flow, and to push your own possibilities. She completed her 200-hour teacher training with Tiffany Cruikshank through Yoga Pearl in Portland, Oregon in 2009. Danielle has participated in many workshops and intensives, gaining inspiration from Kathryn Budig, Rocky Heron, David Regelin. She is always learning and sees herself as a student, exploring the flow of life – in all its ups and downs, and twists and turns.

Danielle opened Gather Yoga in April of 2013, the same year she completed radiation and chemotherapy and beat colon cancer. Danielle weaves stubborn optimism, creative determination and a whole lot of gratitude into all she does, from being a mom to her 3 amazing kids to teaching yoga or enjoying the outdoors-hiking, skiing, and camping. She feels lucky to live here in Sun Valley, after moving in 2010 from Portland, Oregon.

“Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” ― Rodolfo Costa

Kelsey Schubert is a born and raised Sun Valley local. After graduating from Wood River in 2011, she ventured off to many incredible places (California, New York, Colorado, New Hampshire) until she realized that there really is no place like home. Now she is back in the valley with her amazing husband and their three sons, River, Jude and Dylan! Throughout her life, Kelsey found that she was inspired by the remarkable acts of the body through her degrees in Kinesiology and Dance and her Massage Therapy License. She eventually stepped in to a yoga class and knew that she had found her path. Kelsey now teaches yoga in her hometown as well as all around the world in one-of-a-kind wellness retreats. She is inspired by what the human body can do and is able to provide a nourishing, yet challenging, class to any student who walks into her space. Join Kelsey on her pursuit of living life with love and freedom every day!

Kelsey is also the manager of Gather, so please reach out if you ever have any questions!

Sarah discovered yoga for the first time while traveling through Australia in 2003. She was immediately drawn to the sense of peace it brought her and how it allowed her to tune in with her body and true self. She has been a dedicated student of yoga for the past 13 years and recently received her RYT 200-hour certification in Atlanta, GA through Yogaworks.

Being an elementary school teacher for many years, she became aware of how much we learn and grow by teaching others. Her classes combine breath to movement, pranayama, and music to offer an exciting, fun, and challenging way to connect to the mind, body and spirit. She teaches to give back to others what the practice has given to her. Sarah is excited to share the benefits of yoga with her students through physical practice and meditation as a way to find stillness on and off the mat. Off the mat you can find her exploring the outdoors with her husband and three boys.

500RYT- Hanna is a Ketchum, Idaho native. She has traveled to many far reaches of the world but has found the wild nature in Idaho has been her biggest, most profound teacher.

She found yoga as a child, yet truly fell in love with it at 15 as a way of life; practicing and studying since. She has many teachers around the world as well as those in her hometown community. She completed her 200hr vinyasa krama YTT with Santosha in Bali spring of 2016. She was led back to Bali for her 300hr YTT in fall 2019 specializing in Hatha; journeying into topics “Sex, death and wealth” with High Vibe Yoga. She has spent many summers in the Idaho wilderness as a river guide on the Middle Fork of the Salmon teaching yoga in the mornings before rafting.

While remaining in honor to the tradition of yoga; her teachings integrate the wilderness to explore the wild within, the elements and energy systems, and wisdom from many spiritual inspirations during her life’s journeys therefore bringing adventure into her classes and leading exploration into the self.

Cathie Caccia began her yogic studies in 1984 and was immediately captivated by the physical, energetic and philosophical aspects of the practice. Her most influential teachers include Rodney Yee, Rod Stryker, and Judith Lasater. She has extensive training in Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Shiatsu, Acupressure and Massage. At the insistence of her first teacher Cathie began teaching yoga in 1987.

Cathie’s classes combine her love of Yoga, Chinese energetics and Sanskrit chanting to support her students in accessing their most essential nature. She is registered with Yoga Alliance as E-RYT 500, and teaches public and private classes, workshops and yoga teacher trainings. Cathie is a licensed massage therapist with over 1200 hours of training.

Learn more about Cathie and her practice at cathiecaccia.com

Abby is a Registered Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher (RYT) through the National Yoga Alliance. She was certified in Bali, Indonesia, with Radiantly Alive Yoga. She has studied under many well accomplished Yogis of different lineages such as Ashtanga with Kino Macgregor & Tim Feldmann, Yoga Synergy with Simon Borg Olivier, Tripsicore with Edward Clarke and Baptiste Yoga with Philip Urso. Abby's classes combine movement and breath work in order to get out of your head on into your flow state through a moving mediation. She loves to challenge her students through creative sequencing and encourages her students to be playful and push there limits on and off the mat. She truly believes in the transformative power of yoga and encourages herself and her students to use the lessons they learn on the mat to carry over to the real practice of yoga in their daily lives.

Marney Sullivan is boundlessly energetic and relentlessly authentic. A certified yoga teacher since 2001, writer, and risk taker, she leads insightful and inspirational classes and yoga retreats. She first moved to Ketchum in the early 70s as a young girl and has lived in and out of the Wood River Valley ever since.
Marney has had the good fortune of studying and gaining certifications in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga. She continues to seek out teachers around the world.
Marney possesses a great enthusiasm for the mountains, movement, friendship, travel, humor, and fun!
Her inaugural yoga retreat in Thailand in 2004 inspired future group yoga escapes for adults and adolescents in Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Napa Valley, and Washington state.

www.superstarretreats.com

Gretchen has been sharing her experience of yoga since 2009, when she graduated from Jivamukti Teacher Training. Teaching mostly in New York City, she has also studied and taught yoga in San Francisco, under the wise tutelage of Stephanie Snyder. In San Francisco, Gretchen honed her vinyasa-style class where she is constantly and consistently reminding the student of their breath-movement connection. Over the last 12 years, Gretchen has taught and apprenticed nationally with her friend and fellow yoga teacher, Kathryn Budig at Yoga Journal Conferences, Kripalu Center, Omega Institute and brand-related events. Music plays an integral role in Gretchen’s class and challenges the student to lose their ‘thinking brain’ in the discipline of linking breath with motion.

Gretchen’s first experience of yoga was here in the Wood River Valley when her mother, a figure skater in the 1990s, used yoga to crosstrain for her sport. Gretchen is grateful she discovered yoga then and joyfully shares her practice now with anyone and everyone!

Katie is a 300 RYT, SAYF-Certified yoga, and barre instructor. Since 2016, Katie has been teaching a variety of classes in different settings – from a ship sailing around the world, online during the pandemic, and now is residing in Ketchum and excited to be offering classes at Gather Yoga. She teaches with an emphasis on connecting to your breath while guiding you through creative sequences and balancing poses. Her philosophy is: yoga isn’t about flexibility, strength, or how long you can hold a pose, it’s about showing up and learning more about yourself every time you step on the mat.

I am committed to unearthing expressions of internal and external freedom for myself and my primary goal as a teacher is to provide my students with glimpses of and forays into expressions of freedom. Whether it be through ceremony, travel, meditation, nidra, music, breath, fluidity, athleticism, handstands or exploring nature, I love to invite people out of the confines in which they limit themselves to sustain the illusion of control. Primarily I work with the element of fire, to create alchemy, as whatever we throw into the fire is transformed.

While my teaching style is creative, athletic, fluid and dynamic, I’m committed to honoring my roots and providing a traditional yoga experience. Elements of Ashtanga and Baptiste continue to guide every sequence I build. My classes are very challenging and certainly a physical practice, yet I guide my students past the physical and invite them to delve into the subtle and energetic bodies.

Shawn is a 20-year yoga practitioner and 25-year Ketchum resident who completed his 500-hour RYT certification with Mark Stephens in January 2015. He’s also had the grace to study with many of the architects of modern asana practice, including Rodney Yee, Richard Freeman, Judith Lassater, Rod Stryker, and more.

In his class, he encourages students to pursue expansion and liberation through the breath, from the inside out … and to approach the practice of asana as a model for learning about the practice of life itself.