Mollie Gfrerer is a Registered Yoga Teacher who helps her students feel successful and empowered in every class they take. Her intention when teaching is to connect with her students, embrace them as they are, and tailor the class as much as possible to include their favorite feel-good poses. Mollie’s love affair with yoga began after she purchased her first yoga DVD from a garage sale in 2009. After several years of being a home-based yoga student, she decided to become a teacher, earning her Registered Yoga Teacher title in 2012. Besides yoga, Mollie loves to run, read, travel, cheer on her son at hockey games, watch her girls at dance class, and get some laughs in at family game night. To express her creative side, she likes to knit, cook, and bake.

Janice Schroeder is a Registered Yoga Teacher with an unusual backstory. Her decision to become a yoga teacher was part passion, part practicality: every time she started taking classes in Waseca, the teacher quit! Having practiced yoga on and off for 16 years, Janice decided to become the teacher she needed and earned her certificate in 2015. She loves to help others, share life experiences, and do things in surprising ways. Each of her classes is guided by how everyone is feeling and what they need. A Waseca native, Janice currently resides nearby in the country with her husband, Timothy. When she’s not spending time with him or her two sons, she enjoys spiritual reading, self-improvement classes, crafting, and drinking good coffee.

Mollie Gfrerer is a Registered Yoga Teacher who helps her students feel successful and empowered in every class they take. Her intention when teaching is to connect with her students, embrace them as they are, and tailor the class as much as possible to include their favorite feel-good poses. Mollie’s love affair with yoga began after she purchased her first yoga DVD from a garage sale in 2009. After several years of being a home-based yoga student, she decided to become a teacher, earning her Registered Yoga Teacher title in 2012. Besides yoga, Mollie loves to run, read, travel, cheer on her son at hockey games, watch her girls at dance class, and get some laughs in at family game night. To express her creative side, she likes to knit, cook, and bake.

Amy Straube is a Raindrop Technique Technician and Energy Worker with a passion for helping others feel better about themselves and live healthier, happier lives. Her interest in holistic health began after she personally faced a serious illness. When western medicine fell short of offering the full support she needed, she turned to essential oils and living a more toxic-free lifestyle to take care of her body. Doing so helped return her to a state of wellness that made life functional again. Now, she’s passionate about supporting others through their challenges using an empowering holistic health approach along with western medicine when needed. Focusing on individual needs in each session, she helps her clients release the past, feel calmer, and find solutions to help them feel better in body and mind. In addition to her work with Awaken Vibrance, Amy also works full time as a Media Specialist at a local high school. Having worked in education for 20 years, she’s no stranger to working with all kinds of people and personalities and enjoys building connections with all. When work is done, you’ll usually find Amy spending time with her three kids, husband, and three cats. She also enjoys riding motorcycles with her husband, learning more about the science behind essential oils, and catching up with friends.

Dallas is a registered yoga teacher who is passionate about bringing the root and core of yoga back to the west. Dallas strives to have an authentic, non-judgmental teaching style and compassion-centered philosophy. Availing herself to continuous philosophical education from various spiritual disciplines, she weaves thought-provoking meditations throughout her classes, applying ancient wisdom to our contemporary western world in a useful and understandable way. She encourages growth of the physical and spiritual self, citing the interconnectedness to each other, to the world and to the universe at large. Dallas was first introduced to yoga when she was at Prairie Care in Chaska, Minnesota in 2014 and then again when she attended a wellness retreat in Wickenburg, Arizona in 2015. Yoga was the driving force behind creating a healthy life for herself. She attributes her healing and and continuous growth to her yoga practice and is ambitious to share this way of life with others. Education RYT 200 at Darling Yoga in Overland Park, KS Working on Bachelor of Science-Psychology degree at Minnesota State University-Mankato Fun Fact: I spent 30 minutes Googling examples of “fun facts” and still couldn’t come up with one. In other words: fun facts give me anxiety.