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.

Debra Battenfeld is a gifted Psychic, Medium and Spiritual Teacher who helps individuals reconnect to their life purpose and guides them to their highest good by sharing messages given to her by Angels, Spirit Guides, Master Teachers and other loving Spirits. She has offered readings and consultations professionally for 12 years. Debra’s ability to see and communicate with those who have transitioned has brought comfort, hope and peace to many people who leave each session knowing their loved ones still care and love them from the Other Side. Compassion, unconditional love, respect and understanding anchor her work with clients for she recognizes the eternal light that burns within each one of us. Prior to moving to Waseca and joining our team at Awaken Vibrance, Debra was a former co-owner of the Minneapolis-based company Psychics in the Cities. She also founded The Practice Circle, a spiritual gathering located at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community in Minneapolis, which she led for over 12 years before stepping down in June 2018. It successfully continues to this day. Helping others has always been part of her life’s work as she also spent 25 years as a part-time professional nanny in Portland, Oregon and in Minneapolis, as well as 10 years as a part-time personal care attendant for children with Asperger's. Debra loves moon and star gazing and being out in nature. One of her greatest delights is creating and writing children's stories and listening to the magic of children's laughter and joy.

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.

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.