Mara Katz Colbert
I have studied and practiced yoga since 1998, and have made a life of teaching yoga for the past decade. My interest in the full and varied tradition of hatha yoga has always led me to pursue studies in many forms and lineages including ashtanga, vinyasa, Iyengar, Anusara, and Bikram. I am an internationally Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance at the 200-hour level (E-RYT) having received a certification with a concentration in ashtanga yoga at Yoga Yoga Teacher Training in Austin, Texas.
Aside from my teaching certification, I have attended teacher trainings with Shiva Rea and Baron Baptiste; and have had the good fortune of training under such master teachers as Rodney Yee, Ana Forrest, Seane Corn, John Friend, Desiree Rumbaugh, Christina Sell, John Shumacher, Aadil Palkivala, and Tias Little.
After teaching at several of the best-known yoga studios in Austin, I moved to my hometown of Kansas City in 2004 and opened a yoga studio called Inspire Yoga. Over the next few years Inspire Yoga became one of Kansas City’s most well-loved and respected yoga studios with some of the best instructors in town. In 2010 I merged Inspire Yoga with another great yoga studio, the Yoga Gallery, and am now happily teaching classes to an amazing group of dedicated students and teaching alongside the best teachers in the area, as well as pursuing a master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance at UMKC. My intention is to marry the tools and techniques of yoga practice and theory with more traditional psychotherapy in order to treat people holistically – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
