Gretchen Weber

Gretchen K. Weber, co-founder of Crossroads Yoga, has been instructing Yoga students in the Iyengar tradition for 12 years. From July 2002 to May 2006 she was one of the primary Yoga instructors at the Dallas Yoga Center where she had the privilege to work with Dean Learner, Felicity Green, Kofia Busia. A 200-hour certified Yoga instructor through the Austin Yoga School, Gretchen has helped organize and assist with many Yoga workshops for well-known Yoga instructors such as Peggy Kelley, Bekir Algan, and Judith Hanson Lasater. Gretchen’s personal Yoga quest started in 1996 while studying massage therapy at the Austin School of Massage. Her love for Yoga quickly grew as she sought out instruction from Peggy Kelley, Bekir Algan, Ph.D., Ramanand Patel, and John Friend. During a visit to Mount Madonna Center in California she studied Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy®. Her other interests include the study of Ayurveda and a love for raw food preparation.

Paula Spradlin

Paula, co- founder of Crossroads Yoga has been a yoga practitioner since 1999 and an instructor since 2004. Her yoga practice is influenced mostly by the Iyengar tradition. She has studied with Ganga White and Tracy Rich, founders of The White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara California, where she completed her 200 hour teacher’s certification. She received her “Advanced” Relax and Renew® trainer certification from Judith Hanson Lasater and teacher’s training certification with local yoga instructor Camille Thomasson. It has been an honor for her to have studied with renowned instructors, Judith Hanson Lasater, Peggy Kelley, Bekir Algan, Camille Thomasson, Erich Schiffman, Donna Farhi and many others. Since becoming a certified teacher she has been introducing different styles of yoga to Corpus Christi yogis by organizing workshops and hosting the guest instructor. Paula believes yoga is a continuous learning process. By practicing yoga she has been able to balance her life in good and tough times. She combines her love of travel and yoga by attending workshops and teacher trainings around the country. Paula is always eager to expand her horizons in this wonderful world of yoga.

Mary Carpenter

Mary Carpenter is a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) in the style of Svaroopa® Yoga. She has been practicing yoga for over 12 years, ever since health problems sent her searching for help. Yoga helps her to maintain a pain-free active life style despite having a degenerative disc in her lower back. Svaroopa® Yoga helps her to connect to that still point of strength that resides within and from which a full life is realized. A teacher by heart, Mary delights in seeing the positive changes that yoga brings to her students. “The good news is that if you can get up and down off the floor by yourself, you can do yoga. You don’t have to be a human pretzel.”

Elizabeth Hofmann

Liz has been practicing yoga since 2001. She came to yoga while pregnant with her first child seeking relief from troubling sciatic pain. Yoga was her inspiration throughout both of her pregnancies and then even more so after having children. She has been teaching since 2004. She completed her Multi-style 200 RYT in 2007 through Chesapeake Hot Yoga in Virginia and has been strongly influenced by the healing, health, and wellness that hot yoga brings to one’s body. Always the perpetual student, she continues to seek out new and innovative techniques to help reach others in their yoga search. Eager to share her love and passion of yoga with all, she is overjoyed at the opportunity to teach at Crossroads Yoga.

Jan Freeman

Jan has been practicing Yoga off and on since the 1970’s. Her love of Yoga grew from traveling across the country attending different classes and learning form a wide variety of teachers.  Her desire for teaching came after moving to Johnson City, TN in 2002, where she started practicing regularly and attended her first Intensive Teacher Training with Todd Norian at the Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, NC.  In 2005, after moving to Roanoke, VA, Jan became certified and started teaching Body Flow, a Vinyasa Yoga, Pilates, and Tai Chi combination class. She also received her YogaFit certification and FitTour Certification in Pilates.  Since moving to Corpus, Jan has received her AFFA Group Exercise Instructor Certification and she is currently enrolled in the Anusara 200 hour RYT training with Christina Sells.  With a musical background, Jan enjoys finding just the right variety of music, from jazz to Hip Hop, to the healing sounds of Tibetan singing bowls, for each of her classes.

Helen Warren

Helen became interested in yoga during the seventies, even before she became an aerobic instructor. Yoga influenced her own unique style of aerobic exercise, which she named Aeroga. She started teaching yoga in 1982, and then in 1997 decided to teach yoga only. She has studied with many Iyengar teachers, including Peggy Kelley, Bekir Algan, Ruth Lain, George Purvis, Manuso Manos, Robert Bustiany, Patricia Walden and Judith Lasater.  Many of Helen’s students have gone on to become some of Corpus Christi’s finest teachers.  Her first official Iyengar class was the “forever” hook. She loves the precision and physicality of the style, as well as the meditation in motion aspect. She brings to the yoga mat, a “strange” sense of humor, and her classes are very interactive.  Her favorite yoga motto is: Yoga is much to important to be taken seriously!