Gessell has studied dance, yoga and choreography at Missouri State University, Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts and with multiple teachers and mentors in Washington State, Missouri and across the country. She recently attended the Asian Yoga Conference in Hong Kong, where she was priviledged to study with international teachers such as Dharma Mittra, John Friend, Desiree Rhumbaugh, Ana Forrerst and more. She has danced with Inertia Dance Company in Springfield and with oaklanDrive Dance Company in Seattle, where she was co-founder of G2 Dance Collective. She has had choreographic work performed in concert at Velocity in Seattle, MSU and for Gala Presentation at the American College Dance Festival. Locally and regionally she has choreographed mainstage musicals for UMR and Ozark Actors Theatre and performed for UMR, OAT, Springfield Little Theatre, MSU, and Theatre4Few. She is a practicing Licensed Massage Therapist and strives to incorporate her understanding of the human body and structural anatomy into her passion for teaching with the goal of illicitating lasting change on a deep level.

Dancing in Montana                                  Yoga on the Coast

With Dharma Mittra in Hong Kong         Pravda Rehearsal, Seattle

Yoga in Hong Kong

Beau is a second degree black belt in Youn Wha Ryu Tae Kwon Do Martial Arts. He studied under Grand Master Hans, and has extensive teaching experience in both Youn Wha Ryu and Tai Chi, having taught classes, workshops and participated in tournaments across Missouri. He is the president and founder of the MS&T Youn Wha Ryu club. Beau is a compassionate and professional teacher, volunteering much time and effort to teaching and furthering martial arts across Missouri.  

Hilloah studied classical Bellydance with various mentors and teachers in St Louis, MO. She is an accomplished dancer and popular teacher, and frequently performs throughout the state. 

Paul Frisbee has been teaching ballroom, swing and latin dance in the Rolla area for several years, teaching both private and group lessons. He has studied with Twilight Dance Studio in Columbia and placed first in Swing, Cha-Cha and Rumba and third in Waltz and Foxtrot in his division at the St. Louis Star Ball Competition in Spring, 2008. He has extensive stage performance experience, having done work with and performed with both Ozark Actors Theatre, MS&T Theatre and more.Paul is a graduate of UMR in Mechanical and engineering, and a dedicated athlete and runner.
An energetic and passionate teacher, Paul consistently strives to further his own education and skills as both a dancer and a teacher.  

Alyson Garvey, Jananda Certified Yoga Instructor
Alyson has been studying yoga for 25 years in NYC, where she lived . Moving to the big city to study art, she first took a course at the School of Visual arts (BFA), then continued her studies with Hatha, Jiva Mukta, Iyengar, and  Ashtanga, with a little time with Anusara.

The lineage of Hatha yoga has many forms -
Jiva Mukta imparted a life long love of how amazing Yoga is, by energetically learning the various asanas.  Iyengar gave her the inside story of the asana positions finding the importance of form and alignment in the function and benefits of Yoga, by means of  varied props usage: bolsters, bands, and blocks, etc.. From Ashtanga practice she learned from doing the rigorous series of  asanas A & B, repeated with exactness each time you go to the mat.  personal question surfaced  - how am I today as I do the same practice? And the long answer was finding a center in the doing that goes along with any humanly possible emotion or physical sensation. And studying with Jana Titus, she learned a deeper sense of yoga studying the ancient teacher and author of the Yoga Sutras, Patanjalis. Most importantly, she became acquainted with the Mulabunda! The Mulabunda  is centered in the pelvis and is a full 360 degree engagement of those core muscles. Music and flowing movement are always forefront in her teaching.
(Sun Salutations/flowing movement/floor stretches & twisting. All levels welcome)

Alicia Smith began her love of dancing and the arts at two years old, at Cathy’s Creative Dance in Kansas City, Missouri. At the age of thirteen, she became the assistant dance teacher of the Stars of Tomorrow Dance Studio in Humansville Missouri, which she eventually co-owned. Soon after, she opened Alicia’s Dance Academy, specializing in many forms of ballet, tap, jazz, tumbling, and performing arts. While the owner of Alicia’s Dance Academy, Alicia introduced dance and performing arts to hundreds of people in the surrounding areas. Her dance studio performed several shows a year, including performances at the local nursing homes and schools. During this time, Alicia would find ways to let everyone dance regardless of their ability to pay. As Alicia’s Dance Academy grew, her dancers would perform at the Worlds of Fun Dance Festival and Competition in Kansas City and compete against hundreds of dancers from a crossed the country. In 2007, the dancers competed and won 1^st in solo ballet, and 2^nd in duet tap. In 2008 they took 2^nd in solo tap and scored the highest points possible in choreography and originality for their group dance and tap dance.  Alicia just recently moved to Rolla with her husband, Charlie, her daughter, Adriel, and son, Manoah.

Karen McIwain is a certified 200 hour Kripalu Yoga instructor who has been teaching Yoga for 15 years in the Rolla area.  In those 15 years she has gone back to Kripalu for deeper training numerous times, as well as attended many workshops from nationally acclaimed Yoga instructors, such as Rodney Yee, John Friend, Lilas Folan, Judith Lassiter, Erich Schiffman and more. She is also a certified Thai Massage Practioner as well as certified Easy Tai Chi for Busy People instructor.  Although instructed in “Kripalu Yoga”, she describes herself as being an eclectic teacher, picking the best from the different types of yoga that she has either studied under or from reading journals.  Her main hobby (passion) is gardening(flowers - no sun for veggies!) and creating an outdoor paradise with the help of her husband and 2 dogs(ha!), which she likes to show off..  She has constructed a 7 circuit labyrinth in her yard for meditative purposes.  She has also recently created her own Yoga studio in an unused space in their home, where she teaches semi-privately.

(Photo by Mary Ellen Rosa, age 4)

Emeri Rosa is a certified Zumba instructor and the proud mother of two. She has studied both ballet and jazz at Donna's Dance Studio and with broadway dancer Gary Cockrell at The Dance Centre. She is a professional bluegrass musician and has played regionally with Rosa's Stringworks, Beverly's Hillbillies, Jimmy Allison and more, and with nationally recognized musicians such as Rhonda Vincent. She is excited to be teaching at andFLEW!

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 Barbara Johnson has been living and crafting in the Missouri Ozarks since 1976. She made her first baskets in 1987, and since then has participated in various craft shows, workshops and demonstrations around the entire state. She is the director of the annual Shannondale Craft Camp, which takes place the last weekend in April (www.shannondalecraftcamp.com) where she also teaches basket making and various other craft classes. Parents of 4 adult children, and grandparents of 2, Barbara and her husband Tom live in a reconstructed log cabin in Dent County.

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