Our Teachers
Each Yoga Sol instructor brings her or his unique experience and perspective to class. We invite you to take a few classes and find the teachers that speak to you. We encourage students to explore our community and discover how yoga can provide different tools to help with life’s challenges. We’ve experienced yoga as a system that can support us in having a more balanced life and a more healthy body and mind. We are here to support you on your journey in health and happiness.
Liz Klug
Liz is thrilled to have become the owner and director of Yoga Sol in 2016. The practices of asana, meditation, mantra, and mudra have inspired her ability to hold space for the joys and sorrows of life. Liz welcomes and encourages beginning students through one one classes and public yin yoga. She inspires experienced students to explore the roots of Yoga and keep the practices alive through Yoga Teacher Training, continuing education workshops, mentorship, and intermediate public classes. Ultimately, Liz’s goal is to create space for people to realize their inherent worth and self healing capacity.
Rachel English
Rachel English is a Certified Rolfer® and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. She is the owner of Form with Flow, a Somatic Integration practice co-located at the Yoga Sol studios. Somatic Integration is an experiential approach to restoring wholeness that uses Somatic Experiencing® body-based trauma healing and Rolfing® hands-on bodywork and movement education to help you move out of pain, trauma, and old patterns and into better health and well-being. Want to learn more? Book a free consult? Check out the Form with Flow website.
Megan Hall
Megan has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years, introducing Columbia Missouri to the yin yoga practice in 2012. Megan’s approach to yoga is slow, gentle, and adaptable to any level of experience or ability. The intention of Megan’s yin classes is to help you cultivate a more mindful presence through the yin approach to asana practice. During a yin practice, Megan will guide you in slowing down and turning inward through a series of floor poses and periods of rebound.
Yin yoga can be a bridge to meditation, or it can be the meditation itself. Yin yoga allows you to practice meditation in bite sized pieces, using sensation and breath as your focal points. Bring your inner practices and meet yourSelf where you are. Yin yoga with Megan meets Mondays at 5:30pm. Private instruction also available.
Leslie Kersha
Leslie has been a yoga educator now for over 21 years and her passion for teaching this healing practice just continues to grow. When teaching, she strives to bridge the gap between the ancient practice of yoga and the realities of living in the modern day world. Leslie’s classes are a fusion of her passion for education, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and wellness. It is of utmost importance to her to create a safe and welcoming environment for ALL. Leslie’s intention is for participants to leave class feeling more spacious, present, embodied, connected, and with a deep understanding of the necessary tools to access peace at any time.
Pam Spencer
Pam is a dedicated practitioner and teacher with years of experience. She is Iyengar Certified (Level 1-2) and studies regularly with senior teachers. Her classes are alignment focused and for the mature students or those healing from injuries. Her studio classes are also zoomed and she is available for individual instruction. Pam’s presence is felt through her individualized attention and care, providing the space for students to access their personal peace and health.
Sady Strand
Sady has taught yoga since 2014 and has long been an admirer of nature, philosophy, world literature/poetry, and social justice. Her yoga classes often reflect this passion as well as her aspiration to build inclusive classes that honor yoga’s heritage and welcome practitioners to explore a mindfulness practice.
Her gentle yoga classes typically begin with a centering practice and breathwork. From there, classes ease into gentle poses with options for modifications, and as her classes wind down, students often have the opportunity to explore restorative poses before a restful savasana.
When she is not in the studio, folks will find her directing the Margaret Campbell Student Success Center at Stephens College, reading a vast array of literature, and writing creatively as well as exploring the world beyond her fence and attempting to capture that world with a camera lens. Sady aspires to a life built on humor, curiosity, and a whole lotta kindness.
Lynn Rossy
Lynn has been teaching yoga and mindfulness for close to 25 years. Her teaching combines the heart-centered aspects of Kripalu Yoga and the wisdom and clarity of mindfulness. More than teaching poses on a mat, Lynn guides students into a deeper experience and understanding of the eight-limbed path of yoga. Her emphasis is on how to turn this physical practice into a spiritual transformation that overflows from the yoga mat into daily life. She is a trained Kripalu Yoga Teacher working on her 500-hour certification and an Advanced Energy Medicine Yoga® (EMYoga) Teacher.
Lynn is particularly adept at teaching yoga and meditation to all levels of students. Her favorite mottos are: “If you can breathe, you can do yoga” and “Yoga should feel delicious.” Her classes are filled with both laughter and deep introspection.
Karen Hodges
Linda Lutz
I began yoga in graduate school when I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. I was told to reduce stress, change my diet, & exercise. Yoga became an important part of my life; that was in 1982. I began teaching in 1983. I have been teaching ever since.
I started studying the art & science of Iyengar yoga in 1986. I have been dedicated to the tradition since that time. I am able to adapt poses for a variety of physical & emotional situations. One of my gifts is the ability to “see” and adjust imbalances on multiple levels. One of my focal points in teaching with props is the prop is a teacher, not a crutch. The props help teach the final pose which affects all levels of our being. I am blessed to be a teacher at Yoga Sol.
Rose Neal
Rose fell in love with acroyoga in 2016, she then started teaching in April of 2021 while enrolled in AcroLove teacher training. Rose is intrigued by the human body, by our infinite potential for movement and expression. She enjoys the soft skills that are necessary for a healthy acroyoga practice like communication, consent, and self-assessment. Individual yoga, strength training, and dance support her acroyoga proficiency. Rose encourages everyone to find a movement practice that brings them joy.