Instructors

4437 Old US 23, Brighton, MI 48114 (p) 248.495.7961 (e)amandasavagewellness@gmail.com

**AMANDA SAVAGE**
In 2007 Amanda took her first class yoga class (right here, at YCHL). In search of a new fitness challenge, she found Ashtanga and her love of yoga began. Today, Amanda enjoys the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual balance achieved by weaving various styles of yoga and meditation into her practice. Her appreciation of the science engrained in the eight-limbed path of yoga continues to deepen, along with her love for her fellow yogis.
Amanda’s mission is to leave our Earth healthier, happier, more loving & compassionate than she found it. She believes we can achieve this together with a focus on healing ourselves and supporting/serving one another. In her classes she intends to bring balance to the practitioner while encouraging creativity, intuitive movement, authenticity and curiosity along the way.
I couldn't be more excited and honored to share my passion for yoga and hope to spread love & light to all I cross paths with. See you on your mat! Namaste, Amanda

MARK TREVETHAN
Many have associated Mark with the peaceful Buddha himself. Those who know Mark know him as a truly humble, grounded individual with the biggest heart. He puts that heart, soul and over 30 years experience into every single one of his lesson plans. Mark has a love for all living things (as you can see from his beautiful plants in our studio) and is always eager to help wherever he can. Mark is the go-to guy for students recovering from injuries/surgeries or curious about weight-loss.

Mark completed his RYT200 in the 90s and taught in Detroit. As many of us experience, he allowed his ego and self-doubt to take over his heart and lost touch with himself. In 2016, he found himself in search of a yoga studio to help him get his body/mind back to his mat, after a series of tragedies. He has been happily reconnecting with himself and his daily practice, earned another RYT200 with YCHL in 2020 and has since amazed his medical team with his seemingly miraculous recovery from a full knee replacement. Mark’s purpose is simple - to help others improve their lives, via yoga.

DIANE STEEH
Diane is one of those people who can make a positive impression in a short time. She is always coming up with creative ways to challenge her students. Her light-heartedness and quick tendency toward laughter will melt your worries away before she ever starts teaching. It’s not ALL fun and games - when Diane shows up she SHOWS UP. She knows her yoga and delivers every time she steps in front of her class. Diane loves her students and it shows - she packs the house with loyal yogis who’s lives she’s touched along the way.

In 2003, Diane was encouraged by a friend to attend her first yoga class. Thinking she was incapable of mastering many of the asanas, she loved the physical effects of the body and mind and the peaceful feeling upon the completion of the class. Her mantra now is to encourage students, family, and friends to find a form of movement you love and consistently move the body several times a week. Diane feels strongly that all sports and other physical activities can be balanced and enhanced through a consistent yoga practice. She completed her RYT 200 at the Yoga Center in 2007.

JOY ECHLIN

Joy is a mother, an artist, a lover of music, books, plants and being outside. Movement is her medicine and sharing it is her passion.

Yoga became Joy’s “me time” after having 3 kids in 4 years. It evolved into her therapy, her church, her dance club and her favorite place to meet people. She is forever the student thriving on taking trainings and classes from many different teachers. Joy’s style of teaching shines through her love creating flows, making playlists and coming up with ways to be playful and find fluidity in our practice. She strives to be grateful always. If you attend her classes, you will quickly learn that her favorite mantra to share is “thank you body, I love you body.”

**DEBBIE LEJEWSKI**
Being into health and fitness her entire life, Deb was asked to attend a yoga class many years ago with a friend to help with flexibility, and it happen to be at Yoga Center for Healthy Living!
Fast forward a few years and the calling to yoga rang again, through her daughter and to this day, she thanks God she took that opportunity! That was in 2017 and Deb has been practicing ever since.
Deb earned her 200 hour certification in 2017 when she began teaching at a health center and started a “karma” yoga class for her fellow nurses on their lunch breaks! As a lifelong, learner she went on to pursue her 300 hour teacher training in 2019.
Deb is eager to share the gift of healing through yoga with you and says “as a mother of 3 and grandmother of 3 more (who are my world!), yoga has been instrumental in my mind, body and spiritual growth through these last few years and I am excited to share my knowledge with others through asana practice.”

SHAWN ARCHER (she/her)

Shawn Archer (she/her) spent 20 years of her career as a counselor. In search of a missing link from the cognitive work to the effects and treatment of trauma held in the body, Shawn took a the opportunity to dive deeper into the science of yoga. She came out the other side with a holistic solution for clients and a strong belief that her offerings could support a community of helping professionals.

Since her first yoga class over 30 years ago, Shawn has returned to yoga when drawn to find balance and calm throughout her life as therapist and as a mom of four boys. The added stress of the pandemic and shutdowns required a stronger practice. This journey led her to completing her RYT-500 Yoga Teacher Training and the Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TC-TSY) Facilitator training.

Shawn’s passion for trauma-sensitive yoga is based on helping individuals explore the healing aspects of yoga while incorporating mindfulness, body connection, and breath awareness into each class.

SAMANTHA FINNEY

Samantha is enjoying being able to share her love and passion of yoga with everyone! And she means EVERYONE! It’s evident in Samantha’s simple and accessible, yet challenging instruction that she not only believes that yoga is for everyBODY, she is determined to deliver her practice in a way to reach yoga’s vast benefits to the collective.

Samantha is a wife and mother of two beautiful, fun girls. She was a stay at home mom for 8 years when she decided it was time to do something for her! With over 10 years of practicing yoga she wanted to go a step further and received her Yoga Alliance 200 hr Teaching Certificate in November ‘22.

SEE YOU ON THE MAT!