Teachers

Laura has been studying, performing and teaching various dance forms in Lawrence for over 40 years. She is a certified teacher of 5Rhythms® Waves level since 2001 and Heartbeat level since 2010 trained by Gabrielle Roth and a member of the 5Rhythms Teacher Association (5RTA). She has taught locally as well as at classes and events such as Nebraska HIV/AIDS conference, Kansas University, Leiden, Holland and served as Core Faculty at the Omega Institute in New York for several years. She is also an ayurvedic Practitioner (A.P.) and is a Registered Ayurvedic Practitioner with AAPNA and NAMA. Laura is the founder of Be Moved Studio and Moon Jewel Ayurveda Center. She has recently received her 200 Hour Yoga and Shamanism Teacher Training after practicing Yoga for 45 years!

laura@bemovedstudio.com | moonjewelayurveda.com

Mariel (she/ella) is a queer Xicana of color who specializes in truama informed body work, practicing Curandera, TRE provider, anti-racist centered approaches, with a foundation in abolitionist theory. Mariel is a certified Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor through Sundara Yoga Academy and body worker with over 200 hours in other yoga specific trauma informed study. She is also a certified provider for Trauma and Tension Release Exercise, a practiced designed by Dr. David Berceli (https://traumaprevention.com/). Mariel is inspired by her ancestors, specifically her great grandmother who was her village healer and Black Feminist theory. She is a community organizer focused on collective liberation with specific training in facilitation and transformative justice models. Mariel is focused on honoring all aspects of yoga and the collective movement to decolonize this practice. She also integrates functional movement and mindful movement into her practices in order to be accessible to all bodies and identities. Mariel’s work is founded on the ideology and writing of Octavia Butler, Gloria Anzaldua, Toni Cade Bambara, adrienne maree brown and many others. Mariel firmly believes we can make the future, our collective liberated revolution irresistible. 

Zorrae first discovered yoga as part of an extra credit assignment for a Physiological Psychology course during her time at Washburn University. The integration of her passion for psychology with the transformative power of embodied practice brought her back to the mat time and again.

In 2014, she began dreaming of traveling to Bali to pursue her yoga teacher certification. That dream became reality in 2022. After she earned her Master’s in Organization Development from the University of San Francisco, she went on to complete a 200-hour yoga teacher training.

Zorrae’s journey has included many challenges with mental and physical health—experiences that have deepened her compassion and commitment to guiding and supporting others on their paths of healing. She believes wholeheartedly in each person’s resiliency and innate capacity to heal themselves and feels honored to walk alongside others as they cultivate self-acceptance and well-being.

A lifelong learner and deep thinker, Zorrae draws from a wide array of studies including depth psychology, mindfulness, Taoism, Buddhism, shadow work, light work, energy healing, astrology, nutrition, and Vedic literature. These diverse influences infuse her teachings with wisdom, humility, spirituality, and a sense of magic.

In Zorrae’s classes, she allows for the cultivation and co-creation of an encouraging, playful, and supportive atmosphere rooted in kindness and curiosity.

zorrae.bowie@gmail.com

Emily has always loved Lawrence and yoga. She started her journey into yoga in 2009. She graduated from KU with a BA in Spanish and business in 2014 then went to culinary school at Gato Dumas in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since then she’s been cooking in kitchens and practicing yoga all around KC, Northern California, Oregon and most recently her position has brought her back to family near Lawrence. Her love of yoga led her to get her YTT 200 hour teaching certificate in Pahōa, Hawai’i in 2023 which has only deepened her love of yoga and learning everything about its vast history and culture. She brings her curiosity, knowledge and the peace she gains from her practice into all aspects of life and looks forward to sharing that with everyone!!

jltegt333@aol.com

Cassie Jones LCPC, ACHT is a Clinical Somatic Psychotherapist who has spent the last two decades bridging the science of two master’s degrees with the magic of mystical studies in holistic mind/body/energy therapies such as Toltec Shamanism, Yoga Nidra, and Vibrational Healing. Her biggest teaching on this journey is that we learn through experience, not theory.

In this sacred space at Be Moved, she leads the practice of Breathwork which she has been a student and facilitator for the last 7 years. Breathwork is the purposeful application of conscious, connected breathing in a group setting, guided by Cassie and the Spirit of Breath, and held within a sacred container of a therapeutic intention, relationship, and community. For thousands of years, humans have found by changing the rate, ratio, volume, and flow of the respiratory cycle, there can be experiential and perceptual shifts in consciousness, spiritual awareness, cognition, and self-identity.  More recently, when applied therapeutically, the shifts experienced in conscious, connected breathing seem to be linked to a deeper sense of inner connection, somatic groundedness, emotional empowerment, and psycho-spiritual integration.

Outside of this space, Cassie specializes in inner child trauma recovery supporting Sensitive Souls in awakening compassion and curiosity, and coins herself as a Soul Midwife as she loves guiding you to remember who you are before the world told you who you should be. She also offers therapeutic groups online and leads Psychodrama groups here in LFK.

What makes her feel most alive is roller skating, dancing, going on adventures, having deep conversations, all things wonderfully weird, and co-creating healing experiences that support us to remember what a loving community connection feels like in our bodies.

www.cassieljones.com

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