Meet Our Instructors
YOGA THERAPIST • InstructoR • STUDIO OWNER
Beth Major
Beth is a lover of all that yoga has to offer and has been practicing since 1986 when she first stepped on the mat as a vehicle for stress relief during law school. After a legal career in Chicago, a few international moves with her family, Beth moved to Wisconsin and became a certified yoga teacher over 10 years ago. She is fascinated by the connection of the body, mind, heart and spirit and meeting all through the healing modalities of yoga and meditation. Beth is a certified E-RYT 500 teacher with Yoga Alliance. She is certified instructor for Yoga for Scoliosis and SATYA (Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement). She most recently completed certification as a Yoga Therapist through Inner Peace Yoga Therapy and is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. In August of 2023, Beth became the new owner of Yoga 4 All.
We all have an innate healing potential and when practicing with Beth, either in a group class, a private yoga session or as a yoga therapist, she will help you foster that potential through movement, breath, mudra and meditation. Yoga is for everyone – all body shapes, all abilities! In Beth’s classes you will move through postures, tease out any tightness in your body, strengthen, breath and quiet the busyness of your mind – with the intention of leaving class a bit more at peace and ease. She looks forward to welcoming you to Yoga 4 All!
YOGA INSTRUCTOR
Marie Coakley
Marie has taught several classes at Yoga 4 All Studio for many years. Her therapeutic background in the field of medical Speech-Language Pathology informs her ability to teach students of all abilities and different learning styles. She has been a registered yoga instructor since 2009 earning the ERYT (Expert Yoga Instructor) designation from Yoga Alliance. She enjoys working with private clients helping them to meet their personal health and fitness goals and also provides sports specific training to small groups for cross training, injury prevention, and recovery to help athletes meet their fullest potential.
Marie currently teaches Yoga for Health and Fitness, Gentle Yoga for Beginners, & Therapeutic Restorative Yoga classes at Yoga 4 All studio. Her area of special interest is in helping students to feel their best as they deal with the challenges of everyday life. She offers a multi-level class that encourages students to listen to their bodies and find the right balance between exertion and relaxation using yoga props to facilitate this process. Instruction in relaxation techniques including pranayama (breathing techniques), mindfulness and guided progressive relaxation are incorporated into each class.
YOGA Instructor
Sara O’Reily
Sara is a medical technologist and has worked in various medical research fields over the past 20 years. Sara believes yoga is a path to improve physical strength, flexibility, body awareness, and presence of mind. She concentrates on alignment and helping students find a greater sense of ease and happiness in their bodies by teaching Alignment Yoga, a style of yoga created by Scott Anderson. Sara strives to create a class experience that is both accessible and uplifting. Sara is passionate about maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle and helping others bring balance to their health and wellbeing. Sara’s other interests include teaching Tae Kwon Do (a form of martial arts), outdoors activities including paddle boarding, skiing, swimming and spending time with her family.
Sara completed her RYT-200 certification in 2015 with Alignment Yoga out of Madison, WI. She completed a 20 hour training in Trauma Center – Trauma Sensitive Yoga with Keri Sawyer at Yoga 4 All in June, 2019.
YOGA & TAI CHI InstructoR
Jon Odishoo
Jon has a friendly, encouraging style, preferring to meet his students where they are and listening intently to their needs, whether they are new to the practice or a veteran yogi. He makes sure that students are rooted in proper posture and movement before deepening into healthy challenges to build their strength and flexibility while avoiding injury. Verbal posture cues are used, with no hands-on adjustments.
His classes are typically an energetic vinyasa style (one movement, one breath), however he includes beneficial balance and breathing exercises from tai chi and qigong in his practice. He also teaches other styles including yin yoga (much longer holds for joint health and flexibility) as well as tai chi, qigong, and meditation.
He studied Pai Yang style tai chi at Rising Dragon Martial Arts in Milwaukee, attaining instructor status in 2015 after over 200 hours of teaching, and his second instructor level in 2018 after over 500 hours of teaching. He earned his yoga instructor RYT-200 certification from YogaFit in January 2021, and continues to add specializations such as yin yoga and meditation
PILATES Instructor
Peggy Hans
Peggy began teaching Pilates in 2001 following careers as a Social Worker and Attorney. Peggy really enjoyed the Pilates format and found it to be a wonderful compliment to her many years of Ballet training. In 2006, her desire to help students stay fit as they age led her to teaching her very popular Senior Strength classes. Peggy is both Pilates and AFAA certified with an emphasis in Senior Health. She has taught in many venues including health clubs, dance studios, YMCA’s and was even paid in chocolate chip cookies at Midwest Express Airlines. Peggy strives to create an atmosphere where people can enjoy their work-out, as well as, develop a fun social relationship with class participants and leave the class smiling.
YOGA Instructor
Karmen Lehman
Karmen first set foot on a yoga mat in 2001 and instantly knew that there was no greater place on earth. After 10 years of devoted practice, she decided that SHE MUST share this wonderful gift of balance and inner peace with the rest of the world! As a result, she completed a 200hr Teacher Training Program and became a Certified Instructor. Karmen offers group classes, specialty workshops and private instruction.
Her yoga classes are a Hatha style, which is a gentle, yet challenging practice to develop strong muscles and bones. They include a strong meditation component to assist with releasing tension from the mind and body and promote balance and inner peace. The focus is to clear the mind, open the heart and strengthen the body. Karmen holds a Bachelors of Science in Social Work and a Bachelors of Science in Natural Health. She is devoted to assisting clients in achieving optimal health and a natural, balanced life. She looks forward to assisting you on life’s wonderful journey, on and off the mat.
YOGA Instructor
Judi Partlo
Judi has been teaching yoga and group fitness for over 25 years. She grew up in Michigan but lived in Wisconsin, the DC area, Las Cruces, NM and moved back to Wisconsin in 2021 to be closer to family. She loves being outdoors and enjoys running, walking, biking, kayaking, strength training and more recently, gardening.
She has Fitness Specialist and Strength Training certifications through the YMCA, ACE group fitness and Personal Trainer certifications, TRX, Schwinn Group Cycle and is a registered 500+ hour yoga teacher through Yogafit. She has taught everything from hot yoga to kids’ yoga and currently teaches Energy Flow yoga on Wednesday mornings here at Yoga 4 All.
She has completed additional training which provided the opportunity to teach therapeutic yoga to Wounded Warriors, people with PTSD or TBI and others with emotional or physical trauma. Teaching at a psychiatric hospital along with military bases has been a special privilege.
Her goal is to encourage wellness and movement for everyone in the ways that are best for them and to provide a welcome and positive experience that is accessible. It gives her great joy to see someone walk out of class feeling better than when they entered!
YOGA Instructor
Vanessa Hood
Vanessa was born and raised in Oconomowoc, WI. After moving away for college and spending 6 years living outside of St. Louis, MO she knew she wanted to settle back into Lake Country and now calls Pewaukee home.
She loves spending time with her family and friends, especially her husband Scott and their fur babies. Her favorite hobbies outside of yoga are spending time outside in the healing space of nature hiking, camping, biking, swimming, kayaking, suping, snow shoeing, cross country skiing, volleyball, and golf. She is also a ceramic and metalsmith artist and has a small studio at her home.
Vanessa has been practicing yoga since 2011 and was drawn to hot yoga as a way to actively recover when she was an avid half marathon runner and needed more built in sweaty recovery time. Back then it was all about her body and releasing the stress of pounding pavement. She started to realize the connection between the mind and body and all the positive after effects. The following year, she was diagnosed with an acute form of leukemia and received a bone marrow transplant as part of my treatment. Hatha yoga became very important as she tried to build back strength and trust her body again. Her practice ebbed and flowed as she figured out her new normal post cancer and transplant. In 2018, she found True North Treks, a national cancer non-profit who empowers young adults and their caregivers to find direction through connection. Part of their programming consists of meditation and yoga in beautiful backcountry wilderness destinations. This was really the first time she practiced meditation consistently for a week and was hooked.
Over the years, she wanted more for herself and to be able to give back to others so she took an 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course, became a Wilderness First Responder and a RYT 200 hr. She made the transition from participant to guide in 2021 and loves facilitating mindful meditation and yoga out in nature while also being able to support others in backcountry settings.