INSTRUCTORS

Alicia Oskay
A former runner and aerobics instructor, Alicia Oskay found yoga in 2001. Feeling a natural draw to yoga, she stepped into a vinyasa yoga class from the recommendation of a friend. She quickly became serious about studying yoga and immersed herself to aid in healing over the sudden loss of her mother.

In spring of 2003, Alicia graduated from the 200-hour All People Yoga Teacher Training Program. During her teacher training, she stumbled upon the work of BKS Iyengar. Through Iyengar’s teachings, Alicia began to find increased awareness and spirituality in her yoga practice. She has studied Iyengar’s work under certified Iyengar Yoga instructors Jyoti Hansa, Judi Rice, Patricia Walden and John Schumacher. She currently studies yoga at the B.K.S. Iyengar Institute of Champaign-Urbana under the direction of senior teacher Lois Steinberg, Ph.D.

Alicia is also a registered dietitian. She graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1996. She presently works with DePauw University and helps students with menu planning, eating disorders, weight management and sports nutrition. Her previous nutrition experience includes work in food service management, outpatient, acute, extended and home care settings. Alicia believes strongly in the healing powers of natural foods, from preparation to consumption and to their ability to unite us to self and others.

Alicia has found her intended path is to help others to come in touch with their physical body and spiritual self. She studied massage and recently graduated from the 500-hour IUPUI Therapeutic Massage Program in 2005. She also received her Reiki Level I & II in 2005.

Unable to choose just one path, Alicia has integrated all that she knows in her business practice. She opened Up Dog Yoga and Wellness in 2005. In this space, Alicia shares her compassion and spiritual energy through yoga, massage and wellness.

Carrie Viehe
Carrie completed the Yoga Alliance Teacher Training course from All People Yoga Center in March 2003. She was certified to teach Prenatal Yoga in Fall 2002 through the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Carrie currently works as a Doula and a massage therapist in addition to teaching our Pregnancy Yoga, Itsy Bitsy Yoga and Yoga Flow classes. Carrie is certified in Kripalu Bodywork, and is certified in “Bodywork for The Childbearing Years” through the Chicago School of Massage

Carrie brings sensitivity and a natural aptitude for working with women experiencing the beautiful evolution of pregnancy. She believes that Pregnancy and Childbirth change a woman’s life and it is important to make these events empowering. She also believes that the family structure needs to be nourished and developed. She recently received certification in Itsy Bitsy Yoga, a class dedicated to parents and babies, to help connect families deeply with the wonderful teachings of yoga.