Our People, Our Personality

Kim Scott, owner of The Yoga Place, has been teaching yoga for 7 years. She shares her passion for yoga and the inner strength it brings with all her students, whether teaching at her studio or at local high schools, colleges and universities. Kim believes that beyond all the benefits for the body, it is the centering of the mind that is most beneficial to students. She enjoys teaching energetic styles of yoga with a fun attitude.

Andrew Criswell has been teaching yoga in Midland for the last 9 years. He is a Certified Teacher of Hatha Yoga and a Registered Yoga Teacher. Andrew studied at the Temple of Kriya Yoga under Goswami Kriyananda. His teaching style is relaxed, with an emphasis on traditional yoga principles of focus, awareness and alignment.

Amy Kruske is a Registered Nurse and a Reiki Master trained by William Rand. Reiki is administered by the "laying on of hands", but more importantly by the joining of the minds in love and acceptance. Amy believes that through a process of mutual forgiveness, the past is released and the truth remembered of who we really are - perfect oneness with God. Amy feels Reiki can be best described simply as the sharing of Love which in truth is what we are.

Akiko Dykhuizen has been practicing yoga since 2003 and began teaching at The Yoga Place in 2009. Her own practice has focused on Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow, and her teaching style emphasizes alignment and a gentle approach for increasing body awareness. She enjoys teaching, learning and sharing, and has been enriched through working with people with limited mobility and her study of anatomy. She is certified in advanced training in Yoga through the National Exercise Trainer's Association.