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Email info@mintyogastudio.com
859-442-2600
18 North Fort Thomas Ave, Suite 301
Fort Thomas, KY 41075
Nikki Owens
Nikki Owens, Ph.D., E-RYT 500, NLP, YACEP, is the owner of Mint Yoga Studio, a lululemon Ambassador, and a leading instructor in the Mint Yoga Studio Yoga Teacher Training Program. Nikki began her foundational yoga practice through the lens of Anusara yoga. Under the guidance of Lilias Folan and Katie Knowles, she later completed a 200-hour Hatha Yoga-Vinyasa teacher training certification, rooted in the lineage and traditions of Yogarupa Rod Stryker’s Parayoga. She later explored Ashtanga yoga through the It’s Yoga system created by Larry Schultz, which eventually led her to both practice and teach traditional Ashtanga yoga and Ashtanga-influenced vinyasa yoga classes. In addition to her 300-hr advanced yoga teaching certification in yoga philosophy, anatomy, and embodied-somatic yoga, Nikki holds a 500-hour advanced teacher training certification in Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, and Ashtanga Yoga, which she completed with master teacher Indubala Bhardwaj.
Nikki teaches a variety of classes including gentle yoga, ashtanga, restorative yoga, yin yoga, and power yoga classes. Nikki’s eclectic, innovative, inspirational, and intuitive teaching style reflects her diverse training. She is a practicing Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, a certification she received through the Himalayan Institute. Additionally, Nikki is a Movement Intelligence/Bones for Life© educator, as well as a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming© (NLP) practitioner, and a Level III student of Healing Touch©.
At the core of Nikki’s yoga teaching philosophy is the intention to cultivate a sense of self-care, compassion, grace, love, peace, and joy in the hearts of her students!
See you on the mat! ! Namaste. ॐ
Nikki Owens
Mike Burgasser
M. Ed, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Mike has been practicing and teaching yoga since the 1990s. Mike began his Thai Yoga Therapy training in 2001 and completed his instructor training in 2004. While he has been practicing qigong since the 1990s, he didn’t find his teacher until 2013. He completed his Medical Qigong certification in 2017 and continues to study with his teachers Master Michael Leone and Master Jason Campbell of Zen Wellness. In addition to teaching yoga, Mike has worked for a number of years as a personal fitness trainer, a corporate fitness program manager and a cardiac rehabilitation program exercise physiologist. He earned a BA in Psychology in 1978, and M.Ed. in Health Education in 1988. Mike co-founded It’s Yoga-Cincinnati in 2000. He retired from yoga studio ownership in 2017.
Mike Burgasser
Lexi Sheets
Lexi was introduced to yoga in the late 1990’s. After experiencing the healing benefits of yoga, she deepened her practice by completing a 200 level yoga certification through Cincinnati Yoga School. Shortly after, Lexi began sharing the practice of yoga with others so that they too could experience its calming, centering and relaxing benefits. Lexi earned her Childlight Yoga certification in 2014. In 2017, she completed her advanced yoga training through World Peace Yoga. Her experience is that yoga helps us gain a deeper understanding of ourselves which in turn helps us to be more compassionate, loving and understanding of others.
Lexi Sheets
Matt Ionna
Matt began his adventures into yoga by speaking up one evening at a 12-step recovery meeting, sharing about his physical trauma and seemingly relentless chronic pain, his now good friend and teacher invited him to try something different, something that might help him accept and heal the pain, Reiki and Yoga. Moving forward with nearly a decade in 12-step recovery, Matt is an E-RYT® 500 teacher, YACEP®, completing his 200-RYS yoga training at True Freedom Recovery Yoga School, 200 hour EMBODIYOGA with teacher Becky Morrissey, a 300 RYS hour Hatha Yoga training with Becky Morrissey at Sangha Yoga-Red Lotus Aspara in Loveland Ohio, Shinpiden Level III Reiki, Y12SR (Yoga of 12 Step Recovery) and 16 hours of Thai Yoga Body Work training. He regularly attends and guides workshops, especially concerning trauma, guides donation Recovery yoga, is a member of a local recovery board of directors, and maintains a daily practice. He brings his heart opening, side-body expanding, and restorative yoga practice to studios around Cincinnati and Northern KY.
Matt Ionna
Paige Knollman
Paige Knollman is a Certified Yoga Teacher with over 500 hours of training in various yogic studies. Her training began in 2017 completing It’s Yoga Cincinnati’s 200hr teacher training program with a focus in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Hatha Yoga. In 2018, she completed 100 hours of Ayurvedic training, earning an Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist certification through The Himalayan Institute. In 2019, she continued her yogic studies with The Trauma Institute at JRI and earned a Trauma Sensitive Yoga certification. In 2020, she returned to her home studio, It’s Yoga Cincinnati, to complete her 500hr teacher training. Paige is a well-rounded teacher with experience teaching a variety of disciplines from Power Yoga to Chair Yoga. Paige has spent over 50 hours working mobility and balance with Division 1 athletes in the tri-state area. In 2020, Paige was voted Northern Kentucky’s Best Fitness Instructor by Cincinnati Magazine. Additionally, Paige has a special interest in helping clients begin a yoga practice after the age of 60, as many of her personal clients are retirees. Paige’s intention behind every class is to guide her students through a journey of self-discovery both mentally and physically.
Paige Knollman
Marta Vennemann
Marta started practicing yoga in 2011, hearing of the physical benefits yoga has on the body. Little did she know at the time what a profound effect yoga would have on her emotional and spiritual well-being. Diagnosed with breast cancer two years prior at the age of 41, she didn’t realize how much unresolved fear and anxiety she had been holding onto. Through yoga, she gained the knowledge that, not only was she still holding onto these emotions, but with time and practice, she had everything she needed within herself to resolve them. After many years of wanting to learn more, she finally took the plunge and enrolled in Mint Yoga Studio’s first teacher training program. She earned her 200hr CYT in January, 2022. Marta considers herself still very much a student of yoga, but she truly enjoys sharing the experience with all those who attend her classes.
Marta Vennemann
Bonnie Farr
Bonnie Farr
Bobby Harmon
Bobby was introduced to yoga in college as a way to heal from running injuries. He was immediately hooked on the mental/physical connection and completed his teacher training through Shine Yoga in Cincinnati in 2016. If he’s not in the studio, you’ll find him snuggling with his two black cats or road-tripping around the country.
