Our Instructors
We are a yoga and wellness center that provides a place for physical and spiritual well-being, in a beautiful and warm setting. Each instructor works to empower your practice wherever you are in your journey. We encourage individuals of all fitness levels to learn, grow, and enjoy our elite and unique class opportunities. Join us at Wild Rose Yoga and begin your journey to a healthier, more balanced life.
AMY
Owner, Yin, Restorative & Vinyasa Flow
Amy Vetter is the owner of Wild Rose Yoga here in Cle Elum, WA. She resides in Cle Elum with her husband Mark, her son Alex, daughter Charlee, silver lab, Bubba Blue, and kitty, Yoda. She has a BA in Fine Arts from Seattle University. She loves family time, outdoor adventures with friends, traveling, reading, and of course, yoga!
Amy started practicing yoga in 2005 while in college. She was struggling with insomnia and looking for a way to calm her mind. She came across a flyer in her local Starbucks offering a free yoga class; she attended the yoga class and her life was forever changed. She practiced yoga with former Buddhist monk turned yoga teacher, Seong Yoon Lee. She learned to connect her body and mind through the use of breath and movement. She started practicing meditation and mindfulness. These tools have allowed her to become more resilient and live her life to the fullest!
Amy got her 200 HR YTT certification from Cascade School of Yoga in July 2020. In January of 2022 she got her 100 HR YTT in Restorative Yoga and Meditation at the community of PachaMama in Costa Rica. She is a registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance. Amy never planned on teaching yoga as it was such a personal practice for her. Now she is confident it is her dharma to share the gifts that she's received from her yoga practice over the years with all of her community!
“Our goal in life is not to become perfect; our goal is to become whole.”
JENN
Sunrise Sangha, Yoga Nidra
After years as an educator and owning/running a CrossFit gym, Jenn was looking for healthy ways to balance and restore her body. She made a bold and life-changing decision to travel to Thailand for a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Certification in 2018. Jenn incorporates the stiller forms of yoga; Restorative, Yin and Yoga Nidra into her practice and teaching. She is passionate about making meditation accessible to all and focuses on purpose-driven reflection in her classes. She founded Live Inspired Wellness in 2020 and offers life coaching and mentoring for both adults and teens.
Jenn is an avid traveler and sunrise chaser. She has the goal of seeing a sunrise (or sunset) in every National Park in the United States. She loves exploring the outdoors and enjoys hiking, snowshoeing and mountain biking with her husband, Chris. She loves playing the role of “Moto Mama” for son Cole, who can’t get enough of anything with two wheels. Jenn’s daughter Maya shares her love of dance, music, and movement. They can often be found discussing yoga philosophy and sharing classes together at Wild Rose Yoga. Jenn could not be more grateful for the Wild Rose tribe and this amazing community!
“Focus on the powerful, euphoric, magical, synchronistic, beautiful parts of life and the universe will start giving them to you.”
ALI
Breath Vitality
Ali McWeeny is a courageous, compassionate, curious and creative breathwork practitioner from the Pacific Northwest. Living with limbloss as an amputee, Ali has set 32 powerlifting records and exceeds societal limitations. Ali has triumphed over greater challenges and continues to experience miracles. Practicing breathwork, permaculture, earth-based skills, and steeping in experiential learning and reciprocity with their two children and partner. You can catch Ali harvesting roadkill, stewarding land, cultivating food forests, scraping hides, chopping wood, shooting arrows, and traveling the world to share the gifts and tools of breathwork.
Former elite competitive athlete, a coach of peak performance, teacher of body, mind, and spiritual health, a full-time parent, and an emerging guide of immersive transformation.
Ali is a multidisciplinary breathwork practitioner, hypnotherapist, herbalist, and permaculture designer. Ali offers practices that tend to and can dissolve stress, tension and suffering and ignite energy, creativity, awareness, adaptability, and aliveness.Ali holds a principle-based approach to transformation that opens accessibility to all folks and all beliefs. Facilitating transformation in person and online, individually and groups, retreats, intensive trainings and immersive integration to bring these healthful ways into everyday life.
alimcweeny@gmail.com
“There is no one way to be, there is no one way to breathe”
JODI
Afternoon Meditation
Jodi is a certified meditation trainer of Heart-Based Meditation and a local Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, Counselor and Vedic Astrologer. Her mission is to empower as many people as possible with self-healing tools that they can keep in their wellness toolbox and use indefinitely towards their personal evolution.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
LAURIE
Slow Flow, Yin Yoga
I am Excited to be a part of the Wild Rose Yoga tribe! I started practicing Yoga accidentally in my early 20’s when a friend brought me a schedule for Jazzercise and wanted me to join her. Instead of going to Zumba I was curious about the Yoga Class offered by Lori Chandler, a long-time yoga teacher out of Ellensburg, and let’s just say I was hooked from then on. Living in Cle Elum it was hard to get to classes in Ellensburg, so I bought a Rodney Yee DVD and this became my practice. Many years later I was introduced to more great teachers who inspired me to study Yoga on a deeper level, and in 2015 I signed up for a Yoga Teacher Training with Molly Lannon Kenny and the Samarya Center in Seattle. I had no Intention of teaching, but what happened was life changing for me, from my introduction to meditation, breathwork and Ayurveda practices, I began my daily practice and my life began to transform; sharing with others was a natural transition. I have since studied Yin Yoga with Bernie Clark, The Yoga of Recovery with Nikki Myers, Seasonal Yoga with Melina Meza, and the Yoga of Healthy Aging with Baxter Bell; along with my in-depth study of Ayurveda at The Kerala Ayurveda Academy. I will forever be a student of Yoga and look forward to sharing practice with you.
“Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.”
AMANDA
Warrior Rising
Hey ya'll! Excited and nervous to share a little about me. One very important passion of mine is sharing the spotlight. I don't need it all, we need it together. This is how Warrior Rising was created...joining together to grow, change, become stronger, find our balance and share it with each other. Personally, I started yoga after my 4th knee surgery at age 27. Bummer, soccer was my sport; running followed.... Neither did anything good for me. So Hot Yoga entered my life and it sure did change it! I have practiced at many studios, but none quite like Wild Rose. My love for health- physical and mental, as well as fitness has guided me and my family to where we are today! Yoga is personal to some degree, but for me, my 'team' is my family, my tribe of friends, and my Wild Rose family. I feel blessed, loved, and grateful to practice together, to show up together and be one together.
“LET’S GO- BREATHE-
WE GOT THIS- NAMASTE”
HANNAH
Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga
Hannah began practicing yoga more than 20 years ago and has been teaching for just over a decade. She strives to empower her students to find strength and mindfulness by cultivating a strong mind and body connection through Vinyasa Flow, Yin and Yoga Sculpt. She believes Yoga is a powerful practice of listening to your body and quieting your mind to create a life guided by intention and authenticity. Hannah lives in Cle Elum with her husband Tim, daughter Jordan and two dogs, Jari and Stitch.
“coming soon!”
ANDREA
Genesis Flow
Andrea Baker has been teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga for four years and has practiced yoga for 27 years. Andrea was inspired to teach yoga by her clients in mental health counseling. She witnessed their need for a more holistic approach to healing and was determined to learn all she could support and empower.
Andrea has received her training through YogaFit, 200-hour YRT, and completed a 150-hour Trauma Sensitive Teacher Training. She is close to completing her 100-hour Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coaching certification and 100 hour Warrior Kids Trauma-Sensitive Teacher training.
Furthermore, Andrea is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and blends her knowledge of modern neuroscience with ancient techniques of yoga and Ayurveda to empower people to heal.
Andrea combines her love for flowing movements with breath (Vinyasa) and mindfulness techniques such as mudra, mantra, pranayama for a well-rounded flow sure to leave you feeling deeply connected and calm. She focuses on safety (physically and emotionally), providing many options for postures so that all levels can enjoy the benefits of yoga.
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
MACK
Warm Power Vinyasa, Yin
My time on the mat is like a journey home. It is a joyful place to curiously explore my mind, body, and spirit. Throughout my life yoga has moved from the forefront to the backburner and then back again many times. It has been a journey (and still is). I encourage students to release the expectations of how you “should” practice. Do what makes you smile and sets your heart on fire! I am a passionate outdoor enthusiast. Trail runners, kayakers, skiers, snowboarders, and climbers— Let’s mend our bodies together! I received my 200-hour yoga certification in Virginia in 2017. Soon after I moved to Seattle, and taught community vinyasa classes and hot power yoga. When the pandemic changed the fitness world in 2020, I moved my classes online and taught yin and vinyasa classes virtually. Now I am teaching a spectrum of classes at Wild Rose Yoga, my new happy place. Whatever our community calls for— I try to find a way. My teaching style is inspired by Baron Baptiste’s power yoga and BKS Iyengar’s focus on alignment.
“The obstacles in our path are the path. Every time we stretch beyond our resistance and our fear, we make a choice for life. And every time we choose life, fear loses its grip on us. ”
LEX
Vinyasa Flow, HIIT
Lex was introduced to yoga in 2009 and fell in love with the challenge that yoga provided - physically, mentally, and emotionally. She completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in San Diego, CA before teaching in Yakima, WA, Okinawa, Japan, and now in Cle Elum. For Lex, helping people achieve that "post-yoga glow" is the best part about teaching yoga.
As a Central Washington native, Lex recently moved closer to home to raise her family in the foothills of the Cascades. She was fortunate to quickly find Wild Rose Yoga and uncover an incredibly supportive and welcoming yogi community in Cle Elum.
“The pose begins when you want to leave it. ”
Karli is a virtual fitness Coach and yoga instructor. She’s been practicing yoga for 13 years and teaching since 2016. She received her 200H RYT in India and also has a Certification in Kids Yoga.
Her mission is to make yoga accessible for everyone and every body. You can always find her taking her practice outdoors, on the road and laying her mat out in random places!
She teaches mainly Yin classes here at the studio which focuses on longer holds and gentle stretches that let you sink into your body and your breath. Yoga has been a vehicle for change in her life and she’s passionate about sharing that with others.
KARLI
Yin Yoga
“You were once wild here, don’t let them tame you.”
Theatre professor, distance runner, and chocolate-lover, Emily completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Tapas Yoga Shala in Rock Island, IL, in 2015. She is currently working on her 500-hour certification with Spira Power Yoga in West Seattle, and she has studied with master yoga teachers including Kino MacGregor, Tim Feldmann, Jason Crandell, and Carina Terra. She also developed and regularly leads Yoga for Artists & Creativity workshops around the country.
Recognizing that everyone needs an opportunity to focus, breathe, and re-connect the mind with the body, Emily teaches classes that use asanas (yoga poses or postures) to hone balance, flexibility, strength, and confidence. She strives to reach students where they are and help them shape their own practice, recognizing that yoga is beneficial for every age, background, and body type. Emily’s personal yoga practice is grounded in the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga tradition, and she teaches Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Power, and Yin Yoga classes. Above all, she is eager to share her passion for yoga and mindfulness practices with others.
EMILY
Vinyasa Flow
“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”
HELEN
Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga
A botanist and a professional observer, Helen enjoys the personal connection and the special connection with our community through a yoga practice. She has had a long term relationship with yoga since the age of 16, stemming from a hatha yoga practice. Helen has since begun the journey of yoga education through the YogaFit training system with a focus on presenting and practicing yoga in a manner that is accessible to all levels. Helen’s current practice is rooted in flow yoga. Moving gracefully from one pose to another, moving in a rhythmic way to sooth the soul, focus the mind and open the heart. Challenging balance and strength, the breath is used to create a natural rhythm for these movements.
In both her professional and personal life she has a passion for connecting with nature, community and enjoys a variety of outdoor activities. She is dedicated to sharing and educating others through her involvement in environmental education and raising her 7 year old. She continues to be a lifelong student of life, Yoga and all the people she has yet to meet.
“Yoga is a dance between control and surrender – between pushing and letting go – and when to push and when to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being.”
Jennie
Full Body Mat Pilates
Jennie has been teaching strength classes for over a decade and is newly certified to teach pilates but had been practicing pilates for about 7 years. She is passionate, dedicated and skilled at meeting each person where they currently are in their level of fitness or lack thereof. Whether it’s taking your exercise to the next level, discovering a new modality like pilates or simply returning to exercise post pandemic you will feel like you’ve found a spot and community class to make home.
Please reach out to her to share your story prior to class or ask questions.
“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say ‘We have done this ourselves.’”
RYLIE
Power Vinyasa
I started my yoga practice 15 years ago in a Bikram Studio; I had no idea at that time how profoundly yoga would change my life. I was in chronic pain from several undiagnosed illnesses and withdrawing from opioids - yoga became my church. I went 7 days a week, 90 minute classes each day, for almost 3 years. Yoga taught me how to endure the things I could not change, and change the things I could no longer endure.
Over the years, 5 surgeries and 5 spinal procedures interrupted my practice but I always found my way back to my mat, and back to my breathe. Yoga has saved my life on more than one occasion, always helping me to keep perspective and set intentions for a better tomorrow.
When Bikram studios started going out of style, I immersed myself in the world of vinyasa, hatha, and yin - I fell in love with yoga all over again. In 2020, in order to remove myself from the chaos engulfing every inch of the planet, I decided to go to yoga teaching training. I didn’t have intentions at the time of teaching but simply wanted to deepen my knowledge of yoga and strengthen my practice for my own benefit.
After moving to Cle Elum, teaching yoga started calling to me in a way it never had before. I’m thrilled to begin my yoga teaching journey here at Wild Rose. Yoga to me is a lifelong journey; one which requires dedication, patience, grace, courage to stay true to oneself, and strength of mind, body + soul. I look forward to guiding you all through practice on your very own yoga journeys.
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
Claire
Iyengar Yoga Levels 1 & 2
Claire is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Clarity Coach, Body Language Translator, a natural teacher, life coach and facilitator of health and wellness modalities. She is a bridge to specific, clear, and insightful wisdom, coalesced by more than 30 years of education and experience, as an Eye reading Practitioner | 13-year certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor | ordained Interfaith Minister. She has assisted men and women of all ages to deeply engage in their own lives in new profound, productive, empowering and personally satisfying ways, which benefit them, their loved ones, and communities across the Nation.
Claire also studies and participates in various forms of Traditional Health and Healing, and Transpersonal Psychology including Quantum Healing, Body Electronics, Meta Body Electronics, Ayurveda and Spiritually. These traditions and techniques are as varied and diverse as our human experience.
“The yogi does not look heavenward to find God for he knows that He is within, being known as the Inner Self. He Feels the Kingdom of God within and without and finds that heaven lies in himself.”
Brianna
QiGong Flow
Brianna has been teaching qigong for over 10 years, studying with Korean, Thai and American teachers. She is an associate YOQI Instructor, as well as inspired by the teachings of Mantak Chia, Ken Cohen, Lee Holden and Daisy Lee.
She believes qigong is a practice that is so beneficial. Whether you have a health issue or discomfort in your physical body, a lack of connection to self, low energy, lack of focus or emotional concerns. Qigong is a practice that is beneficial to any body at any age.
“If we learn how to love ourselves in this lifetime, we have done what we came to do.”
Neddy
Restorative Yoga, Meditation
Neddy enjoys the freedom of movement and the rhythmic flow of Yoga and the expansion that it provides. Even more-so, Neddy enjoys his gentle and patient acceptance of the world around him and the sharp mental focus and clarity he has when embodying a yogic lifestyle. This, to Neddy, is more than simply a daily physical practice of body movements. It means embodying the Eight Limbs of Yoga, with a commitment to walk in peace, with humility, to show compassion, and to see the good in everyone.
Meditation, pranayama (breathwork), & visualization, combined with a daily asana practice, are the foundation for success in living this life. Neddy tries to be authentic, and show up as his true self in his daily interactions. When not in the studio, Neddy is likely building things or making something with his hands, practicing his artwork, or he’s out bathing in nature connecting with mother earth.
Neddy is a Yoga Alliance 500-RYT, Reiki Master, Meditation Instructor, and Spiritual & Life Coach.
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Suji
Hatha Fusion
With an extensive background in kinesiology and bodywork, my passion has always been around movement and awareness of the body.
Discovering yoga 25 years ago has kept me nourished, shown me resiliency and sense of knowing. Years of mountain bike racing, powerlifting, running, and competitions has never given me the power and freedom this practice has revealed to me.
I seek to share with others how to tap into our unborn awareness and work with the wisdom of fierce soft machines. Come play and get curious with me!
“Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - your thoughts, your actions, your food - the things you feed your life.”