About
Nancy Levenson is founder of NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, LLC. a premier provider of yoga and wellness services. A highly regarded PYT, professional yoga therapist and champion of aging adults, Nancy’s mission is helping others restore optimal health through mind, body and spirit practice.
Nancy describes her style of yoga as compassionate and expressive. She focuses on an individual’s overall wellbeing by placing an equal emphasis on their physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual dimensions. She counts among her influential teachers, Joseph & Lillian LePage, where she received her yoga therapy training through Integrative Yoga Therapy, Judith Hansen Lasater and Gary Kraftsow.
Nancy carries an additional certification in restorative yoga, and is the first certified Relax and Renew® Restorative Yoga Teacher in Colorado. By supporting the body, utilizing props such as blocks, straps, bolsters, and even chairs the body is alternately stimulated and relaxed to move into balance.
Nancy has worked with patients suffering from Lupus, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, MS, depression, panic attacks, stress and extreme fatigue. She is also an active member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
She understands first-hand the impact of stress and illness to the body. Having had her own stress related career and subsequent meltdown and seeing her aging father undergo a loss of total body use. Nancy has since committed herself to her yoga therapy practice and the tremendous gift of breath.
Nancy spent her business career in high level marketing roles for major publishing and telecommunications corporations including the San Diego Union Tribune, The Business Journal Chain, Tele-communications, Inc., Encore Media Group and most recently, WISDOM Television, the mind, body and spirit network, now LIME TV. Nancy graduated magna cum laude with a BA in mass communications from the University of Denver.
Jenny Clark
200 RYT®
200 PYT® – Professional Yoga Therapist
In her early twenties Jenny became deeply rooted in the practice of Yoga. After practicing yoga for 18 years she decided she wanted to share the beautiful gift of health yoga had always given her with others. She completed her 200 hour yoga training with Inner Connections Yoga in Castle Rock, Colorado. She has taught yoga to a diverse population for six years as a RYT, teaching at studios, gyms, Free Yoga in the Park in Highlands Ranch, and throughout south Denver. Jenny decided she wanted to deepen her knowledge of Yoga’s ability to heal the body and took Joseph and Lillian Le Page’s 200 hour Yoga Therapy Training from her dear friend and Mentor Nancy Levenson 500 PYT, at her center NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness.
Jenny’s yoga is very unique to her personal style and experiences: she holds many other certifications in massage and alternative healing in addition to her yoga certifications. She was also raised in an environment with siblings with rare diseases and learned early the power we have over our own bodies. She feels her whole life has been dedicated to working with people both in the alternative health industry and in the business world working in management for over 20 years. She is passionate in her desire to inspire others to see their own magnificence and internal abilities to heal. She designs her yoga classes to create a positive message of healing in every class.
Jenny is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance and has recently joined the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She became a Certified Massage Therapist in 1999 and holds a BA in business from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Jenny has also volunteered her time as part of her annual act of Seva to Free Yoga in the Park – Highlands Ranch for the past three years
Sue Khodarahmi
200 RYT®
Sue Khodarahmi has been practicing yoga since 1993, when a friend recommended she try it to relieve her back pain. Sue recognized almost immediately that yoga offered a profound sense of physical, as well as mental and spiritual, wellbeing, and began exploring a variety of styles of yoga, from Kundalini to Bikram. In 2009, she returned to the classical style of hatha yoga that first inspired her, and received her teaching certification from the Shambhava School of Yoga. Shambhava Yoga draws from the rich tapestry of yogic teachings to explain how to use the circumstances of our own lives to grow consciously, and features breath-focused hatha yoga to help us relax, open and align with the more subtle flow of energy.
Sue is especially interested in helping people of all ages build and restore strength and endurance through yoga, and hopes her classes not only inspire students to regularly practice yoga, but also to explore other activities that they may not have had the confidence to try before. (Sue freely admits that she took up snowboarding at age 40, even having never skied before.) Her classes are energetic and fun, with an emphasis on core and upper-body strength and flexibility.
Sue has also volunteered her time as part of her annual act of Seva to Free Yoga in the Park – Highlands Ranch for the past two years
Renee Carrillo
200 RYT ®
200 PYT® – Professional Yoga Therapist
Renee began practicing yoga several years ago as an alternative to fast-paced cardio activities that started to trigger migraines. Yoga has lessened the frequency of migraines and helped her make it through extremely stressful times as a caregiver. After experiencing the relaxation and complete peace that yoga brings to ones entire self, Renee was inspired to share the benefits that yoga has to offer with others. She attended the 200 Hour Integrative Yoga Therapy Training at NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness with Nancy Levenson. This summer was her first year of volunteering at Yoga in the Park and guiding clients in her customized migraine headache program “Making Peace with Migraine Headaches.”
Renee is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and is registered with Yoga Alliance.
Renee is passionate about making yoga an experience that people of all ages and abilities are able to explore. Whether that exploration comes through a traditional yoga practice, restorative yoga or individual yoga therapy, Renee welcomes the opportunity to share the wonderful healing art of yoga. She hopes that people will look inside themselves and discover the amazing ability that we all have within. Renee’s classes are tailored to use breath as a tool to aid in movement of the body and enjoy the experience that is individual to each person.
