About Our Teachers
At Yoga Moves we strive to uphold the ancient healing art of Hatha Yoga. Class size is small to ensure more personal guidance from our experienced teachers. With our therapeutic approach, emphasizing self-care and self-healing, you will gradually begin to shed old negative patterns responsible for stress and disease, and begin to awaken physically, mentally, and spiritually
Yoga Moves strives to offer a peaceful, friendly environment away from the hustle and bustle of the city. All our locations are chosen with this in mind.
Denise Glueck
Denise is the founder of Yoga Moves. Her style is eclectic drawing from many traditions and 40 years of practice. Denise has studied with senior Iyengar teacher Karin Stephan from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Embracing the therapeutic approach to yoga, Denise weaves the principles of balance and alignment with mindfulness, by giving detailed descriptions to help re educate the body and mind. Students are encouraged to explore their edge with gentleness, yet she challenges her students to contact their power, developing flexability and strength. Students are treated with respect for their unique constitution and position in life. Denise is a certified Yoga Ayurvedic Specialist through the Himalayan Institute. Denise has an acute awareness of the structure and function of the body from years as a rehab nurse, Massage Therapy, and many years of yoga study. Her latest passion and study is in the field of fascia. Using specific methodology, developed by Ermgard Bartenieff, Denise teaches how the body relates to itself and the space we move in and through.
Denise graduated from Bhakti Academe of Massage in 1999, and has been practicing since.. She specializes in Bhakti intuitive massage, Thai yoga Massage, Indian Scalp Massage.
Denise was the first to bring Aerial Yoga to St Pete. She has a passion for new discoveries and is always exploring new modalities to understand the human experience. Whether it be movement, diet, relationships. environment, mothering and most recently Grand-mothering. She teaches with passion and love of this ever evolving thing called LIFE.