About Our Studio

Kathie Wagner

I have been into fitness and health all of my adult life and started my fitness career teaching Aerobics in the 80’s! I was a personal trainer and participated in nearly every fitness trend over the years. I took my first Bikram class in 2010 and was immediately hooked.

I attended Bikram’s 9 week training in Acapulco. Teaching became as much a passion as practicing. I have recently relocated from NJ to Florida and am excited about continuing my teaching and practicing here full time.

Ursula Sobieski

My yoga is my family, my family is my yoga! Incorporating yoga in my life helped me find new dimensions, new friends, new goals. Helped me find myself.

Sheila Sager

Sheila Sager began her Bikram Yoga practice, June 2009, to rehabilitate her knee after having surgery. She used Bikram Yoga as a tool to restore full range of motion to her knee and noticed the physical and emotional benefits of the practice right away. She has always known deep in her heart, that her purpose in life is to help people heal themselves. After completing her Teacher Training in the spring of 2010 she immediately became a full-time Bikram teacher.

Since then she has earned certifications in Health Coaching, Yin Yoga, Vinyasa, PyroPilates, Pregnancy, Advanced and Intermediate Series from the Bikram Yoga lineage. Having healed her body from injuries ranging from a meniscus tear to ruptured and herniated discs and sciatica, Sheila believes in using yoga and proper holistic health education to improve mind, body and spirit. Every day brings a new experience. Sharing the incredible health benefits of Yoga and Pilates is fulfilling to Sheila. She loves her yoga life and takes joy in watching people grow as they practice.

Jennette Gluski

Trained Fall 2006, LA, California. Yoga entered my life in 2001 and I’ve never looked back. My first class was a struggle and I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. It took a whole year for me to get to my second class. Since the second class I have been working with myself in some hot room, somewhere around the world.

Yoga is a journey that allows us more freedom. I’m blessed to be able to share my years of experience and love for the work we do here. I’ve had the amazing gift of being totally immersed in Bikram Yoga and riding all the waves of life through this lens.

Janice Robinson

My introduction to Yoga was much different than most people… In 1999 I had been working well over a decade in my Real Estate Business when in the door walked a new potential customer from California. We talked a while and set out to find him the perfect home! As we drove and looked at properties, he began to tell me about this amazing Yoga that he had learned while in Califoria. He further challenged me to try it once he had his new home ready and a room dedicated to the practice.

With alot of skeptisism….I went and tried what was called Bikram Yoga. The first class was done via a CD of Bikram in 1995 teaching a class. I found it to be very difficult and afterwards very rewarding. I truly was amazed!! My whole life was spent in activies like Sports and running…things that break the body down. I could feel the difference in the way my body felt by performing the Yoga poses and the heat.

I felt clean and renewed…not run down. At that time there were only 2 Yoga Schools in Florida… Key West and Sarasota!! My first 4 years I practiced in my bathroom with CD’s!! In the summer of 2004 I decided to go out to LA and take the teacher training directly from Bikram. I did the training strictly for my own personal growth and discovery. I never planned on becoming a “Teacher” of the Yoga.

Christine Carrillo

She was a World acclaimed Principal Dancer with Lyric Opera House, Hubbard Street Dance Company, and Civic Ballet of Chicago. Christine has performed in the Spoleto Dance Festival in Spoleto, Italy, and at the Netherlands Dans Theater in Amsterdam. Also, she has travelled extensively with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago to Koln, Germany, Jerusalem, Singapore, France, Poland, Rio di Janeiro, San Paolo, New York, California, and throughout America and many other countries.

Christine received one the most Prestigious award, the Ruth Page Award, from her colleagues and community as “Best Dancer of the Award in 2001.” She retired from Hubbard Street Dance Company in 2001 and moved to Florida to retire only to have missed Dancing, Christine was offered a position with Lyric Opera House in Chicago and returned to performing with Civic Ballet of Chicago. Christine choreographed for the Southwest Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Paul Nadler and The Repertory Theater in Fort Myers in the collaboration of “A Soldiers Tale” and performed as the “Ballerina Princess”. Later Christine began her dance career at the tender age of 3 years old and never looked back.

Christine is trained in Classical Ballet, Jazz, and Modern Dance. She received a full scholarship to attend the “Fame School in Chicago” at The Chicago Academy for the performing Arts. Christine was also on full scholarship at the Ruth Page Foundation under the Direction of the late Larry Long, and the Lou Conte Dance School. At age 17, Christine joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as one of the youngest members ever to join HSDC. Christine danced with HSDC for 13 years, and over the years, she traveled the world with the dance company. Christine worked with many choreographers at HSCD. They include Twyla Tharp, (The Tharp Project), Jiri Killian (Netherlands Dans Company), Ohad Naharin (Batsheva Dance Co.), James Kudelka, Randy Duncan, David Parsons, Margo Sappington, and Kevin O’Day, to name a few.

Christine was delighted to be Resident Choreographer for Opera Naples and to return to the Philharmonic Stage where she performed several times. Christine has taught for several studios in SW Florida and is extremely excited to be a part of the Etudes De Ballet School here in Naples. Christine also obtained a Culinary Arts degree from The Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts School in Chicago and loves to use her Creativity to Cater Private Functions. Christine is also a huge pet lover and has many different certificates such as Equine and Canine massage therapy and is a certified groomer that has worked for the VCA miracle mile pet hospital and is very involved with all kinds of animals.

Debbie Klemptner

My yoga journey began in 2011 mostly as an antidote to long runs and tough workouts. What started as taking classes to merely “stretch out” quickly turned into so much more. Within a few short months, I developed a regular practice and couldn’t get enough. I loved the way yoga made me feel, and not just physically…I loved the way it helped me be more present, a kinder more compassionate wife, mother and friend, and allows me to continue to evolve into a better version of myself. For all yoga has given me, I knew I had to share it.

I completed my training and began teaching in 2017, and I fell in love with yoga all over again. In my quest to learn more and share more, I also trained and certified in inferno hot pilates, vinyasa, and yin yoga. On top of that, I am a health and nutrition coach; I am basically obsessed with all things mind and body and love supporting people in becoming their happiest, healthiest versions of themselves. I have been so blessed to practice and teach in a wonderful community “back home” in Michigan for many years, and am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this beautiful yoga community here in Naples!

Dennis DiSarro

Dennis has been in Naples since he was a teenager. He found yoga 6 years ago and believes it to be healing medicine for your mind, body, and soul. He consistently practices 4 to 5 days a week and prefers the room hot. He is a certified Level 1 (Original Hot Yoga) Bikram Teacher, Inferno Hot Pilates Teacher and a Registered Yoga Teacher RYT – 200 through the Yoga alliance He is also very interested in breath work and sound healing and would like to gain more knowledge of these in the future. He currently and has been a Paramedic & Firefighter for the past 20 plus years. He loves to be outside riding his motorcycle and

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Kim Lammers

Kim Lammers began her Bikram Yoga journey in 2010, and immediately fell in love with it. I went to teacher training in spring 2012, and have been teaching since. I love teaching it; it is so satisfying seeing students put in the hard work to get all the benefits this yoga offers. I enjoy walking, running, and spending time with my family, especially my 3 year old grandson.

Kristin Brindle

I am a mother of 4 and a newly retired elementary school teacher. I began my yoga practice more than 15 years ago as a way to enhance my running and triathlon training, but I quickly fell in love with the rigor and discipline of Bikram Yoga. It wasn’t until I faced my first major health challenge that I truly found the depth of the benefits of my yoga practice. One of my yoga instructors once told me -“You never know what your yoga practice is preparing you for.”- In some of my best dreams and even my worst nightmares, I could not have imagined the things my practice was indeed preparing me for.

But it not only prepared me to survive, my yoga practice held me gently until I was strong enough to move forward again. I have chosen to follow my passion and it is my honor to share my love and trust in the practice of Bikram Yoga with others. I completed my 200 hour Original Hot Yoga Certification with The Hot Room in Indianapolis in June 2019 and have been teaching in the Chicago area ever since

Laura Neese

I began practicing Bikram Yoga regularly in February 2018 to ease back pain from scoliosis. I thought I’d practice once or twice a week, but soon found that that the more often I practiced, the better I felt. Not only was my back pain more manageable, I was more confident and happier in my life outside the studio. I graduated teacher training at Hot Yoga Naples in April 2022 and I’m excited and grateful to be a new teacher, getting to share this life-changing practice with others.