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ambassadors ANGE STOPPERAN is a yoga teacher, business coach, mentor to yoga teachers, sound healing practitioner, designer of sacred space, and helps her students learn the practice of creating rituals to help ground and connect to their inner guidance. Along with her role as a CO YOGA + Life® Ambassador, Ange is a faculty member at the Colorado School of Yoga. Ange runs online business courses for yoga teachers through the Colorado School of Yoga. www.angestopperan.com CASSIE SCALES has been practicing yoga since 2010. She has completed 200-hour teaching certifications in both Power Yoga and Integrated Vinyasa™. She currently teaches at Mountain Soul Yoga in Edwards, Colorado, and is an Ambassador for CO YOGA + Life®. Cassie works as a Probation Officer in Eagle County, Colorado where she writes presentence reports for felony offenders. She spends her free time trail running and skiing through the beautiful Rocky Mountains, indulging in local eats, or cozying up with a good library book. She encourages direct communication, being fiercely authentic and cultivating balance between restoration and an active mountain lifestyle. KAREN FIENBERG has been practicing yoga for 11 years and is currently a teacher in training. A former competitive cyclist, she turned to yoga for increased mobility and strength, discovering that strength came from surrender. Yoga allows her to access the healing qualities of her mind and body. Her preferred styles are yoga nidra, Iyengar, therapeutic and restorative. Karen is also a health educator, fitness enthusiast, craft chocolate connoisseur and plant-based food advocate and activist. SHENNA JEAN is based in Aspen, Colorado. She’s a big fan of yoga, hiking, snowboarding, the Kansas Jayhawks and rosé. Shenna Jean loves her some personal and leadership development, be it a book, podcast, workshop or conference. She spends her days at the Aspen Art Museum and nights working on her photog skills and couples retreat company @adventuresandromance. LEXI REICH CO YOGA + Life® Editorial Intern After experiencing a yoga ashram in the mountains of Colorado, Lexi became enthralled in the practice of yoga and meditation, and just earned her yoga teacher training at the sacred space. Originally from Chicago, Lexi loves the holistic lifestyle she found in Colorado, and combining this passion with her writing is what makes her truly happy. As a journalism and English major at the University of Colorado Boulder, Lexi spends most of her time reading novels and writing for her poetry and reporting classes. Besides this, you can find her skiing, hiking or traveling. Follow her on Instagram @lexi_reich.
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