Instructors & Therapists

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Owner

Kathy Tabb is a 500hr Yoga Alliance certified teacher and owner of Navarre Living Yoga and Health Center. She began teaching yoga after 12 years of personal practice. Her teachers include: Jacqueline Heisel of Frog Lotus Yoga, Paul Gallagan of Centered Yoga of Thailand, Dr. Ganasan of the Himalayan Institute Hospital and Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati of the Abhyasa Ashram. In 2008, Kathy had the honor of spending nine weeks at Swami Rama’s ashram, Sadhana Mandir, in Rishikesh India, immersed in the yogic traditions of the Himalayan Masters.

Kathy believes in creating an asana flow that can be both invigorating and relaxing, with a major emphasis on the breath and modifying poses to meet all students’ needs. Her current focus is on developing, and teaching, workshops based upon the 8-limb path, meditation practices, diaphragmatic breathing and yoga nidra. Her teaching includes gentle and vigorous asanas, pranayamas, and meditation techniques, all with a focus on helping students cultivate their own yoga practice, including meditation.

Kathy is also a licensed massage therapist who specializes in both holistic and therapeutic massage. Her passion for healing the body through yoga led her to study massage therapy in 2006. She now combines both modalities to help a client be nurtured and whole in body, breath, mind and spirit.  Continuing to follow her passion for holistic healing, Kathy is currently a student of ayurveda at the California College of Aryuveda. 
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Willow Conolly fell in love with yoga when she became a stay at home mom in 2007.  She discovered that it gave her the strength and the patience to nurture herself and her children throughout each day. Willow has been a yoga student for 10 years and she has been teaching yoga since 2011. Willow completed her Yoga Teacher Training at Dragon Fly Yoga in Fort Walton Beach.
 
Willow is also a licensed massage therapist. She can do Swedish massage, therapeutic massage,  or pre-natal. She is friendly, intuitive and nurturing, so your body will get the kind of healing it needs.
 
Willow is also a Reiki Master. She has been a reiki practitioner for over 7 years now and has witnessed healing on many levels. Energy work is her true passion. She uses her knowledge of the chakras and the reiki energy to help balance her clients physically, mentally and emotionally.
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Marilyn Gusky began her Yoga practice in 2001 while living in Honolulu.  Already an avid boogie-boarder, hiker, Jazzerciser and West Coast Swing dancer she thought Yoga would add stretching and relaxation.  She quickly realized there was much more to the practice and in 2013 received her 200-hour RYT certification under the tutelage of Kathy Tabb at Navarre Living Yoga.

Teaching Yoga 101, Yin, Restorative, Gentle, Foundation and Energize Lite at NLY has deepened her understanding of Yoga and her own personal practice.  Marilyn invites you to bring Yoga into your life-long-journey of learning and experience the impact it will have on your body, mind and spirit. 
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Jill Shurling began practicing yoga in 2001 and immediately recognized  the benefits to both her body and her peace of mind.  Jill has been working as a hairdresser since 1993 and when she began her yoga journey she finally found relief to her back pain.  Jill is a member of the Yoga Alliance and has been teaching yoga since 2008 after completing a 200 hour program at Peachtree Yoga Center in Atlanta, GA.  She has studied different styles of yoga with many wonderful teachers like Doug Keller and Erich Schiffman and she integrates what she has learned from them into her classes.  Her classes will challenge you and she encourages playfulness along with a sense of ease.  She enjoys free time on the beach, spending time with her four poodles, cat and husband, practicing yoga, lifting weights and traveling.
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Cara Gaddy is a skilled and passionate teacher with over 1000 hours of teaching experience.  Having practiced for more than 15 years and teaching for 6, she has the graceful ability to mix experience on her mat with an honest eagerness to learn.  Her warm, yet energetic disposition allows every student of any level feel welcomed and accomplished.  She has a genuine ability to teach every student to their capacity without leaving them feeling they should have done more or to the contrary, feeling as if they had gone too far.  

After completing her 200-hour teacher training with Dragonfly yoga studio in 2012, Cara continued to further her yoga studies to become a Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher through the Surya Chandra Healing Yoga School, a Usui Reiki Master, and is currently working towards her 1000 hr IAYT Yoga Therapist Certification.  Cara’s love of yoga compels her to continue her yoga training and she currently holds many other yoga certifications including ones in Mantra and SUP Yoga.
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Nancy Sandler discovered yoga after she retired from the Air Force.  She began her yoga journey in Navarre in 2007.  After completing her 200 hour teacher training in 2014, she began teaching at Navarre Living Yoga.  In 2017 she completed a 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Surya Chandra Healing School of Yoga and is Yoga Alliance 500-Hour RYT certified. She is also a certified Accessible Yoga teacher. She enjoys scuba diving, and while traveling the world to enjoy this passion, she finds time to visit yoga studios in many different countries.  Nancy believes the mental and physical balance of a yoga practice can benefit all ages and abilities.  
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Mary Mikos fell in love with yoga when she took her first class 15 years ago and she decided to add yoga to her physical fitness regime.   Mary discovered that yoga gave her balance and focus unlike the step aerobics and kick-boxing classes she was taking at her local gym.  Fast forward ten years, Mary developed her daily yoga practice, making yoga her primary activity for self-care.  

​Mary completed her 200-hour RYT certification under the tutelage of Kathy Tabb at Navarre Living Yoga in 2017 and is currently enrolled in Aerial Teacher Training at Breathe in Pensacola.  Mary teaches Energize Yoga and Aerial Yoga and enjoys the community that is brought together by yoga.  Yoga is the bond that brings together people of all walks of life and her goal is to encourage and develop that bond in her students. Mary is the wife of a 23-year Air Force veteran, and after years living overseas, they decided to make their home in Navarre.  
PictureMaureen LaMar
Maureen LaMar was introduced to Yoga in 2008 as a compliment to her running program.  She immediately fell in love with the physical practice.  The peace and beauty of connecting breath to movement was an unexpected surprise and a welcome benefit.  She continued her personal practice and was thrilled to complete 200-hour RYT in 2017.
 
Maureen is from North Pole, Alaska and has lived in Navarre since 2003.  She loves all things outdoors. Running, paddle boarding and hiking are some of her favorite activities along with her yoga practice.  She looks forward to practicing with the yogis in the Navarre Living Yoga community.
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Ann Hoffman took her first yoga class in 2010 and has been practicing ever since. A desire to return to her passion for teaching motivated her to complete her 200 hr RYT training at Navarre Living Yoga in 2017 and continue training to pursue her Childrens RYT and her 500 hr RYT. Ann uses her skills in the classroom to share the joy of learning with energy and enthusiasm, inspiring her students on a journey of self discovery, imparting awareness, curiosity, understanding and inspiration to explore their own unique potential both on and off their mat. She encourages students to acknowledge where they are and progress from there in the manner that best serves their individual abilities.