Instructors

Lizz Cowley(RYT): Owner/Instructor

Lizz Cowley

Lizz Cowley is the current owner and full-time instructor at the Healthy Life Studio. She holds registration as a Yoga Alliance 200 level yoga instructor, and has been teaching in Casper since 2009. Her certification was obtained through the Shambhava School of Yoga in Colorado.

Lizz has also received formal training at the Omaha Yoga School (OYS), where she enjoyed classes in asana, literature, spirituality, and philosophy, taught by director Meredith Busher. Lizz also attended studies with Margaret Hahn, founder of OYS and an early student of B.K.S. Iyengar.

Lizz hopes to provide you with a nurturing environment and is humbled, grateful and excited to help grow the connection each student has to their own practice and to their sense of connection with the world around and within.

Ashley Beckstead(RYT): Instructor

Ashley Beckstead

After graduating from Kelly Walsh High School in 2005, Ashley moved to Salt Lake City, UT, to attend the University of Utah. Here Ashley was first introduced to yoga, and she immediately began practicing regularly. She practiced semi-privately with Annie Kent for two years until she left the country on a studies abroad program.

While abroad, Ashley also studied yoga in various countries, including an Ashram in Valencia, Spain, and a yoga studio in South Korea. Upon her return to Utah, she began a 200 hour teacher training program with Natalie Buchi hosted by the University of Utah.

After certification, and graduation from the university in May 2011, Ashley moved back to Casper to be near her family and to get involved in the yoga community of Casper. Her teaching style is a mixed level Vinyassa flow integrating Hatha and Anusara yoga techniques.