About Us
Jennifer Craze, E-RYT 500 Lead Trainer
Jennifer Craze has been teaching yoga full-time at MTSU for 19 years, instructing over 6,000 hours, over 200 yoga classes in academia, and over 5,000 students. She teaches all the yoga classes at MTSU’s Health and Human Performance Department. She has over 20 years’ experience teaching yoga in the local community and even taught at Murfreesboro’s very first yoga studio. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Health and Wellness, and a Specialist in Education Degree.
Jennifer’s yoga path began in 2000 with her mentor Johnny John’s at Murfreesboro’s first yoga studio. She completed a 13 month 1,000 hours yoga teacher training program at the Southern Institute for Yoga Instructors with Betty Larsen and John Charping in 2003. She has completed numerous teacher trainings and has over 2,000 hours of yoga training to include Stephanie Keach’s Vinyasa Teacher Training, Yoga Therapy Foundations Program from the Desikchar lineage, Prenatal Yoga from the Iyengar tradition, and also Ayurveda training.
Her teaching is a fusion of yoga styles, incorporating the alignment principles from the Iyengar tradition to the fluidity of Vinyasa with sprinklings of a modified Ashtanga method. Jennifer’s intentions for teaching are to cultivate an atmosphere for exploration and many opportunities for growth, empowering students to become the best version of themselves on and off the yoga mat. She instructs class in a manner that is safe and effective. Her goal is to share the gift of yoga and make it accessible to everyone!
Kim Dunaway, E-RYT 500, RPYT, C-IAYT, Lead Trainer
Kim has been teaching mind-body classes in the Murfreesboro community since 2012. She completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at The Yoga Nest in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, an 85-hour Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training under Jessalynn Hakanson, and her 300 hour teacher training at Sanctuary for Yoga in Nashville, TN under Daphne and Tom Larkin. Her training in therapeutic yoga includes an 800-hour yoga therapy program with Spanda Yoga Movement Therapy under Dr. Jaime Schmidt and a second 300-hour training with Yoga Medicine under Tiffany Cruikshank and she is a Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist. Kim has additional training in Yoga for Scoliosis, Yin Yoga, Meditation, Restorative Yoga, Anatomy, Yoga History & Philosophy.
Kim has masters degrees in Finance and Nutrition. She has multiple health and fitness certifications including Registered Dietetic Technician, Health Coach, Personal Trainer, and Corrective Exercise Specialist.
Kim’s style is grounded in Vinyasa with influences from Yin, Ashtanga, and therapeutic yoga. Kim aims to bring yoga off the mat for all her students to help create a world that is more mindful and kind.