Tymi Howard

TYMI HOWARD is the Owner and Director of Guruv Yoga in Central Florida. Tymi is a Certified Yoga Instructor at the 500 E-RYT level with Yoga Alliance, and is known in the yoga community as a skillful practitioner, and a dynamic, non-dogmatic, playful teacher! Leading workshops, retreats and Yoga Teacher Trainings is how she dedicates herself to spreading the transformational gift of yoga!

Her introduction to yoga began in NYC in 1993 after years of ballet, several nagging injuries, and much soul searching, she found her way into an Ashtanga class. What a humbling, yet magical experience! It wasn’t until she moved to California that she began to seek out this “yogic lifestyle” and embrace it mind, body and soul. Having been influenced by so many gifted teachers, she gives thanks for each one of them and hopes that she can be a vessel through which God’s Grace and gifts may flow..forever a student!

Robbie Walsh

Humbled and very thankful to be given the opportunity to teach yoga, live life and to share my experiences in the very real atmosphere that our planet provides. To thrive off of the fruits of the land and share them with Mother Earth, Father Time, all beings, brothers, sisters and yogis is a great honor.

Surfing, art and music is what my life has been all about. Creativity  in or out of  nature and its elements play a large roll on the way we percieve and function in our daily lives, and  my body functions best in water. It relaxes the mind, soothes the soul and promotes positive thinking and yoga has given me a great alternative to the water.

Practicing yoga and meditation is the only other time I feel like I can just get away from it all  mentally, physically and spiritually… just let go. Yoga gives me the same weightless feeling, happy thoughts and blissful vibrations that the water offers.

Yoga gives me focus,  intuition, strength and balance to help overcome any and all obstacles or challenges with a clear approach  and  has changed my life in many other positive ways. Most importantly, yoga and meditation has heightened my over all sense of awareness and compassion which has helped me enjoy life and its opportunities.  Im looking forward to sharing breath, movement. time, love, knowledge, and life with any and all beings.

Lokah samasta sukhino bavhantu

Thom Lake

Currently on teaching staff for Florida School of the Arts, The Osceola County School for the Arts, Dr. Phillips High School, the School of Dance Arts, Access Broadway, Dance Masters of America and Dance Educators of America.
Taught for Cedar Lakes Dance ensemble NYC, Studio Harmonique in Paris and at the Conservatory in the Czech Republic.

Began his training at Virginia Intermont College, and graduated from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Attended the Joffrey School of Dance, David Howard and Harkness Ballet schools in New York City, and at The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival In Becket Massachusetts.

Danced with ballet companies in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and Canada.
Choreographed, Co-choreographed and performed in Feature Film, Network Television, and TV Commercials.
Most recently finished filming for the upcoming movie “The Smurfs” to be released in the summer of 2011.
Worked for over 35 years in Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, Reno and Lake Tahoe teaching, performing “adagio” work, stunts, dancing, singing and acting.

With over 10,000 live performances, Thom Lake is considered (by himself!) as one of the most versatile purveyors for the arts.

Lorraine Turner

Lorraine found Yoga at a local gym in 2005, fell in love with the practice and committed herself to practice 3 times a week for several years. When Guruv Yoga opened, Lorraine increased her practice to everyday.

In 2009-201,  she decided to enter into a 268 hour teacher training course to deepen her yoga knowledge and learn more of the philosophies. Completing the yoga teacher training gave Lorraine the confidence she thought she never had. Falling more in love with yoga, Lorraine has been teaching for over a year and enjoys sharing and giving back all that yoga has given her… an open heart, love, joy, confidence, peace and calmness of the mind and body.

Lorraine also works with a local Psychotherapist, who specializes in treating addictions, trauma and relationships. Together they offer a unique combination of Therapy and Yoga which has helped many overcome the struggles of life, reconnecting their minds to their bodies and the world.

“I would invite everyone to try Yoga at least once, the journey will become more than you can ever imagine ………………………………Namaste”

Lorraine 200 RYT

Jamie Savage

I have been drawn to meditation since I was a teenager. When I was 30, with my 3rd child on the way and a good career, I knew something was missing. I found it hard to let go of my busy work schedule and relax at home with my children. The stress and challenges of modern life seemed to be sucking the energy out of me and life felt purposeless most of the time. This was a very frustrating time. I knew I loved my family and enjoyed my career, but I often felt distant and disconnected from my life.

I asked a good friend to take me to meditation class and that has been the start of a new life for me. Studying intensely for the past 5 years, I have learned much about the suffering I was experiencing. Most importantly I learned about how similar it was to the suffering and stress of everyone around me, and that meditation offered a path to learn the tools to bring new understanding to these sometimes difficult situations we all have to face in our lives.

During this time I have taken advantage of the rich abundance of teachings here in the Central Florida community as well as taking the opportunity to read and study the teachings of some of our Great Living Masters such as the Dalai Lama, Eckharte Tolle, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gil Fronsdal, Jack Kornfield, and Pema Chodron.  I also support my practice with 1 day, 3 day, and 7 retreats.

I strive to teach meditation in a way that is practical and useful, relating our time and struggles on the cushion to our time and struggles in our daily life. We discuss different topics as they relate to the practice and I support fully the group process. I truly believe all I have learned about meditation has been a result of my participation within a community of like-minded people.

I am grateful to Tymi and Guruv Yoga for the opportunity and support that this freely offered class has given the entire community at Guruv, including myself. I wish all have the opportunity to find the great benefits that meditation can bring to your life,

Jamie Savage