BFREE Teachers
At BFREE YOGA our teachers have been together as a tribe for years and have merged together to cultivate one practice.
Shelby Autrey
Teaches: Intermediate/Advanced Vinyasa
Pace + Focus: Elevated vinyasa. You will learn a focused action merged with rhythmic flow. A cathartic journey through alignment, philosophy, metaphor, music, breath, and intention.
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Shelby is the owner and founder of BFREE YOGA Austin. She has over 15 years experience in the study and practice of yoga. Shelby is a nationally certified therapeutic massage and bodywork specialist and has worked in sports injury rehabilitation since 2003. She created the 200-hour Yoga Alliance certified school of yoga, b*free(ology), training yoga instructors in alignment-based creative movement. Shelby has a history of teaching live music and yoga events. She has led classes at The White House Easter Egg Roll for the Obama administration, taught for Yoga Journal Magazine at three national conferences, Wanderlust Yoga Festivals in Colorado and California, and has worked with Austin’s very own C3 Presents in community action with live music benefiting Safe Place. She continues to lead yoga and meditation retreats all over the world.
Shelby teaches with humor and vulnerability and skillfully guides people through the practices of movement, breath, and self-inquiry that creates an experience for you to align your body, organize your mind, and open your heart.
Iva Drtina-Hall
Teaches: Vinyasa, Yin
Pace: Steady flow, a bit slower than usual rhythmic vinyasa. Yin is a stationary meditative practice with long holds of 2-5 min.
Focus: Grounded and meditative flow, with focus on creating effortlessness and ease. Uplifting and whole body opening + strengthening. Yin: Focusing on the joints and the spine with benefits to the flow of life energy through the meridians and their respective organs.
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Iva holds the space of yoga for each practitioner in a beautiful and natural way that initiates the direct process of transformation. Her interest in health, nutrition and alternative medicine began when she studied Physiology and Health Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Ivas extensive travels throughout Asia, North America, Europe and Australia had broadened her view of different cultures, philosophies and traditions and she spent many years living in Japan. Her experiences and her studies opened the doors to many new healing modalities such as fasting, cleansing, vipassana meditation and Ayurveda, which she incorporates into her yoga and meditation classes, workshops and retreats in India, Japan, Bali and the US. She has been teaching Yoga and a wellness since 2002 focusing primarily on Vinyasa Flow and Yin Yoga. She has completed a Yin Training with Bernie Clark and has studied under great teachers *Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers, Bryan Kest and Rusty Wells. She has developed her own Yin Training, and her knowledge of Ayurveda- the ancient art of healing; allows her to guide students to uncover the wisdom of their own way- their own transformation. Iva hosts retreats and workshops internationally as well as facilitating on teacher training programs in Austin, Hawaii, Bali, India and Japan.