Kate (Wrightson) Laviolette

Founder, Master coach and Practitioner

"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living by these words, Kate seeks to bring more beauty, love, joy, and balance to this life through all she does personally and professionally. You can catch her with the LBL community, enjoying time in the great outdoors, or enjoying time with family and friends.

She is a yoga therapist, energy practitioner, aerial coach, and life coach with specialties in neurodivergent education, spinal health and stability, vestibular support, traumatic brain injury/concussion recovery, endocrine/hormone health, and helping individuals and groups overcome chronic pain or dysfunctional patterns and cycles.

Over 18 years in her specialties, she takes an integrative heart-centered, scientifically-backed approach to holistic healing in order to find the root causes of pain, stress, and dysfunction to help you reconnect to your wholeness and capacity for overall health and well-being.

Her teaching style and lifestyle create a safe and open environment for individuals to tap into and embrace their nature, deep connection, and experiences both on and off the mat. She’ll help you take a comprehensive look at how to reach your health and lifestyle goals through education and learning practice to support your physical and mental health at the root level of function.

Kate is passionate about education and offers certifications for our 200hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training, Limitless Aerial Yoga Teacher Training, Reiki Master Program, and Life Coaching Mentorship.

Contact her at katew@livebeyondlimit.com to set up a free consultation and ask any questions.

Jessie standLey - Massage, Somatic Experiencing

Jessie loves helping people to optimize their lives through a gentle process of unraveling negative patterns in the body-mind to help clients discover their best selves.

 She has been a licensed Massage Therapist in both California and Texas and as of 2018, she has added Colorado to that list.  Specializing in therapeutic massage, Myofascial Release, Neuromuscular Therapy, Acupressure, Reflexology, and Thai Massage. She is currently completing her Yoga teaching certificate in order to further her understanding of Kinesiology, and recently completed further certification in Somatic Experiencing (how the body processes/stores trauma), leading her back to school where she is working on a degree in Psychology.

Available by appointment: Request your session here.

Genesis Dionne - Hypnotherapy, Empowement Coaching, Feng Shui

"From the depths of emotion to the heights of creation- so the pendulum swings."

-Genesis Dionne

Genesis is a certified Rapid Transformational Therapist, Hypnotherapist and Master of the Subconscious Mind.  She has spent the last twenty years consulting with individuals and business owners to expand consciousness, happiness as well as streams of income.  As the Empowerment Coach at LBL Genesis works with our members teaching techniques to overcome emotional trauma blocking the development of our deepest desires.  Some examples of her 3 hour sessions include Badass Body Awareness, Limitless Career & Abundance Success and Attracting Your Soul Mate for your Limitless Life!

Emma Horne - Ayurvedic Therapist

Emma Horne, the owner and founder of Ahimsa Herbals, a certified Yoga Teacher, Reiki Drum Practitioner, and an Ayurvedic Therapist.  

She spent her childhood a bit of a daydreamer, playing in fields, wading through rivers, exploring forests, and riding her bike. Mindless gossip and dull conversation felt so boring. The stars, the moon, and the woods were so much more appealing.

Emma’s creative outlet over the last few years, whilst she raised 2 gorgeous girls as a stay-at-home Mom, has been mixing, formulating, blending, playing, whipping, heating, and experimenting with different, herbs, oils, and flowers.

Every product created for you and healing session she facilitates, she aims to honor the wonders of nature, weaving her love of Ayurvedic wisdom with other folk traditions, to help elevate your day with so much love and intention.

Tricia Tate - QHHT, Integrative Energetics

Tricia is an Integrative Holistic Practitioner, Intuitive Crystal Healer, and the Owner/Creatrix of WildQuartz and is passionate about offering you a wide variety of tools to assist you to take empowered action and create the life you truly desire. 

She strives to provide you the roadmap to spiritual awakening and solutions to overcome your old coping mechanisms, unwanted cycles and patterns, and to heal past experiences so you can live a life filled with joy, authenticity, and abundance. Her passion is truly to help you find the answers you are searching for within your subconscious/shadow and to help bring students back into Mind, Body, and Spirit balance.  

Tricia is certified as a Usui Reiki Master Teacher, Quantum Reiki Master, QHHT L2, Breathwork Instructor, Alchemist, and Compassion Key Practitioner. She combines these skills and many others with her spiritual gifts to become the bridge that will guide you and empower you to become the best version of yourself so you can live a heart-centered life of sacred connection to your higher guidance.

She is available by appointment for Past-Life Regression with QHHT ( Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique), Intuitive Energy Healing Sessions, Shamanic Journeys, Sound Healing/Gong Baths, and Custom Intuitively Created Jewelry.

Heaven Leigh - Yoga, Reiki

Heaven Leigh is a holistic healer whose presence allows for the best parts of self to be held up to the light. She works with tools such as the tarot, tantric yoga, sound healing, and reiki to tap you into the unseen realms, bringing you into alignment with purpose, and fostering a strong connection with your highest good.

We all have our own heavenly energy within, it is her purpose to remind you of your own, for you are your own best healer- and sometimes we just need to be guided or reminded.  

Heaven has been studying Tarot, Meditation, Astrology, Yoga, Energy Work, Sound Therapy and Trauma informed healing techniques for 6 years, and has used these tools on her own journey into recovery from addiction, destructive survival skills and poor mindsets. 

She has vowed to turn her darkness into light by helping others through similar situations as her own.

Check her out hosting local events and retreats in the Northern Colorado area, or book a private and/or virtual appointment.

Josie Lopez - Yoga

Josie is a Colorado native and has been living in Fort Collins since 2016. She is currently completing a B.S. in Health and Exercise Science with a concentration in Sports Medicine at CSU.

Josie has been teaching yoga since 2014, she strives to help others reconnect in the philosophical ideas of yoga. She pays close attention to detail when designing classes with the intent to invoke all your senses. Her class connects the body, mind, and spirit with a focus on alignment and accessibility. Her goal is that you leave each class feeling inspired and challenged. Josie believes that yoga can be healing and transformational when the practitioner fully devotes themselves to the practice.

Jean Parker-Renga - Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Reiki

Jean started practicing yoga in 2002 as a way to connect with the breath while running. Since then, her regular practice and breath work led her to get certified in a therapeutic modality called Viniyoga in 2011 and continue studies since. She’s a registered yoga teacher with the National Yoga Alliance with over 500 hours of training and specializes in prenatal and postpartum yoga and yoga for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Jean sets a calming atmosphere and creates an environment for self-reflection and a better understanding of the body through asana, pranayama and meditation in her class. By addressing the mind-body connection, Jean’s classes can be an experience to turn what holds us back into self-discipline and growth. She incorporates meditation, pranayama and asana into each practice to create a well-rounded experience to allow students to embrace the ever-changing self, take care of aches and pains, and connect more deeply.

She’s the owner of Lily’s Cocoon and you can place a custom order for a mala or supportive gemstone jewelry piece here.

Samantha Lieurance - Yoga

Sam has been teaching yoga since she finished her 200-hour teacher training in 2007. In 2022, she earned her 500-hour certification. Students love Sam’s energy and creative classes. They go to her classes for a deep dive into the mechanics of yoga, a fun challenge, and a lot of encouragement. Sam believes that playing more and breathing deeper can help you find greater awareness in your mind, body, and breath. 

Sarah Franco - Aerial Yoga, Yoga

Sarah Beatriz is a registered yoga, meditation, and spiritual teacher from Miami, Florida. Her devotion to this path is endlessly growing and she remains a student even while teaching. She believes in the power of deep spiritual, mental, energetic, and physical healing through Yoga; as it has led her on her own journey of self-rediscovery and embodiment. Her yogic path began 10 years ago, having a previous dance background in the performing arts world. Her teaching journey launched 6 years ago after shifting career paths from Cardiac Sonography to health science.

She has now accumulated close to 5,000 hours of teaching experience and is certified over 600 hours through Yoga Alliance with several continuing education training programs. She teaches Hatha, Vinyasa, Aerial, Sivananda, Yin,  Restorative, and Chair Yoga. Sarah has also studied Ayurveda, the sister science of Yoga, providing private Ayurvedic Coaching sessions to incorporate a more holistic method of healing recognizing the body, mind, and spiritual interconnectedness to overall health. In addition, Sarah leads powerful meditation workshops on Nada Yoga (yoga of sound), Pranayama (vital force harnessing through breath), Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep), and many more specialty events.

Her curiosity for natural healing has also invited her to become certified in an Introduction to Herbalism and Medicine Making program and a Reiki Level 1 certification. She has most recently completed a spiritual healing program, Soul Realignment: through Akashic Record Channeling, and looks forward to sharing this soul-activating modality with her students. Her intention for you is to offer guidance, inspire self-transformation, share yogic wisdom, meditation, radical love, natural healing, empowerment, and self-realization. She seeks to offer expansive wisdom and integration for an abundant life.   

Request a private session with Sarah here.

Rachel Dirks - Yoga Therapy, Reiki, Sound Therapy

Rachel Defines yoga as a place where life can be invited to take a breath, while you engage in active movements and positive mindsets; a decompressing act of self-care and self-connecting. As a mom of three boys, she fondly refers to yoga as her “happy mat”.

Rachel’s classes are light-spirited in their nature. She evokes a mentality of non-judgement with a gentle smile. Welcoming all levels, she strongly feels that anybody doing yoga is the perfect yoga body.

Rachel received her 200 RYT Yoga Alliance certificate in March of 2018 through School Yoga institute in Costa Rica. She completed pain care aware training in October, 2023. She completed a 300-hour Yoga therapy level 1 training in December, 2023. Rachel is currently working towards completing her 800-hour yoga therapy training, through inner peace Yoga therapy. Rachel also is a master reiki practitioner and sound healer. She specializes in Vinyasa, Hatha, Restorative and yin yoga. Her expression is love and her teachings are that of understanding, peace and a bit of humor. She encourages flexibility of the body, mind and spirit, her goal is to leave you feeling grounded and embraced. It is her hope that in finding your happy place on the mat, you can more easily find your happy place off the mat and in the world.

Kalika Ahuja - Yoga and Philosophy

Kali started her yoga journey five years ago here in Fort Collins. Yoga offered a sense of calm, centering, and acceptance that she was searching for. Through her exploration of different styles she found her way to vinyasa. She had been taken away by the fluidity of vinyasa and sustained by the more subtle practices of pranayama, meditation, and mantra. The experience of being lost in her own moving meditation and a desire to deepen her practices pushed her to pursue teacher training, she received her certification in spring 2012. Kali teaches a creative, highly energetic vinyasa class which philosophy, focused alignment, and various meditation practices are threaded through. She is grateful to all the yoga teachers and students who continue to challenge and inspire her. Yoga has enriched her life in ways she never imagined and hopes to share her experiences with her students encouraging them to dive deeper into their own practice and create the space for change.

Steph Jay - Massage and Yoga

Steph Jay is a massage therapist, yoga instructor and sound healer from Loveland Colorado. Her love of music and performance inspired her discovery of sound healing. She has has been writing and performing music since she was little. She studied to become a yoga instructor and uncovered her love for the body and movement. Multifaceted, creative and passionate, Steph Jay aims to combine her love for bodywork, movement and sound healing for the ultimate sensory experience that asks one to slow down, stay curious and go deep & within.

Noa Zidenberg - Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga

Born and raised in Israel, Noa first started practicing yoga in a studio next to her apartment. She immediately fell in love with the practice and has practiced in many different styles over many years leading her to deepen her practice and take the leap into teacher training and teaching yoga! Noa has completed teacher training in the styles of Hatha-Raja in Israel and Vinyasa in the U.S.

Mary Ann Kolodny - Aerial and Ground Yoga

Have courage to follow your passion. There is no age limit to trying/learning something new.

Mary Ann has always been interested in health, fitness and well being. Introduced to silks yoga by a friend with a studio in Bend, Oregon ignited an interest in finding a local studio and becoming certified to teach. She would love to guide you in using the silk as a prop that offers everyone the freedom and joy of  inversions along with other asanas/postures while being supported by the fabric. 

Gnosis (G) Rena Mercado - Yoga, Aerial Yoga

About Gnosis: (pronounced Know-Sis) aka Lightworker "G" grew up in an alternative way of life, living in big cities of the world, utilizing holistic and meditative practices and the ways of some the last living warriors of peace on earth. The account of her experiences and expertise in health and healing combined with learned earth magic allows for the facilitation of ritual movement to be a full circle to the place of here + the time of now. 

Gnosis has been practicing aerial yoga and other aerial arts since 2017 with the LBL family and took the LBL Aerial Yoga TT in 2020 and has since taught in Denver and in Fort Collins! She loves combining meditative practice with the practice of fearless flying into her classes. Expect to be relaxed to what you are naturally ready to release and awakened to what you are capable of in her beginner-friendly classes.

Daniel Parsons - Aerial Yoga

Daniel's yoga journey began in 2017 at a lovely yoga studio in Anchorage, Alaska - Deha Yoga. He fell in love with the physical challenges and mental benefits offered in yoga classes. In particular, he appreciates how humbling it is to go through a slow yoga flow, compared to lifting heavy at the gym! His favorite yoga classes are challenging but slower paced.

He joined Live Beyond Limit as a student in October 2021 and promptly found a love for aerial yoga - especially spending time upside down, and being able to access balancing poses that have not been accessible on the ground.

He is very active in yoga, aerial yoga, aerial silks, and lifting. He shares his home with 2 cats, Floppie and MrKitty. He is also a violinist, a birder, and loves to cook fancy, delicious meals.

Daniel's just starting to teach, and is looking forward to sharing his love of aerial yoga with others. He hopes to introduce more people to aerial yoga, especially those who are unsure they can do it. He is passionate about ensuring that all classes have ample modifications and are accessible to everyone!

Drake Bruner - Aerial Instructor/Performer, Flexibility and Handbalancing

“Dazzling” Drake is a professional aerialist, contortionist, circus artist and coach. Live Beyond Limit has been their home studio since 2015. They also perform regularly at The Clocktower Cabaret in Denver.

They prioritize joy and queer inclusion in their teaching and performing and specialize in silks, sling, spinning, and contortion.

Set up a private coaching session today.

Jennifer Nastu - Aerial Sling/hammock, silks

Jennifer began her aerial journey at the age of 49 after a sports injury had her feeling frustrated and unhealthy. She found Live Beyond Limit by Googling “fun exercise in Fort Collins.” After her first class, she asked, “Do you think I’d ever be able to teach this?” Three years later, after diving obsessively into silks, sling and lyra, she began her teacher training. Now you can fly with her in beginner to advanced-beginner sling and silks classes for kids and adults as she continues to work on healthy body mobility while having fun.

No matter your age, shape, or fitness level, Jen is here to help you move your body in classes that are dynamic, energetic and fun. Whether you’re already pumped to start, or want to take a class but feel intimidated, Jen is excited to help you begin your journey and to remind you that life doesn’t have to be a chore, and exercise doesn’t have to be dull!

When Jen isn’t in the air, she can be found writing for her online environmental news publication, reading, paddle- or snowboarding, playing with her family, drinking margaritas with her friends, or enjoying everything else that Colorado has to offer. 

Come join Jen — she believes anybody can become what she calls an “aerialistocrat,” so give aerial a try and become part of the aerialistocracy!

Kayla Okland- lyra

Nicole willis - ground & air fitness, Mobility, lyra

Emily Bunch - Lyra and Dance

Emily grew up in Tacoma, Washington and started dancing there when she was 3 years old.  She has been involved in all types of dance including ballet, jazz, contemporary, pole, burlesque, and lyra.  Emily has a passion for aerial arts and movement of all kinds.  She enjoys teaching lyra and learning new skills she can share with others.  Emily is also a licensed esthetician with an interest in advanced skin care treatments.  When she is not in the studio, Emily loves to work on her art.  Her favorite art mediums are painting and drawing.  She also loves spending time with her two dogs and two cats.  Her goal is to share her love for creative movement with others.   

Dr. Stephanie Morphet-Tepp - Aerial and Performance Coach

Dr. Stephanie Little Thunder Morphet-Tepp, known on the stage as The Flying Brain, is a full-time performer and circus educator. She has worked with nationally and internationally touring circuses such as Garden Brothers’ Circus, Great Benjamin’s Circus, The Vampire Circus, and Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, as well as Denver’s premiere circus company The Phantom Circus, where she is also an executive assistant.

The Flying Brain specializes in aerial hoop, aerial chains, and hula hoops, although her greatest joy is performing and sharing the art of hair hang. Dr. Morphet-Tepp also coaches fabric, including sling and silks, artistry, partner work, fire safety and performance, and flexibility. You may have seen her on the TV screen as a competitor on season 2 of TBS’ Go-Big Show. She also acquired a Guinness World Record for her hair work in 2022. Additionally, The Flying Brain is a member of the American Circus Alliance and a board member of the American Circus Educators/American Youth Circus Organization.

Her passion is bringing the circus to all, especially people who don’t think they can do it or have been told by other coaches they can’t do it. Yes, yes you can!

Becca Lorfeld (She/her) - ComMunity Coordinator, Yoga

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Becca earned her Associate of Science in Madison with an interest in kinesiology and exercise science. With a background in dance, team sports, and functional fitness, she turned to yoga as a way to unite and reconnect to herself. After developing a personal practice for years, she decided to try studio yoga classes. Within a year, Covid ended her studio practice. While still practicing at home, she wanted to further deepen her yoga practice and education. She received her 500 hr YTT, as well as certifications in Yoga Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Ayurvedic Nutrition, and Mindfulness Coaching. She enjoys practicing grounded, slower paced yoga with curiosity, freedom, and mindfulness. Since joining the LBL family, she’s had the opportunity to incorporate aerial yoga, as well.

She moved out to Fort Collins in the summer of 2021, in hopes of exploring new experiences. In her free time, she enjoys casually hiking and biking, cooking delicious vegan meals and sweet treats, attending concerts at Red Rocks, and embracing the Colorado life!

Anastasia Timina - Aerial Silks, Sling, Trapeze

Anastasia has been a professional aerialist since 2013.  Her movement style is dark and dramatic, a mixture of slow hypnotic movement and fast dynamic sequences. Her em8phasis is on fascinating shapes and clean lines all while upholding the illusion of defying gravity.

She loves storytelling through elaborate costuming, body language, and music selection. Just like her oil paintings, she likes her aerial acts to visually make a statement.

In her free time, Anastasia can be found drawing, making costumes, and cuddling with her cats.

Nicole Londraville - Aerial Silks, Sling, Rope, Trapeze

Nicole was working as a scientist in the Boston area when she took her first aerial class in 2011. She instantly fell in love and began training recreationally for several years. In July 2015 she was admitted into Esh Circus Arts Professional Preparatory Program. Nicole spent two and a half years in the program training circus, dance, and physical theater with the goal of taking this hobby to a full time profession. In 2017 her hard work paid off when she was accepted into the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) Protrack Program. Without hesitation she quit her job and moved herself, her husband, dog, and two cats to Brattleboro Vermont. There she spent the next two fabulous years training circus full time under NECCA’s world class coaches. Nicole graduated from the second year of the program in June 2019 with a major in aerial rope and minor in cyr wheel. In August 2019 Nicole moved to Denver and started teaching at several Denver studios. Since moving to Denver Nicole has worked at Moth Contemporary Circus, Aerial Cirque Over Denver, Iluminar Aerial, and Frequent Flyers. She has also performed with local circus companies including In the Wings, Phantom Circus, Rainbow Militia, Moth Poetic Circus, and Frequent Flyers. Nicole is very excited to share her love and knowledge of this beautiful art form with the Fort Collins Circus Community. 

Marlo Rulon (She/Her) - Aerial Hammock/Sling, Silk

Marlo started aerial silks in 2019, and added sling, lyra and loops to her aerial training soon after. And she started performing a little over a year later in 2020 on the fabrics. When not in the air, she can be found crafting, or working on her latest costume design for her next performance. Marlo hopes to make her classes challenging, inclusive and supportive for everyone starting out or continuing their aerial journey.

Kalypso Laviolette - Lover and Cuddler

Kalypso loves to love and is our owner’s Service Animal, though she serves as our unofficial therapy dog for the whole facility when Kate is in the space. She was rescued from Animal Friends Alliance in 2022 during Kate's traumatic brain injury recovery and has been pivotal for Kate’s recovery, mental health, and physical awareness. Now serves to uplift the whole community as well!

She'll be happy to greet you with a small “woo” from her husky side and loves getting to love on you, receive pets when she’s awake, and long naps during classes…often with all four paws in the air!

Gracyn Conniff - Yoga

I began my yoga journey in high school as a way to heal from a sports injury. I quickly fell in love with the way that yoga made me feel physically, mentally and spiritually. After I graduated high school in the middle of the pandemic, I decided to take a break from school and move from Fort Worth, TX to Fort Collins, CO. It was then that I decided to take my 200 hour Teacher Training course at Loveland Community Yoga to try and find my path in life. My teacher training was incredibly transformative and pushed me to realize that teaching and practicing yoga is what I hope to do for the rest of my life. I earned my teaching certificate in 2021 and am currently enrolled in Advanced Yoga Teacher training to earn my 500 hour certificate.

I mostly enjoy teaching restorative/yin/vinyasa flows and I also enjoy teaching children's yoga! As I continue on my journey of learning and growing in the yoga world I hope to build community and spread love and knowledge wherever I get the pleasure of teaching at.