Program Directors
Prema Snyder
E-RYT500, Founder of Omprov Lab and Co-Director of TYI
Prema Snyder is a facilitator of the healing arts, specializing in embodied learning through movement, breath and awareness. She is the founder of Omprov Lab, an innovative space for learning through creative expression. She co-directs the Therapeutic Yoga Institute, a school for yoga teachers at the 200-hour level and continuing education in meditation, fascia and therapeutics. Her guided practices support students in cultivating an “inner-felt sense”, re-framing meaning and exploring new ways of being and moving through life.
Born and raised in Costa Rica, her experience in wellness allows her to facilitate well-rounded spaces for healing, community building and integration.
She studied at the Sat Yoga Ashram from 2012 to 2019, and was later a faculty teacher at Nexus Yoga Institute, facilitating 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings and supporting hundreds of students in graduating as yoga educators. With a background in contemplative religion and psychoanalytic theory, merged with the evolving field of somatics, her education methodology is both empowering and liberating, giving back her students a sense of agency and choice.
Julianne Hutchcraft
RN, BSN, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Ayurveda Yoga Specialist, CTB Practitioner, Owner of Lotus Care KC
Julianne has over 25 years of experience in health and healing combining ancient wisdom with modern science. Over a decade of this time has been invested in the study of biopsychosocial-spiritual therapeutics, with extensive training in yoga as a professional IAYT-Certified Yoga Therapist through the Institute of Interdisciplinary Yoga Studies in Kansas City. Julianne has a unique and valuable skills set in understanding and healing myofascial pain, limited range of motion and injury. She returns annually to the Coaching the Body Institute in Evanston, Illinois to study, as pain science and Integrative Pain Care continue to evolve.
She currently enjoys teaching several weekly therapeutic yoga classes with much of her time and energy dedicated to her private clients. When working with individuals, she offers personalized Yoga Therapy programs rooted in Ayurveda and Yoga philosophy, including therapeutic movement & yoga postures, the Great Yoga Wall, breathwork, meditation, self-inquiry, Thai Yoga concepts, myofascial health, trigger point theory, polyvagal theory, functional anatomy and modern pain science to restore pain-free movement and optimize the health and well-being of body, mind and spirit.