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Glenmore Teachers

Sue Agee, RN, RYT-500, worked in the Richmond area as a nurse for 20 years. Her deepening interest in the connection of mind, body, and spirit and how it all relates to health and wellness led her to yoga. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in both Nursing and Biology. Sue teaches a wide variety of classes at Glenmore including Gentle, Ageless Yoga, Level 1, 2, and 3, and Prenatal.


Holly Barr, RYT-200, completed her training at Glenmore and is a 200-hour level yoga instructor registered with Yoga Alliance. For Holly yoga is a way to let go of stress and build strength. Holly is also a reading coach at Chickahominy Middle School in Hanover County. She received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in reading from Radford University. Holly helps coordinate the children’s program at Glenmore.


Rodney C. Bradley, MS, PT, RYT-200, holds a B.S. in Education/Sports Medicine and an M.S. in Physical Therapy/Community Health Professions. Rodney is a licensed physical therapist primarily in long term care/geriatrics but also practices in hospitals and outpatient clinics and provides clinical consulting. Rodney teaches yoga with a meditative but strong, flowing style and sees yoga as a path for any individual to work from where they are to achieve balance of body/mind/spirit for overall wellness. Rodney is trained in jazz and tap dance. He designed and teaches YogaDance, a lively blend of yoga postures, dance and upbeat music. Rodney also teaches Level 2, and Level 3 Vinyasa.

Lois Broocker, RYT-200, began practicing yoga to help alleviate pain from recurrent back discomfort and immobility. She soon realized that practicing Yoga has immeasurable benefits. Lois has an MS in Early Childhood Education and has taught third grade, as well as preschoolers at Canterbury Community Nursery School. Her focus is helping her students deepen their own Yoga practice and teaches Gentle and Ageless Yoga classes.

Erin Forsyth, RYT-200, began practicing to stay fit but quickly learned yoga was a wonderful way to bring peace to a stressful life. Erin trained at Glenmore and is a 200 hour registered instructor. A UVA graduate, Erin worked in the Consulting and Financial industries and is now a stay-at-home mom with 2 young children. Erin helps coordinate the children’s program at Glenmore and believes children who begin practicing yoga early will be better prepared to handle life’s challenges as adults.

Kim Leibowitz, RYT-200, teaches Level 1, Level 2, Gentle,and Ageless yoga. Kim developed Glenmore’s Yoga for Chronic Pain program based on her personal experience with chronic pain and how yoga can mediate its effects. She has struggled with fibromyalgia for over 20 years and has found significant mental and physical relief through yoga. Kim discovered yoga in 2001 after years of trying many unsuccessful remedies to ease muscle and joint pain and fatigue. Now she is committed to helping others find significant pain relief through yoga.  Kim is a certified 200 hour instructor and a registered member of Yoga Alliance.  She is also a marketing consultant and graduate-level adjunct professor at VCU’s Center for Sport Leadership. 

Traci McKinley, RYT-200, CMT, is a licensed massage therapist and National Certified by the Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. She trained in Tucson, Arizona at the Desert Institute of the Healing Arts. Traci has been in practice since 1998.  She specializes in deep tissue massage with trigger point and myofascial release, thai yoga massage, prenatal, and reflexology. Traci is a certified 200 hour level yoga instructor registered with Yoga Alliance. She has been practicing yoga for over ten years. She has a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Tech.

Carey Phillips, CMT, is a NCBTMB certified massage therapist.  She trained at the Institute of Massage Therapies in Richmond, VA. She offers her clients Swedish/relaxation and wellness massage, as well as deep tissue, trigger point and myofascial release, orthopedic medical massage, pregnancy massage and reflexology. Carey enjoys working with clients and helping to restore the body’s natural function and support the body’s ability to heal.  She is currently pursuing her certification as an Energy Medicine Practitioner. Originally from Scottsdale, AZ, Carey now lives with her husband and two daughters in Goochland County.

Heather Hoesel Rutherford, RYT-200, teaches a wide variety of classes at Glenmore including Level 1, 2, and 3, Ageless Yoga, and Gentle Yoga and coordinates Glenmore’s Yoga for the Child Bearing Years Program. Heather, who has scoliosis, says yoga makes her feel better by lengthening, stretching and strengthening her back. She particularly enjoys teaching the prenatal classes, saying “That’s really fun because you get to see their belly get bigger and bigger.”

Kerry Shultz, RYT-200, began practicing yoga as a stress management tool to deal with her hectic corporate setting job. Yoga captured her heart so she took the Teacher’s Training Program at Glenmore in 2006-07 and is now a 200-hour level instructor, registered with The Yoga Alliance. Kerry is now a stay at home mom teaching Levels 1, 2 and Prenatal classes. She enjoys teaching yoga to new students, helping them feel more comfortable in their bodies. Her goal is to make yoga achievable for everyone. Kerry earned a BS in Business from Penn State University.

Sarah Thacker, M.A., ATR-BC, RYT-200, is a registered yoga teacher and a registered and board certified art therapist. She completed her training at Glenmore Yoga in May, 2005. Upon graduation from Hofstra University in 2002 Sarah worked with homeless women in Brooklyn, NY who struggled with a variety of emotional, behavioral and physical difficulties. It was there that she first began using yoga as a part of the therapeutic process. After returning to Richmond, VA, she began working as an art therapist with children and adolescents who are emotionally disturbed in a therapeutic day school setting. She believes that practicing Yoga is therapeutic, and an integral aspect of creating a positive balance in mind and body. Sarah teaches Level 1, 2, and 3 at Glenmore.

Jim Theobald, RYT-200. As a practicing attorney and Chairman of one of Virginia’s largest law firms, Jim came to yoga seeking additional tools with which to deal with stress and a better ability to balance the challenges of daily living. Jim teaches Level 1, 2, and Meditative Yoga.




Randi Weiss, RYT-200, has been practicing yoga since 1992. She was drawn to yoga for the variety of physical benefits it offered, but quickly became nurtured by the deeper, emotional rewards. She is grateful for the opportunity as an instructor, to share this insight with her students of all levels. She practiced yoga through the pregnancies of her 3 children and even used relaxation techniques and visualization during labor. Randi enjoys incorporating the many styles of yoga that she has practiced through the years, into her Hatha classes. In particular, emphasizing the vital connection between breath and movement in every pose. Her classes are a mindful balance between exploring one’s strength and finding restoration and peace through a flow of postures. Randi teaches Levels 1, 2, and 3 and Yoga to the Core.

Susan Wolski, RYT-500 hour Yoga Alliance instructor. Susan has taught at Glenmore since 1999. She began her interest in yoga following breast cancer treatment. Her wish is to pass on to others all the positive aspects of yoga that helped her recovery. She also holds a B.A. in Elementary Education. Susan teaches a wide variety of classes at Glenmore including Gentle, Ageless Yoga, Prenatal, Levels 1, 2 and 3.