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Glenmore Staff

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.


Cheryl Bergh, RYT-200, CMT, completed Massage School in March of this year. She’s been a Glenmore student since 2009, and completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in 2010. She is currently enrolled in the 500 hour teacher training, and teaches therapeutic yoga at Sheltering Arms, The Crossings at Bon Air, Masonic Homes, and Beth Shalom Home through Glenmore. She offers relaxation massage, including trigger point and deep tissue work and neuromuscular therapy. Cheryl also offers reflexology and Reiki.

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 each day and each situation. Erin completed 200-hour teacher training at Glenmore in 2009 and teaches adults, children and prenatal yoga. A UVA graduate, Erin worked in the consulting and financial industries and is now a stay-at-home mom with 2 young children. Erin loves the way that yoga links the mind and body through the breath and how it not only affects each of us who practice in very positive ways, but also those we come into contact with each day.

Debbie Hamilton, RN, CEIM, spent her career as a dedicated NICU nurse for 24 years. She assisted in the opening of the first community Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Richmond area. Debbie’s real love was caring for premature infants and newborns needing specialized care. She is currently certified as an Educator of Infant Massage through Infant Massage USA. Her focus is educating parents on the many benefits of infant massage and teaching them the techniques of therapeutic massage. She feels we can have a positive impact in the lives of our children through infant massage, saying “We can make a difference, one baby at a time.” In her spare time Debbie enjoys making pottery, reading, practicing therapeutic yoga and designing jewelry.

Susan Jones completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification in October 2011.  A firm believer in the mind-body connection, she considers yoga to be a fitness discipline (both physical and mental) that can be of life-long benefit. Susan took her first yoga class on a whim, but soon discovered its therapeutic benefits for pain management, stress management and attitude adjustment!  She hopes to inspire each of her students to deepen and personalize their yoga practice, so that it continues to bring them good health and fulfillment throughout their life. Susan teaches Gentle and Ageless Yoga classes.

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. 

Kristen Martin completed her 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification in May 2011 at Glenmore. She was first drawn to the practice of yoga to strengthen the body and increase flexibility. Her practice has evolved over the years, and she now appreciates the sense of balance it brings to her life, in addition to the numerous physical benefits. She practiced prenatal yoga when she was pregnant with her daughter and credits it for a mostly pain-free pregnancy and a quick postnatal recovery. Kristen finds yoga to be a highly effective tool in dealing with everyday stress as well as a way to practice mindfulness and presence and wishes to share these benefits with her students. She teaches Prenatal Yoga, Mom and Baby Yoga, and Ashtanga at Glenmore.

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.

Heather Hoesel Rutherford, RYT-500, teaches a wide variety of classes at Glenmore including Level 1, 2, and 3, Ageless Yoga, and Gentle Yoga. Heather, who has scoliosis, says yoga makes her feel better by lengthening, stretching and strengthening her back.




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 coordinates Glenmore’s Yoga for the Child Bearing Years Program. 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 Ashtanga Fusion.

Susan Wolski, E-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.