Meet All Teachers

Dejia Burdick has a passion for fitness in all forms.  She's a certified Yoga Tune Up®, Roll Model® Method, barre and yoga instructor who specializes in creating body positive classes that will leave you feeling better than you ever imagined possible.  Her classes are filled with all of the awesome stuff that you'd expect from a Yoga Tune Up® class, but have the added bonus of awesome playlists and bad jokes.  Find her at Just Add Yoga events in Tacoma and Bohemian Studios (Phinney & West Seattle) in Seattle.  More special events can be found on her website: www.yourzenwithin.com​

Denise Hopkins began her yoga journey after working for 13 years in the NYC fashion industry.  Yoga became her saving grace to the competitive nature of the business.  In 2005, she decided to take the Forrest Yoga training based on gut instinct. It was life changing.  She completed her training with founder Ana Forrest in and has spent over 10 years teaching in NYC and more recently in the Hudson Valley.  She is a Forrest Yoga Mentor (Guardian) Teacher and leads classes, teacher trainings, and retreats nationally. 

Diana is certified in Yoga Tune Up®, the Roll Model Method®, and The Melt Method®.  Along with being a licensed massage therapist, she is also an Upledger® trained Craniosacral Therapist. The common thread within these disciplines is to intentionally engage the body’s tissues in movement and effectively turn on its innate and potent self healing capacity. She discovered yoga and Pilates almost two decades ago during her massage therapy training in New York City.

Diane Marra is an Exercise Physiologist and Biomechanics specialist with more than 20 years’ experience teaching in universities, hospitals, corporate and community settings. Diane holds a Master’s Degree in Kinesiology from California State University and numerous fitness certifications.  Her scientific research, conducted for the US Army Medical Department and California State University, has been presented at international conferences and published in clinical journals.

Empowering self-care through anatomy education, therapeutic movement & nutrition, Dinneen is an experienced movement expert with over 15 years’ experience.
She’s a Yoga Tune Up® & Roll Model® Senior Teacher Trainer, a NeuroKinetic Therapist, a CranioSacral Therapist, a Certified Nutrition Counselor, and a Certified Holistic Health Coach.  In New York City, Dinneen teaches classes  and workshops at Yoga Works, Equinox and CATA.  She also teaches workshops and teacher trainings in the US, Canada and Europe.

Drew Corrigan has worked in the field of massage and bodywork since 1996 and yoga instruction since 2007. Forever a student he loves to nerd out immersing himself in the latest research on fascia, biomechanics, physiology, and nutrition. An Experienced Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher, he is also a Certified Yoga Tune Up® Instructor and Certified Core Strength Vinyasa Teacher. He is currently studying to attain a Certificate III in Fitness with the YMCA.

DUYGU OZKAN, a.k.a DEE is a RYT-200 Yoga Teacher, trained in Yogaworks in Bay Area, CA. She is also a Certified Yoga Tune Up® Teacher & The Roll Model® Method Practitioner. She completed Yoga and the Five Elements 35 Hour Immerision programme which is taught by Nikki Estrada. She also studied with the mentors such as Michele Klink, Hillary Skibell,Sarah Ezrin, Nikki Estrada, Dawn Adams, Laurie Streff and Casey Easton.

Ed has been active in athletic and movement-oriented practices since childhood. He competed in swimming and fencing as well as Modern Pentathlon (which adds  horseback riding, running and pistol shooting) through highschool. Of the many martial arts Ed has practiced, Aikido's blending of spiritual and physical practice, combined with empathic and compassionate training methods, resonated most with him and he holds a Nidan from Aikido Schools of Ueshiba.

I am a devoted yoga nerd who came from a rehab medicine background (I recently retired from a career in occupational therapy) and I'm very experienced in modifying yoga for clients with special needs. I feel that Yoga Tune Up® has given me even more tools to draw on, and I use it extensively in my practice to deal with my own aches, pains and postural samskaras. I love teaching philosophy, meditation and pranayama, and frankly, I think yoga is whatever leads us inward toward insight and outward towards love.