Teachers

Amber Huttner
Owner and ERYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher)

Amber Huttner is a highly trained, well known, certified Anusara Yoga Teacher. Teaching for 11 years and practicing for 16, she brings a wealth of technical expertise along with humor, compassion and heart-felt instruction to her sessions. Amber’s clients benefit from her enthusiasm for life and dedication to helping them learn and heal on every level.

The Anusara certification program is recognized as one of the most comprehensive, technically advanced yoga trainings available. It is not unusual for the certification process, once begun, to last 4 or more years. Amber was certified in 2001 with Anusara Yoga. There are a limited number of Anusara certifications awarded.  She is number 39 of only 220 worldwide.

Her teaching experience includes working in studios, country clubs, destination resorts, a world-renowned rehabilitation center as well as fitness facilities.

Prior to her yogic lifestyle change, she held various traditional corporate managerial sales positions. Graduate of Macalester College, St. Paul, she lives in Deephaven with her husband, Paul, of 24 years and their beautiful 13-year-old son, Luke.

Stacy Ruse,  BA, RYT, PHR
Stacy first encountered yoga as a college student in the late 1990’s. Yoga became a tool in overcoming generalized anxiety and improving athletic performance. She has been a devoted student ever since, and became a certified yoga teacher (CYT) in 2003. Stacy has a strong sports background and loves to balance her classes with strength building, flexibility and breathing techniques to calm the mind, while improving overall health and fitness. Stacy was certified at 7 Centers Teacher’s Training School and working toward certification in Anusara Yoga.

Her deep passion for holistic health opened the door for continuous graduate level studies in nutrition, energy medicine and humanistic psychology from both western and eastern point of views. Her background also includes a B.A. from the University of Colorado-Boulder in Psychology, work towards an MBA and a certification in Professional Human Resources. Over 8 years experience working in HR Management, Stacy specialized in conducting world class training programs and providing employee counseling services. 

Tori Gagne, RYT Anusara-inspired Teacher
Tori  has been a student of yoga for over 11 years and has been teaching yoga for 6 years.  She is certified at the 500 hour level and is certified as an Anusara Inspired™ teacher.  She is currently working toward her Anusara® Certification; one of the yoga industry’s  most well respected, professional and demanding trainings.   Tori  teaches with compassion and inspiration, with the desire to honor each student’s unique capacities.

Prior to teaching yoga Tori ran a garden design business for 15 years then sold it to raise her family. Tori lives in Orono with her husband of 22 years, her 16 year old daughter and son, and 19 year old son.

In her spare time Tori likes playing tennis, biking, horseback riding, skiing, knitting and reading.



Debbie Haon, RYT, LVCYT
Debbie began taking yoga 6 years ago as a form of exercise for her health. In 2004, after being diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, yoga became a way of life. She realized that yoga was a healing tool and that pain would disappear while practicing. Wanting to share her discovery with others led her to become certified to teach from the Yoga Center in Minneapolis. Debbie also recently completed the certification for Lakshmi Voelker’s Chair yoga (LVCYT) so that she can help people who have trouble getting down on the floor to enjoy the many benefits of yoga. She is currently an intern in the Professional Yoga Therapist program (PYT) program and upon completion of the program, will be able to assist people “one-on-one” and at a group level. Practicing and sharing yoga with others continues to be her life’s passion. Debbie graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.S. in Communication Disorders. She lives in Orono with her husband of 17 years and their 16-year-old daughter.

Gigi Jabbour, RYT
At the age of 16, Gigi first began studying Iyengar yoga in hope to minimize her back and neck problems. Many years later, Yoga-Mama classes she attended regularly throughout her difficult pregnancies proved to strengthen her trust in yoga’s ability to transform her to a state of improved wellness.

A tumor on Gigi’s pituitary gland (at the base of the brain) gave her Cushing’s Disease and she underwent neurosurgery in 2004 for its removal and again in 2007 when it reoccurred. The recovery from Cushing’s and the surgery was devastatingly difficult – physically, mentally and spiritually. She credits her return to a yoga practice for her return to wellness – body, mind and spirit.

In gratitude to all that yoga has done to improve her life, Gigi committed to giving back by be coming a Yoga Alliance certified Registered Yoga Teacher. She completed a year-long study at the Yoga Center of Minneapolis, with Amber Huttner (ERYT) as her mentor.

Gigi has a deep connection to the principles and heart of Anusara Yoga. She has had the honor to study with Anusara’s founder, John Friend several times, most recently on a ten-day tour of Scotland.

Her classes provide a safe, supportive, non-competitive, fun, wellness-promoting, strengthening, heart-opening and graciousness experience. Gigi feels that it is honor to teach and welcomes you to join in the journey.