Tony Ricci

Tony’s relationship with yoga began in 2007 when he walked into Yoga Tonic and attended Annie Jacobs’ Introduction to Yoga series. What began as a personal practice became a way of life, deepening his awareness of the connection between body, breath, and mind and leading him to explore meditation and the broader teachings of yoga.

In 2017, Tony began teaching at the Salida Detention Center, where he continues to teach weekly and leads an annual 12-week mindfulness course. This work has deepened his passion for serving others and his belief in yoga and mindfulness as tools for self-awareness, resilience, and change.

After a 25-year career as a stonemason, Tony retired in 2022 and traveled to Nepal to complete his 200-hour yoga teacher training. He continues to study mindfulness meditation, yoga anatomy, and trauma-informed yoga while teaching throughout the United States and internationally.

Tony’s teaching is slow, gentle, and mindful, emphasizing breath, sensation, and awareness rather than performance. He invites students to turn inward, listen, and reconnect with themselves.

Now the owner of Yoga Tonic, Tony hopes to honor the studio’s legacy while creating an intentional, welcoming space where people can slow down, connect, and come home to themselves.

Annie Jacob

Annie Jacob creates heart-centered spaces to explore the sacred connection between body, emotions, mind, and spirit. Through Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, Ecstatic Dance, and Intuitive Art, Annie guides students in connecting with their sacred body temple and accessing Shakti—the feminine spiritual energy within.

Annie facilitates Moon Ceremonies, Red Tents, Women’s Circles, rites of passage, initiations, and retreats. She enjoys supporting women through life’s thresholds and transitions, offering practices and experiences that invite healing, empowerment, remembrance, and awakening.

Annie founded Yoga Tonic in 2006 and, for 19 years, nurtured it as a space for healing, connection, and community. Her path has been shaped by extensive study in Anusara Yoga, ParaYoga and Tantra, meditation, Ayurveda, 5Rhythms, Intuitive Art, Priestess traditions, Astrology, and the Feminine Mysteries. She is also initiated in the Sri Vidya and Rose Lineages.

A mother of three, Annie lives with her family in the mountains of Salida, Colorado, where she continues to offer in-person experiences and serve her community.

Her intention is simple: to hold a loving, accepting, and nurturing space where one can slow down, listen deeply, reconnect with themselves, and remember the wisdom already held within. Learn more at www.anniejacob.com

Kate Gross

Yoga is a deeply personal complement to your evolution and Kate is incredibly thrilled and humbled to share with you that which she’s learned on the Yogic path. Everything you could ever want to know about Yoga already resides within You, and in Kate’s classes you can expect to feel gratitude for the time-tested wisdom traditions that help us to realize our True Nature. Some of the methods used in Kate’s classes include safe alignment cueing, intentional breath work (pranayama) practices, guided visualizations and meditations. The seasonal and weather environments often inspire her class themes. Kate feels gentle and easy when she contemplates the impact that Yoga has on her life and she wants you to feel that soft peacefulness, too.
Kate had studied 500hrs of Yoga with Axis Yoga Trainings in Denver, CO and she is so blessed to know and love her Yoga teachers, including Derek Eselius, Brenna Hatami, Beth Sanchez, and Susan Bernhardt. Kate has also studied with The Prison Yoga Project, Love Your Brain (Yoga for brain health and people living with TBIs), Yoga Nidra (with Jeremy Wolf), Restorative Yoga (with Christine Whittle), and Trauma-Informed Yoga (with somatic therapist Marissa Angeletti).

Carla Jaramillo

Carla completed her 500-hour yoga teacher training at High Desert Yoga in New Mexico in 2009. She is a lifelong student who continues to deepen her practice through yoga, meditation, and the wisdom shared by fellow teachers and students. Yoga and meditation have given Carla practical tools for meeting life’s changing circumstances with greater presence, resilience, and compassion. Her teaching invites students to explore their practice with curiosity and kindness, creating a welcoming space to discover greater ease in body and mind, both on and off the mat. Her classes emphasize functional alignment and mindful movement, incorporating props, verbal guidance, and hands-on adjustments (only when welcomed) to support each student’s individual needs and encourage a practice that honors their unique body. In Yoga Nidra, she gently guides students into a state of conscious rest, offering an opportunity to release habitual tension, quiet the mind, and reconnect with a deeper sense of wholeness and well-being.

Miriah Stieglitz

My name is Miriah, and I am thrilled to teach beginner-friendly Vinyasa Flow at Tonic in Salida. My classes offer an accessible, welcoming space for beginners while providing creative options for advanced practitioners to grow. Each flow is uniquely themed around one of the seven Chakras, integrating mindful movement, intentional breathwork, and a focused affirmation to bring alignment to your day. I love to build curated playlists, using the rhythm and pace of the music to guide the energy of our movement.

My yoga journey began in college out of a deep love for somatic movement. It eventually led me to Baja, where I earned my 200-hour yoga certification in a deeply meditative setting. Whenever life feels overwhelming, yoga is the anchor that restores my peace and brings me back to myself. I can't wait to connect, share this space, and flow with you!

Lindsey Hartnett Martin

Lindsey is a long time practitioner of Iyengar yoga by way of restoration from big mountain adventures. She studied locally with Brenda Fleming 2003-2019. She continues to study with a variety of Iyengar certified teachers across the country. She lived and taught regular classes in the Gunnison Valley from 2003-2019 and currently resides and teaches alignment based yoga in the Arkansas River Valley since 2019. Her continued exploration of the Iyengar method includes a diverse use of specialized props in a restorative way.

Kate McMahon

Kate McMahon has been practicing and teaching yoga since becoming certified through Yoga Medicine in 2017. Over the years, her love of yoga has continued to grow through ongoing education, including training in myofascial release.

Kate is also an ICU Charge RN at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado. Working in critical care has given her a deep appreciation for the human body and the remarkable ways it communicates with us. This experience has influenced the way she approaches yoga—with curiosity, compassion, and a strong belief that our bodies are constantly giving us information if we slow down enough to listen.

Her classes blend Hatha, flow, and myofascial release, creating opportunities to both challenge and restore the body. Kate enjoys helping students explore how movement, breath, sensation, and awareness can create a deeper connection between the mind and body.

For Kate, yoga is not about achieving the perfect pose. It is about becoming more present, learning to listen to your body, and discovering what you need in each moment. Her goal is to create a welcoming space where students can move with intention, explore their edges, and leave feeling a little more connected, grounded, and restored.

Roni Wright

Roni has been guiding students through their yoga practice since completing her teacher training in 2013. A former ballet studio owner, Roni discovered yoga as a natural evolution of her love for movement and immediately felt called to share it. Her practice is rooted in Ashtanga, though her passion spans all styles and traditions.

To deepen her connection to the lineage of yoga, Roni has journeyed to India twice and continues to hone her craft through immersive workshops. Off the mat, she helps clients navigate book programs and serves her community as a dedicated volunteer supporting the arts in Salida.