Meet Our Team
Julie (she/her) is dedicated to helping all children develop healthy relationships with the full spectrum of their emotions. Growing up with undiagnosed ADD and anxiety, her work is deeply influenced and informed by her own journey learning how to self-soothe as a young child and experimenting with coping strategies to live in the world more comfortably. Gradually, Julie was introduced to yoga and mindfulness and found in them a power to be with her emotions rather than run from them. Over time, she learned to tap into her breath and lean into discomfort, learning life-long tools to navigate big emotions.
For the past 15 years, she’s pursued opportunities to use these tools in private & public education, substance use centers, with youth with multiple obstacles to success, and with children with special needs. She has partnered with social workers, therapists, researchers, and educators to create content that supports children’s social and emotional wellness. Julie also teaches with Sea Change Yoga to provide yoga to historically excluded and oppressed populations. In all environments, she cultivates a judgment-free space that is grounded in her own journey of self-love and acceptance. She has been published in The New York Times, Elephant Journal, Insight Timer Meditation, and Gaiam Meditation apps.
Empowering children through yoga and mindfulness, Samantha’s (she/her) goal has been to create an atmosphere where youth are able to live authentic and healthy lives. She spent three years on a special cohort in collaboration with Denver Public Schools and Denver After School Alliance to help create quality, engaging curriculum, and beneficial after-school programming for local Denver youth.
She actively leads in the Junior League of Denver and serves on the Board of Directors of Kids 24/7 whose mission is to empower children to lead healthy lives. Samantha is deeply committed to helping the next generation thrive and her entrepreneurial drive and passion for children’s well-being shine into all aspects of her life and career.
She actively leads in the Junior League of Denver and serves on the Board of Directors of Kids 24/7 whose mission is to empower children to lead healthy lives. Samantha is deeply committed to helping the next generation thrive and her entrepreneurial drive and passion for children’s well-being shine into all aspects of her life and career.
Jenny’s (she/her) teaching experience includes 21 years of teaching in the public school system. She has spent her time teaching visual arts, yoga, and mindfulness to children, teens, and adults. Her journey with yoga began 11 years ago and from that point forward her intention was to share the practice. Knowing that yoga/mindfulness transformed her own life she has worked to bring the teaching to her faculty and into her classroom. For the past 7 years she has been teaching and leading trainings for Radiant Beginnings. It fuels her inner fire to serve children and adults, helping them to connect to their creativity, bodies, minds, and breath. She believes yoga is a gift that you give yourself every day.
Ally (she/her) is a certified yoga instructor, children’s yoga instructor, and has completed additional trainings in MBSR and teaching meditation. Ally is on a journey to bring mindfulness and yoga practices into our present-day world in a relevant, thoughtful, and fun way. Teaching children has always been a passion of Ally’s whether that is teaching swim lessons, being a ski instructor, coaching youth sports, or teaching yoga. Ally believes in sharing the gifts and teachings of mindfulness and yoga with children so they may learn the lessons and tools she found much later in life. Through empowering our children we will help create a world of more peace, love, and joy.
JaMese (she/her) the urban healer. She has been a certified teacher for the last 13 years in the Denver metro area. Her experience includes the public and private school system with children ages 6 weeks to 18 years. She teaches elementary school, yoga, mindfulness, energy, and reiki to children, teens, and adults. JaMese journey to healing began 13 years ago, opening the doors to the practice of life. She blends her background in psychology and education with alternative healing and modern medicine. For the past 2 years, she has been developing curriculum for science and education reform, writing a book on the Energy of Education, and completing her doctorate degree in education and neuroscience. JaMese credits Maya Angelou, Carl Sagan, and Ms. Frizzle for her passion for writing, education, and science.
Brittan DiGirolamo (she/her) is a certified Yoga Instructor, Holistic Health Practitioner, Children’s Yoga Instructor, and aspiring artist. She uses her knowledge to create fun and engaging yoga lessons safe for children. Brittan believes that if children are taught healthy coping skills early on in life, it will positively impact their future. She looks forward to helping your child on their journey!
Born and raised in Minnesota, Anna (she/her) moved to Denver in 2015 after completing her Elementary Education degree at the University of Minnesota. She currently teaches second grade in Denver Public Schools. Anna loves the outdoors, cooking, going to local workout classes and art. She feels that teaching with Radiant Beginnings has been one of the best parts when moving to Colorado, especially working with youth of all ages to help them feel power in their body and minds through yoga.
Kim was initially drawn to yoga during her earlier years as a ballet dancer as a way to cross-train and recover from injuries, but it wasn’t until several years later that she soon discovered there was so much more to yoga than just a good workout and laying in savasana at the end of class. She found yoga as a healthy outlet to reduce stress and anxiety and really started to discover what it meant to “go inward” and discover the quiet of the inner self. Yoga has allowed her to embrace letting go of things that do not serve oneself and to have an open mind and work towards manifesting the path and life you want. Having experienced such a dramatic shift during her yoga practice, Kim wanted to share this experience with others and completed her 500-hour yoga teacher training with Brett Larkin and is a registered RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.
Her kid’s classes are upbeat with a focus on trying to quiet the inner “monkey mind” that we all experience on a daily basis. She wants to be able to have her students experience the calm sense they feel at the end of yoga class all throughout their day and to be able to have the skills to tap into this on their own when needed.
Her kid’s classes are upbeat with a focus on trying to quiet the inner “monkey mind” that we all experience on a daily basis. She wants to be able to have her students experience the calm sense they feel at the end of yoga class all throughout their day and to be able to have the skills to tap into this on their own when needed.
Linda Chase (she/her) is a sixth-grade social studies and science teacher as well as a children’s yoga instructor. She’s been a public school teacher for many years, working with children with special needs and teaching students in most grades, from kindergarten through middle school. She trained for 200 hours each at Samadhi and NamasteWorks + Wellness (therapeutic yoga). Her children’s certification is through Radiant Beginnings. It is her background in education that greatly informs her work with teaching children yoga. Trauma-informed and therapeutic yoga for children are areas of great interest as she believes we all need to address our emotional well-being. She draws on yoga, animals, nature, and great children’s literature to find peace, stillness, and beauty in the world and wants to empower her students to do the same.
