Our Teachers

Ursula Cox

Ursula, an E-RYT by the Yoga Alliance at the 500 Hour level, has been teaching vinyasa yoga for over eight years and is constantly amazed by the power of this practice to transform one not just physically but mentally as well. Ursula values the importance of getting to know oneself and adapting one's life and yoga practice accordingly.

Ursula teaches with compassion, making yoga accessible to students at all levels to develop a deeper relationship with our true self and the world around us. Through our yoga practice, we can learn how to be at ease in our bodies and listen to the greatest teacher within – ourselves.

Having taught private, group classes, teacher trainings and workshops in a wide variety of venues in Europe and in the United States, Ursula is proud to have founded Inner Power Yoga in the suburbs of northern Virginia in 2003. She relocated to Frankfurt, Germany in the summer of 2005. During her three years living there, Ursula was a Senior Teacher and Director of Workshops and Special Events at Balance Yoga, Frankfurt's largest yoga center.

Now back permanently in the greater Washington DC area, Ursula is looking forward to contributing to the local northern Virginia yoga community and to sharing her knowledge about all the ways yoga can enrich our lives.

Ursula has taken numerous workshops and teacher trainings taught by today's best yoga teachers and would like to express her gratitude for sharing their knowledge to all of them. She was fortunate to spend time and to practice in Sri K. Pattabhi Jois's shala with Guruji and his family in Mysore, India in 2007. Ursula completed Ashtanga yoga teacher trainings taught by David Swenson (First and Second Series), Manju Jois and Tim Miller; and vinyasa yoga teacher trainings taught by Baron Baptiste and Shiva Rea. She also would like to thank Nancy Gilgoff, Beryl Bender Birch, Richard Freeman, Seane Corn and Bryan Kest for their influence on her teaching.

Jessica Howard

Jessica came to her mat in 2004, and since then has experienced the transformative power of yoga. When a break from the corporate world gave her the opportunity to contemplate her next career move, there was no question that teaching yoga would be that move. With a heart for fostering community, she decided to pursue teaching in 2009.

Jessica has trained with Baron Baptiste and taken intensive workshops with Dharma Mittra and Shiva Rea. She has also traveled to the holy lands of Rishikesh, Haridwar and Vrindavan, India to explore the spiritual roots of yoga. Jessica also continues to pursue personal growth through the many gifted instructors who teach in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

"I give thanks to all who have shared their practice with me and to yoga itself for allowing me to experience pure freedom. Yoga is a lifetime practice of mindfulness and asana which has helped me to have the power to know my own mind and to transform my life through wisdom. I seek only to share all that has been shared with me, and ask only to remain free."

Tanya Zimmerli

Tanya (RYT-200) has been teaching with Inner Power Yoga for over four years, blending her extensive experience in alignment-based and vinyasa yoga into powerful, flowing and balanced classes. Her approach to teaching strives to combine energetic movement and a sense of playfulness with awareness and proper form to reduce the risk of injury. Tanya's classes are appropriate for students who are new to yoga as well as experienced practioners interested in finding new ways to grow in awareness and deepen their practice. Questions and requests are always welcome!!

Tanya began practicing yoga in the Sivananda style in 1994. Five years later, she switched to a more alignment-based style of yoga and then later added a regular vinyasa practice. Tanya completed her teacher training at The Health Advantage Yoga Center in Herndon, Virginia, and has studied Ashtanga yoga with David Swenson. Tanya has also taken numerous workshops with nationally-recognized teachers such as Elise Browning Miller, Beryl Bender Birch, Roger Cole, Paul Grilley, Desiree Rumbaugh and others.

Through yoga, Tanya has found increased peace and awareness of body and mind as well as a thriving community of like-minded people. Ultimately, Tanya seeks to introduce these same qualities of peace, awareness and community into each of her classes.

Coleen Clement

Coleen has always lived an active life running races and hiking mountains. It was the balance she felt she needed that first brought her to yoga. From the first class she took, she began to notice how yoga also effected other areas of her life positively. Coleen wishes to teach yoga as a way to serve others by sharing this wonderful practice. She believes yoga is a great way to strengthen and nurture ourselves, through compassion and awareness, breath by breath. Coleen's classes are flowing and meditative. They combine creative, dynamic sequencing with alignment, which she hopes will challenge and inspire her students.

Coleen received her 200 hour certification at Flow Yoga Center in Washington, DC and is grateful for all of her teachers influence, including her very first teacher Jen Stone. She has also studied under Dharma Mittra, Alanna Kaivalya, David Kyle, Sarah Powers, and Ana Forrest, all of whom inspire her teaching.

Tiffany Coombs

Tiffany's love for yoga began when she was in high school searching for a way to combat depression and severe anxiety and to recover from back injuries that had developed over years of ballet training. After her first session with a DVD in her basement, she was hooked and hasn't been able to stop since!

Upon realizing the transformative and healing effects of yoga, Tiffany completed her 200 hour teacher training in Prana Flow Yoga® under the instruction of Maria Garre and Julia Kalish. Prana Flow is a creative yoga of embodiment and evolution adapted by Shiva Rea. Each class is built around one peak pose, and with every breath, the body is opened and transformed in such a way that the peak can be more easily and safely achieved.

Tiffany puts an emphasis on the importance of beginning exactly where you are, utilizing kramas, or stages, of asanas so that students at any level have a place to be in the flow. She believes that everyone has the ability to heal and transform themselves with a dedicated, joyful practice and an open heart.