Our Team — The Studio

Studio Lead Instructor

Chelsea has studied yoga, meditation, and holistic health since she was 15-years-old. The story of the Buddha’s life, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, sent her down a rabbit hole in 10th grade and she has been on this path ever since. At age 23, she went to live in a Tibetan Buddhist temple as a work study volunteer for a summer. What started as a summer of learning to make clay statues of the Buddha for bronze casting, turned into two years dedicated to self inquiry through Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, psychology, meditation, yoga, and something called tong len (similar to reiki).

Meanwhile, her father was the groundskeeper for a solo silent retreat center in Crestone, Colorado, called Chamma Ling. He is now a teacher in that lineage at his own center outside of Juarez, Mexico. Her mother was a yoga instructor for nearly two decades and at 67 still has a strong practice. Her sister is a doctor and Kundalini yoga teacher in California; her brother is a massage therapist and yoga teacher in Casper, Wyoming.

Chelsea is certified to teach Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Yin and Restorative yoga modalities and considers each to be necessary “medicine” for wellbeing. Her weekly classes at Limber combine restorative opening and closing postures with alignment of Ashtanga and the flow of Vinyasa. Her 200 hr YTT was done in 2013 in the Bay Area at Flying Yoga studios under Laura Camp, which was a studio that combined her love of Vinyasa and aerial arts. Around this time she received levels 1 and 2 Reiki attunement and did training to be a Mindfulness Coach. While living in Oakland, CA, she taught yoga to both adults and children, as well as Mindfulness classes, garden and forest classes for children, and self care workshops for caregivers. In 2017, she began her Master's degree program in philosophy in Saas Fee, Switzerland and began spending less and less time in the Bay Area.

Having moved here during Covid, Chelsea is the art teacher at Liberty Intermediate School and teaches mindfulness to homerooms there. She is also an Expert Level certified sound healer as well as a certified Ayurveda Practitioner, and certified in AromaTouch Technique through doTERRA. She is currently working on her 500 hr YTT with Janet Stone in San Francisco and her "Master Level" Reiki attunement.

Yoga Instructor

Priscilla is a certified yoga instructor, specializing in a slow flow, featuring simple variations to meet all yoga levels.  Priscilla is also certified as a social emotional learning facilitator and has a special interest in meditation, breathe work and journaling as a daily practice.   She is excited to teach and share her love of yoga, at Limber, as part of her yoga practice.

Priscilla is the owner and operator of Targeted Tutoring Literacy and tutors reading, writing, math (K-5) and organizational skills to local and nationwide clients.  She also shares her yoga practice with local youth in Yoga for Kids workshops.  In her free time, Priscilla enjoys singing, gardening and traveling.

Pilates Instructor

Victoria has always valued movement as an essential part of her life and her passion for Pilates led her to become an instructor. It is her belief that as we get stronger with Pilates, we get stronger in life. She is currently working through a 500-hour comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training program, continuously expanding her knowledge and skills.

Movement has helped carry her through many phases of life, whether it was yoga, strength training, cardio, or Pilates. Pilates requires focus and intention to achieve results, much like life; It’s this principle of Pilates that has appealed to Victoria for so long. Her goal in this current stage in life is to bring this modality to as many people as possible.

Yoga Instructor

With over 20 years of experience as a fitness instructor and personal trainer, Nicole brings a deep passion for helping others find joy in movement. When she added yoga to her own wellness journey, she discovered its transformative power—not only in restoring balance to her body after years of high-impact workouts, but also in grounding her mentally and emotionally.

Nicole’s classes are playful, light-hearted, and thoughtfully sequenced. She encourages students to explore how postures feel in their bodies, rather than how they look, empowering them to build a lasting mind-body connection both on and off the mat. Her goal is to offer tools for greater presence, strength, and self-compassion—because life is serious enough, and yoga doesn’t have to be.

By day, Nicole markets Kankakee County to visitors—sharing her love for the community and all it has to offer. Whether she’s curating travel experiences or cueing breath in Warrior II, her mission is the same: to inspire connection, discovery, and joy.

Outside the studio, Nicole is happiest traveling (especially to sandy beaches with palm trees!), spending time outdoors, cooking, reading, and enjoying life with her family.

Yoga Instructor

Deisy first discovered her passion for yoga in 1997 after reading “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda, which inspired her to become a student of the Self Realization Fellowship. In 2003, she took a significant step in her journey by joining the Shaolin Monastery in Barranquilla, Colombia, where she spent a year learning the Art of Fa Meng Shua, as well as the principles of meditation and self-control.

From 2003 to 2009, Deisy deepened her practice at Riverside Health Fitness Center under the guidance of Loriann Mehmel, during which she earned her Yoga Siromani teaching experience at the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center at Vishnu Devananda’s Yoga Camp in Val Morin, Canada, in 2009.

In 2011, as co-owner of Bourbonnais CrossFit, she began teaching yoga classes to elite athletes, continuing in this role until 2020. Recently, Deisy earned her Barre Certificate and is excited to teach Adaptive Chair and Barre classes at Limber. Additionally, she enjoys teaching Zumba, where she shares her vibrant Colombian cultural background with her students.