Misty Flahie is Hilltop's most senior teacher having started teaching more than six years ago. Her 10-year practice was founded in Iyengar and has taken her through 500 hours of training with Hilaire.  Her interest in the practice started at a young age and was explored living abroad in Nepal for one semester, as an undergrad, completing an independent study on modern Ayurvedic medicine. Misty's core style is one of full integration of Iyengar, Vinyasa and Ashtanga. Her classes bring balance and restoration to students of all levels - as well as laughter from the heart.

What you get from Misty is her truest and essential self.  A trained organic farmer, Misty's spirit is close to the earth.  From this, she has developed Yoga of Food, which she has used to present several workshops, classes and private consultations. She stresses that she is not a nutritionist. It's about connection.  "If you're not balanced and connected with something you're constantly searching for more. You're never satiated."

She is also working on taking her yoga to yet another level. Through Off The Mat Into The World, a nonprofit organization, she is helping to raise money for a multifaceted humanitarian tour through war-torn and AIDS ravaged Uganda.

"Eventually it just has to go beyond yourself. You start with healing yourself first and through that ongoing process, we are able to guide others on a healing path.  Teaching Yoga is what happens when you fill up with it so much that it starts flowing out of you and into all stretches of your existence."