The Heat Yoga Team

Our Culture

We practice integrity while we share our passion for the teachings of yoga and the benefits of floating. We embrace the diversity in our community with an open mind and express compassion to those who have stories different than our own. We understand that although our stories may be different, we have the power to transform each person’s life through the experiences that we create during every class and float session. We do this by having pride in the space in which we work, pride the way that we teach our lessons, and pride in the example that we set through our actions. We cultivate an environment in which our participants experience an expansion of consciousness, more joy and a clearer meaning to life.

Meet The Team

Beth Hartman

Founder & Instructor

Beth Hartman is the owner of Heat Yoga Studio & Spa in Cedar Rapids and North Liberty. She believes in creating a space where diversity is embraced and all may come together to experience oneness through the practice of yoga. She believes that connection with the inner divine can bring unparalleled joy and contentment to our journey through life and that Yama, the first limb of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga is the perfect place to start on that journey. Beth has been teaching yoga for 10 years and believes that although every person’s story is different, yoga has the power to transform each person’s life through its teachings. At Heat Yoga the mission is to provide a wellness oasis where each individual can experience an expansion of consciousness, more joy and a clearer meaning to life.

Catherine Heberling-Marentez, DC

Owner and Instructor

Catherine grew up very active and loving movement of all kinds. After becoming pregnant with her first son and looking for a way to connect with her unborn child, she found yoga and a new passion was ignited. While in chiropractic school, she practiced at Tapas Yoga Shala and her passion continued to grow. She soon developed a vision of combining yoga and chiropractic and so in 2011 under the mentorship of Evan and Kelly Harris, she became a certified yoga teacher. Catherine found her way to Heat Yoga in 2018 and has loved every moment being a part of this community.
She continues to love all forms of movement, and has become very passionate about teaching a meld of Pilates and yoga to help inform all movement practices whether it be biking, running, yoga etc.
When not teaching or seeing her chiropractic patients, you will find her being active outside, especially hiking, traveling and constantly soaking up more education on Chiropractic, Anatomy, Functional Movement and Yoga. The most important part of her time off though, is spending as much time as possible with her two amazing sons Samuel and Caleb who are the light of her life!

Madeline Omar

Instructor

Madeline is from Cedar Rapids, went to school for music and found herself at Heat as a client looking for fitness that didn't feel stressful. She came to Heat and found a world of movement, breath and solace.

She completed her 200 ryt in Houston, Texas out of the Yoga Institute in 2015. She began yoga instruction here in Iowa, shortly thereafter in 2016 at Heat, and has made her way back from teaching in Albuquerque, NM and Las Vegas, NV in 2022.

Madeline is a reiki practitioner, and a former music major, channeling her love of meditation and breathwork through sound healing.
She has a wide range of teaching styles in her repertoire for yoga and although she mainly teaches beginners/foundational classes, she has taught Yin and restorative yoga, Hatha, Raja, Vinyasa/Iyengar.

When Madeline isn't at the studio you can find her traveling out into nature, playing with animals and finding quiet spaces to hang out in. Her and her family find they are most at peace with life when they're one with nature and exploring new places and aspects of themselves.

Jennifer Bohr

Instructor

Jennifer Bohr has been teaching at Heat for 5 years. Jennifer started practicing at Heat to work on strength and mobility for the sake of easing back pain and hamstring tightness from running. The transition from student to instructor was unexpectedly natural and life changing.

Jennifer completed her 200 hour CYT with Yogafit, Pilates certification with Balanced Body and Barre certification with Barre Intensity, all of which you will find her teaching at Heat.

Jennifer also enjoys working alongside her husband of 25 years in their family business and being entertained by her 3 amazing young adult "kids' '. Play time includes tennis, hiking in the AZ mountains and enjoying a glass of wine and good conversation with friends.

Jillian Sommers-Massey

Instructor

Prior to retiring from 30 years in sales, Jillian was a Wellness Director for corporate wellness programs in Des Moines and a Director at the YMCA in Colorado. She am currently teaching various fitness classes in the Cedar Rapids area. Jillian has taught fitness classes for 37 years and I am certified in cycling, yoga, Pilates, Beachbody Piyo, slideaerobics, Step, Barre. In addition, she is a certified personal trainer and kickboxing trainer. Jillian has a BA in Community Health, and an emphasis in Health Promotion and Education. One thing you’ll always have in a class with Jillian is FUN! She loves pizza and hate to cook! Her go to drink is Dr. Pepper.

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Amber Dawn

Instructor

Amber Dawn has always been fascinated with the Mind/Body connection and found yoga to be an amazing tool to bring that all together. She began her fitness journey as a toddler and her yoga journey in high school. She attended her first hot yoga class a few years later and knew that she wanted to pursue this as part of her career.
At first the physical benefits were clear as a balance to her life, but the mental, spiritual, and energetic aspects is what has kept her on a continuous path in discovering the depth of what yoga can bring to her life and what she can extend to others. She completed her yoga teacher training at HotHouse yoga studio in Iowa City and began her journey with Heat Yoga the first day it opened!
Amber Dawn is also an intuitive, empath and massage therapist. When she is away from yoga and massage she enjoys exploring music, adventure and spending time with her daughter Zoë and watching her shine!

Amy Dudgeon

Instructor

Amy joined the staff at Heat Yoga in October 2020, at the conclusion of her teacher training with Marsha Neiland and Betsy Rippentrop. Amy's lifelong obsession with endurance sports and movement in nature is what initially drew her to yoga. During teacher training, a workshop by Desiree Rumbaugh and Karen Church on the benefits of joint mobility and yoga for aging bodies deeply influenced Amy. She enjoys teaching beginner and intermediate classes, utilizing joint mobilization movements and gentle flowing sequences in between traditional, foundational yoga asanas. Amy's goal is for clients to leave class feeling alive, refreshed, and empowered.

Outside of the studio, Amy embraces long hikes with her husband of 26 years, spending time with her two adult children, cycling, reading, and friendships. A native of Minnesota, Amy's happy place is cross country skiing through the woods after a fresh snow.

Cheyanne Carroll

Instructor

Cheyanne began her journey into yoga in 2011 at Fusion Studio in Cedar Rapids, following a scare with a benign brain tumor and wanting to move toward health and well-being. So many parts of Cheyanne’s life began to fit into place after she started a practice. She began teaching out of a desire to share the magic of yoga. In 2019, she earned her teacher training certificate from The Breathing Room.
Cheyanne began as a patron at Heat Yoga, and soon fell in love with the lovely staff and friendly vibe, and she joined the staff shortly thereafter in 2020.
She trained in traditional hatha yoga, but loves to blur the lines and make her practices ebb and flow. Having also been trained in Reiki and Sound Healing,Cheyanne brings an energetic depth to the practice that she hopes leaves every patron deeply connected to themselves and our community.

Things you may not know about Cheyanne...She is a self-trained pastry chef and makeup artist. She enjoys gardening, making art, anything metaphysical and spending quality time with her husband and 12-year-old son.

Lisa Gillespie

Massage Therapist

Lisa has been a licensed massage therapist in Cedar Rapids for 12 years.
After graduating from the University of Northern Iowa with a bachelors degree in athletic training, she attended Carlson College of Massage Therapy.
The combination of sports medicine and traditional massage therapy gave her a strong skill set to work with the athletic and active folk, including NFL, MLB, and most recently, MiLB.
Later in her career she was able to learn neuromuscular techniques. This led to her becoming a “flexibility coach” and educating clients on the importance of muscle tissue health. She also teaches part time at CCMT to help mold the minds and hands of future LMT’s.
Her services include:
•60 or 90 minute massage therapy treatments
•Neuromuscular soft tissue release treatments
•Pregnancy massage
While she is open to accepting new clients, these spots are saved for those who are wanting to commit to their muscle health on a regular basis.
If that is you or you have questions, please
contact her by email at flexcoach@yahoo.com
She’s happy to assist you in all of your muscle tissue needs!

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Courtney Houselog

Instructor

Being fairly new to yoga, Courtney recognized the benefits of this practice, not only physically but mentally and spiritually, too. Wanting to strengthen her personal practice, she completed her 200-hour Yoga & Wholistic Arts Teacher Training program at Heat Yoga Studio and is a Certified Yoga instructor as of May 2020. Yoga has taught Courtney to learn from the past, strengthen herself in the now, and build a future for herself, which inspired her to start teaching at Heat Yoga Studio in May of 2021. For Courtney, yoga is more than just poses and moving, it’s learning about your true authentic self!

While yoga has positively impacted Courtney’s life, her background is in Finance and Accounting. She enjoys being out in nature and active from gardening, hiking or biking. She also loves animals and is a dog mom of one, named Panda. In addition, you may find her traveling and exploring the world or relaxing and enjoying a good book.

Gloria Zmolek

Instructor

Gloria first came to yoga as a way to exercise, but over time, it evolved into a practice not only for the body, but for the spirit and the mind. After she retired from teaching art, to deepen her practice, she attended a 200 hour teacher training at Hot House in Iowa City and started teaching at Heat in 2016. Her practice and teaching style views yoga as a moving meditation, connecting mind, body and breath. She has trained in Ashtanga with Vinjay Kumar in Mysore, India and has completed teacher training in Ashtanga, Yin and Barre.

Her joys in life include her children, Nathan, Laurel, Joaquin and Sofi, her friends, travel, volunteering in the community, walking, biking and salsa dancing.

Karsin Lederle

Instructor

Karsin's love for hot yoga started while on vacation in Colorado. Her friend talked her into attending a class and she quickly got hooked. Once home, she started researching hot yoga studios and found Heat Yoga. Karsin attended classes for several years before joining the team. As a certified exercise instructor having first trained with Les Mils Body Attack & Pump and then Barre, she naturally gravitated towards teaching Strength, Barre and HIIT classes at Heat. She brings her infectious energy and true love of fitness to her classes. Nothing is more rewarding to her than helping someone set, work towards and achieve their fitness goals.

She's a sales woman by day and a fitness fanatic by night. When she isn't working out or teaching classes, Karsin is spending time with her husband and kids.

Glen Fuhrmeister

Instructor

Glen has always been drawn to being active but after eight years of running high school and college cross country and track, eight full marathons, and countless 5k-Half marathons his body requested a change! Glen began teaching at Heat the summer of 2022 after completing his 200 hour YTT at HeatYoga! His yoga journey started in the fall of 2017 when he came to Heat with a friend (the class was taught by Madeline!) and he now cannot imagine life with out hot yoga!

When Glen is not bringing his humor and certain kind of charm into the studio he is busy bringing events to life for clients in the wedding and corporate worlds.