meet your ytt facilitators
These are the brilliant minds behind BEND’s Yoga Teacher Training.
If you’ve ever wanted to dive deeper into your practice,
these are the humans you want to learn from.
Julie Munro & Rachel Peters
Primary Instructors
JULIE MUNRO
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Julie Munro has been studying, practicing, and teaching yoga for 30 years. She is a certified Yoga Alliance ERYT500 teacher, with over 4000 hours of teaching experience, including having led over a dozen 200-hour teacher trainings. Julie earned her 500hr certification through the American Viniyoga Institute and has been influenced by numerous other teachers and lineages. She is passionate about helping others find their voice in yoga while developing their own unique style.
"I love exploring the yogic path with others and supporting the process of individuals tapping deeper into the beauty and goodness inside themselves." -Julie Munro
RACHEL PETERS
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Rachel Peters believes life is more interesting when we seek and find meaning in the small moments of every day. This kind of reverence for life leads us to a renewed appreciation for ourselves, our family, and our community. Rachel is a connector, a conduit of wisdom bridging everyday living and life on the yoga mat. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher, Yoga Health Coach, and lover of wild places. Rachel has a great gift of being approachable, inspiring, and passionate about this intersection between the wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda combined with lifestyle and identity evolution to live fully and with ease in a fast-paced world. One of her favorite endeavors is igniting this passion in others.
thomas radke
Somatic Movement
Thomas Radtke operates from the foundation that the physical body is an access point to all other realms of the human being for the healing and growth of the human potential. He is currently a Senior Teacher of Inner Power Yoga, has lived and been certified through the Shambhava School of Yoga & Ashram and has additional studies in Ashtanga yoga, Anusara yoga, trauma informed yoga, and Viniyoga. To compliment 25 years of traditional yoga studies and owning/ operating 2 yoga studios, he is an applied anatomist, a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, a somatic facilitator and well studied and versed in Polyvagal Nerve theory, Pranayama, meditation practices and presence practices such as Circling, Authentic Relating and Dynamic Presence.
Will Duncan is a Buddhist teacher whose work focuses on integrating traditional Buddhist practices with contemporary life. He has trained extensively in Tibetan Buddhism (Gelugpa lineage) as well as Zen (under Daido Roshi) and in a number of Theravadin lineages (Goenka, Mahasi, Insight). His approach blends these traditional teachings with insights from Christian and Yogic traditions, creating a unique and inclusive path. He has taught throughout the world including Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, South America and throughout the United States. He has worked as a hospice chaplain and presently is a lecturer, meditation teacher, consultant, and lavender farmer. Will completed the traditional three year Great Retreat of Tibetan Buddhism, having spent four accumulative years in silent and solitary meditation retreat since he began his practice 40 years ago. Known for his non-dogmatic, down-to-earth, humor and ease, Will teaches by way of inquiry and lively discussion pushing students to think clearly for themselves and to uncover their own insights.
Will Duncan
Yoga Philosophy & Meditation
Samantha Beasley
Business & Ethics of Yoga
Samantha Beasley is a yoga teacher, movement educator, and community leader whose work bridges yoga, mindfulness, psychology, and embodied movement. She began dancing at the age of seven and went on to perform professionally with Rainbow Dance Theatre, and later directed her own contemporary dance company, Arthiesm. After completing her yoga teacher training in Dharamshala, India, in 2017, Samantha has continued exploring practices that cultivate resilience, self-awareness, and personal transformation. She has studied martial arts abroad in Xingping, China, cycled across the United States, and now serves as the General Manager of BEND Hot Yoga while facilitating mindfulness and recovery groups that integrate yoga, CBT, and nervous system education. Known for her approachable teaching style, curiosity, and sense of humor, Samantha encourages students to explore yoga as a lifelong practice of movement, inquiry, and connection.