To spread love, light and support to children with cancer and their families.
Spread Ari's Light
Meet the Team
Jamie L. Fuller,
BS., M.Ed., 500-ERYT
Jamie Fuller is a dedicated yoga instructor, educator, and wellness advocate with a passion for helping others feel great in their bodies and mind. She wears many hats in the yoga community, bringing her expertise and heart-centered approach to a variety of roles. As a yoga instructor, Jamie creates accessible and transformative practices for all levels, including online offerings like flow, restore, yin, sculpt, and chair yoga. She also leads immersive yoga retreats and teacher training programs, guiding participants toward deeper self-discovery and confidence in their teaching journey. Jamie is a cohost of The Yoga Connection podcast, where she shares conversations, insights, and stories to inspire and support listeners both on and off the mat. In addition, she serves as an adjunct faculty member at Webster University, teaching yoga and wellness courses that empower students to integrate yoga and mindfulness into their daily lives.
Jamie is also deeply honored to provide in-patient yoga services at Saint Louis Children's Hospital. Her sessions are thoughtfully tailored to meet each child's unique needs using gentle movement, breathwork and relaxation techniques to support healing, reduce stress and enhance emotional well-being. Collaborating closely with caregivers and medical teams, Jamie integrates yoga into the overall care plan, ensuring a safe and supportive experience for every patient. This work is especially meaningful to Jamie, as it allows her to bring moments of comfort and empowerment to children and families during difficult times, reaffirming her belief in the potential healing powers of yoga. Through her multifaceted work, Jamie strives to make yoga a tool for healing, growth, and connection, always encouraging others to show up for themselves and embrace the journey.
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"Yoga isn't about the perfect pose, it's about
knowing the patterns within your body and deciding
what stays and what goes." - Unknown
Lisa Fox,
200 E-RYT, 500 E-RYT, RCYT,
Accessible Ambassador
As a yogi and retired special education teacher of 30 years Lisa combined her two loves and became a registered yoga teacher specializing in children’s and accessible yoga. She currently teaches accessible vinyasa classes, chair yoga, accessible yoga to the patients and their families at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Camp Independence, and her local library. Teaching the aspects of yoga which can bring a sense of peace and calm, are especially important to Lisa. She provides her clients with a mind and body connection that aids in self-regulation and gives them a sense of control. Whether teaching yoga to adults or children, Lisa is motivated to share the benefits of yoga which have helped shape her life.
The opportunity provided by the SAL Foundation to increase yoga services at St. Louis Children’s Hospital is a gift which will allow the yoga instructors to share yoga and its benefits with more children. This incredible support from the SAL Foundation is greatly appreciated to help spread the benefits of yoga.
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“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself”
- Hermann Hesse
“No one can see their reflection in running water.
It is only in still water that we can see.” - Taoist proverb
Shawn Chereskin,
E-RYT-200, E-RYT-500
she/her/hers
Shawn teaches from the heart and is in service to all who come to the mat seeking a greater understanding of Self. Her classes are trauma-informed and help to gently guide students into the practice of self inquiry through the subtle and physical bodies, focusing on presence and sensation. Shawn first came to yoga in 1993 for the physical practice and soon came to love and know the other aspects that yoga provided not only the body, but the mind and spirit.
In 2015, after 22 years of practicing, Shawn began the journey of becoming a teacher of yoga at the Circle Yoga Shala in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. In addition she holds certifications in Trauma-Informed teaching, Prison Yoga Project, Race and Equity in Yoga, Breath and Meditation and Yoga Nidra. She has a passion for sharing this practice in unconventional ways, teaching to those who may not come across yoga on their own including people who are incarcerated, the Special School District and most recently to children and their families at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Shawn's yoga sessions help to gently guide and support patients using relaxation, breathwork, guided imagery and gentle movement. She takes great pride in her ability to connect and hold space for what is likely the most challenging time in their lives. Shawn finds great joy in helping others realize their own humanity, power, resilience, beauty and ultimately a greater sense of peace, grounding, agency and liberation through the practice of yoga. She sees firsthand how this practice can help to ease a child's time in the hospital. She has deep gratitude to SAL for offering up the opportunity to share the benefits of yoga to more patients at SLCH.
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"Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life."
- B.K.S Lyengar