By ALLISON BORGELT

Staff writer

The first time Janet Kolesar-Lis took a yoga class, it bored her.

"I didn't appreciate it. I didn't understand. I wasn't ready for it," said the former Jazzercise and aerobics instructor.

But now, after continuing her education in yoga, then teaching yoga and pilates for between 16 and 18 years, she not only gets it -- she enjoys it.

"I love my yoga. It's such an important part of my life," she said. "I don't want to teach anything else."

A yoga and pilates instructor at Owens Community College, Marathon Petroleum, Anytime Fitness and The Gym by Jamie, Kolesar-Lis has received the highest designation given to yoga teachers by the Yoga Alliance.

She is one of 49 yoga instructors and one of 23 hatha yoga instructors in Ohio to receive the Yoga Alliance's Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500 (E-RYT 500) designation, she said.

Hatha yoga is "a system of physical exercises for the control and perfection of the body that constitutes one of the four chief Hindu disciplines," according to merriam-webster.com.

It is the most-practiced type of yoga, Kolesar-Lis said.

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