Instructors
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Aline Marie
Aline Marie is a certified Kripalu style yoga teacher, the yoga of Compassion and Bliss! She has been teaching and practicing yoga since 2002 and is also certified with Yoga Alliance in her 200 hour teaching credits. Specializing in Unconditional Love and Peace, it is easy to be a beginner or really any level of yogi in Aline's classes. Students are encouraged to honor their bodies and are lovingly guided through each pose to find their own freedom of expression... to find their "yoga" or union with themselves. Non judgement and self acceptance reign supreme during each practice and are encouraged to be taken off the mat as well!
Aline teaches yoga full time to adults and children and twoyears ago had the chance to start a yoga program at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls in New York, an alternative school and rehabilitation center for children and teen survivors of abuse and trauma. She also started the yoga program at the Newtown, Ct school systems Summer Music & Art program (S.M.A.R.T.) and will continue to teach it again this summer of 07'. Aline is also a full time working artist who currently hand paints sacred sanskrit symbols onto personalized yoga mats.
Visit Aline's Website for her schedule and more info - www.alinemarie.com |
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Amin Rokni
Amin has been practicing yoga since 1997. His background in yoga began with a strong focus on meditation. Prior to his first yoga class he had been studying both Tibetan Buddhist and Vipassana meditation techniques for several years. His interest in these forms of meditation is what led him to the yogic path. He began studying intensely with Doug Keller, one of the first certified Anusara teachers, in 2001.
Doug taught undergraduate philosophy for several years before moving to India where he spent seven years living at the Gurudev Siddha Peeth ashram in India practicing and studying yoga in all its aspects. During this time, he became a master in the art of pranayama, meditation and yogic philosophy, writing several books on all three subjects. Doug's knowledge and teaching style had an enormous impact on Amin and led him to explore ashram life for himself.
In 2003 Amin moved to an ashram in Nederaland, Colorado. There he continued his study of philosophy and gained a deeper understanding of what it meant to live a yogic lifestyle. Amin spent several months living on the ashram, where meditation, pranayama, mantra and yogic rituals were the primary focus.
After leaving the ashram, he continued his training with Doug Keller, Desiree Rumbaugh, and John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga®. He has since trained directly with John for over 200 hours and completed both levels of his teacher trainings as well as his immersion training.
Amin's teaching style focuses on Anusara principles, with a very strong emphasis on how yogic philosophy, meditation and pranayama can enhance and transform your life.
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Andrew Alter
Andrew has been practicing yoga since 2005, in addition to his lifelong devotion to movement and art. Andrew brings a deep body awareness to the practice of yoga and sees life as a dance of energy in motion.
He believes the practice of any physical movement, such as, yoga translates directly into how we choose to move through our daily experiences.
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Debra Hodgen
Since beginning tap dance classes at the age of five Debra Hodgen has always been a mover. She received her Bachelors Degree in dance from UCLA and taught and performed extensively. After meeting her meditation teacher in 1983 she began her study of hatha yoga. Debra has a 250-hour teacher's certificate from Yoga Mountain in New York and a 200 hour Anusara Affiliation. She has taught all levels of yoga and classes for children and teens, prenatal, gentle, and restorative. She also enjoys teaching private classes to aid students therapeutically or to help them move into a greater level of expression in their practice. Debra teaches with an abundance of enthusiasm and humor. Her greatest joy in teaching is seeing her students "blossom". Debra is an active member of the Yoga Alliance.
Click to view Debra's wellness website |
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Heather Keely
Founder, Bodacious Living | Co- Founder, Play Lounge | Anusara Inspired Instructor
A graduate of Chico State University with a B.S. degree in Psychology; Heather has 10 years of successful corporate sales and marketing experience. Driven by the vision and dream of Bodacious Living, she shifted her focus in 2007. Bodacious Living is inspired by her dog and playful companion Bodacious (aka Bodie or Bodes), and became a vision for community and a calling in Heather's heart in 2001.
Heather is a playful visionary, dancer and yogini who is dedicated to creating sacred space, and opportunities, that inspire others to connect with their innate Bodacious qualities. She loves nature and connecting with friends, and is inspired by the magic and beauty that is created through synergy. Most recently, Heather has been immersed in the evolution of Bodacious Living, the development of a community Pea Patch edible garden in the backyard of the Carlsbad Bodacious Living studio, and the co-creation of Play Lounge. Play Lounge is a magical play space that is filled with diverse opportunities to explore movement, various expressions, and connection to the pulse of one's highest potential. She invites students to experience a deeper relationship with their body and union with their spirit, inspiring playful expression and heart connection.
Yoga was first introduced into Heathers life as a pre-teen, and became a devoted practice when she found Anusara Yoga in 2003. Profoundly shifted by her experience, she trained extensively for two years with Certified Anusara Instructors, Jim & Ruthie Bernardt at Yoga Kula in Berkley. Meeting Master of Anusara Yoga®, John Friend in early 2004 ignited her passion for this style of yoga and community that has become a foundation and guiding force in her life. She passionately continues to train with John Friend whenever possible. Other inspiring instructors and mentors are Certified Anusara Instructors Noah Maze, Sianna Sherman, Darren Rhodes, Kelly Haas, and Michael Fukumura. Her studies of yogic philosophy and meditation are guided by renowned scholars Carlos Pomeda, Douglas Brooks and Sally Kempton. In addition, Heather loves to explore Acro Yoga, Yoga of Sound, and Yoga with Shiva Rhea. Also inspired by "Off the Mat Into the World" she serves as a liaison and proponent for this humanitarian effort calling people into action and purpose in their lives.
Bodacious Living inspires a community experience of Awakening, Yoga, and Play. Serving as a vehicle for a collective of teachers, musical artists, visionaries and a diverse group of talented creative beings; Bodacious Living offers classes, events, services and opportunities that invite others into the experience of a whole, vibrant, abundant, and heart connected life. The Bodacious "tribe" is connected through a resonance in the heart creating various complimentary expressions of yoga, play and so much more!
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Jennifer Waters
Discovering a love for movement at an early age Jennifer was immersed in the world of dance for over 18 years, leading her to being a performer and choreographer. The life of a dancer granted her with the opportunity to travel, perform and study internationally. During her last semester at college, her Mother suggested she attend a Vinyasa style yoga class,
it was there that Jenn would discover the form of moving meditation that would change her life. She remembers back to those yoga classes as being "challenging yet liberating," quite literally "a breath of fresh air."Enchanted by the experience of moving into stillness, Jenn had found her home. This journey has now led her to her life's work, to live and teach the
yoga she so dearly loves. Yoga has taught her to enjoy the questions of her life as much as the answers. Jenn feels blessed to have found in her teacher John Friend and Anusara Yoga® an elegant set of Universal Principles of Alignment®, an uplifting heartfelt community and a Tantric philosophy which sees the intrinsic goodness in all things.
Visit Jenn at her Website to see her schedule and more info - www.jennwatersyoga.com |
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Karen Vasquez
Karen is a very spirited person who believes that all beings everywhere have a divine birthright to live in freedom, happiness and peace. She also recognizes that all creatures have unique gifts or “divine offerings” and her style of teaching yoga tries to discover, explore and nurture those gifts once they are revealed. In her classes and her own personal practice she brings focus to the body’s energy centers (chakras) and to proper alignment of the spine to ensure that each asana (posture) is a safe, grounded and dynamic expression of spirit.
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Korrie Sudweeks
Korrie has been in the health and fitness field her whole life. Starting in Gymnastics at the age of 10, then competing from beginning up through advanced levels. She went on to judge competitive gymnastics for 20 years. She began teaching aerobics, step, kick boxing, water aerobics and spinning in the late 80’s. She is a certified AFAA instructor and personal trainer. She later fell in love with yoga and Pilates and went on to become certified in both. She holds an Iyengar certification from Yoga Works, and is a Yoga Allianceregistered teacher. She is certified in Pilates Mat through the
Physical Mind Institute and Equipment certified through Polestar Pilates, and is a member of the Pilates Method Alliance. She is in the process of finishing up her certification in Family Nutrition
through Clayton College of Natural Health.
Korrie believes in continued education and attends workshops and fitness conventions each year, keeping her education updated. She has trained with and taken workshops from Rael Isowitz, Brent Anderson, Karin O'Bannon, Marie Jose, etc...
Her teaching style implements her many modalities into a truly healing experience.
Visit Korrie's website for yoga and pilates info - www.korriespilatesplace.com |
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Michelle Bouvier
Yoga first found me in 1994, and my passion for the practice led me to start teaching in 2000. Past intensive practice has included Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Forest Yoga, Therapeutics, Transcendental Meditation, and Native American spirituality. I am fascinated by psychosomatics and the power of our thoughts and beliefs on our bodies and experience. My current passions and study include Anusara Yoga®, Shiva Rea's Prana Vinyasa Flow, capoeira, aerial circus arts, partner acrobatics, and hoop dance!
I am inspired by community, authenticity, playfulness, and dreaming together to co-create a sustainable world full of beauty, self-expression, and respect for Mother Earth. Live, Learn, Love, Fly! Blessed Be.
Visit michelle at her Website to see her schedule and more info - www.hoopnectar.com |
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Rachel Leshaw
Rachel was a competitive runner in high school and college. She was first introduced to yoga by a classmate at the University of Vermont where she was studying Environmental Science (known to her father as "Playing in the Woods.") She enjoyed yoga for the physicality, stress reduction and self-reflection. It was refreshing to be away from the competitive circuit.
As Rachel moved into various cities and jobs, she sought yoga studios and studied a range of yoga styles. To further her personal practice, she completed an Ashtanga teacher training at It's Yoga in San Francisco (2003.) For a few years she taught yoga in Bay Area public high schools. When Rachel moved to Encinitas in 2007, she started teaching adults at Frog's Fitness. She has recently completed the Anusara teacher training with Michael Fukumura.
Rachel's approach to yoga is "structured play." Yoga is a dance on the mat, spontaneous and expressive. Rachel loves watching her students become more comfortable in their bodies and gain confidence. Poses that begin as "impossible" become possible when approached from a place of play and good alignment. Rachel's classes are all different and cater to the needs of the students in the room.
Rachel enjoys playing with dogs, surfing, chocolate, singing/songwriting and West African dance. She feels the need to again mention dogs since she loves them like a nut.
Click here to visit Rachel's Dog Care Website |
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Sophia Ludyjan
Sophia's teaching style is fun and compassionate. Her charming and dedicated presentation of yoga is truly unique. Students will receive personal attention as well as 'hands-on' support. She has a very patient and friendly demeanor and truly cares about her students. Sophia has completed the 200-hour hatha yoga teacher training in the Anusara style at The Yoga Center in Carlsbad under the direction of Sherry Shreck, Michael Fukumura, and Debra Hodgen. She is currently working towards Anusara Yoga® Teacher Certification.
Visit Sophia's Website for her schedule and more info - www.yogaforgolfers.com |
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Alana Pejouan
Alana took an interest in yoga after her first daughter was born 12 years ago. She completed her Teacher Training at the Soul of Yoga in Encinitas, CA in 2005. Alana is versed in many styles of yoga including Hatha and Anusara and continues to practice regularly with several of the most proficient Anusara teachers. Alana has done several workshops with John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga,as well as Desiree Rumbaugh, Noah Maze and other leaders in the yoga world.
Alana brings to her teaching an integrated, light-hearted and hands-on approach for all levels, combining breathing, meditation and asanas. "Yoga is food for the body, mind and soul and connects us to the natural joy we are born with." |
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Claire Livingston
Claire Livingston is also known as Dalip Kaur, her spiritual name given by Yogi Bhajan. It means "compassionate princess" and it is her higher purpose. Claire is a certified kundalini teacher with 8 years of practice of Kundalini and she teaches weekly adult classes as well as senior classes and children classes (Radiant child yoga program). Claire is passionate about kundalini yoga and eager to share it with all who come to her so they too can experience the light of their own soul through these life giving technologies. SAT NAM. |
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Cynthia Lamborne
Cynthia Lamborne's background and training has encompassed over 30 years of Teaching, Coaching & Counseling for thousands of men, women and teens. Meditation, Conscious Relationships, Tantra, Spirituality, Family & Couple Mediation, Breath work Therapy, Somatic Intuitive Training, Dance Movement Therapy and Bach Flower Essence Therapy are some of the teachings she utlizes to support her clients. Cynthia's teachings focus on releasing negative emotions and patterning, and therefore, freeing the body and mind to the Awakening state of Inner Peace and Well Being.
In October, 2006, Cynthia traveled to Southern India to live for several months in silent retreat. This is where she was granted the honor of being initiated to provide the Oneness Blessing (Deeksha) by Shri Amma and Bhagavan. Deeksha, a sanskrit word that means "Benediction," is an ancient process common to all spiritual traditions.
Visit Cynthia on her website - www.onenesssandiego.com |
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Daniella DeVarney
A yogi-dancer, Daniella DeVarney began her yoga journey and study in 1995 while dancing on a student scholarship with Alvin Ailey in New York City. Shortly after returning home to Los Angeles, she studied Ashtanga and dance with Shiva Rea at UCLA and graduated with a degree in World Arts and Cultures with an emphasis in West African dance.
Daniella recieved her yoga certification from Maha Yoga in Los Angeles with Max Strom and Steve Ross. For the last ten years, she has studied and taught various traditions of yoga including: Hatha, Ashtanga, Iyengar and Anusara, blending her yoga and dance experience into a vinyasa flow class with emphasis on breath, alignment and fun! In 2002, Daniella was twice featured in the national newspaper USA Today exploring yoga therapy with professional athletes called, "Reconstructing an All-Star".
Daniella has had the privilege of teaching professional dancers from Cirque du Soliel, Celine Dion's "A Brand New Day," Los Angeles Dodgers, Philidelphia Phillies, New York Mets, and celebrities including Julia Roberts. While continuing her study in yoga, Daniella taught modern, lyrical, jazz and West African dance classes while in Los Angeles.
Daniella recently moved here to San Diego for LOVE! She is excited about starting a new journey combining her artistic expression with yoga, liberating one's creative life forces through breath, movement, and music!
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Daryl Regalbuto
Yoga has brought miraculous healing to my life, and allowed me to overcome the symptoms of polio. It has been a gift without measure. I feel a deep and humble gratitude that I am able to teach yoga and see the gifts that yoga brings to my students. I have studied various styles of Hatha, and have trained extensively in the Anusara, Ashtanga, and Synergyï½® styles. I specialize in assisting individuals to overcome physical limitations, helping students deepen their practice with individual attention and attention to detail, helping students to break inhibiting patterns and habits.
Aside from the many classes I teach each week to every level of students, I am also involved in some exciting yoga projects. I head a program at the La Jolla VA hospital, providing hatha yoga and pranayama instruction to low-back patients. Additionally, I have developed techniques for teaching yoga to children and I am now training apprentices. I have also been a mentor teacher and led workshops and clinics in other teacher training programs.
Beauty in nature inspires me to realign with the beauty of my own true nature. At every opportunity, I find natural and beautiful places where I can more easily remove myself from the pressures and distractions that surround daily life. I love to practice yoga on the rocks, in the trees, in waterfalls, and on the beach. I rekindle my connection to the Earth, and through her, I reconnect to my Self.
Out there, there is no space for silly thought patterns and drama. When that creeps in, I look to the immense mountain, bow at the foot, then bow inwardly, and it is then that I know no thoughts. I practice yoga to maintain this essential connection to the Self in the midst of what each day might bring.
Visit Daryl at her Website for schedule and more info - www.omtruenature.com
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Dennis Frate
Dennis entered the yogic life via the pathway of body work and massage therapy. Having completed a 500 hour massage therapy training at the highly respected National Holistic Institute in Sonoma, he left for Costa Rica for the Nosara Yoga Institute founded by Amba and Don Stapleton. Dennis completed a 200 hour training, followed by an advanced yoga training of 100 hours. Nosaraç—´ yoga training was eclectic and interdisciplinary, and his own yoga style incorporates the acute body awareness from massage training, that has produced his eclectic style. "Yogash Citta Vritti Nirodah" is at the heart of his yoga, from the Yoga Sutra, meaning thru the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind,one discovers the quiet place where peace is found.
- National Holistic Institute 500 hour massage therapy training
- Nosara Yoga Institute, 200 hours
- Nosara Yoga Institute, 100 hours Advanced training
- University of California, Berkeley B.S in Social Sciences
- Yoga Alliance Registered 200 hours
- Massage Therapist 18 years
- Yoga Teacher, Fitness Elite Spa, 7 years
- Yoga Teacher, Soul of Yoga, 2 1/2 years
- Kirtan workshops with Jai Uttal
- Immersion with John Friend, Costa Rica
- Anusara Teacher Training, Sherry Schreck
Visit Dennis at his Website for class and massage info - yogaden.net
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Devi Adea
Devi began her study of yoga very early in life. Raised in a yogic family, she began meditating as a young child. In 1998, Devi found Hatha yoga and loved it. In 2000, she traveled to India with Deepak Chopra’s group and practiced yoga and meditation in Agra. Shortly after, she was initiated into Kriya yoga by her godfather and teacher, Swamiji Shankarananda. Devi completed the Anusara Teacher’s training program with Sherry Schreck and is continuing her yogic education with other great teachers in Southern, CA. She is currently in immersive trainings with Lisette Hart and Michael Fukumura.
Devi believes that ultimately, our first and best teacher is the spirit within. She brings a playful, soulful and loving presence to her classes, with the intention of reawakening a healthy aligned body and unconditional self-love and awareness within her students. She sees herself more as a guide to using the student’s own inner wisdom as their true teacher in yoga.
Devi has a deep love of music and feels that the vibrations of the voice are as healing to the individual as the vibrations created through yoga. Through her presence, music, and teaching she shares with others the gift of self-discovery and a fabulous self-created life experience. |
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Jill Jancic
Jill found the transformational practice of yoga in 2000 with an Ashtanga teacher in the mountains of Tahoe, and began teaching in 2005. Her studies and practice have been primarily Ashtanga, Hatha, Anusara, Tibetan Heart Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism. She hopes to share her love of the practice of opening our hearts and freeing our minds through the vehicle of the body, so that all beings may experience radiant health, happiness, and a deepening realization and activation of the great Love within. Her vinyasa classes focus on meditation, inspiration, fun, and optimal pranic energy flow!
Love, laugh, meditate, serve others, this is Jills practice and offering from the heart.
Visit Jill's Website for class and more info - www.rbyoga.com/Home.html |
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Kathleen Bentley
Kathleen Bentley offers her efforts in yoga at the lotus feet of her teachers. Having an interdisciplinary yoga background, over the years she has studied with many yoga teachers devoted to a variety of different styles. Kathleen is deeply honored to be a certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher (studied under her beloved teachers Shri Sharon Gannon, & Shri David Life), she is Anusara Yoga teacher trained under the expert guidance of Sherry Schreck , studied Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy with the amazing Elisa Cobb, Sanskrit Studies with Shri Manorama, certified in the heated hatha flow of Synergy Yoga, and earned a BA in history in '00. Kathleen hopes that her students experience that they are completely whole, divine beings, and know that this state of yoga is our true natural state. |
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Kristen Watson
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