Aska Yoshizu is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and also a certified massage therapist. Through her own transformation, she has come to realize that yoga, meditation, and massage are powerful tools to allow us to re-connect with our own self-healing ability.
Among various styles of yoga she practices, Aska especially loves Anusara because its life affirming philosophy and its therapeutic approach deeply resonate with her belief in ...

Kenny Graham's love of yoga began at age 19 when he discovered an unused yoga book of his father's and he took this book to college with him where he began to practice on his own. Several years later, he had his first taste of Anusara Yoga through his sister Christina Graham. Anusara's heartfelt approach and depth inspired Kenny to dive deep into the potentials of his practice.

One day as he was walking along the ocean beach, he was looking for a treasure ...

Rebecca Snowball  is a certified Vinyasa  and licensed Anusara-Inspired yoga teacher.  She received her first teaching certificate from Ganga White and Tracy Rich of the White Lotus Yoga Foundation  and is continuing her education to become certified, by John Friend, in Anusara yoga.

Rebecca teaches Anusara yoga, a hatha yoga system founded by John Friend.  Anusara became an official yoga system in 1997 and is now the fastest growing yoga ...

Philippe Alexis started practicing Ashtanga in 1995 with John Scott in London. Since then, he has studied yoga with many teachers including Dena Kingsberg and Lino Miele. He started teaching at YiY in 2000.

Philippe was teacher of the month in January 2012. ...

Anne Finstad:When Anne began her practice of Ashtanga yoga in 1996, she was unable to touch her toes. Now some 13 years later, she has made five trips over 9 years to study in India with Shri K Pattabhi Jois, his daughter Saraswati, and grandson R Sharath. She has been given their blessing to teach this method as it was taught to her in India, and she has been teaching since 2001.

She is known for her gentle and loving approach to the fierce practice of Ashtanga ...

Beata: My first yoga class was with the only teacher in Poland, at that time, trained by B.K.S. Iyengar. And as most of people I had no idea what yoga was about. I definitely didn't expect that it would become my life.
Since I moved to California I have experimented with different styles of hatha yoga and studied with many wonderful teachers like Anirudh Shastri, Ben Thomas, Erich Schiffmann, Max Strom and many more amazing yogis, to whom I am very grateful for ...

Mojdeh has been a student of Healing Arts for the past 20 years. She has been trained in several healing modalities with emphasis on meditation and visualization. She started the practice of Ashtanga Yoga in 2000. She has completed David Swenson's Teacher Training program and studied and attended workshops with many advanced Ashtanga Yoga teachers including Lino Miele,
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Betty Strain began her study of yoga with Charles Horn in 1964. She has continued to further he education with Ann Erikson, Felicity Hall and Larry Hatlett over the last 40 years. She advanced her understanding of yoga during a 1983 course in India with BKS Iyengar, as well as a 1991 workshop in Greece with Angela Farmers and
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Tom Abrehamson is a certified yoga teacher with a BA from Princeton and a JD law degree who has studied yoga since the late 1970s.  He has taught over 5000 classes in the mid-peninsula area since 2000 and has taken hundreds of hours of teacher training with, among others, Manouso Manos, Aadil Palkhivala and
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Darcy Elman certified in Pilates Mat and Anusara (inspired) yoga instructor is a leader and expert in movement education. She has been an Alexander Teacher and visionary cranial sacral therapist in practice for 25 years. 

 She is dedicated to helping students get more enjoyment out of life by safely guiding them on the path to fitness, flexibility and musculoskeletal alignment.

 She continues to combine her deep knowledge of ...

Barry started his yogic journey in his early 40s. His body was not flexible and he had lots of bad habits, including smoking. After a few life changing events, he turned his focus on learning more about yoga and related subjects. The practice lead him to a better lifestyle, self awareness. He quit smoking, his mind is stronger and his body is more flexible.

In order to elevate his practice, Barry decided to become a certified yoga teacher. He has completed Equinox/Pure Yoga ...

Heidi Chair received her yoga training and certification in San Francisco Bay Area in 2008 with a strong focus on the therapeutic applications of yoga to prevent sports injuries and promote a stronger healthier body & mind. Heidi believes in the application of yogic philosophy in everyday life to bring cheerfulness & open-mindedness to her local community. She teaches in corporations, sports clubs, and family shelters, as well as private 1-to-1, couples & group ...

Julianne Rice has been teaching Yoga classes in the Bay area since 1984. Her teaching style includes elements from Iyengar, Vinyasa Flow, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, and Dance. She has been on the faculty of Yoga Educational Seminars, a yoga teacher training program founded and directed by Joyce Anue. Her classes challenge and nourish the body and the ...

Kathy Rule is a Certified Yoga Instructor (RYT), Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Nutrition Consultant and Intuitive Energy Healing Practitioner. She completed her 200 hr training with YES Yoga Educational Seminars, directed by Joyce Anue and held at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (CSE) in San Jose. Her teaching combines guided visualization with Iyengar, Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga. Kathy is ...

Pat  Mukti Statsky: Pat has been on the yoga path since 1968 when she met Sri Swami Satchidananda, who awakened in her a deep love of the teachings of yoga. She is certified in the Synergy tradition - a blend of Sivananda, Integral Hatha, and Bikram styles of yoga. She also has certifications in Restorative Yoga, Pre-Natal Yoga, and teacher trainings in Swaroopa Yoga, and Iyengar Yoga. Pat is also a certified Doula (Birth Partner) and has extensive training in ...

Shyamoli Banerjee has been doing yoga as long as she can remember. She grew up in India "playing" asanas with her friends and listening to her grandmother tell her stories from Ramayana and Mahabharata. More recently, wanting to know more about yoga philosophy and practice, she signed up for Sianna Sherman's Immersion class, and ever since she has been a passionate practitioner of the heart-themed philosophy and practice of Anusara yoga. She thinks it is ironic that ...