Aden Wain teaches a power-vinyasa style of yoga. Her thoughtfully sequenced classes are both safely challenging and fun. She believes that yoga is beneficial for every body, mind and soul - and that everyone can do it. She has had the privilege of studying with Nancy Goodstein, Vytas Baskauskas, Jerome Mercier, and Kyra Haglund and many other talented teachers.
Allison McCready believes yoga is a truly transformative practice on all levels – body, mind and spirit. As a teacher she creates an environment that supports each student's personal evolution. In her classes, Allison emphasizes breath and healthy alignment. She began her own yoga practice in 2000 and has completed teacher trainings with Erich Schiffmann, Max Strom, Sherry Brourman and Jamie Elmer. For more information visit Allison's Facebook Page.
Andrea Wagner, a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance, has been practicing yoga for over 20 years. Her love of yoga encouraged her to complete and graduate from the Yoga Works Teacher Training Program at. She has been teaching all over the LA basin including Beverly Hills and Santa Monica Adult Schools, Yoga Works, Santa Monica Yoga, Crenshaw Yoga and Dance and at UCLA through the fit-well program. She also teaches privately. Andrea believes that Yoga is for everyone. She enjoys teaching students new to yoga and beginners, so she can lead them on the journey towards feeling better about themselves.
Catherine McDonough is a Family Nurse Practitioner and has been in practice since 1984. She has been practicing and studying yoga since 1982. Numerous teacher trainings and one certification program led to her opening The Yoga Center in 1994 in Billings Montana. She taught at that studio for 10 years before returning to her home town of Los Angeles. Catherine specializes in therapeutic yoga for many medical problems and concerns. She is enthusiastic, and has a practical approach when teaching postures, with the aim of helping students incorporate yoga in daily life at home and at work.
UPDATE September 2011: She is currently volunteering in a hospital in Dharamsala, India and teaching yoga there as well. You can follow her India blog here.
Cindy Fraser teaches a slow, deep practice influenced by Taoist and hatha yoga principles, offering students of all levels the opportunity to explore the power and the beauty of body and breath. A yoga practice of 15 years brought Cindy to teaching.
Daniel Stewart studies yoga and other wisdom traditions to explore the practice of becoming fully alive in each moment. His playful, heart-centered teaching, combines alignment, meditative breath, music and spirit, in vigorous vinyasa-flow classes that encourage students to quiet their minds and reconnect to themselves, releasing energy for renewal and joy. For more information visit danielstewartyoga.com.
Deborah Raoult is a yoga and Continuum Movement teacher whose primary interest is exploring the dynamics of breath and motion as gateways to freedom. Her expertise is working with women throughout the life stages. She has a special passion for the childbearing cycle. Her focus supports women and their families, celebrating pregnancy, labor and parenting as powerful rites of passage that transform our relationship to body, community and the Earth. Deborah's twenty-five years of experience includes presenting at the Yoga Journal conference and offering pre and postnatal yoga teacher training. For more information visit www.unfoldingbody.com.
Elizabeth St. Clair has taught traditional kundalini yoga at Santa Monica Yoga since 1996. Her classes are joyous - they empower the body, mind and spirit through asana, pranayama and meditation. She is a certified Relax and Renew Trainer and has trained in Yoga ASSIST for cancer patients at LMU where she is pursuing certification in yoga philosophy. Elizabeth is also deeply involved in using yoga to benefit those with Alzheimer's and brain injuries.
Indira Shekerjian Compassionate. Dynamic. Hands-On. Intuitive. Challenging. Restorative. Transformational. But ultimately, expect the unexpected! Indira may start each class with a theme, but she crafts each class based on who shows up. Her intent is always to help guide you in your journey whether it's physical, emotional or spiritual. With her non-ego approach she creates a safe environment-- great for beginners, seniors, seasoned students and those who claim they're "inflexible". She connects to her students through touch and mindful awareness. Indira believes that the real power of yoga is contained in the breath and when combined with movement, healing can occur.
Jane Zingale is a hands-on instructor who has training and experience with various styles of yoga. Her classes are a mix of Iyengar, Hatha and Kundalini yoga. She encourages energy, strength and conscious breathing promoting the student's focus. Slowly warming the body from the inside out she guides the student’s attention to form and alignment, lengthening the spine, and caring for the lower back.
Joan stepped into her first Yoga class is 1999 and hasn’t stopped since.
Her classes are a harmonious blend of stretch, strength, balance, and flow, with emphasis on core work and connecting breath to movement.
A Massage Therapist and Energy Worker for over 15 years, the transition into Yoga Instructor came very naturally. She has been very lucky to be able to study with many amazing teachers here in LA. Her main influences have been right here at Santa Monica Yoga; completing SMY’s Teacher Training with Nancy Goodstein, Julian Walker, Kyra Haglund, and Shari Friedrichsen. Over the years she has studied with Bryan Kest, Ashley Turner, and Shiva Rea.
“Yoga has been the single most influentially positive factor in my life and I am honored to be able to share it with you.”
Jodi Fuchs is an artist and a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor. Through physical sets (kriyas), breath, meditation and mantra we can effect great change in our energy field. As we become calmer, our nervous system and glandular system are balanced and we become attuned to our own Grace and Truth. Kundalini yoga is for everyone at every level. Come experience the expanded you! For more about Jodi's art (featured at Santa Monica Yoga's front office), visit her website, Etsy store or follow her on Twitter.
Joyce Dvoren is a graduate of the SMY 200-hour teacher training program. In addition to teaching yoga, Joyce also practices several healing modalities (including Reiki and Oneness Blessing, or deeksha) which she offers to her students during savasana. Her "come as you are" teaching style invites students to honor themselves, to focus on safe alignment, and to use the breath as a master tool for self-awareness.
Julian Walker brings an integrative and uniquely holistic vision to his teaching that is inspired by sacred poetry, world music, depth psychology, archetypal mythology, and a passion for deeply embodied and healing spirituality. He has been teaching yoga and practicing the healing arts of bodywork, therapeutic dialog and cleanse coaching in Los Angeles for the last 14 years, and has taught across the United States. He studied intensively in L.A. with master teacher Ana Forrest from 1992 to 1998, and was certified by her to teach. Julian's classes are sweaty, energetic, stretchy and meditative, cater to students of all levels and include music and poetry. For more information visit julianwalkeryoga.com.
Katherine Newmark has been practicing yoga for over twenty years and teaching for the last ten. She has studied with Rod Stryker, Lisa Walford, Erich Schiffman, Gary Kraftsow. In her restorative class, with the use of props and breath, she guides students to gently open the body, soothe the nervous system, clear the brain and nourish the spirit. This practice is stress reducing, heart opening and balancing to the system, offering desirable relief for L.A. city dwellers.
Keri Lee is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. She studied with the Iyengar family in Pune, India in the summer of 2010. Before teaching yoga she already had over 15 years of teaching experience including the movement principles of the Yoshida Technique, various kinds of dance and fitness classes. Her career before teaching yoga was performing in Broadway shows. She holds a BA in English. Her primary teachers are Marla Apt and Carolyn Belko. The profound change she has experienced with her practice instills her teaching with clarity, warmth, humor and devotion.
Kyra Haglund teaches hatha-raja yoga in a compassionate, knowledgeable, and energetic manner. She views yoga as a multilayered journey that inspires greater understanding of and connection to the true self within. She draws on her background as a dancer to evoke inner grace and balance in a safe, creative environment. For more information visit kyrahaglund.com.
Laura Gideon has been involved in the fitness/health/wellness industry for the past 27 years. She is IM=X Pilates certified, a fitness formula that advances the traditional teachings of Joseph Pilates integrating a proprietary blend of exercise sequences along with the Alexander Techniques of postural training. IM=X Pilates is designed to develop strength, symmetry, and range of motion along with flexibility. Laura enjoys educating her class "beyond training" teaching students how to advance in an injury free setting. She also holds a M.S. degree in Exercise Science and multiple fitness trainer certifications. For more information visit www.bamboobalance.com.
Leslie Bogart is certified to teach in the Viniyoga tradition. She has worked with people with physical and emotional ailments as a Registered Nurse since the 1970s. Leslie began practicing yoga in 1982, and received her first certification to teach yoga in 1985. In addition to working for a physical therapist, Leslie continued her studies with different yoga teachers, soon immersing herself in Yoga as therapy. She focused on the teachings of Krishnamacarya and Desikachar, mostly as taught by Gary Kraftsow, and has completed his Yoga Therapists' Training Course.
Lori McIntosh is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. A longtime student of senior teacher, Manouso Manos, she has studied twice with the Iyengar family at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India.
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