Brad Yantzer provides biomechanically precise instruction influenced by his ability to integrate 15 years of study in all of the healing and movement modalities he has studied. His classes focus on stability from the inner body (core) so that the outer body (superficial sleeve) can then move and lengthen in functional movement. This freedom allows the energy (chi) to move freely through the body. Brad believes that optimum health is dynamic and that as the human body is one system made from many systems, if one is not in order the others cannot perform optimally either.

He has studied many health modalities and has combined them for his own unique and holistic view of the human body and the world. He has studied Chiropractic under Dr. Scott Duke DC., CCSP, mentored for a year and a half with preeminent motor learning specialist Jean Claude West, as well as studying with the brainchild of Kinesis Myofascial Integration (KMI), Tom Myers. He also studied Hatha Yoga for three years with Tony Sanchez, creator of Yoga Challenge, and has been certified through Greenpath Yoga with influence in Ashtanga Vinyasa.

Brad's "Exploratory Movement for Yoga" class is an integration of all these disciplines and knowledge gathered over the past 15 years. Brad considers the individual needs of every one of his students in each class and bases the class on what each individual needs for their unique circumstances regarding their body posture, mind, energy, and injury and/or limitations. His style is eclectic, based on natural or functional biomechanical and energetic movement of the human body but throwing into the mix many other modalities. Taking his cueing from kinesthetic imagery, functional anatomy, different Asian arts, and a love of movement and energetics he unwinds your body in an expansive way rather than contracting your musculature and energy inward. The response is a delightful centering of your body on its gravity line to further your movement with a fluidity and ease. The class is safe for the injured and useful for therapy as well as being easy enough for the beginner but also challenging enough for the advanced. www.evolutionmovement.com





Christa Reynolds has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area for the last eleven years, developing her own unique style of Iyengar-inspired hatha yoga. Christa’s instruction supports students in creating more focus, developing greater awareness, building muscular and core strength while enhancing flexibility. “Yoga calms the mind as it opens the heart to unobstructed creativity and joy,” says Christa.





Christina Forth's style of teaching focuses on a deep study of the connections between body, breath, and spirit, blending instruction on Anusara Yoga's® Universal Principles of Alignment with the thematic exploration of various spiritual teachings into an experience that affirms for each student the idea that simply being who and how they are is already enough. Her classes often incorporate dynamic flowing sequences to create inner heat along with held postures and partner work to facilitate alignment. She brings a calm presence and uplifting style to encourage each student to explore him or herself more fully on all levels.

As a student of yoga since 1998, Christina has had the incredible fortune to have studied with many outstanding teachers. She is currently most impacted by certified Anusara Yoga® teachers Sianna Sherman, Desiree Rumbaugh and Maritza. Her notable past mentors include Andrew Eppler and Sri K Pattahbi Jois, with whom she studied in Mysore, India. www.christinaforth.com

Cynthia Bernheim began her career in Yoga after 20 years in the business world in order to make a positive change in her life and share that with others. A long time-athlete, she was a gymnast, swam competitively and ran marathons. She now enjoys many different sports including hiking, mountain biking, snow skiing, water skiing and wakeboarding, scuba diving and kayaking, but was missing a holistic form of movement until she discovered yoga. Yoga soon became a way of life.

A long time yoga practitioner, Cynthia's teaching is most influenced by the Iyengar method. She combines her enthusiasm and love of yoga with a knowledge of alignment and body mechanics. Her clear, easy-to-follow instructions encourage students of all levels to work deeply while honoring and working with their limitations.

Cynthia has studied with Senior Iyengar Instructor Jaki Nett. She has completed 200 hours of Teacher Training at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco and is continuing her studies at the Institute to complete the 500 hour Advanced Teacher Training program. Cynthia also serves as the Student Liaison to the board of trustees that governs the Institute.





Eric Monkhouse's classes are a celebration of vinyasa flow yoga, tantric philosophy, dynamic meditation & massage. Ethereal, pulsing music infuses the practice to ignite a unified expression of "shakti" - spontaneous, joyful & energetic movement.

Working the dance floor as a DJ is no different to working the studio floor as a yoga teacher. To be effective, both require a deep understanding of what inspires people to move and why. "Reading the crowd" and being intuitive of energy fluctuations are key. Eric's teaching revolves around inspiring people that are stuck in a groove - often unconscious negative patterns that block prana, or creative life-force energy. Discovering the joy within movement and breath is essential in establishing a self practice - the benefits of which can then spill into daily life.

Owing to the early years of playing representative rugby, he has tremendous empathy with beginners that are inflexible and apprehensive. He welcomes everybody to class and bubbles with enthusiasm and humor. If Eric had a second pair of hands, he would DJ too, but instead he creates unique mixes from constantly evolving playlists, ranging from world rhythms to ambient trip outs. Every class is vibrantly different, encouraging self acceptance and self healing. Eric has been teaching in London, England since 2002, and now is living and teaching in the San Francisco Bay area. For comprehensive playlists and free podcasts check Eric's website at www.yogagroove.net





Gurukar Singh Khalsa is a KRI-Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer.





Janet Carter loves yoga and it shows in her fun, vibrant, alignment-oriented classes. She even infuses the principles of yoga into her outside activities like rock-climbing and jewelry-making...and encourages you to do so as well. Come breathe in Janet's enthusiasm for life in her hatha flow classes. Find balance, strength and freedom on and off the mat.





Karin Scholz Grace is a certified Hanna Somatic therapist, bringing a wide range of training and skills to her diverse healing arts and coaching practice. Based in Sausalito, California, she offers individual sessions and group classes in Hanna Somatics, Somatic Yoga, somatic coaching, leadership development, meditation, stress reduction, and the Enneagram. Karin holds an MS from Stanford University, and is currently a student of the Diamond Approach.

In addition to her private practice, Karin also facilitates Interpersonal Dynamics and High Performance Leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at USF School of Law. She is also a regular speaker and presenter at workshops and conferences such as the Association of Hanna Somatic Education conference, the International Enneagram Association Conference, and the International Association of Yoga Therapy Conference.

Having used Somatics to recover from her own debilitating spinal injury, Karin embodies this transformative healing practice from a place of personal experience and deep compassion. She loves empowering each student with the tools to make dramatic shifts within themselves and find greater capacity, flexibility, and comfort.

  

BREAKING NEWS
Monday, April 7, 10:00 am:
Baby boy Finn Matthew Gleason has arrived!!!

Kath Doody teaches an intuitive and athletic style of hatha flow yoga that focuses on the development of breathwork, strength, proper alignment, and flexibility, while encouraging the cultivation of each individual's own personal flow.

Kath has been teaching yoga for four years and has studied various styles of yoga for thirteen years, including Ashtanga, Iyengar, Bikram, and Anusara Yoga®, as well as having a background in dance. She combines her experience and love of all of these forms to offer a class that is fun, challanging, and beneficial to students of all levels. In addition to teaching, Kath is also a certified massage therapist and personal fitness trainer. She looks forward to seeing you in class.





Katrina Knudsen has been an enthusiastic yogi on the journey to unite her mind, body, and spirit since 1997. She feels Anusara Yoga® most closely connected with her heart and has spent many hours training with John Friend. She’s recently returned from an extended maternity leave, and is looking forward to walking the path of the teacher once again with you. She is dedicated to helping students find their inner teacher and reveal their own divine beauty through Anusara Yoga's® Universal Principles of Alignment.





Kim Holmes unites fun interaction, active alignment and self empowerment into her yoga classes, incorporating over 18 years of experience in the art of movement therapy and bodywork. Her guidance will work to combine your mind & body awareness into graceful functional movement. In her teaching Kim integrates and creates energy flow and alignment principles evolved from Iyengar and Anusara Yoga®; Pilates; Gyrotonic™, Gyrokinesis™, soft tissue manipulation; the study of kinesiology; over nine years of studies with Motor Learning Specialist Jean Claude West; and continual studies in all these fields and more. For Kim, yoga encourages an opening of the heart while staying grounded.





Laura Christensen (Abbey), is a passionate, spirited and Certified Anusara Yoga® Instructor and serves on the Anusara Yoga Certification Committee. She gets a kick out of creating fun, inspiring, heart-expanding and deep classes that empower students to connect to their inner strength, beauty and divinity.  Her classes are a fusion of optimal postural alignment, celebration of heart, and community connection. She is enthusiastic about introducing students to a yogic path upon which their individuality and their own unique potential can co-participate with the ever-present, and ever-flowing gift of Grace to experience life as the fullest expression of joy. For Laura, the practice of yoga is about finding the sweet place in the middle in the heart, mind, body, and spirit where you can simultaneously experience and express raw power and strength married with equally intense doses of refined sweetness and beauty. She delights in helping students access the dynamic and unlimited source of potential that arises when these qualities harmoniously blend together.

Laura has studied extensively under her teacher John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga®. She even packed her bags for one full year to go on tour with him in 2005-2006 and study by his side. She has assisted him all over the US and throughout Europe in workshops and Teacher Trainings and has over one thousand hours of direct study with John; hundreds more with other Senior Certified Anusara Yoga® Teachers. She loves learning from everyone around her, especially her students. www.alignwiththedivine.com




Matthew Breno (Bio & photo coming soon...)





Milushe Kudrnovska, CYT (Yoga Alliance) is a Physical Therapist, as well as a Motherwavework™ Facilitator, Certified Massage Therapist, and Watsu™ Practitioner. She began her professional yoga journey nine years ago in response to her own physical challenges. She found yoga to be so valuable in all aspects of her life that she started sharing this art through teaching. Having been a Physical Therapist for fifteen years, Milushe has a deep understanding of thebody and its ability to open. She combines this knowledge of Physical Therapy and yoga to safely guide people to expand, stretch, strengthen and find a deep inner peace.





Nicole Klaymoon received a Bachelors of Arts in dance from UCLA and completed a Vinyasa Flow Yoga teacher training with Shiva Rea. She has studied yoga with Julian Walker and movement rituals with Anna Halprin. She also has extensive training in somatic forms including Cline technique, Alexander technique and Pilates. She currently teaches modern dance, house dance, and performs as a solo performance artist in the Bay Area.





Nicole Mickelson loves that yoga is an essential aide in healing the body, mind, and spirit; teaching us to let go and be still with ease. She will guide you to a place where you are present so you can experience the pulse of life. She uses anatomy, breath awareness, and music to deepen your practice and find inner balance. Balance - that is what it is all about.

Nicole is a certified Kripalu instructor having apprenticed at the Kripalu Center in Massachusetts. Kripalu means compassion in Sanskrit. Kripalu yoga works its wonders through body awareness by focusing on the mind, self-acceptance, meditation in motion, eastern philosophy, and taking yoga off the mat. Nicole welcomes all to come ride the wave of life and see where your body takes you!





Update 9/24/7: Paul just returned, last night, to India for another 5 months...
Paul has finally returned to Marin on Thursday, Feb 22, 2007after 3 years in India....and then promptly returned to Indai and Nepal to be blessed with more teachings from prominent Buddhist teachers...
If you'd like to read about his travels, CLICK HERE!

Paul McLaughlin, Certified Anusara Yoga® Teacher, began studying hatha yoga and meditation in 1973. "I crafted a basic asana practice out of my big sister's copy of Light on Yoga. I practiced, largely in solitude, through my high school, college and early professional years. I began taking regular Iyengar classes with Lynn Minton in Anchorage, Alaska in 1991. From 1992 through 1996 I traveled extensively in the United States and abroad studying yoga, participating in long meditation retreats and exploring the mountains of North America and the Himalaya. I spent 9 months in India, visiting sacred sites, studying with several teachers and soaking up the amazing spiritual energy of the "homeland of yoga". I met John Friend at a yoga conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1997. I was hooked from the first class! I loved the combination of the elegant principles of alignment, the cultivation of heart qualities, and the recognition of hatha yoga as a profound spiritual practice. I began to teach yoga after several years of study with John in order to share my enthusiasm for Anusara Yoga® with others." Paul's teaching style emphasizes vitality, alignment and open-hearted exploration.





Rachel von Garnier, originally from northern New Mexico, first began practicing yoga in college as a natural transition from a background in gymnastics. Upon moving to Marin in 2003, Rachel immersed herself in the wonderful Anusara community of the Bay Area. Through the years Rachel has revelled in the sanctuary of peace, fullness, inner alignment, and community that yoga as a spiritual path provides. Rachel has had the opportunity to study with Sianna Sherman and John Friend, as well as Maritza, Noah Maze, and Jim Bernaert. Her teaching strives to help students align the body and mind with the deep current of energy within, and to experience life more fully and joyously. Rachel loves to share this great practice that has so profoundly enriched her own life.




Ramona Mays studied with Jean Sullivan and Madeleine Black at Body of Work in San Francisco in 2000 where she received her Pilates (as taught by Joseph Pilates) certification through Physical Mind Institute. She then trained with Debra Rose and Juliu Horvath at White Cloud in San Francisco and became a Gyrotonic Trainer. Ramona has been doing Yoga since she was 15, she danced and studied with Ed Mock in the 70's and performed with Anna Halprin renowned dance pioneer of expressive art movement and the life art process, in the 90's. Ramona likes to incorporate some of the life art process and Gyrotonics into her teaching method, particularly the spine articulation and spiraling technique of Gyrotonics.

Pilates is an excellent way to build core strength in the body and to develop important support muscles through flexion and extension. Psoas major, transverse abdominous, and the internal and external obliques are the muscles that you wil discover and focus on in Ramonas'class. Because Ramona has also been practicing Kundalini Yoga for 25 years and believes in the important ability of breath to increase the effectiveness of any excercise program, her classes have more of a focus on breathing than most Pilates classes. Breath in Pilates helps to mobilize the ribs, keep the pelvis neutral, massage internal organs, enhance muscle activation and oxygenate body tissue.

Ramona's classes are accessible to all levels, but sheis particularly good with beginners who have had little or no experience. She has taught Pilates to all ages from teens to seniors and has seen great results in everyone who has committed to regualr practice. Posture improves almost immediately and many people actually get taller (!) when the musculoskeletal alignment becomes sound. Pilates is an excellent method to combat the effects of gravity, habitual postural misalignments and muscle imbalances which deprive us of our potential movement quality..





Stacie Vining, co-founder of Yoga of Sausalito, brings years of technical rehabilitative bodywork, Pilates and functional movement therapies to her fun, transformative yoga classes. She responds to the specific physical, emotional and spiritual needs of each person leading them to a new, dynamic and creative experience of life!





Uniquely combining spirit, strength and flexibility, Tim Lenheim successfully reveals mind-body consciousness previously unknown to his individual students. Tim's eclectic background ranges from three years in the Navy to being ordained as a monk in the country of Burma, from the Baptiste method of yoga to Anusara Yoga®.





Zoë Collier came to yoga while traveling in Asia over 15 years ago. A ten-day Vipasanna meditation retreat in a monastery in Thailand became a pivotal point for her journey inward. Upon returning to the US, Zoë began studying to be a midwife, but soon found that her interests were less oriented in extending medical aid and more toward offering informed emotional support to labor women as a doula.

Zoë has been practicing as a doula for thirteen years in San Francisco and Marin and received training through Doulas of North America (DONA) as well as many other trainings in midwifery, childbirth education, and labor support.

She is a member of the Marin Doula Circle and has taught the prenatal portion of the yoga training at San Francisco's Greenpath Yoga. Her own invaluable teachers are many, varied, and include Sarah Powers, Kripalu and the Integral Yoga prenatal program. Having traveled, lived, been educated and volunteered in many foreign countries, Zoë brings with her a unique perspective, a breadth of understanding and a deep commitment to her profession. Zoë can be reached via email at <zoecollier@mac.com>