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Birgit Reimer
Iyengar - Birgit Reimer has studied extensively with Ben Thomas. Her schedule includes regular asana and pranayama classes at bay area studios as well as yoga at the AARS (Asian American Recovery Service), private lessons, and workshops. Her classes are a well-balanced composition of Sadhana (practice), chants , pranayama, meditation and philosophy. Birgit also teaches an Iyengar yoga module for Avalon's teacher training program. Bonnie Linde Intro to Yoga - Bonnie came to yoga following a career in high-tech operations management, and loved the way yoga made her feel, mentally as well as physically. She completed the Teacher Training Program at Avalon Yoga Center in Palo Alto, mentoring with her primary teacher and influence, John Berg, and then studied Restorative yoga with Jaclyn Long. Bonnie believes that yoga is more than just a good way to stretch and work out; it leads to a clearer, calmer state of being. She also believes a yoga practice should feel good, whether the student is a beginner or an advanced yogi. Brandy Falcon Yin/Vinyasa - Brandy has been practicing Hatha yoga since 1998 and teaching yoga since 2002. She draws from many styles to lead classes that are slow, deep, and appropriately intense. Strongly influenced by the Buddhist practices of Vipassana (insight) and Metta (loving-kindness) meditation, Brandy encourages students to practice with compassionate awareness and to explore the many layers of our human nature. She has been certified by the YES program, directed by Joyce Anue, and has completed a Yin-Yang teacher’s training course with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley. In addition to her ongoing studies in yoga and Sanskrit, Brandy is working toward a Master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Carla Philbrick Vinyasa - Carla began practicing yoga in 1992 at home with a friend who had just returned from studying Ashtanga Yoga with Pattabhi Jois in India. Outfitted with a four-page handout of poses, she continued practicing on her own and with friends. Those early practicing days taught her the importance of a yoga community support and how to be guided from within. In 1997 she completed the Yoga Works teacher training in Santa Monica with Ashtanga instructor Maty Ezraty and senior Iyengar instructor Lisa Walford. The blend of Ashtanga Vinyasa and the precision of Iyengar alignment was a transformational experience for her. Also, while training at Yoga Works, Carla was inspired by the gentle teachings of Erich Schiffman from whom she learned that yoga is a balance of effort and ease. After completing these trainings, she began teaching in San Francisco and the Peninsula. In 2001 she completed the It’s Yoga teacher training, and in 2005 she completed Judith Lasater’s pre-natal training at the Iyengar Institute. Other teachers who have inspired her along the way include Aadil Palkhivala, Sarah Powers, and Tias Little. Carla’s teaching blends Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar, and yoga therapeutics. Her goal is to inspire people to explore these challenging practices in a safe and playful environment with a moving meditation of flowing poses and stillness practice. She emphasizes mindfulness and the importance of cultivating compassion and humor in yoga practice– and life! Currently, Carla teaches privately and at Devi and the Pacific Athletic Club. Eric Wesoff Vinyasa, Yoga For Athletes - Eric has practiced and taught Yoga in the SF Bay Area since 2004. He has been certified in the Ashtanga style at It’s Yoga of San Francisco and borrows liberally from other Yoga styles. Eric has practiced with a number of distinguished teachers, including Andrey Lappa, Dharma Miitra, and David Swenson, and intends to carry on their teachings with integrity and grace. His classes emphasize breath, dynamic flow, and finding calm in the intensity of the asana. Fabiana Ozaki DeRose Method Yoga - Fabiana Ozaki was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. Fabi got in touch with the DeRose Method at an early age, was enchanted by its practice, and decided to study at the University of Yôga, founded by Master DeRose. She decided to dedicate her life to teaching this amazing tradition to more people worldwide. She then followed her dream and moved to San Francisco to start introducing to America the powerful and complete DeRose Method. The DeRose method, also known as SwáSthya Yôga, produces fast and lasting effects like no other. It teaches you how to breathe better, concentrate and relax, enhancing the quality of your life. Its physical practice without any repetitions but rather long-lasting positions gives you strength, endurance and flexibility. The execution of transitional movements between each position, creates a harmonious chain through each pose, and the result is a beautiful and unique Yoga choreography! Janya Wongsopa Vinyasa/Restorative, Yin - Janya is a devoted yoga practitioner who has been, since 2003, deeply involved with yogic philosophy and psychology, health, and healing. She completed yoga training at Avalon Yoga Center in Palo Alto, a 200-hour certification course in yogic meditation and Vedanta philosophy at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm, and a certification in Somatic Psychology at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, in 2006. Janya has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2006 and has worked as a pancha karma apprentice at Blue Sage Sanctuary. In her classes, Janya emphasizes body and breath awareness and weaves a spiritual teaching of yoga that connects with all aspects of body and mind and that allows students gain physical, emotional, and mental health. Her teaching is gentle yet challenging: with sincere guidance and support, she urges students to take an active role in creating optimum health and well-being. Jeff Lang Yoga Tune Up - Completing Jill Miller’s Yoga Tune Up® teacher training gave Jeff the necessary knowledge for transforming the body in a systematic, accessible, and safe way. Using modern understanding and ancient techniques, Jeff’s classes provide a physical practice to heal and support mental clarity, emotional capability, and spiritual growth. Having gone through the Avalon Yoga teacher-training program in 2006, Jeff has studied the roots of classical yoga and the philosophies of this rich lineage. Jeff had the opportunity to learn from some of the areas best teachers; John Berg, Ben Thomas, Sam Matthews, Kelly McGonigal, and Anirudh Shastri. Jenn Gaskin Vinyasa Jenn Gaskin began studying yoga and pilates ten years ago. She says, "For me, yoga is more than something I do. It is who I am - something I feel I was created to take joy in. It meets and nurtures me in the deep places." Jenn has been certified by Tias Little and has had the privilege of assisting him at his Yoga Journal Conference workshops. Jenn's classes tend toward the more rigorous side of Vinyasa, but she seeks to maintain an atmosphere of solid calm and joy throughout her classes. Jill Glikbarg Vinyasa Jill Glikbarg has been practicing yoga since 1986 in the Hatha traditions of Ashtanga, Iyengar, Power and Vinyasa. She completed her teacher training in Vinyasa Flow with Mark Stephens of One Yoga Center and intensive teacher workshops with Rod Stryker (Pure Yoga - Tantra), Susie Aldous (Viniyoga), and Shiva Rae (Vinyasa Flow). Her emphasis connects breath and body in a progression that culminates to a peak and that gradually relaxes into release and stillness. Practitioners are led with verbal cues and hands-on adjustments into safe alignment while deepening their practice and experiencing the subtle energies that lie within us all. John Berg Vinyasa John, an artist, musician and yoga explorer has studied under many teachers and styles, each one contributing a facet to John's style. A foundation in Iyengar yoga (Ben Thomas) brings an emphasis on safety and alignment; studies in traditional Hatha yoga, philosophy and Sanskrit (Anirudh Shastri); the art and power of creative vinyasa sequencing (Max Strom), and the integration of meditation into the physical yoga experience, creating one's own yoga (Erich Schiffmann). A graduate of teacher trainings at Avalon Yoga (Palo Alto, CA) and Sacred Movement (Santa Monica, CA), John is on the faculty of Avalon's training program teaching methodology. Emphasis is on the enjoyment of yoga as a personal expression; physically, spiritually and mentally. Lauren Anas Vinyasa - Lauren began with 15 years of classical ballet training before she was introduced to yoga. She practiced Ashtanga yoga for 2 years and then enjoyed experiencing all styles with Vinyasa being her favorite. Lauren graduated from the teacher training program at Avalon Art and Yoga Center where she studied under John Berg. Lauren likes to think of her classes as explorations into the self, bringing our attention inward, finding both peace and love within our hearts. With compassion for the self and awareness of the body, yoga can be both physically and emotionally healing. As we let go and surrender into the moment and into the pose, we create space for healing to occur. Each breath, each moment, is another opportunity to experience what yoga ultimately embodies, unified grace. Louis Jackson Hatha, Iyengar, Vinyasa Louis Jackson has been practicing since 1995 and is currently studying with master Iyengar Instructor Mr. Ben Thomas (http://www.thomasyoga.com). He completed his teacher training at Palo Alto's Avalon Art and Yoga Center in fall of '06. In his classes, you will master the foundation needed for a safe practice and for the exploration of advanced asana. With his deliberate approach, you will strengthen and lengthen muscles and ligaments, learn to isolate the four regions of the spine, build endurance, and integrate movement and breath. By applying these basic principles in your everyday life, you will be at ease sitting, walking and sleeping. Marly Cardozo Rasa Vinyasa - Marly has been teaching since 2000. While first attracted to Yoga for its many physiological benefits, Marly made it her passion once she realized its healing and transformative effect on the mind and spirit. Marly is a certified Yoga teacher by Ganga White and Tracey Rich, founders of the White Lotus Foundation, and by Tias Little, founder of Prajna Yoga, whom she has assisted at the Yoga Journal Conference and other workshops. She studied Yoga therapy and the Yoga Sutras with TKV Desikachar, and she is currently training under the guidance of Kofi Busia; in addition, she has trained extensively in bio-energetic healing. Marly’s teaching encourages conscious awareness, skillful alignment, a strong stable core, and fluid movement. Her classes are attentive, well informed, spontaneous, playful, and have a consistent depth and completeness that offer students challenges and nourishment. Marly believes that the true force behind Yoga lies in its power to connect us with the deepest parts of ourselves, that it is one of the most hopeful methods for becoming mindful of our strengths as well as our deep-held patterns of conditioning, and that it allows us to appreciate our own lives and the lives of all others. She teaches Yoga workshops and retreats in the Bay Area and abroad, offers private Yoga instruction and bio-energetic healing sessions, and is an Ambassador to Lululemon Athletica, which offers classes to the Burlingame and San Mateo communities. From its inception, Marly has been a healer at the Stanford School of Medicine’s Healing Partners program. Click here for more information on Marly and her Rasa Vinyasa class. Marta McCormick CorePower Vinyasa - Marta’s students appreciate the growth available from each asana practice. There is a natural building within the breath, the strength and balance in the postures, and awareness to personal intention. “The movements that carry us on and off the mat have as much importance as the postures we practice. We build upon the next, each posture transitioning to another and ultimately creating our own memory in body, mind, heart and self. The power of now is startling at times and an incredible reminder of what we already have inside.“ Yoga began for Marta ten year ago practicing with her siblings. A background in dance and soccer lend to the power and focused alignment of her teaching. “Each day on the mat is a new experience, how we return is individual.” Marta teaches from a place of love for yoga. She has been guiding classes for five years, originally a student and yoga alliance certified teacher of Core Power yoga. Her influential teachers include Ana Forrest, Rusty Wells, Rolf Gates, Shiva Rea, and Janet Stone. Mary E. McKee Bikram - Mare practiced Jiu Jitsu for over 10 years, and a knee injury during this art martial practice brought her to discover the healing power of Yoga. Since this transition, Mare has been practicing and teaching Yoga in the Bay Area. Mare completed her training and certification with Bikram Choudhury in 2001. In addition to Bikram, she enjoys studying other Yoga styles. She teaches Yin, Flow, Bikram, and private classes weekly. Mare meditates daily and brings this experience into her teaching through the powerful vehicle known as "stillness.” Mercedes Delaney Intro to Yoga- Mercedes was introduced to yoga in 1998, at the beginning of her graduate school program. Even though the process of getting her Master’s degree in Speech and Hearing Science lasted only three and a half years, the threads of yoga continue to inform her life. In 2007 she received her Yoga teacher certification from Avalon Art and Yoga Center in Palo Alto, and is currently enrolled in the Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers offered through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She continues to study under a variety of yoga and vipassana teachers, including Tias Little, Max Strom, Stephen Cope, Ben Thomas, Sarah Powers, Mark Coleman, Howard Cohn, and Anna Douglas. Mercedes has completed level one of the Anusara Imersion program offered by Samantha Shakti-Brown, Stacey Rosenberg and Kelly Blaser. Mercedes’ teachings guide us to first find our breath and our heart, thereby allowing the body to open more fully to the asana practice. Her classes include mindfulness teachings that integrate meditation and self-study to the asana practice. She teaches gentle, restorative, and foundation-level classes. Nicole Montague Vinyasa - Nicole began her yogic path in early childhood when she trained for years as both a gymnast and a musician. After graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law School and then practicing law for four years, Nicole returned to her passion for exploring the mind, body and breath. She has a strong foundation in both Iyengar and Hatha yoga traditions, and continues to train closely with masters such as Ben Thomas and Anirudh Shastri. In her own practice and teaching, Nicole views Vinyasa as poetry in motion and seeks to use the body, breath and music to fuel an experience of inner peace and harmony with the Self. She has a unique style that infuses the playfulness of life?s energy with a grounded and meditative spirit. Nicole is a certified yoga instructor through the Avalon Yoga Teacher Certification Program in Palo Alto, California. Nicole Perkins Yin, Vinyasa - Nicole is the founder of DEVI yoga. She discovered yoga while traveling through South-east Asia in 1995. In 1998, Nicole returned to India to study traditional Hatha yoga in an intensive month-long retreat at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerela, India. She has also completed teacher trainings with Sarah Powers , Erich Shiffman and a prenatal training with Judith Lasater. As a teacher, Nicole embraces a powerful vinyasa style with an emphasis on allowing your breath to be your guide through the practice.? She encourages students, with yoga, to take the journey inward to find our true self, to be present and to live in the moment. Phuong Tran Yin and Vinyasa Phuong began her yoga practice in 1995, and immediately took to the yin practice when she trained with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley. She continues to study with Jill Miller, Tias Little, Samantha Matthews, and Phil Lynch. Phuong is a CMT and graduate student of bodymind psychology. Her in depth training in diverse body disciplines allows her as a teacher to delight, inform, and challenge her students to join her on an ever-deepening awareness of the anatomical and energetic aspects of yoga. Rebecca Snowball Anusara Inspired Yoga - Rebecca Snowball fell in love with yoga in1996. In 2000 she completed her Vinyasa yoga teacher certification program at the White Lotus Yoga Foundation. In 2002, Rebecca was introduced to John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga, while attending the Yoga Journal Conference in Colorado. John was teaching a workshop called, "Growing a Lotus." By applying the "Universal Principles of Alignment " of Anusara, Rebecca grew her lotus and sat with ease in padmasana, a pose that never seemed available. She then devoted the next several years to studying this life-affirming hatha yoga. Rebecca studied regularly with Klaus Lehrach and Kenny Graham and completed a 40-hour Anusara Immersion with Kenny Graham in 2006. In 2007-2008, she completed Anusara Teacher Training Level I with Stacey Rosenberg and subsequently Level II with John Friend. In March of 09, Rebecca completed John's Teacher's Intensive in Tuscon, Arizona. She is a licensed Anusara-Inspired yoga teacher working toward Anusara Certification. Theresa Tomlin PilatesTheresa became a professional dancer at age 17 and continued dancing for ~10 years for such companies as Paramount Great America, Disney on Parade, and MTV. She first came to know the work of Joseph Pilates in 2001 when she began taking Pilates classes to help her maintain and improve her dance technique. Almost immediately, Pilates proved to be highly effective at increasing her body's core strength and flexibility as well as being an ideal complement to dancing (or any other cardio exercise). Theresa completed beginning and intermediate Pilates Mat training in 2005 and recently completed advanced Mat and Apparatus work. When not teaching Pilates or dance, Theresa can be found attending Hatha yoga classes or practicing acrobatics at the Circus Center in San Francisco.
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