Dear Lara, I was thinking it might be interesting to have an interview with a yoga studio owner in Mexico now with the Swine flu having closed down the studios in Mexico City, here in Puerto Vallarta we remain open. All social clubs, cinemas have been closed and the kids are all home from school. The folks NEED the yoga and have begged me to stay open. We have a small community and have posted a sign on the door…
Hala Khouri, M.A., has been teaching the movement arts for sixteen years. Her roots are in Ashtanga, Iyengar and Anusara yoga, dance, Capoeira, CORE energetics, and the juicy mystery of Life itself. Hala earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Religion from Columbia University and has a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is one of the creators of Off the Mat, Into the World, a yoga and activism initiative that aims to get…
Kathryn Nicolai, “The person I was ten years ago would never have done yoga. I was obese, unhappy, and very unhealthy. The only physical activity I experienced involved moving from the couch to the fridge and back again. Although I was a vegetarian my version of a meat-free diet was chocolate cake and french fries. Over the next few years I bounced from one addiction to another. I went from overeating and never exercising to frantically counting calories, skipping meals…
From www.pranaflownz.com, Kara Leah writes, “I?m someone who?s life has been profoundly changed in every way because of yoga. I remember walking into my first class when I was 20 years old – it was held on Auckland?s North Shore and was an Iyengar class. I?d had a spinal fusion four years prior and I was the stiffest person in the class by far. When we went into a standing forward bend, I was hunched over like an old woman,…
Chandra has spent most of her life in service to humanity, disseminating the ancient knowledge of how to achieve radiant health and spiritual development through the science of Yoga. She is the founder and director of the North Carolina School of Yoga, and the Senior teacher and Disciple of Sri Dharma Mittra. Chandra was born in Miami, and raised in New York, where she met her Guru and Teacher, Sri Dharma Mittra. After intense study, immersion and practice of the…
In 1981, Rodney began to study yoga full time at the San Francisco Iyengar Yoga Institute and at The Yoga Room in Berkeley.? In 1987, after becoming a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, he opened the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, CA, with Richard Rosen and Claire Finn. Presently, in addition to teaching at Yoga Shanti, Rodney leads teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats nationally and internationally with Colleen.? In Spring 2007, Rodney and Colleen were co-chairs and panelists for the Urban…
Seane Corn’s classes combine a vigorous, fluid vinyasa or “flow” style with emphasis on intention and prayer a mix she says encourages an inner journey toward self-awareness, acceptance and empowerment. Seane has been featured in magazines including Glamour, Self and Allure and has become one of the most sought-after yoga teachers in America. Her clients have included Sting, Heather Graham, Ashley Judd, Drew Barrymore, David Duchovny, Elizabeth Berkley, Sally Field and Dr. Caroline Myss. Seane was first introduced to yoga…
Chaz, (BA, CYT, CYKF) is a certified yoga instructor who has developed several unique yoga programs from the globally successful YOGAmazing Video Podcast within iTunes (over 6.1 Million downloads and counting) to his award winning video/DVD, Yogamazing: Yoga for the Kid In All of Us, which was one of Yoga Journal’s Editor’s Choices for 2002, and encourages parents and children to work out together. Chaz has taught yoga at the prestigeous OMEGA Instutute in Rhinebeck, NY, the Yoga Expo in…
Sofi is an advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga Instructor who has been teaching Yoga since 1997. She was first certified by Alan Finger in the tradition of Ishta Yoga, and soon after found her foremost teachers David Life and Sharon Gannon, co- founders of Jivamukti Yoga. Along with David and Sharon, Sofi cites contemporary philosopher Alan Watts, and senior Jivmaukti instuctors Uma Nanda Saraswati and and Ruth Lauer-Manenti as her main influences. Sofi is also the founder and co-director of “I’ll…
Connie: “I am Connie Chan, the founder and owner of Levitate. I had never dreamed of opening a yoga studio. In fact, I was the most unlikely candidate to even try yoga. In my earlier days I drank, smoked and stayed out until many sunrises. Fitness wasn?t in my vocabulary, and anything with spirit?uality in it was almost always followed by a hangover. I was your average out-of-shape, stressed-out, jaded New Yorker. Then I discovered Yoga Shanti, a yoga studio…