I’ve been teaching yoga for 5 years; RYT500

Intuitive/Astrologer, Teacher, Writer

My journey with yoga has been long and meandering. I was drawn to it before cool yoga studios, when a tattered book of poses and Lilias on TV were my teachers until I discovered gym classes. I gave up a corporate career to follow a healing path, first as a massage therapist, and then as a psychic channel. This morphed into integrating astrology, hypnotherapy and psychosynthesis, a spiritual psychology. Throughout these years, my spiritual/meditation practice has been central to my life and teachings, and deepening the study of yoga brought it all together.

My first teacher training was at Innerstellar in Berkeley in Stellarflow, a vinyasa style inspired by Forrest Yoga. Then I discovered Janet. The chanting, the compassionate assists and the depth of the sangha touched my heart. I finished the 300 hour teacher training and will soon complete the JSY 1008 hour designation. My primary role in the world is as an evolutionary/spiritual astrologer, writer and teacher, offering a certification program and lecturing to professional astrologers. My first book, Soul Path Way was published in 2016. Two more books and two anthology chapters will be published in 2019. I recently gave up my weekly public yoga classes to focus on writing yet I still sub and teach yoga at retreats and conferences.

I am most experienced in:

• Mentoring. I have mentored countless individuals over the years, individually and in groups. You could say the very nature of my work as an intuitive/astrological counselor is mentoring people to find and develop their soul centered path.
• Assisting. I’ve taken several trainings with Janet and Jody and assisted Michelle Cordero in Oakland for two years where we co-created some true magic.
• Therapeutics/modifications/home practice.
• Writing. Writing can be an important part of spiritual practice. I would love to mentor individuals who are also writers.
• Starting and expanding heart centered, healing and creative businesses. I co-founded Dolphin Dream in Walnut Creek in 1988. I have been exclusively self employed for 34 years, including as a jewelry artist.
• Empathic love, spiritual philosophies, conscious parenting, and more love.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
yoga philosophy, meditation, awakening, chanting, harmonium, writing.

My mentoring style or approach is…
to listen empathically and to ask meaningful questions, to encourage you to follow your inner wisdom. I will tell you truth as I perceive it, advise you on choices to fulfill your unique calling and I honor that you walk this path. There is a part of you that knows exactly who you are and where you are called. I see the mentoring role as support to you as you choose the trainings, of course, but also to cultivate a rich inner life, self-care, balance and a spiritual practice that will sustain you and allow you to offer authentic teachings because you embody your practice.

Learn more about me on: www.kaytaylor.com

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My first practice was a donation-based Hatha yoga class on Florida's Gulf coast beaches led by a badass Deadhead. I remain grateful to her to this day (pun always intended) for providing me with a safe haven throughout my teenage years and inspiring me to travel to India for a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training. After living abroad, I landed in California because it was the most affordable flight back to the States. Maybe everything happens for a reason because I found Janet and this beautiful sangha in an old Castro dancehall that became my church where many tears were shed. Janet’s 500-hour 5 Elements Vinyasa Yoga teacher training was a holistic game-changer. I shared the teachings throughout the South Bay and Santa Cruz area, founding the Ecology of Prana Yoga Teacher Training until returning to school to pursue a Juris Doctor. My life is dedicated to grappling with questions of alienation and inequality through the application of the Yamas and Niyamas. Our community has been the single most outside influence on this incredible path to advocacy.

My mentor style is best described as a reaction to your self-expression in combination with my own stories. I do my best to listen to what it is that a fellow student needs and wants at any given point in their practice journey because that journey is their own. But I also share what I have experienced with the hope of drawing supportive connections and encouraging a sustainable practice. I see mentoring as an act of building community—often times it is simply showing up, seeing someone, and meeting them where they are with compassion on any given day.

I'm most experienced in Vinyasa, Hatha, Meditation and the human condition.. forgetting my practice and coming back again.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in reconnection.. remembering why I practice in the first place. No matter how long we are in the practice, it is so easy to forget why we unrolled our mat in the first place.. and then the second. Usually, the easiest way for me to remember is by forgetting and seeing the absence ripple through my life. I remain committed not to forgetting, but to studying and deepening my practice in the act of remembering and returning, again and again.

Please, please email me anytime at kayla.m.mendez@gmail.com.

Keegan Mills has been an educator for over 20 years with a passion for women’s empowerment, leadership, and cultivating resilient communities. As an advanced yoga teacher, she believes yoga is a breathing movement meditation and an opportunity to be more connected to our body’s intelligence and higher self, creating a pathway for healing and transformation. Keegan has been directly impacted by the healing and transformational effects of Yoga—applying the practices to overcome a traumatic upbringing to healing from heartbreak to recovering physically, emotionally, and spiritually after experiencing a traumatic bicycle accident over 7 years ago.  Keegan’s teaching and practice draws upon the Bhakti & Hatha yoga traditions weaving in philosophy, mantra, breathwork, energetic alignment, and a connection to the divine. She specifically enjoys speaking, writing and teaching about resilience and overcoming challenging experiences in life, calling on her own personal journey of rising up from life’s greatest challenges.

the best way to connect with me is over tea and a nice chat or walk in nature :) Quality time is my love language and I love learning about others stories as well as sharing my own. I often write about my experience in life on my website and in my newsletter which is another way to learn more about me: https://www.awakenwithkeegan.com

I’ve been teaching/assisting for: 12 years

Founder and owner of Balance Health Studio, boutique health, and fitness studio in the Panhandle of Florida. Her unique teaching style incorporates a playful flow that challenges her students to find both their physical and spiritual best. Drawing from her experience as an Olympic athlete (1996) and business owner she inspires her students to find more of life’s examples within their practice. In every class, you will be sure to find a blend of Bhakti and hands-on adjusting.

Kelli spends her days “working” at her love and passion-teaching yoga, spin, and fitness classes. She is also the lead instructor of Balance Health Studio’s Vinyasa Yoga teacher training program. (Ryt 200/500)

When she is not at the studio there is a good chance you will find her in the backyard with her three English bulldogs (Bob, Daryl, and George) as she nurtures her garden of Jade plants.

I am most experienced in:
Putting the “practice” to work. Helping my students and future instructors integrate the yoga philosophy into everyday life. My experience as a business owner and athlete has helped me provide my students and instructors with the tools, mindset, and inspiration to LIVE their yoga …on and off the mat.

Being an owner of an alternative health studio for the past twenty years has given me an in-depth knowledge of how to incorporate the practice of yoga into living a healthy lifestyle and getting healthy.
I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
In all areas, so I can become the best version of myself.

My mentoring style or approach is…
To get real, to get raw, and to help my students break through their limitations and achieve their highest potential.

Learn more about me on: Kelli James Precourt on Facebook/Instagram and www.balance30a.com

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Kelli Norgaard is a retired school leader who served Texas schools for nearly 3 decades. Beyond her pedagogical knowledge in the field of education, she has always believed that the answer to the trauma and struggles that our schools are facing today can be found along the yogic path. Her retirement from public education coincided with her opening The Bridge Yoga, an inclusive and accessible yoga studio in her community that is committed to being a space where all are welcomed and given the chance to learn about the “yoga beyond asana”.   She is a Janet Stone 300-hr graduate and is currently completing a Masters of Wisdom Mediation certification with Davidji.  She lives in College Station, Texas with her partner, John, and spends most of her time teaching yoga at her studio, working in her yard and garden, and spoiling her 2 grandchildren as much as she can.

You can reach me at thebridgeyogabcs.com AND thepathtosantosha.complus the Instagram for each.

I’ve been teaching/assisting for: more than 16 years

Kelly is a certified senior Janet Stone and senior Baptiste yoga teacher, 500 ERYT++, Shiva Rea certified pre and postnatal teacher, former studio owner and devoted mama.

Her more formal yoga training took a natural course. As a college athlete in Texas, she dabbled in yoga. Her early adult years took her to Colorado where she took the very first ever CorePower Yoga teacher training in 2002. From there, she spent a decade training, studying, assisting and teaching alongside Baron Baptiste. During this ten years, she also opened a successful yoga studio in Vail, CO and supplemented her training with a regular Anusara practice with Jamie Turner Allison, Shiva Rea’s prenatal training, AcroYoga training, Thai Massage training, and a variety of amazing teachers and disciplines including Dharma Mittra, John Friend, Douglas Brooks, Deepak Chopra, John Doulliard, Saul David Ray and Rusty Wells just to name a few that opened her aperture in many different ways.

Nothing changed her practice and teaching as much as becoming a mother more than 9 years ago, and then again four years later after her second baby boy. Her passion within the practice lies in continuing to bring our focus and remembrance back to what matters most through asana, pranayama, mantra, mudra, meditation and how these practices provide a window into ourselves that help us transform our life.

Over the last 16 years, she has nurtured her own deep, personal practice, which has become her life’s passion to offer back out. She aspires not to teach but to allow the practice to emanate from her, letting awareness blend with movement and breath. She is currently enrolled in Janet Stone’s 1008 training module, and also trains teachers, leads immersions, holds workshops and more. Kelly is a Drishti a manduka ambassador and a former lululemon ambassador and Yoga Journal Conference presenter.

I am most experienced in:
The Yamas and Niyamas
Prenatal Yoga
Postnatal Yoga and Mom and Baby Yoga
The 5 Great Elements (Maha Pancha Bhutas)
Energetic alignment through the 5 Great Vayus (Pancha Vayus)

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
The great path of devotion (Bhakti) and remembering, when I forget, my connection to my consciousness, my heart, and the Oneness that I am already.

My mentoring style or approach is…
Deep, straightforward, tender, truthful and supportive.

Learn more about me on: www.kellyheath.com

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I’ve been teaching/assisting for: JSY, Radiantly Alive Ubud, Desa Seni, Embodied Arts Bali

Through a 10-year career as a ballet/modern dancer and an endless love of yoga, Kevin has come to know intimately the enlivening force of embodiment. His passion for empowerment through the creative body is based on traditions ranging from Tantric Shaivism to Vinyasa, musical theater to classical Indian music, ballet to martial arts.

With luck and discipline, he has had the opportunity to study and work regularly in San Francisco, New York, Germany, France, India, and Bali. All of these cultures weave their own imprint on Kevin’s creations.

His practice weaves modern artistry with the timeless wisdom of yoga, music, and dance, which support his infinite curiosity about our connection inward to our core, outward to a full, filling life, and all the wonder in between.

He is currently based in Bali but continues to share his offerings internationally.

I am most experienced in:
– Energetic movement and alignment
– Bhakti

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
Shadow Yoga
Meditation

My mentoring style or approach is…
Diverse, efficient, disciplined.

Real progress comes from showing up and practicing, again and again. While it can seem monotonous, I know firsthand the rewards and joys of discipline. Using the right tools and timing to make it enjoyable leads to a process of growth that maximizes the fruits of practice for the labor put in.

I also celebrate that we all come from different backgrounds and places. This continual devotion to celebrating our uniqueness is essential to maximizing personal growth and also what leads us to a deeper understanding of what unifies.
Learn more about me on: www.kevinyeechan.com

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Hi I'm Kimberley !!

I have been teaching for:

Teaching and assisting for 6+ years

I am half Balinese half Australian and first fell in love with Yoga over 15 years ago. As a wife and mother of three beautiful boys yoga is my calm in a somewhat chaotic, busy, noisy world. I've been living in Bali for the past 12 years and it is here where I took my love of yoga into teaching yoga. I feel blessed to have taken Janet's Earth and Sky training as a student and later an assistant ... I love everything about it !!

I am most experienced in:

Asana. I LOVE to flow and to teach creative intuitive sequences that bring people into the present moment. I equally love sharing restorative practices that help support the nervous system, pranayama, meditation and restorative yoga. I take great care in space holding, showing up for both students and myself on teacher trainings, classes, privates and retreats. I love hands on assisting. Svadhyaya is something I embody and weave throughout my teachings.

I am committed to:

I am committed to study and deepen my practice more in meditation this feels like a life long journey for me. Bhakti Yoga, trauma informed yoga, philosophy, story telling and anything that brings me joy. I will forever be a student receptive and open to learn and unlearn.

I will show up and meet each person exactly where they are in the course, or training and in life. I will ask what intention has been set and how this can be lived in the most authentic way possible. I will guide and co-create offering support, suggestions and questions for your own reflections.

The best ways to reach me are:

email: www.kimberleyutamayoga instagram: @kimberleyutamayoga

I’ve been teaching/assisting for: 4 years asana, 6 years meditation

I flirted with yoga my entire life (starting at age 4) but I could never quite get myself to commit. After college, I dedicated myself to a daily practice purely as a way to workout. Despite my initial objective, subtle shifts began to take place as I continued to roll out my mat. I started to slow down, get out of my head and into my body. That’s when my perspective of yoga shifted from a mode of exercise to a healing art. Each practice offers me the opportunity to hold space and to show up for myself, exactly where I am.

When people first find out I’m a yoga teacher, the first thing they ask is “what style of yoga do you teach?” Well… Sometimes I teach a sweaty flow. Sometimes we lie on bolsters for a while. Sometimes we get upside down. Sometimes we’re sitting for 20 minutes.
So, what style of yoga do I teach? Yoga. I teach yoga.

I have been teaching meditation for 6 years and yoga asana for 4. Mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a teacher, I aim to guide students toward cultivating an inner-awareness while building stability and ease in both the body and mind. I strive to include an alchemy of intention and to create space for everyone’s dynamic creativity.

I am most experienced in:

-The ability to read the room and teach from the heart, from my intuition vs a script. I have never planned a class. Weaving in an intention that allows for each student to experience something relevant, curated, and authentic.

-Creating a container. A safe space that meets all my students exactly where they are. Teaching the whole practice as a meditation and using the 8 limbs as an anchor for the practice.

-Blindfolded practice! I’ve been teaching blindfolded classes and workshops for 3 years. Deep reverence to the practice of Pratyahara and to earth/ground that supports us.

-I also love creating a musical experience to coincide with my teaching. The only thing I plan in my classes is the playlists and it takes TIME. I build stories through sounds so that my students can tell stories with their bodies and breath.

My classes are very much inspired by the earth element – the idea of nourishing our roots and foundation so that we can find our greatest expansion. Infusing my flows with restorative and yin, I take my students beyond the physical aspects of yoga, and bring them into their own sacred space beginning with the breath.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
ALL OF IT.

I am always learning, growing, evolving. Each time I practice. Each time I teach. I am fully committed to this practice.

In terms of deepening specifics in my practice… I would say in story telling. The stories of the heart. Of Bhakti. Of India. By chanting, harmonium, and mantra. I don’t currently infuse them as much into my current offerings and really would like to. The practice continues…

My mentoring style or approach is…
I see the mentoring program as more of a collaboration. A partnership. A joining of mindful forces to retain the integrity of the teachings. As yogis and teachers we must be always willing to evolve – not only on the mat. We are not perfect. I definitely am not. I simply wish to be a part of the conversation, the growth, and be a container for you to retain the essence of the practice. Dialogue and communication is everything for me. I will make myself available to you however resonates best for you. In person, online, weekly, monthly. I want this experience to embody both stability and ease for us both. Your questions, concerns, creativity and vulnerability are absolutely encouraged. Just show up in integrity and I’ll do the absolute same.

Learn more about me on: Instagram – @lihiyogini, Website – lihibenisty.com

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I came to yoga in 2005 the old-fashioned way: to make myself do some stretches, because I was getting old (I was 25).  I can still remember the end of that first class, lifting out of janu sirsasana in a dimly lit room at the YMCA, like lifting up from a trance -- what kind of magic was that?  But it still took until 2011, and a series of teachers of Yoga Tree, for yoga to become something more for me.  I have such gratitude for Les Leventhal, Kerri Kelly, Diego del Sol, Dina Amsterdam, and Pete Guinosso for shining a light on what this practice holds -- asana as a microcosm of my life, a place to literally practice, and to see more clearly.  I began practicing with Janet in 2014, fell hard for bhakti, and jumped into sangha and study in 2019.  My teachers today are Janet Stone and Jason Bowman.  I've worked in the corporate world for over 20 years, in venture capital for the past decade.  I find it nearly impossible to navigate modern capitalism with integrity without the steady fire of this practice and strong roots in its teachings.  Can spirit be present in business?  Can capital serve humanity, rather than the opposite?  Can we yoke power to service?  This is my practice off the mat.

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I’ve been teaching for: 10 years

I've been practicing yoga for over half my life and yet embrace the beginners mind everyday. I lean into kindness and truth, ahimsa and satya, to light my path. I have taught many "levels" and in many environments - from kids to seniors in memory care facilities, from yin yoga to power vinyasa. I have studied meditation and mindfulness under Rolf Gates and the path of Bhakti with Janet, whom I consider my primary teacher. My husband and I now own a yoga studio, Love Bird Yoga, in a small town just north of Bend, Oregon. I practice the practice to remember who I am. I teach yoga to guide others home to their truest self, to show them their own light inside, and to open and heal our big collective heart.

I am most experienced in:
Slow mindful flow, the 8 limbs, mindfulness, and meditation

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
I am committed to living yoga through the 8 limbed path, to breath work as a means of healing oneself and connecting to the divine, and to sharing yoga with all bodies, all ages, and all abilities.

My mentoring style or approach is…
I'm here to answer questions, listen without judgement, share from experience, and connect.

Learn more about me at: @lizskarvelis (Insatgram), @lovebirdyoga (Instagram) and lovebirdyoga.com

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I’ve been teaching/assisting for: 10+ Years

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I first became introduced to yoga in 2005 during my first year of college. I was coming out of the world of competitive sports and needing something that didn't involve competing against another person. After that first class, I knew I had found the remedy for all that my body and mind had suffered in the years prior. From then on, I immersed myself in all that I could. Books, classes, workshops, dvds (yes, it was THAT long ago) and youtube videos. I became fascinated with the spiritual and philosophical aspect but during that time, I was mainly practicing intense and vigorous styles of asana. Eventually, the pull towards teaching became such that in 2011 I applied for teacher training in my hometown of St. Petersburg, FL. Shortly after graduating, I moved out west and have since taught yoga full time, integrated decades of movement practice and education, taught thousands of hours of classes and workshops to help build our local yoga community; all while staying committed to my own studentship. My style is a unique culmination of lifelong study, sustainable practice and sincere effort, further shaped and influenced by my own teachers; Janet Stone, Kathryn Budig, Carling Harps, Bernie Clark, Judith Lasater, Vie Binga and Harvey Deutch PT.

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I am most experienced in:
-Being authentic. Teaching from the heart, with presence and curiosity. Listening. Creating a space for students to show up in whatever form or however vulnerable
and feel connected to the parts of themselves that have been forgotten, hurt, disempowered or completely left behind. I love to incorporate storytelling, readings, poems that take students beyond the asana. My classes are deeply inspired by natural cycles, the elements, the moon and cosmos, and any type of musical vibration. Since 2020 I have learned to play the harmonium and started to incorporate more Bhakti into my offerings.

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-Clear and effective cuing to a wide range of students in flow and especially in transition. Creative and Intelligent sequencing. Anatomy and Physiology. Language of Yoga. Regardless of style, I tend to sequence classes in a way that gives the entire class a pulse. Like one, big steady heartbeat. Whether we are workshopping inversions or melting into a restorative shape, there is always purpose. I often integrate energetic and subtle body systems, principles of Ayurveda and TCM into my teachings and study.

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-Curating an experience. Non-verbal communication. Seeing bodies, beyond the surface. Building studentship and trust. Being able to meet students where they
are, physically, energetically and emotionally. I love to teach and discover fun new ways to incorporate props and modifications for accessibility and awareness. Breaking the ice or challenging moments with a corny joke (to strengthen the funny bone).

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I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…

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Showing up. Compassion. Discomfort. Trusting the process.

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My mind and rhythms are constantly adapting, shifting and transforming. I am drawn in and drawn out and my practice is to keep showing up and keep disrupting the story. So my practice and interests ebbs and flows in terms of what I am committed to. Overall I am committed to healing and growth. And self love. Acceptance and gratitude.

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I would like to incorporate more subtle body work, maybe the addition of sound healing or live music. Meditation and Pranayama for anxiety and stress management. Post-natal Yoga and Birth support is always something I’ve been drawn to but have yet to explore.

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My mentoring style or approach is…
Supportive and Nurturing. Reflective and encouraging. Like a big sister, I strive to meet the intentions and desires of those that I get to work with while guiding them towards their own inner wisdom and voice. My approach is one that looks to celebrate and highlight our individual differences and uniqueness. To help disrupt the story and build confidence. With open dialogue and clear, effective communication. I meet people where they are and help them to find what works for them and what doesn’t. I like to create lasting, meaningful relationships and a space for growth, vulnerability and inspiration.

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