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I have been practicing for:

I have been teaching since 2015 and assisting Janet since 2017

Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Mario took on yoga to help him heal his body and overcome injuries sustained from years playing soccer. In his practice he not only learned how to better take care and heal his body but discovered the resources that helped him overcome his long battle with depression. He became so passionate about yoga, he made it his mission to study and teach it.

I am committed to:

Understanding grieve and suffering coming from attachment or death of a loved one.

I am most experienced in:

Observing, the endless back and forward of my mind, and the struggle to stay present in these uncertain time. Knowing I am always one thought away of being present and finding peace. Listening to what my mind and body need in the moment to navigate each day with greater ease. Finding humor when I fail trying to apply these things everyday and starting all over again the next day.

My mentoring style:

I like to listen what my students fears about teaching yoga are, and also what motivates them and excites them. I always go first hoping someone will relate and get the conversation going.My mentoring style or approach is about connecting through sharing.

You can best reach me at:

IG: supermarioyoga / Web:https://www.mariospyoga.com/

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I’ve been teaching/assisting: since 2017

I grew up in Idaho, but have spent my adult life in California mostly. I had a long career in the corporate world managing creative teams; this has allowed me to pursue my interests in yoga, writing, art, and traveling.

I am most experienced in:
Equal parts: modern vinyasa asana, pranayama, meditation, philosophy. I very much believe in the eight-fold path of yoga.

I've studied yoga philosophy for many years and teach workshops in meditation and pranayama theory and practice. I love comparing and contrasting different translations of the Yoga Sutras and The Bhagavad Gita.

I'm also an experienced writer: poetry, fiction, playwriting, non-fiction. I like public speaking too.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
Yamas, niyamas, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana. . . and maybe someday touching and sustaining samadhi, and holding it for more than a few seconds.

I have a daily meditation and pranayama practice, and 3-5 times/week asana practice.

My mentoring style or approach is…
I have a threefold approach to mentoring, honed over many years of mentoring people in professional settings mostly.

First, I believe in discovering and leveraging strengths. There's no need to focus on deficiencies or shortcomings when we are all blessed with such strengths as to completely render any perceived weaknesses as completely insignificant, especially as we're trying to accomplish something meaningful.

Second and closely related: I believe in positive reinforcement. I'll never point out what you're doing wrong. I WILL hold up a mirror for you so you can see what you're doing right.

Third, I believe in baby steps, setting small goals. These add up, and we don't need to be afraid of goals, because there's always a goal that is small enough that it's easily accomplished. That accomplishment makes us hungry for another goal. Sometimes the goal can be "just show up."

I guess there's one more--I ask that mentees set the agenda. Every time we're in dialogue, it's for you. I'm here to serve.

Learn more about me on: markmccormickyoga.com. Instagram: markmccormickyoga.com

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I’ve been teaching/assisting for: 12 years

I have been practicing yoga since 2005 and completed my first 200-hour teacher training in 2008. I first studied with Janet in 2010 and have been a devoted student since that time. I received my 500-hour certification with Janet in 2017.

I am most experienced in:
Asana – Hatha Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Vinyasa. Yamas and Niyamas.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
the embodiment of the 8 Limbs of Yoga in my daily life. Also as a yoga teacher, deepening my knowledge and understanding of offering yoga to those with disease, illness, and physical limitations.

My mentoring style or approach is…
holding space and being present (physically or via email/phone etc) as necessary; accountability – having scheduled check-in dates – weekly, monthly as appropriate. Being approachable and open to offer guidance.

Learn more about me on: Facebook and more recently Instagram for a glimpse of everyday life.

I have been practicing and teaching:

3 years

More than two decades ago I began my practice and study of yoga. In 2006, I completed my first yoga teacher training high in the Rocky Mountains in a beautiful place where meditation, yogic philosophy, and temple experiences infused with music and mantra were emphasized equally, if not more, than asana. The alchemy of that precious, fertile foundation continues to be my soft and stable ground as I move through this life with the nectar-infused flame of yoga warming my heart - lighting my path of connection with the world around (and within) me. In 2009, I experienced my first of many joyful experiences with Janet in the Castro. Since then, I have spent countless hours immersed in the tender embrace of our sangha through retreats and trainings all over the world (zoom zoom room included). The practices of yoga have provided the experiences, tools/methods, structure, inspiration, and community to bolster the dive into my deepest self-inquiry.It has been a great privilege to receive the unending benefits of the practice and I aim to share my interpretation and integration with the intention of contributing to the joy and equanimity of all.

I am most experienced in:

facilitating grief work from a somatic/mindfulness-based yoga therapy perspective.

I am committed to:

Arriving.Remembering.Experiential knowledge, assimilation, and embodiment - the integration of yogic practices/studies and real-time somatic experiencing/nervous system response. I am committed to remembering the possibility of the energetic free-flow of both a top-down and bottom-up approach in this life we get to live.

My mentoring style is:

I am here to meet you exactly where you are. It is an honor to hold a brave space - to be a witness and to reflect, with an open mind and heart, as you continue to cultivate your own inner wisdom. Overall, my approach is kind, humble, casual - holla! I'd love to connect.

You can best reach me at:

IG: @monica.bruzza

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I currently reside in beautiful Tahoe. I love to teach outdoors, to share movement and intentionality. My favorite aspects of yoga are breath, meditation, mantra and movement. I strive to teach an intuitive heart-centered class. My yoga journey began when I moved to San Francisco in 2004 to start my undergraduate degree at the University of San Francisco, and my friend brought me along to the Yoga Tree Castro where we attended a Rusty Wells class. It was incredible and that became my true introduction to the yoga practice and gave me access to amazing teachers. I had the opportunity to meet Janet and I knew I wanted to continue learning from her. I attended yoga training in Bali and Big Sur in 2016, and completed my 200 hour certificate. I joined the Virtual Sangha in 2020 and completed my 300 hour certificate in May 2022. The friendships developed through JSY and how much I’ve learned from other teachers throughout these trainings is a gift. The self study, sangha and lots of time and space for integration really helped develop my passion and confidence to allow the teachings to come through me. My goal is to share breath and movement, to assist others and to be a positive force in my community.

I'm most experienced in teaching vinyasa flow and kiddo yoga. I truly believe yoga is for every body and I strive to make the practice approachable.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in everything. I am forever a student. I’ve loved learning about the storytelling aspects of yoga, guided meditation, mantra and movement. In class, I weave mindfulness, body awareness, quotes and nature into the practice.

My mentoring style or approach is best described as kind and compassionate. Wherever you are on your journey, it is perfect. I will encourage and support you. You are exactly where you are meant to be.

The best way to learn more about me is through Instagram @morashaseraphina

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San Francisco based yoga teacher, world music recording artist and devoted student of yoga, Nat Kendall shares his wisdom of the teachings in a heartfelt and grounded way that will easily awaken beginners and re-inspire long time practitioners. Instantly accessible and relevant to our modern times, the grace of Nat’s teachings pour through in tangible practices, tools, techniques and insights that are sure to enlighten your spiritual path and yogic journey.

I’ve been teaching/assisting for: 10 years, practicing for 22

Nicole’s long yoga journey began in 1996 at age 18, when she was part of the first holistic learning program at NYU, and reached consistent and devoted study at 23, first with yin, hatha, and zen practice (Dina Amsterdam and the Green Gulch/ SF Zen Center circuit), then at CIIS in their pilot yoga philosophy program. In 2007, she came to class with Janet and found home. She has travelled extensively with Janet, earning both her 200 and 500 hour certificates with her. As an artist and practitioner whose projects, business practices and life are rooted in these beautiful and generous teachings, she has had the great privilege to work within this sangha to create artwork that has mutually informed her own art practice as well as visual designs for JSY. In 2013, she began working with the AcroYogis and has found tremendous connectivity through that practice, as well, primarily in the therapeutic practices. She is always grateful to offer healing through the simplicity of flipping a perspective, giving and receiving flight.

She believes that the life practice of yoga is not only just that, but also an applied life science that can connect us to ourselves, our community and the land. She is always delighted and amazed that the sangha born in the Castro studio has become a global community with tremendous integrity and closeness. This is a family, for sure.

I am most experienced in:
Taking the practice into relationship, with oneself and with others, and finding all the ways we can slip a flower into the trunk of our minds to keep ourselves upright. I enjoy stretching the parameters of the self through the daily practice, finding places in need of support, and dropping the sweet soul rasa of practice to strengthen our relationship to ourselves and our community.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
Meditation, daily practice, and social justice. The connection between these teachings and making art is also a main focus of mine, as it informs much of my studio work in art, design, and collaborations.

My mentoring style or approach is…
I have mentored trainees in this program in the past, and have space to do it again. I’m thrilled to be able to offer that up. Let’s meet online once every 4-6 weeks with some tea and talk all about it. If we live close to each other, let’s hike it out. My goal is to create a supportive framework for your engagement with your studies, with enough space to crawl down some rabbit holes and see what we find. I am here to support the stewardship of your path of discipline and discernment, without judgment. We are all moving together on our own journey. My call here is to support yours.

Learn more about me on: nicolemarkoff.com, nicacelly.com, @nicacelly

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I have been practicing for:

6 years.

Nikita Mehta is a writer, researcher, yoga teacher, educator and grey area drinking coach. She is a 3rd generation yogi from The Yoga School in Mumbai, India and spent her childhood living between the US and India. Her graduate research studied the interaction between the parasympathetic activations of yoga and meditation and their effects on the secondary manifestations of stuttering. The IRB approved study has deeper implications in today’s pandemic fatigued world and has influenced all of the practices that Nikita teaches today. Nikita is a grey area drinking coach, championing equal representation of Asian women in sobriety spaces. She also teaches corporate wellness and guest lectures for yoga teacher trainings.

I am most experienced in:

teaching and assisting in spiritually based vinyasa classes which speak to the Yamas and Niyamas. My practice and teaching always comes back to the 8 Limbs and the Bhagavad Gita. In addition, my specialization is in trauma based and addiction based practices and how we interweave movement and breath work into moving ourselves out of these hard spaces. Yoga for recovery does not only include those who are touching on addiction issues though, we are all recovering from something.

I am committed to:

all of the areas of this practice. My love for Sanskrit and the Gita will always be an area of study that I will dive into. This year I would really like to study and memorize portions of the sutras.

My mentoring style is:

Full transparency, one-on-one interactions, a back and forth learning style, where I am learning and growing from my students as much as they are absorbing from me.

@NikitaKMehta

Read more about her work at NikitaKMehta.com

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I’m originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico and spent the last 20+ years traveling the globe as an officer in the United States Air Force. I recently retired and settled down in Colorado to start a new adventure in nursing.

I have been teaching of assisting for

I have been teaching for 5 years.

I am most experienced in...

All of my teaching experience to date has been in asana and guided meditation. While on my last duty station in Okinawa, Japan, I had the privilege of incorporating both asana and guided meditation to fellow service members dealing with substance abuse. That experience not only sparked my interest in mental health and nursing, but a longing to delve deeper into understanding my own ‘addictions’ and ultimately, my own true nature.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in ...

…all aspects of my life. Whether it’s asana, meditating, chanting, or just doing the mundane things of daily living, all of them are potential opportunities for rediscovering and reminding ourselves of the joy of being alive.

My mentoring style or approach is...

I approach each and every encounter as an opportunity to not only share my own perspective and experiences, but to be equally receptive in listening to and receiving what others have to offer because after all..."we're all just walking each other home."-Ram Dass

The best way to learn more about me is through...

Instagram: pete_air; Facebook: Pedro Ovalle

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Peter leads powerful, fun vinyasa classes that build strength, create flexibility and inspire a joyous, grateful perspective. His playful yet caring approach to teaching makes yoga approachable and relatable for all levels of practitioner. His classes will move any willing student beyond pose aesthetic and shape to an experience that is deeply devotional, heart opening and an opportunity to ‘begin again.’

Practicing with Peter will allow you to explore how the physical practice influence your body, breath, mind and heart. Peter’s teaching will help you become more present in all aspects of your life and ultimately help you take the yoga practice off the mat and into the world. In his workshops and classes you can expect to chant mantra, twist, churn, invert, balance and flow through poses in a dance-like sequence that often inspires spontaneous smiles, tears and sometimes both.

Although based in San Francisco, Peter loves traveling the world leading public classes, workshops and retreats. Peter has studied extensively and is always drawing inspiration from his dear teachers Rusty Welles, Janet Stone and others. When he’s not teaching, Peter loves traveling, motorcycling windy roads, crossing oceans on traditional sailing ships and, as we all do, eating ice cream and snuggling with really cute puppies.

I am most experienced in:
Teaching vinyasa yoga, hands on assisting, bhakti/chanting and generally how to practice presence and authenticity as you teach and share the practice. How to put our stuff to the side as we show up for the beings that we are blessed to serve.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
Meditation, bhakti/mantra study, and also some asana. Really everything. I am committed to continuously studying yoga in all of its dimensions. It will evolve and shift and my interests will also shift over time. So, simply, Yoga.

My mentoring style or approach is…
Colloquial, dialogue. Student should come with questions, and I’ll respond with more questions 🙂

Also to remind the teacher that they are a student of yoga first– and how to maintain that seat over the years.

Learn more about me on: www.peteryoga.com // @peterwaltersyoga

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Born and raised in the magical land of Istria. A wandering soul, Half Croatian half Italian.  Nowadays I live in the flow of the Adriatic sea, skipper by vocation and Yoga practitioner for more than a decade. My immersion in the vast ocean of "yoga" begins in 2010, and year after year it leads me to a gradual and profound personal transformation. With yoga I began a journey of inner exploration, discovering that the world INSIDE is bigger than the one outside!  Over the years I have practiced with teachers of the Satyananda and Krishnamacharya lineage, but along the path I discovered my true passion: Vinyasa flow, and it is here that I deepened my studies. I first enrolled in the 200hrs YTT in 2020 and continued my education to 300hrs.  Meeting Janet stone yoga has been a big event in my life, a real change in my own practice and sadhana.  I practice vinyasa flow as a dance, a moving prayer. It allows me to express myself freely and unite with my deepest self, stepping out from a momentary drama.  With the study of the "8 limbs of Patanjali" I learned that the asanas are only a very small part of the yoga world, and that the real basis lies first of all in the behavior we must have towards ourselves and then express it in the world around us.  My classes are very much inspired by the 5 elements, as every element has its own dance and energy, and takes us to the place where we can feel nourished and connected to the nature outside and within us.  I also love to create musical experience that matches the intention and the flow, wether it is slow or vigorous.  In my classes I use pranayama not only as a separate practice but rather waving it into the movements, where our own breath shows up as a guru, as a teacher, teaching us the impermanence of every thing.

I'm most experienced in developing a deep relationship with my practice, and from here offer this support to others. 
Creating easy and intuitive movements, slow and vigorous flow. For more than 2 years,  pranayama/breath work has been my healing practice.

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in all ways, everything related to Yoga, I truly believe that my growth is based on being an ongoing student. I am dedicated to lifetime of listening, learning and self-study.

My mentoring style or approach is best described as welcoming, supportive and engaged. I will show up and meet each person exactly where they are in the course, or training and in life. I always say to my student to not look at me as a teacher, but rather a student, exactly as they are. What I’m doing is just sharing what I have learned through the course and my experiences; practices that brought benefit to me and I hope will bring benefit to them. When i act as a student even my expectations changes, my fear of judgement dissolves, and the class become a playground.

The best way to reach me is via Instagram @romina_budicin but also through my business website www.sailingpulpa.com

I’ve been teaching/assisting for: 20 years

I fell in love with yoga in 1992 and have been leading classes and workshops and retreats for over 19 years.  Yoga helps me to fulfill my life’s mission which is to empower those around me to become physically strong through all stages of their lives; to lead them to connect to their minds; strengthen their spirit, and bring about a world where they have the courage to show up as their best self.

I am most experienced in:
– Vinyasa
– Teaching the 8 Fold path. Including philosophy in every class
– Teaching with modifications at all levels
– Teacher Training
– Meditation

I am committed to studying and deepening my practice in…
I remain a constant student of yoga. I have taken most of Janet’s courses and do local continuing education with local teachers.

I have done over 1000 hours of conscious leadership
Training work and I am a certified life coach with Grace Clayton.

My mentoring style or approach is…
I take a coaching approach where I meet my mentee where they are and work with them to assist them in their path.
I see my mentees as powerful and capable and begin from there.

Learn more about me on: www.romyoga.com

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