Catherine Chapman

Catherine formerly taught in San Francisco's premier yoga studios: Yoga Tree, Mindful Body, and Yoga Loft. She was certified by Ana Costa in Anahata Yoga, and studied the primary series of Ashtanga Yoga with Tim Miller. In 2007, she completed an advanced teacher training with Judith Lasater. Her classes, based in traditional yoga philosophy, encourage students to realign, recharge, and reunite the mind, body, heart and soul. Catherine teaches from a place of compassion, wisdom, and passion. Her classes are unique, fun, and a wonderful place to explore life! [photo]

Tina Chappel

Tina Chappel has been studying yoga and meditation for more than 25 years. Her own practice incorporates several different styles, including Ashtanga, Iyengar, and flow. Certified as a yoga instructor by eminent yogi Ana Forrest of the Forrest Yoga Circle, she is Yoga Jones’s owner/director. Her classes emphasize realization of yoga’s potential for unlocking each student’s physical, mental, and spiritual capacities. [photo]

Daniel Chin

Daniel Yoshimi "Chin" is a capoeirista, capoeira instructor, musician and a co-founder of Ginga. A native of Brazil, he began his training there under the direction of Prof. Eros. He began teaching in 1995. After moving to the United States, Chin opened a Santa Barbara school and has continued teaching capoeira to children and adults for the last five years. In 2004, he started teaching in Ventura at Yoga Jones. He has dedicated part of his time to teaching low income children since 2002. In January 2005, in partnership with Vanessa Isaac and Jessica Elledge, he opened Ginga Multicultural Arts Center in Santa Barbara which now serves as the official Capoeira Sul da Bahia home. [photo]

Sue Elivique

Sue Elivique, a native of London England, has been studying, practicing and teaching Kadampa Buddhism for many years in St. Lucia, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. She is known for her practical and insightful teachings as well as her bright smile and humor.[photo]

Pixie Kastrup

Pixie has been studying yoga since 2000. While studying for her Kinesiology degree she received her 200hr teacher training certification. Pixie incorporated yoga into her Exercise Science/Kinesiology studies in college, finding that her teaching style has a strong foundation in alignment and awareness. She has taken numerous teacher trainings on alignment, partner yoga/acroyoga, children’s yoga, and chakras, and continues to further her studies.

Within her 200 hr certification, she was trained in Prenatal Yoga and utilized these teachings with her first birth experience this year. She spent 2006 in India, received her Yoga Therapist Certification, and taught yoga and exercise classes at a small mediation center near Delhi, The Gnostic Centre. During her studies she was exposed to the Yoga Nidra technique, and found a passion to share this amazing style of relaxation meditation with others. Pixie has a strong love for sharing the benefits of living a healthy, conscious life. Teaching these benefits through Yoga, Exercise, Nutrition, and Positive living. Each day is a new day of learning, a new day of sharing, a new day of growing.[photo]

Sirgun Kaur

Sirgun Kaur (Renee) is a Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher through the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA). She completed her teacher training at Yoga Yoga in Austin Texas. The curriculum was based on Kundalini as originally taught by Yogi Bhajan. She has practiced Yoga and Meditation for the past 8 years and strongly believes in the transformational power of Kundalini Yoga, for everyone at any age. Sirgun is also a Licensed Social Worker, who recently moved to Ventura from Austin Texas.[photo]

Sopurkh Kaur

Sopurkh Kaur has been practicing and studying Kundalini Yoga and meditation since 1990 with beloved teachers, Guru Singh and Yogi Bhajan. She is certified by the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA) and the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI). She completed her teacher training at Yoga West in Los Angeles and has received intensive cross instruction from many of Yogi Bhagan’s senior instructors. In addition to teaching yoga, Sopurkh is a musician, artist and mother. [photo]

Geeta Maker-Clark

Geeta teaches the prenatal yoga class with a unique emphasis on anatomy, physiology and self-love during pregnancy. She is a community advocate for pregnant women, and their choice to have the most empowering birth they can have. As a family physician with a maternal child health focus, Geeta has delivered hundreds of babies, performed c-sections, and takes care of newborns on a daily basis. Her interest in prenatal yoga stems from her deep belief that every woman can learn to trust in her own power and strength, and prepare herself and her growing baby for a conscious childbirth. She is a certified Prenatal Yoga instructor, receiving her training at the Golden Bridge Studio in Los Angeles. She is also the privileged mother of two small children. [photo]

Shanti Rae

Shanti is the student and protege of world renowned Grand Master Paulie Zink. Professionally trained as a contortionist and dancer, Shanti accepted Taoist Yoga as a holistic path to retain superior flexibility, strength and vitality. Having studied exclusivley with Master Paulie Zink, Shanti teaches the pure art of Taoist yoga. This unadulterated style is the "flow" yoga that was originally developed by Taoist priests in northern China and directly passed onto Master Paulie Zink.

Paula Scheerschmidt

Paula has been a student of yoga for more than ten years. Her study in the dramatic arts is what first introduced her to the world of yoga. After years of using yoga as a tool to enhance her abilities on stage and film, she decided to take her yoga practice to a new level. She completed 250 hours of teacher training at the Moksana Yoga Center in Victoria, British Columbia where the importance of the person is emphasized above posture. There, respecting the qualities of acceptance, non-judgment, and balance is paramount.

Paula’s passion for yoga is complimented by her experience of leading and providing yoga instruction for Banff LIFE’s Yoga Program (a charity for young adults) in Banff, Alberta. She has also taught at the Yoga in Harmony Studio, and the Red Earth Spa in Banff, Alberta.

Her passion for the healing arts has also sparked her interest in Thai Yoga Massage Therapy. In the winter of 2006 she completed the practitioner training course with Saul David Raye, at Shakti’s Elements in Santa Monica, California.

Paula draws from her exploration of various styles of Hatha Yoga including: Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Bikram, Anusara, and Kundalini. She brings the inspiration of body alignment, flow of breath and awareness of spirit to her teachings. [photo]

Klara Schoenfeld

Klara Schoenfeld, a native of British Columbia, recently moved to the US after six years working and studying in Cambodia, Indonesia and London. She has practiced various styles of yoga over the last eight years including Iyengar, Classical Hatha, Kundalini, Yin Yoga, Vinyasa flow and Anusara. However, it was while studying in London that she fell in love with the challenge and flow of the Ashtanga sequence.

Klara studied Ashtanga with Paul Dallaghan while living in Southeast Asia, and yoga philosophy and pranayama with both Paul and O.P. Tiwari. Her teaching is also influenced by her long-time practice of Vipassana meditation, as well as her training in children’s yoga.

Klara teaches a dynamic and energetic class that emphasizes the importance of the body-breathe-mind connection. Helping people transform their tension, stress and negative emotions so that they leave class lighter, brighter and energised is what inspires her to keep teaching. She hopes that her students spread this lightness and positive energy to all those around them, and share the joy of yoga with as many people as possible! [photo]

Anna Spanopoulos

Anna Spanopoulos began studying yoga in the early '70s. She started teacher training in hatha and Ashtanga yoga in 1994 and began teaching the following year. Since then, Anna has been studying the Iyengar yoga system, and has taken Iyengar teacher training and yoga therapy training. She also teaches prenatal yoga, children's yoga, and workshops for back, neck, shoulders, hips, knees, and carpal tunnel syndrome. [photo]

Lynne Thurston

Lynne Thurston has practiced yoga and meditation for over 35 years. She has an extensive background in dance and theatre arts, as well as psychology and education, all of which she incorporates in her classes. She creates a compassionate and supportive teaching environment directed to both children and adults, including older adults. [photo]

Vishnuprem

Vishnuprem is a certified Sivananda yoga teacher who has practiced and taught for 20 years. Trained by Swami Vishnu-devananda, he was a staff member of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers (ISYVC). He teaches authentic classical Hatha Yoga, including breathing, a balanced set of postures, and deep relaxation. [photo]