Andrea Adams

Andrea comes to us from Michigan, where she was certified as a 200-hour registered yoga teacher. Trained in the Vinyasa yoga style with roots in the Iyengar tradition, she teaches classes that are accessible to all levels. Inspired by nature and the freedom of the wild, Andrea is humbled by the opportunity to facilitate and witness healing as students experience their true natures through yoga. [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]

Katrina Durocher

Katrina is a 200 hour RYT (registered yoga teacher) with Yoga Alliance who works with people of all ages. Her adult classes are vigorous, creative and light hearted, while maintaining the art of meditation in motion. She emphasizes breath, core strength, and opening the body's channels. Having experienced the healing effects of yoga herself, Katrina loves sharing her passion with all. www.katrinadurocher.com [photo]

Rachel Horn

Rachel started practicing yoga in college after suffering a shoulder injury as a member of her college swim team. After just a few classes, she was hooked. As a 200-hour certified yoga teacher through YogaWorks, Rachel caters to students looking to improve their focus, strength and balance as well as athletes recovering from sports injuries. Her classes are focused on careful alignment and encourage the use of modifications and props to make every pose accessible, whether the student is young and athletic or in need of a more gentle approach. [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]

Anyez Klevecz

Anyez Klevecz is a certified yoga instructor through Yoga Alliance. She has also been trained by Robin Gruver, a renowned prenatal yoga teacher and childbirth educator in this area. Anyez has deepened her studies through her own practice and her two pregnancies. Yoga is a quiet place to connect with your baby and pregnant body. A yoga and meditation practice strengthens the physical, emotional and spiritual acceptance of pregnancy. Anyez's regular yoga practice has helped her experience the strength, flexibility, and focus of breath work, as well as the ability to flow with labor. [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. [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]

Annette White

After practicing various forms of yoga for more than 10 years, Annette White became a 200 hour certified yoga instructor through the Chopra Center. She teaches a style of yoga developed by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon called the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga. At the core of this practice is the awareness that yoga is more than a system of physical fitness, it is a science of balanced living, a path for realizing full human potential. Annette's goal in every class is to provide you not only with yoga poses, but a wealth of breathing exercises, mantras and meditation techniques to help guide you along your own path. [photo]