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1250 Addison Street ∼ Studio 209
2121 Bonar Street ∼ Studio C
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-843-8784 |
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Vickie Russell Bell has been studying yoga since 1990 and started teaching in 1994 in Ohio. Her teaching style emphasizes body awareness, alignment and the integration of mindfulness and ease in the yoga practice and in daily life. She is a very warm and inviting teacher who likes to challenge her students to higher levels of awareness. Vickie is a graduate of the Piedmont Yoga Studio's Advanced Studies Program and is certified through Judith Lasater as a Relax & Renew Trainer.
Email: yogavickie@gmail.com
(510) 290-7401
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Scott Blossom is a Traditional Chinese Medical practitioner, Shadow Yoga teacher, and Ayurvedic Consultant. He has been studying yoga for over eighteen years and teaching for twelve. His primary teachers are Zhander Remete, founder of Shadow Yoga, and Dr. Robert Svoboda, renowned Ayurvedic physician and scholar. Visit www.shunyatayoga.com to learn more.
Email: shunyatayoga@gmail.com |
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Sadie Chanlett-Avery began practicing hatha yoga in utero and emerged into the mountains of West Virginia after a few pivotal cat/cow poses. After a two-decade hiatus, she reconnected with yoga at her local gym. The practice ignited an exploration of how Eastern approaches integrate with Western forms of exercise.
She received her teacher certification from Ana Forrest in 2003 and has immersed for months in the jungles of Costa Rica with Master Yoga and Kriya Meditation Teacher, Glenn Black. Sadie holds a personal training certification from the American College of Sports Medicine and serves as the In-House Yogi in the employee gym at Clif Bar & Company. Offering an understanding of anatomy, biomechanics and the profound effects of conscious relaxation, Sadie assists Yoga Tune UpR founder, Jill Miller, in teacher trainings across the country. In June 2009, Sadie will complete a Masters Degree in Holistic Health Education from JFK University with specialized coursework in nutrition and somatic psychology.
Sadie appreciates the diverse expression of the human genome with the belief that people of all ages and sizes can benefit from exercise and heal with yoga. With humor and compassion, she applies ancient yogic principles to individual needs and modern lifestyles. She infuses her classes with a playful, energetic attitude while challenging students to open, strengthen, and relax.
Email: schanlet@hotmail.com
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Jill brings a sense of ease and joy to her teaching. Combining both the subtle and dynamic, her classes are active yet gentle. A graduate of the Yoga Room's Advanced Studies Program, Jill focuses on correct alignment within the form and the effective use of props, making her classes accessible to people of all ages, abilities and body types. She combines her love of yoga with breathing awareness and meditation to create space for both body and soul.
Email: jill@jpdcom.com
(510) 540-5286
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Chandra Easton has studied Yoga for seventeen years and began teaching Yoga in 2000 after training with Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) and Sarah Powers. She has studied Shadow Yoga for nine years. Her primary yoga teachers are Zhander Remete, founder of Shadow Yoga, and Sarah Powers. Chandra also teaches Buddhist meditation based on her fourteen years of study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Language. Her primary Buddhist teachers are H,H. the Dalai Lama, Gyatrul Rinpoche, Lama Tsultrim Allione, and B. Alan Wallace.
Visit www.shunyatayoga.com to learn more.
Email: shunyatayoga@gmail.com. |
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Rebekah Fessenden has been a student of Iyengar-style yoga since 1998 and has taught since 2006. Beginning with a background in dance, she came to yoga with a degree of body awareness. But through the tradition of Iyengar yoga she soon discovered the ability to look deeper within, to go beyond the physical placement and engage the mind. As a teacher, Rebekah focuses on clarity of alignment but also brings attention to the flow of breath and energy within each pose.
Rebekah received her certification through the extensive 3-year long Advanced Studies Program at the Yoga Room in Berkeley. There she had the pleasure of learning from several great teachers: Donald Moyer, Mary Lou Weprin and Sandy Blaine, among many.
These days, yoga continues to enliven and support all aspects of life for Rebekah, including dance, which she performs professionally with Shahrzad Dance Company, a Persian-modern fusion troupe.
Email: chicabekah@hotmail.com |
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Melanie Green is a yoga teacher, mother and co-director of the Berkeley Yoga Center. She has been practicing yoga since 1992 and teaching since 2000. Melanie makes yoga accessible to all. While encouraging students to focus on their breath, she teaches her students to deepen their practice as they honor their bodies. She values the spiritual aspects of yoga integrated with the asanas. Melanie focuses as much on the profound inner lessons of yoga: attention to the breath, letting go of thoughts and ego and perseverance through practice, as she does on the physicality of the poses. This process has been informed by Melanie's own experience with scoliosis.
Melanie's yoga background includes extensive study in Ashtanga. She has also trained in Iyengar, Pre/Postnatal and Vipassna Meditation. Her daily practice informs her teaching and gives her an abundance of experience from which to teach others. Melanie always finds ways to integrate lessons from her own yoga practice into her daily life with her children.
In addition to her regularly scheduled classes, Melanie also offers private instruction and workshops. For more information about Melanie and to see her full teaching schedule, please go to www.melyoga.com.
Email: melyoga@hotmail.com
(510) 368-3581
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Jonothon, a psychiatrist and yoga teacher, has focused on the connections between mind and body for more than twenty years. He continues to wonder about the elusive nature of the human soul.
Email: jonothong@msn.com
(510) 236-8612
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Jessica Hale began practicing yoga in 1997 and has been dedicated to the practice ever since. She is a graduate of the Advanced Teacher Training program at Piedmont Yoga Studio and has had the honor of training with a variety of amazing teachers throughout the bay area. With a background in health care as a registered nurse, Jessica is inspired by the connection between the healing practice of yoga and the infinite wisdom of the human body. She strives to combine the physical experience of yoga with the more subtle aspect of the breath in her Vinyasa Flow class. Jessica works to achieve openness in the physical and mental aspects of the human experience through breath work, meditation and asana. Her style of teaching is accessible to all levels and she is also available to teach private lessons.
Email: jrstephens.rn@gmail.com
(415) 310-1754
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Jessie Holland is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and a certified Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist. Her yoga classes emphasize the precise alignment taught in the Iyengar system, along with sustained reflection on the connection of the body, mind and breath. She also integrates her studies of Ayurveda into class, helping students to harmonize the systems of the body with the rhythms of nature.
Jessie has a private Ayurveda practice on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland. She studies regularly in India with the Iyengar family and renowned Ayurvedic physician, Dr. Vasant Lad. She has brought home much knowledge to share, and is eager to introduce students and clients to this ancient wisdom. See www.jessieholland.com for more information.
Email: hollandjessica@yahoo.com
510.926.0577
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Ada Lusardi creates an inviting environment in her classes and workshops combining expertise, compassion and exacting individual guidance to provide a challenging yet accessible practice for students of all abilities and ages. Based on more than 15 years of meditation and yoga training, and with her extensive knowledge of physiology and anatomy, she guides students to new levels of growth and healing. Her passion for movement springs from her experience as a professional dancer, Pilates teacher, Iyengar yoga instructor, and yoga teacher trainer. Ada is inspired by the dedication of her students, and is deeply grateful for the guidance provided her by her teachers: Donald Moyer, Patricia Sullivan, Mary Lou Weprin and Judith Hanson Lasater, among others. She leads classes and retreats throughout California's Bay Area, and, more recently, Portland, Oregon. See www.adayoga.com for more information.
Email: info@adayoga.com
(510) 552-0155
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Scotty McCaulley has been a student of yoga for ten years and has been teaching for the past two. He teaches Iyengar style yoga and emphasizes the internal spaciousness that the practice of yoga can offer. Scotty's past experience as a psychotherapist brings to his teaching a focus on how yoga can enhance our overall mental, emotional and spiritual health, and he does so with a sense of humor.
(510) 649-1800
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Isaac Milder (Adwaita) offers depth of experience in both the ancient tradition of yoga and contemporary somatic psychology. He completed a 3-year, 3,000 hour teacher training with the Bihar School of YogaTM in Munger, India and the Satyananda Yoga Academy™ in NSW, Australia. He has taught yoga classes, workshops, and private sessions in India, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, and the US. He teaches a wide variety of practices depending on the goals, personality, and health conditions of each student. As a graduate student in clinical psychology, he feels at home with the emotional and psychological experiences that yogic practices can evoke. All classes emphasize the connections between the body, emotions, mental states, energy and breath.
Email: adwaita108@gmail.com
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Jon Morgan accelerated his study of Iyengar-style yoga after it brought continued functionality to him while he was suffering through herniated lumbar discs in 1999. A graduate of The Yoga Room in Berkeley, Jon teaches from the perspective that yoga is for everyone, made accessible via appropriate propping. He blends his degrees in Biomechanics and Philosophy and Religion into alignment-based asana sequences that are informed by one's breath.
Email: jonyoga@gmail.com
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Herdis is Danish by birth and co-founder of The Berkeley Yoga Center. She has been a
student and teacher of Yoga and meditation for over 30 years.
Throughout her life Herdis has been unwavering in her pursuit of True Nature. Some
years ago, her life was changed in an instant: the Ground of Being was spontaneously
revealed to her as her very Self. A few years later, Herdis was plunged into physical
darkness through a rare eye-lid disorder. She was functionally blind for nine months. With
the support of her yoga practice, meditation and other healing modalities, including
modern medicine, Herdis has emerged from the darkness, sees with greater clarity, and
speaks with authenticity and passion. These events have left her greatly humbled by the
mystery of life.
Herdis brings to her classes a grounded and joyful presence. She invites her students to
sense their bodies, moment to moment, welcoming with curiosity what comes and goes
within the vaster field of awareness, which is always unchanging. Yoga practice with Herdis is an opportunity for transformation. Not always easy, but always authentic.
Email: Herdispelle@pacbell.net
(510) 649-9812
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Jen Raven-Harris has been a student of Yoga since 1997 and is a graduate of the Piedmont Yoga Advanced Studies Program. From her corporate background, Jen has a keen understanding of the pressures of the working world and how Yoga can help you manage stress, relax, strengthen, and live with mindful presence. She teaches an accessible and energetic form of Hatha Yoga appropriate for all levels.
Email: jravenharris@yahoo.com
(510) 846-5481
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Jonathan Reynolds has trained with the White Lotus Foundation, Erich Schiffmann, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He is currently enrolled in JFK University's Graduate Counseling Psychology Program, and hopes to further integrate the practices of meditation, therapy, embodiment, and conscious relationship into his own life and work. Jonathan's teaching is born out of a deep gratitude for the inner relief and freedom that his own practice has provided over the years. Drawing on many wisdom traditions, his teaching and counseling sessions are centrally rooted in Buddhist Vipassana Meditation, the Classical Yoga of Patanjali, and the Nondual Advaita Vedanta teachings of Shankara. Generally speaking, Jonathan's teaching is greatly informed by his love of India, the cultural present and historical context of this sacred and enchanting land. His manner of teaching meditation is greatly influenced by time spent in the presence of Jack Kornfield, whose wisdom has infused Jonathan's voice with compassion, playfulness, and story. Jonathan is a founding teacher of the Learning To Listen Yoga & Meditation Center, a San Francisco-based Nonprofit Teaching Collective committed to offering tools that promote conscious living. He is a husband and a father, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he offers private counseling sessions, teaches meditation and yoga, enjoys drinking tea, and leads retreats both locally and worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.ayogisway.com & www.learningtolisten.info.
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See www.ashtangayogaberkeley.com for more information about Mysore classes.
Email: vance_selover@yahoo.com
(510) 301-6747
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Cybèle Tomlinson is a teacher, mother, and the co-director of the Berkeley Yoga Center. Her yoga background includes study of Kundalini, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vini and Yin Yoga; teachers who have most influenced and inspired her practice and teaching are Sarah Powers, Erich Schiffmann, Richard Miller, Donald Moyer, and Hameed Ali.
Cybèle teaches a Vini yoga class and a Yin/Yang class, which is a blend of Yin yoga and other more rigorous and active styles. She emphasizes cultivating breath and flow in your practice. Classes are challenging, while respecting the body's limits: students are supported to find their own "edge," going as deeply as they wish. Cybèle provides an open, nonjudgmental atmosphere in which to become aware of the various layers of inner experience--physically, mentally, and emotionally. She encourages students to work with her privately so that they be supported in inquiring more fully into these experiences and so that they can learn how to tailor a practice to their individual needs. In addition to regular classes and private sessions, Cybèle offers workshops and retreats.
As well as teaching, Cybèle also writes; she is the author of Simple Yoga and Ayurveda Wisdom. She is currently deeply immersed in the Diamond Approach, a contemporary spiritual teaching. She lives with her husband and two sons in Berkeley.
Email: cybeleb@hotmail.com
(510) 558-6936
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Yolanda-Marie Vazquez (Pritam Hari Kaur) has gifts for one-on-one healing that translate directly to her teaching approach. Within her mixed-level classes, she carries each student safely and artfully to their next level of awareness and movement, with specific therapeutic instruction. Reflecting 39 years of deep yoga study, intensive Iyengar training, and 20 years as a healer and bodyworker, Yolanda's classes are rich in knowledge, guidance, and hands-on support. It is common to find other yoga teachers among her students; many teachers began as students in these same classes. Yolanda welcomes all levels, including beginners.
In addition to her classes, Yolanda operates Quiet Mind Healing Sanctuary in Oakland, where she offers Private Yoga, CranioSacral, and Neuromuscular Therapies. She also directs Yoga for a Cause, classes and events by donation to support non-profit work for conservation and human rights. To date this project has raised $60,000 for over 100 organizations worldwide.
See www.quietmind.com for more information.
Email: omtara@quietmind.com (510) 268-9321
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Gretchen Wobrock works with individuals to explore the deeper levels of body intelligence that lead to profound healing. She does this by bringing people into presence, directing them to feel their experience through sensation and what is occurring in the moment. Her classes and individual sessions become the ground for developing the awareness that reveals the unique mind/body connection for each individual.
Settling into stillness, and inquiring into our direct experience with attention and breath work, opens a profound doorway into contacting the guidance within. With this direction life becomes a heartfelt journey of awakening and remembering the deepest Truths of who we are, and yoga becomes the means for Knowing that.
Each session draws from her background in mind/body healing. Trained as a somatic therapist, with specific expertise working with trauma, her clients have benefitted by releasing old patterns and beliefs held in the body, opening to a more authentic experience of themselves in the world. Gretchen is also a certified energy worker, and obtained her yoga teaching degree from the largest yoga center in the US, Kripalu Center for Health and Healing. She has immersed herself in meditative spiritual traditions for many years, cultivating a silence that brings joy and compassion to her teaching. She is currently a student in the Diamond Heart School in Berkeley. Gretchen teaches classes, workshops and retreats in northern California.
Email: gretchenwobrock@gmail.com |
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