Featured Leaders
Chelsea Winters
Chelsea Winters, owner and founder of Anahata Yoga & Wellness in Minturn, Colorado, was first introduced to yoga as a freshman in college at the University of New Hampshire and has been practicing since. An active person, initially drawn to the physical practice, the movement of the asanas and the strengthening aspect. As Chelsea did […]
Sunita Goldstein
Sunita believe her purpose in life is to help people make dramatic shifts and live to their highest potential. For 10 years, she has been helping smart, successful, busy professional moms, stay at home moms, and solo professionals, make lifestyle changes with clean eating, and accountability. She created wellness adventure retreats for the super busy […]
Melissa Joy Schoeller
Melissa Joy Schoeller founded Gypset Yoga after five years of guest teaching yoga classes at a dozen tropical resorts around the world. As a guest teacher, she quickly saw that travel gave people the opportunity open themselves. Yoga and wellness elevated a vacation into a transformative experience, and to appreciate the beauty within all things […]
Sally Mitchell
Sally Mitchell is the founder and practitioner of Body Flows. Her intention in creating Body Flows in 2010 was to share her knowledge and personal experience of the practices that have helped her heal her own body and discover a path of transformation, inner confidence and greater self awareness. Growing up in Scotland, Sally moved […]
Lauren Ikeda
Lauren’s mission is to offer little “nuggets” or tools for her students to connect the dots. The dots can be linked to a yoga posture in their body, to thoughts that may have previously been constricted, to the quality of breath, to those around them, and/or to the most authentic version of themselves. The possibilities […]
Nathania Stambouli
Nathania fell in love with yoga in 2009 and has been forever changed by the practice. With a background in circuit & weight training, she was initially attracted to the physical challenge of yoga but very quickly, she discovered that it would transform her life profoundly. What started out as a purely physical adventure turned […]
Mara Branscombe
As a mother, yogi, dancer, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spirit coach, Mara Branscombe finds great joy in guiding others along the path of self transformation. She is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind-body practices and earth based rituals into her offerings. Mara was awakened to the potency of Hatha Yoga in […]
Dena Zembel
Dena began her yoga practice over 26 years ago with the pregnancy of the first of her 4 children. Over the years, her practice transformed from the occasional dabbling for fun and stress relief to a dedicated, daily, traditional Ashtanga Yoga practice. As a major yoga instructor at Nike World Headquarters, she has worked in […]
Mark Stephens
Mark is a dedicated yoga student whose personal experience of yoga’s promise to make life better inspires him to share the practice through teaching and scholarly writing. Described by Yoga Journal as “the teacher’s teacher,” he is a certified yoga therapist, member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and author of the international bestsellers […]
Laurel Van Matre
Laurel Van Matre teaches with enthusiasm for the love of yoga. She teaches to honor and encourage each of her students to grow through their practice individually as well as by being part of a group. She has extensive knowledge teaching in a class setting as well as on an individual basis. Laurel holds a […]
Stephanie Snyder
Stephanie founded Love Story Yoga in San Francisco in 2017. She is also the creator of the Yoga Journal DVD, Yoga for Strength and Toning and is known for her inspirational teaching style. Students appreciate Stephanie’s unique ability to infuse her Vinyasa classes with yoga philosophy, conscientious alignment, and heart-felt humor. Her commitment to breath, […]
Tiffany Cruikshank
Tiffany Cruikshank is the founder & visionary behind Yoga Medicine, a community of expert yoga teachers focused on fusing the best of anatomy & western medicine with the traditional practice of yoga. Tiffany’s classes have evolved over the past 20 years of teaching yoga to reflect her creativity and passion for using yoga as a […]
Tina Belluomini
Tina, a Bay Area native, completed her 200-hour Yoga teacher training at Yoga Tree in San Francisco in 2009. She continues to study with the many premier Yoga Instructors in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Her yoga classes are a fusion of the many different styles of yoga she has studied and, her extensive […]
Kate Giampapa
Yoga has been an important part of Kate’s life ever since she took her first class in 2004 and got certified shortly after. Being an avid snowboarder and runner, yoga was there to keep her balanced as an athlete. “The more yoga I did the better my body and mind felt,” she says. Kate practices […]
Amanda Dykann
Amanda Dykann was born and raised in Basalt, Colorado a little town outside Aspen. She first discovered Yoga while attending college at the University of Colorado at Boulder and went on to become a certified instructor, attending Bikram Yoga teacher training in Honolulu, Hawaii in the spring of 2007. Becoming an instructor was the touchstone […]
Rosemary Garrison
Rosemary teaches her yoga students with a gentle, yet strong touch. She seeks to create the fires of transformation with a physically intense and vigorous flow while simultaneously supporting her students with a warm voice and nourishing energy. She believes the practice can uproot, heal and liberate – and that it can be done with […]
Janet Stone
Janet Stone’s studentship began at 17 under the meditation teachings of Prem Rawat. His reverence for simplicity and finding joy in the rise and fall of life live on in her practice and teaching today. In 1996, she traveled to India, the birthplace of her grandfather, and became dedicated to the path of yoga. Janet […]