KOH SAMUI, THAILAND Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary www.kamalaya.com Oct. 27 – Nov. 2, 2012 Price TBA The Kamalaya Personal Yoga Synergy offers private one-to-one yoga sessions with customised instruction along with complementary treatments, including Ayurveda therapies from our experienced Indian therapists. This personal yoga and wellness retreat is suitable for beginners and experienced yogis alike, as [...]
Hawaii Yoga Retreat with David Kim
Celebrate summer in Paradise BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII Hawaii Island Retreat www.hawaiiislandretreat.com March 24-30, 2012 Price: $1295-$1595 Join David Kim for this 6-night, 7-day Hawaii yoga retreat in the beauty and serentiy of the Big Island. Enjoy twice daily yoga sessions, delicious organic meals, optional spa treatments and massage, and plenty of time to explore [...]
David Kim Teacher Training 2012
Maty Ezraty at Exhale Spa, Venice CA December 2011
Don’t miss the opportunity to study and practice with Maty Ezraty this December!! EXHALE CENTER FOR SACRED MOVEMENT 245 South Main Street Venice, CA 90291 Phone: 310 450 7676 Fax: 310 450 7879 One On One Mysore Practice (Dec 7-16th) with Maty Ezraty Date: Dec 07, 2011 to Dec 16, 2011 Time: 06:30 AM to [...]
Kirsten Berg and Mitchell Gold
The information below was provided by Pineapple Yoga. Kirsten Berg and Mitchell Gold teaching “Mysore Style” at Pineapple Yoga KAUAI OCTOBER 17 until JANUARY 27* *Holiday Break no classes Dec. 21-Jan.4 JANUARY 5 classes resume with Kirsten and Mitchell Eagle and Shelley resume teaching January 28, 2012 About Kirsten and Mitchell Kirsten and Mitchell are [...]
Yoga & Acupuncture Retreat with Maria Villella and Yvonne Farrell
Yoga/Acupuncture Retreat with Maria Villella & Dr. Yvonne Farrell Dates: December 20th – 28th – Join us as we transition into the new year! Location: On the beautiful island, Isla Mujeres, Mexico Early Bird Rates are $1595 and are only good until October 15th, 2011, based on double occupancy. Rates for registration from October 15th [...]
Maria Villella on the Importance of the Breath
Maria Villella on Adjustments, Ego and Injury
Holidays Away From Home
Maria Villella on Visiting an Ashram in India
Lainie Devina
During Lainie’s professional dance career, she was inspired by the body’s ultimate potential to communicate art through movement. When her career ended in injury, yoga did more than fill a missing void, it taught her to reboot the awareness of her body from the inside out. Practicing early on with Iyengar teachers Paul Cabanis and [...]
5+5= Fit Challenge
National Yoga Project Presents 5+5= Fit Challenge A Large-Scale Children’s Yoga Class at Five Los Angeles Elementary Schools on December 9th, 2010 Five children’s yoga instructors to lead hundreds of Los Angeles 5th graders in a large-scale yoga class National Yoga Project, an organization headed by Los Angeles yoga instructor, Sarah Ezrin, is giving students [...]
Digital Download: Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with MARIA VILLELLA
Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrates the entire Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with strength, grace and control. As you watch, and listen, to the video you will hear the vinyasas for each posture counted, the names of the postures as well as the opening and closing prayers all spoken in Sanskrit.
Shanti Yoga Shala
Shanti Yoga Shala offers classes in the Vinyasa Krama yoga method, as well as traditional Ashtanga. We offer all levels of classes from yoga basics to advanced. We also offer restorative yoga classes. Students are encouraged to practice at their own pace with the understanding that the practice is always changing. We believe in adapting [...]
Nathalie Croix
Creative Director and founder of Shanti Yoga Shala, Nathalie has learned yoga philosophy since early teens. She returns to New Orleans from Los Angeles, where she taught at Yoga Works, Home Simply Yoga and Santa Monica College. Nathalie also teaches in France and Brazil and has made several trips to India, Mysore, to widen her understanding [...]
David Kim Workshop at YogaWorks Westlake Village
David Kim
After graduating from Brown and spending years of intensely cerebral work as a New York journalist and Hollywood story analyst, I fled to a yoga class at my local gym for some mental relief. It was a revelation: for the first time, I noticed how my thoughts and actions embed themselves in my body, affecting [...]
Maty Ezraty at Exhale in Venice, CA
Kaitlyn McConnell
Yoga and Kaitlyn found each other when Kaitlyn was still in high school, through a Summer professional actors program in Kirkland, Washington. Immediately, she was challenged and intrigued. It seemed to her that this was more than simply exercises to keep the body fit, yoga helped her mind focus and provided a deep connection between [...]
Alexandria Crow
ABOUT ALEXANDRIA CROW Through my daily practice and journey with yoga I have found a fearlessness within myself that I never knew existed. My practice has allowed me to take this fearlessness off the mat and into my daily life. My practice has changed the way I see myself and those around me. It has [...]
White Orchid Yoga
November 19-21, 2010: Ahmanda Yoga Flow | Women’s Renewal Retreat with Diane Hudock & Friends
Ahmanda Yoga Flow | Women’s Renewal Retreat with Diane Hudock & Friends November 19-21, 2010 Casa Ojai Estate and Winery Four invigorating Yoga Classes with Diane Hudock Tai Chi & Sound Therapy Mediation with the Michael’Dij’ Sumptuous Mindfully Inspired Organic Cuisine with Chef Ponti Ecstatic Live Music with Tony Khalife and Special Guests Vedic Astrology [...]
Urban Lily Yoga
Urban Lily Yoga 14106 MAGNOLIA BLVD SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91423 818-646-0142 www.urbanlilyyoga.com About Urban Lily Yoga “Blossom where you’re grounded” ©, the yoga wellness center of the valley, is open to the public offering its powerful blend of traditional and progressive yogic practices, with a philosophy that is both contemporary and timeless. Our center offers [...]
YogaWorks Santa Monica – Montana Ave
YogaWorks 1426 Montana Ave Santa Monica, CA 90403 T: (310) 393-5150 www.yogaworks.com YogaWorks Montana is the original YogaWorks, founded in 1987, and has been home to some of the most influential yoga teachers in America, including our founders Maty Ezraty, and Chuck Miller. Our current teaching staff includes Lisa Walford, Vinnie Marino, Sara Ivanhoe and [...]
Alison Widdoes
Originally hailing from Newark, Delaware, Ali stands at the unique intersection of two lifelong passions: barbershop singing, and yoga. When she is not singing barbershop bass with international acapella championship chorus Harborlites, she teaches yoga- bringing two worlds of soulfulness together into one quirky, yet effervescent person. But truly, Ali has been practicing yoga for [...]
Joan Hyman 2010 Workshops
Aug 26, 2010: Yogachef, Joan Hyman & The Yurt in Brentwood’s Day in Paradise
Aug 26, 2010 Yogachef, Joan Hyman & The Yurt in Brentwood’s Day in Paradise Yogachef, Joan Hyman & The Yurt in Brentwood invite you to spend a day in paradise without having to leave Los Angeles. Enjoy two yoga classes taught by Joan Hyman (a 2 hour flow in the mid-morning and a late afternoon [...]
8/22/10 Sonya Cottle: An Introduction to Second Series Ashtanga
Come explore the challenge and fun of the intermediate series of Ashtanga yoga. In this workshop we will break down the individual postures by giving variations and modifications to make these more advanced asanas approachable for everyone. Get ready to backbend, twist and perhaps even put your foot behind your head! This workshop is recommended for those students who have completed all of first series and the beginning of second, or by teacher’s approval.
The Primary Asana of Ashtanga Yoga
In the Ashtanga Yoga system, the First or Primary Series is performed by all beginners and also intermediate and advanced students on Fridays. There is a designated day of the week to practice each of the six series and Friday is the day for Primary. Primary Series is known for it’s hip-openers, forward bends, full [...]
Kim James
Kim’s classes are accessible, friendly, and fun. Her focus is on the breath as a method of mindfulness. Harnessing the breath, mind, and body creates path to a joyful exploration of the body through yoga postures and movement. Better posture and breathing increases physical awareness, leading to vitality and happiness. Kim has been teaching Yoga [...]
Diane Hudock
Diane Hudock is a leading and recognized yoga instructor known for her inspirational style of teaching, humor, and hands-on approach bringing together the expansive and healing principles of yoga within a dynamic and spontaneous Vinyasa flow. She has developed her own unique philosophy for the multi-dimensional beings that we are: “do a consciously challenging and [...]
Elinore Cohen
Elinore has over twenty years of movement and dance experience in the styles of ballet, lyrical, modern, and jazz in her repertoire. Her professional ballet career spanned several regional and state ballet companies, including the Joffrey ballet. Elinore seemed to have a fulfilling ballet career until several injuries and health issues led her to rehabilitate [...]
Emily Kosloski
I have been blessed to study and practice with many wonderful teachers, including Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea, Max Strom, Hala Khouri, Matthew Cohen, Cynthia Funk, and all the students that have come to my classes! I’ve been practicing yoga for 12 years, and teaching Vinyasa (Flow) yoga, with an emphasis on breath and movement [...]
Joan Hyman
Joan Hyman is a distinguished Senior Yogaworks Teacher, who weaves her personal yogic journey into popular teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats around the world. Her teachings come from an organic intuitive place, as she draws upon joyful study of ayurveda (the science of life), chakras, and meditation. With over 20 years experience, Joan is E-RYT [...]
Kathryn Budig
As one of the youngest and most widely recognized faces in yoga, Kathryn Budig’s appetite for yoga is infectious. Kathryn’s playful mixture of challenging classes with her lovable personality is the recipe for a truly inspiring class. As an avid food lover, she is also passionate about sharing healthy, organic and eco-friendly recipes. Kathryn shares [...]
Sonya Cottle
After earning a BA in psychology from the University of Arizona, Sonya moved to LA in 1999 to pursue a career in Clinical Psychology. She was dragged reluctantly to her first yoga class with Steve Ross which turned out to be over her head at the time, but knew immediately that she wanted to learn [...]
Maria Villella
Heather Radha Duplex and Anthony “Prem” Carlisi
Anthony “Prem” Carlisi was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1955. He began his Ashtanga journey at the young age of 23, in 1978, when Guruji was teaching in Encinitas, California for 6 months. The following year marked his initial trip to Mysore, India where he studied Advanced A; currently known as third and fourth series. [...]
Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty
Chuck Miller has been practicing yoga earnestly since 1971 and finally learned Ashtanga Yoga from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 1980. Studies with Pattabhi include numerous extended and familial encounters in America and nearly 2 years during 7 trips to Mysore , South India. Chuck enjoys teaching with a focus on the wholistic nature of [...]
Charles James
Charles has been a student of Ashtanga Yoga since 1996. He studied with Maty Ezraty for over eight years and with Sri K. Patthabi Jois during his American tours. Charles’ teaching approach emphasizes attention to the breath/movement aspect of the Ashtanga method as well as the asanas themselves. In addition to being an Ashtanga yoga [...]
“What is Yoga going to do for me?”
Maria Villella on The Practice of Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella talks about her first Yoga class, developing a consistent practice and why you should think about how you’ll feel AFTER you practice. Maria on her first Yoga class. My first yoga class was an Ashtanga class. I went into a studio and I asked the women who was there, I [...]
“Thank God We’re Not Perfect!”
Yoga Teacher Kathryn Budig talks about arm balances, inversions, face-planting and teaching from a “place of knowing”. Turning the world upside down Arm balancing and inversion work is extremely fun. It’s beautiful, it’s inspiring. And people who are newer to Yoga get very excited by it. So it’s definitely a great hook to get people [...]
Sarah Ezrin
Like a lotus from the mud, Sarah Ezrin’s yoga practice blossomed out of less than easy times. Sarah first explored yoga during University as a stress reducer, however, once she noticed that the most significant impacts of her practice were occurring off the mat, yoga quickly became a way of life. In her early 20’s, [...]
Jesse Schein
I was born and raised in New York City. I graduated from a small, liberal arts college called Connecticut College with a degree in History and Political Philosophy. “Conn College’s” ideology was that their students should go out into the world and make a difference by exploring what they are passionate about — to never [...]







