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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bio to come soon! To contact Simi for private instruction please email her at simplyyoga@yahoo.com.

I found Ashtanga yoga while earning my BFA in photography in Buffalo, NY. Or perhaps I should say Ashtanga yoga found me. From my first class, I knew I had discovered a practice I would commit to for a very long time, if not forever. I was a classical ballet dancer for nine years and [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]