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About Diane
Diane Hudock has been a leading and recognized yoga instructor known for her inspirational style of teaching and hands-on approach that brings together the expansive and healing principles of Anusara within a dynamic and spontaneous vinyasa practice. She has developed her own unique philosophy for the multi-dimensional beings that we are: “do a consciously challenging and heart-centered practice, that shifts you out of your comfort zone, in order to remove fear, expand the mind, and create the greatest freedom in the physical body.”
Diane first discovered yoga in the mid nineties when it was offered as an extra-curricular class at Sarah Lawrence College. She left with a sense of well-being and mind-body connectedness she had never quite experienced before. From then on, she was drawn to this path for healing and self-inquiry. She continued her studies in NYC with Sharon Gannon, Cyndi Lee, and Noah White, as well as, learning intensively in mind-body medicine, Reiki Mastery, and bioenergetics. She moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and studied with some of the most renowned teachers including Mark Blanchard, Steven Earth, Frank White, Anna Forrest, Chris Chavez, Anthony Benedetti, Noah White, and John Friend. Her work has evolved with a great appreciation and gratitude towards the Anusara philosophy and methodology whose mission “encourages all people to discover the intrinsic goodness and creativity within themselves, providing the opportunity for a transformational experience to unfold.” She was given the accreditation of “Anusara Inspired” teacher by Anusara Yoga® in 2007.
Diane has been a contributing writer to various yoga publications encouraging others with her passion for unleashing creativity, empowerment, and personal transformation. She has been in many national commercials and print campaigns, and is blessed to lead a thriving private practice in Los Angeles, as well as, teach workshops and retreats internationally.
Web Site: www.elinorecohen.com
Teacher Bio:
Elinore has over twenty years of movement and dance experience in the styles of ballet, lyrical, modern, and jazz in her repertoire; including a professional ballet career dancing with the Joffrey Ballet in the Corps de Ballet, and as a soloist. She was also on loan to the San Francisco Ballet as a seasonal dancer for several years. Elinore seemed to have a fulfilling ballet career until several injuries and health issues led her to rehabilitate her body and mind. So when she was seventeen she went off to college and pursued a degree in teacher education, and went on to get her Masters in Human Development, which led to teaching pre-k and kindergarten. With a love of education and yoga, Elinore pursued her passion for both and went on to complete her teacher trainings at Yoga Works in Santa Monica.
Elinore sees the journey within as the breath creating a vehicle for the body, and the body creating a vehicle for the mind to still itself, and transform itself. It is from the yoga practice, that the individual learns "practice", is the best of all instructions. Her classes blend Iyengar fundamentals and restorative postures with the aids of props, along side a strong Ashtanga influence of flow and feel for a synergistic, yet mindful vinyasa flow. Elinore's teaching style fuses a beautifully calming voice, 
with an equally engaging and supportive voice, for a distinctly creative, energetic, playful style, encouraging a courageous learning environment where fear dissipates, and hope evolves into taking risks, meeting challenges that move students into their next zones of proximal development within their yoga practice internally and externally. Elinore is highly skilled at teaching the individual learner, seeing their needs and meeting them to build a strong student-teacher relationship built on trust, love, and respect, leading to feeling comfortable in one's own skin, and a contentment and acceptance with what is, and what may be in one's yoga practice and life. Elinore's classes combine a love of movement, cultivating the idea of feeling the movements and internalizing yoga philosophy, attention to the breath and linking movements with breath, proper alignment, and specific attention to gross and subtle aspects of alignment, supported by traditional and creative hands-on adjustments, and particular attention to modifications and variations of poses securing a safe and open environment. And ultimately, the joy of assimilating and accommodating great gems of knowledge and wisdom deeply internalizing the feelings and senses of those movements and great mindfulness in the conscious unity of yoga?seeking the calmness within each of us.
Elinore's Note
I see yoga as conscious unity, and myself simply as a facilitator in the process of yoga, for the true teacher is within all of us. We are already our perfect self, we are already all that we need to be. We practice yoga to see ourselves as we really are, and know that our timing in life is always right. We practice yoga to know that when we gain freedom in the body, we are that much closer to freedom in the mind! We are all lit from with, so follow the journey within and live with intention! Embrace your unique gifts, and bestow them upon the world, love your imperfections, be proud, yet humble, and above all love yourself unconditionally.
Om shanti, shanti, shantihi
All Photography by Jason Gold www.jasongold.com
MONDAY: 9:30-11:00 Level 1/2 Yoga Yoga Studio
TUESDAY: 7:30-9:00 Level 2 Yoga Yoga Studio
WEDNESDAY: 9:00-10:15 Mixed Level Yoga Grounds Studio
5:45-6:45 Gentle Crescenta/Canada YMCA
THURSDAY: 9:00-10:15 Mixed Level Crescenta/Canada YMCA
6:00-7:15 Mixed Level Crescenta/Canada YMCA
FRIDAY: 9:00-10:15 Mixed Level Yoga Grounds Studio
SATURDAY: 10:30-11:45 Level 2 Yoga Yoga Studio
Yoga Yoga is located at 24421 Walnut St. in Valencia.
Yoga Grounds is located at 3857 Foothill Blvd. in La Crescenta.
The Crescenta/Canada YMCA is located at 1930 Foothill Blvd. in La Canada
**I have been blessed to study with so many inspiring teachers, including Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea, Max Strom, Matthew Cohen, and Cynthia Funk, and was certified to teach through the Teacher Training Program at Sacred Movement Center for Healing and Yoga in Venice, CA. My style draws from from the Hatha yoga lineage, and I teach using Vinyasa/Flow sequencing. I love to lead creative, heart-centered classes that emphasize breath and finding meditation through movement. Join us as we explore the power and grace inside!
Jesse's Teacher Bio:
Jesse Schein is a native New Yorker who moved out to LA in 1999. She started practicing yoga at Yoga Works and she fell in love with the Ashtanga practice. She practiced five days a week with Maty Ezraty untiil Maty left in 2005. She also completed three teacher trainings under Maty and Lisa Walford. She has been teaching at Yoga Works since 2001. Jesse is passionate about her teaching and her students. She is very aware of alignment and the needs of different bodies. She teaches a very challanging class and encourages her students to take chances and to bring their sense of humor with them. Jesse credits yoga for bringing balance into her life and the ability to embrace hard work and laughter. Jesse is extremely grateful to be doing something she loves and is eternally grateful to her her teacher, mentor and friend Maty Ezraty.
Class ScheduleView Jesse's current class schedule.
Locations:
Yoga Works
1426 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA, 90403
Phone: (310) 393-5150
Simi Cruz-Ashtanga Yoga
An ancient system made accessable to everyone. All levels welcome!
For more info, visit www.simicruz.com
Class Schedule
Monday
6:30am - 8:55am Mysore Ashtanga
Tuesday
6:30am - 8:55am Mysore Ashtanga
Wednesday
6:30am - 8:55am Mysore Ashtanga
Thursday
6:30am - 8:55am Mysore Ashtanga
Friday
6:30am - 8:55am Mysore Ashtanga
Location:
Yoga Works Montana
1426 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Phone: (310) 393-5150
Chuck and Maty were co-owners of the original Yoga Works in Santa Monica, California. They are extremely well respected yoga teachers and have influenced the way yoga is taught in America today. Currently, Chuck and Maty travel and teach Ashtanga workshops and intensives both the United States and abroad. Check their web site below for a current schedule.
For more information on Chuck and Maty, visit www.chuckandmaty.com.
Maty Ezraty is one of Yoga Journal's "Ask the Expert" advisors. You can find Maty's Q&A column here.
Chuck Miller
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 Ashtanga Yoga, teaching it as both a philosophical system as well as a strong practical method. Chuck is known for his gentle but deliberate hands-on adjustments which are both reassuring and challenging.
Teaching since 1988 Chuck was Director of Ashtanga Yoga and was a co-owner of the original Yoga Works in Santa Monica , CA , for over 16 years.
Maty Ezraty
Maty Ezraty was the original founder of Yoga Works in Santa Monica California and directed the Teacher Training Program there for over 16 years. She has studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois 5 times in India , and during 5 of his American tours as well as once in France .
Maty wrote the Yoga Journal Asana Column in 2001. She is known for her joyful, engaging and determined approach to teaching correct form. Teaching since 1985 Maty has been a student of many senior Iyengar teachers which reflects in her practice and how she teaches.
Kathryn Budig
Kathryn Budig
Kathryn's Teacher Bio:
Kathryn Budig grew up in both Lawrence, Kansas and in Princeton, New Jersey. She received her BA in English and Drama @ The University of Virginia where she discovered yoga. Her acting and new found love of yoga led her to Los Angeles she completed the YogaWorks teacher training with Chuck Miller and her mentor, Maty Ezraty. She has been strongly influenced by her mentor, Heath House, Jesse Schein, Charles James and Noah Maze.
With a strong background in Ashtanga, she was one of the youngest teachers when put on the schedule at Yogaworks. Her goal as a yogi and instructor grew into teaching creative sequences that make arm balances and inversions accessible to everyone in the room. Kathryn teaches a playful approach to the practice and wants every student who passes through her room to learn the importance and ease of laughter.
Kathryn has been featured in publications such as Yoga Journal, Yogi Times, LA Metro, E! Entertainment, The Elephant, LA2DAY, 'Y Yoga' a documentary film, and is the health expert for Quarterlife.com as well as a teacher/writer for Gaiam's Yogamates.com and a Southern California Ambassador for Nike's 2008/2009 yoga line. She is the co-founder with Jesse Schein of 'Poses for Paws', an organization dedicated towards raising money for animal shelters through yoga. You can experience Kathryn at Yogaworks Santa Monica or soon from Yoga Journal's new DVD, "Yoga Therapeutics".
www.kathrynbudig.com
Kathryn's web site: www.kathrynbudig.com
Class Schedule
Monday
7:15am - 8:45am Vinyasa Flow (2&3) Yoga Works Montana
Tuesday
7:30-9:00am Vinyasa Flow (2&3) Yoga Works Main Street
Wednesday
7:15am - 8:45am Vinyasa Flow (2&3) Yoga Works Montana
6:00pm-7:25pm Vinyasa Flow (2&3) Yoga Works Main Street
Thursday
7:30am - 9:00am Vinyasa Flow (2&3) Yoga Works Main Street
Friday
7:15am - 8:45am Vinyasa Flow (2&3) Yoga Works Montana
Sunday
9:30am-11:00am Vinyasa Flow (2&3) Yoga Works Montana
Locations:
Yoga Works
1426 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA, 90403
Phone: (310) 393-5150
Yoga Works
2215 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: (310) 664-6470
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 teacher, Charles co-founded BowHaus, a Los Angeles digital imaging company, in 1992. He also created YogicLife.com in 2005 to help other yoga teachers promote themselves, share their knowledge, and voice their opinions.
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Joan's Schedule of ClassesCheck Joan's website www.joanhyman.com for her teaching schedule.
Joan Hyman began teaching dance and fitness at 16 years old. After completing a degree in Exercise Physiology at Temple University in Philadelphia, she embarked on a 12 year dancing career taking her from NYC, LA, and Las Vegas to Singapore, Australia, and the Caribbean. Joan first experienced yoga in her early twenties at NYC’s Jivamukti, and continued her studies with Cindy Lee, and Dana Strong at Ohm. During the course of her dancing career in Las Vegas, Joan was introduced to the Ashtanga Yoga Method. One year later, she moved to Los Angles to take the Yoga Works teacher training program in Santa Monica, California under the watchful eye of intermediate Iyengar instructor Lisa Walford and world renowned Ashtanga teacher Maty Ezraty, co-founder of Yoga Works. Joan continued to study the Ashtanga practice in the Mysore tradition with Maty for next three years. She became one of Maty’s most well-liked and knowledgeable assistants and went on to apprentice with Annie Carpenter. Shortly thereafter, she started teaching vinyasa flow at Yoga Works and at studios all over Los Angeles. Expanding on her practice in the Iyengar Method, Joan has also been privileged to study under Gabriella Giubilaro from Italy, Lisa Walford, and Marla Apt. Her teachings and practice has taken her all over the world. In far off places like Zurich, Switzerland and Florence, Italy she continues to use yoga as a journey to help her evolve to her highest potential and to keep her in the light she has created. www.joanhyman.com |
Email: kim@calmyoga.com
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Yoga Yoga, Newhall, CA 661.222.7777
Monday 12:00 Gentle, Yoga Yoga
This 1 hour class is meditative in focus and designed for persons with chronic illness or injuries.
Monday 7:30 pm Level One, Yoga Yoga
A class designed for new yoga student and others desiring a beginning level asana class that includes sun salutation and basic asanas. It lasts for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Tuesday 9:30 am Level One, Yoga Yoga
Friday 9:30 Level 1/2, Yoga Yoga
For an experienced yoga student, this is an Ashtanga based yoga class.
1 hour and 30 minutes.
Friday 6:30 Level 1, Yoga Yoga
Saturday 9:00 Level 1, Yoga Yoga
City of Santa Clarita
Tuesday 7:00 - 8:00 PreNatal Yoga
Tuesday 8:15 - 9:15 PreNatal Yoga
This class held in the dance room of the Santa Clarita Activity Center is suitable for all stages of pregnancy. It incorporates breathing techniques, meditation, gentle stretches and strengthening poses.
