Alison Alstrom
Alison Alstrom is continually amazed by broad scope and varied benefits of yoga in general, and Anusara in particular. She has studied closely with Anusara's founder, John Friend, serving as host and assistant at his recent Portland workshop, and has...
Lynnea Amend
Lynnea Amend is a certified Pilates instructor through Metropolitan Pilates in Seattle and a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. As a natural athlete, Lynnea has always found physical activity fun, whether it be on the...
Julie Baron
Julie Baron has been practicing yoga for 12 years and qigong for 9 years. She teaches many kinds of yoga, from quiet Yin Yoga classes to vigorous Vinyasa Flow. She applies her understanding of chi flow in the body when...
Kate Busby
Kate F. Busby, MA For me, yoga is a path of awakening. It is a gateway into a deeper sense of self in the world, one that is filled with the joy of authentic connection, creative expression, personal empowerment and healing. I discovered...
Lenore Cangeloso
Youthful and creative, Lenore shares the teachings of yoga in a unique way that blends the physical, mystical, and ancient teachings. Her classes combine breath-centered movement, self-inquiry, meditation, creative expression, and intention to help people move towards health and empowerment....
Rebeca Cotera
My yoga practice was born out of a yearning that had grown too loud to ignore, I didn’t know what it was about yoga that eased my spirit into my awareness, but as my practice matured it became essential, a...
Heather Craig
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Suniti Dernovsek
Suniti Dernovsek began studying yoga in 1999 with Iyengar teacher, Janet Lilly. She met her Buddhist teachers, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Padma Drimed Norbu around that same time. Since moving to Portland in 2004 she has studied a variety...
Melina Donalson
Melina has been practicing yoga since 1997 and was certified in 2004 as a yoga teacher. She discovered yoga while living in Los Angeles working in the fast lane of the fashion/entertainment industry. This discovery of yoga and meditation created...
Michael Faith
Michael Faith is excited to share yoga with you. Michael has been a passionate student of meditation and yoga for more than ten years and finds truly inspiring ways to share and grow with his students on the path to self discovery and...
Lauren Ferreira
Lauren has been a lifelong yoga practitioner and educator, and in 2007 decided to merge two of her greatest loves. She initially became certified in Vinyasa in the Shiva Rea lineage. Since then she continues to study many forms of...
Jay Fields
I discovered yoga in college and became inspired by the subtle and significant shifts it created in my life. Over a decade later of practicing and teaching, I am even more inspired and humbled by the profound impact yoga continues...
Jessica Garay
Yoga has been a practice of coming home; home to my body, to my greatest potential, to my spirituality, and to my truest self. I took my first yoga class while in college in 2000, but it wasn’t until 2007...
Nancy Giardini
The magic of Yoga started to unfold for Nancy when she moved to Portland, Oregon in 1998. Realizing the powerful effects it was starting to have on her, she has never looked back and has practiced continuously since then. She...
Julie Hammond
Julie practiced her first sun salutation in 1992, flipping the pages of an ancient picture book while holding her breath and balancing on one arm. In 2002 she restarted her practice with a flesh and bones teacher and has since...
Kendall Hassemer
Kendall began practicing yoga in the crib. It began with her mother finding her asleep, folded in two, with her head resting upon her feet for a pillow. After years of running and dancing her way through the midwest, yoga...
Jaime Hedlund
Jaime's love of yoga came as the result of witnessing both her parents' beautiful, steady yoga practice throughout her life. With their encouragement, she began to take classes and realized all the undeniable goodness this practice has to offer. She...
Emily Hicks
Emily first came to yoga to work her body and calm her mind, but soon began to suspect that the yoga practice was intended to do much more. She is eternally grateful to have found the teachers who have taught...
Raki Kopernik
Raki found yoga in 1997 after studying gymnastics and dance throughout her youth. Her practice has a strong focus on breath, connecting with the body, and moving from the heart. She believes in the power of humility and of letting go of...
Sarah Lakey
I grew up in the White Mountains of Northern New Hampshire where I developed a passion for expressing myself through dance. Over the past 15 years, a career in ballet has brought me to study and perform in Boston, New...
Kat Macmillan
Kat Macmillan moved to New York city from Los Angeles in 1998 and discovered Sharon Gannon & David Life of Jivamukti yoga. It felt as if an ancient connection had been re-ignited. What followed was intense study at Jivamukti and...
Kaitlyn McConnell
Kaitlyn is a Yoga Works trained and Yoga Alliance registered (RYT 500) teacher with over 10 years of experience. Her teaching style ranges from vigorous flow classes to gentle and restorative, always with an emphasis on alignment and the breath....
Alix Northup
Alix began her study of yoga at age fifteen, as an alternative treatment for her scoliosis. Since then yoga has been a path of healing and discovery, playing an essential role in supporting her active lifestyle and creating balance in her body...
Devon Riley
Devon trained with and is certified through the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, a traditional school and retreat center founded by Sri Swami Rama in rural Pennsylvania. Her teachers there remain her models in the practice, though she...
Sarah Robinette
A forever student, I am committed to the practice of yoga. I enjoy sharing my experiences and serving others. One of my best friends introduced me to the practice during my undergraduate work in Flagstaff, AZ. Here I completed my...
Michelle Sarchiapone
As a young single mom, Michelle found it difficult to attend yoga classes until a small martial arts studio began offering $5 yoga classes. She was allowed to bring her daughter to class and knew instantly teaching yoga was her...
Renee Sills
Renee has always been an avid movement practitioner. Starting with classical dance and gymnastics at an early age, she began to study somatic therapies at age 13, apprenticing and working closely with dance and movement therapists. Alongside her studies of...
Rachel Stern
Rachel (RYT*) began practicing yoga at age 2, took a 20ish year break, and rediscovered the joys of a consistent yoga practice over the past 6 years. She received her 200-hour teacher certification in Interdisciplinary Yoga from the Nosara Yoga...
April Tillman
Born and raised in Hood River OR, April grew up with the understanding that a healthy lifestyle begins with physical movement. After a car accident that left her with an injured back April discovered Pilates and found that this practice...
Shontell Truevette-Dieham
For Shontell, yoga is the key to love, life and happiness. At the early age of 7, she began practicing yoga with her father and a group of Sikhs. They taught her about Ayurveda and yoga and “how to become...
Fawn Williams
Fawn's genuine fascination with the human body and absolute love of teaching come through in all her classes. Her meditation practice began early, during childhood in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Her physical yoga practice came later while studying movement...
