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Marla Apt
Marla Apt, a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher has been teaching yoga for over 15 years. Marla served as the President of both the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and the Iyengar Yoga Association of Southern California. She is currently on the National Certification committee and is an assessor for Iyengar Yoga teaching certification exams. She has been an organizer of the last three Iyengar Yoga National Conventions (two of them hosting Geeta Iyengar) and also helped with the organization of B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Life book tour in 2005 in the U.S.A.
Sherri Baptiste
Sherri Baptiste was born into a rich heritage and family of pioneering yoga teachers, her parents Magaña and Walt Baptiste, who established yoga on the West Coast in the mid-1950s. Sherri has been teaching yoga since her her teens and is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga, and her yoga teacher-training program is recognized by Yoga Alliance.
Baxter Bell
Baxter Bell, MD, has been actively deepening his understanding of yoga and relaxation since making the stress-reducing move from a career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. Baxter is featured in Yoga Journal's DVD, "Yoga for Stress" and has written articles for Yoga Journal, Yoga for Everybody, and International Journal of Yoga Therapy.
Sierra Bender
Sierra Bender, is certified as a Prana Yoga teacher, personal fitness trainer, Kripalu Yoga teacher, Kripalu Bodywork, massage therapist, medical intuitive, and energetic healer. Also trained in exercise physiology, nutrition, aromatherapy, menopausal heath, addictions and abuse. Her retreats are international and clients include celebrities, Olympic and professional athletes as well as Wall Street and Fortune 500 CEO's. Sierra's workshops help women tap into their often-overlooked feminine strength.
Cheri Clampett
Cheri Clampett, R.Y.T. and certified Yoga Therapist, created the Therapeutic Yoga Professional Education program as a culmination of over 15 years of teaching yoga and adapting yoga systems to people dealing with illness and injury. She has recently presented her style of yoga at Beth Israel Medical Center, The Rusk Institute at NYC Medical Center, and the white Lotus Teacher Training. Cheri focuses on the healing aspects of Yoga: freeing the body, breath, and flow of energy through practicing with awareness and love.
Cheri Clampett & Heather Tiddens at the Blacktail Ranch
Jason Crandell
Jason Crandell is the Yoga Director at The San Francisco Bay Club, a regular presenter at Yoga Journal conferences, and staff instructor at Yoga Journal Magazine. He is Yoga Journal"s Basics columnist and has been featured in Natural Health, Yoga For Everybody, 7x7, and San Francisco Magazine.
Upcoming Workshop:
Jason Crandell at the Feathered Pipe Ranch
Dana Flynn
Dana LIVES to share what she LOVES with the curiosity of an eternal student. She approaches her life and practice with fresh insight, exploring the movement as medicine, the romance of the breath and the freedom of the SOUL as a mind-blowing, heart-expanding daily Blessing.
Jasmine Tarkeshi
Jasmine was born into a mystical heritage where Eastern philosophy, spirituality, and pure creativity have saturated her whole life. Her teachings are inspiring, passionate and devotional and are always infused with her wisdom, humor and creativity that come from a lifetime of Spiritual exploration. Her classes enable you to reveal and express your true essence as an instrument of Divine Love to help serve and heal the world.
Keith Borden
Keith Borden, E.R.Y.T., is a bhakti, an interfaith minister and a Senior Laughing Lotus Teacher (New York & San Francisco). In addition to teaching asana classes, Keith continues to study, lead kirtan, and mentor and teach in the Laughing Lotus College of Yoga at Laughing Lotus in New York and San Francisco. He also provides private yoga and workshops.
Nicki Doane
Nicki Doane started teaching in 1992. She cites Pattabhi Jois, along with Eddie Modestini, Gabriella Giubilaro, and Tim Miller among her most influential teachers. She is an authorized teacher of Ashtanga Yoga. Although rooted in Ashtanga, Nicki's teaching goes beyond the traditional. Her classes combine asana, pranayama, philosophy, and poetry.
Eddie Modestini
Eddie Modestini has been doing yoga since July of 1983. His first teacher was a woman from the San Francisco bay area named Gayna Uransky. Realizing that he had found his path, he lost no time in jumping in with both feet. His first introduction to yoga was Iyengar Yoga and he became a certified teacher in a short time. He was part of the first batch of teachers certified on the East Coast. Many of those in his group have gone on to become senior Iyengar teachers.
Nicki Doane & Eddie Modestini upcoming workshop info
Lilias Folan
Lilias Folan's groundbreaking yoga series, Lilias!, is back on PBS throughout the USA. She's featured in the new Barnes and Noble book, American Yoga, as one of 24 master yoga teachers who have made a contribution to yoga in America. She has shown continual dedication to making yoga accessible to the American public through her books, audio tapes and videos. Watch for Lilia's new book, Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age, Rodale Press, out in 2005.
Marti Glenn, Ph.D.
Marti Glenn, Ph.D., is founding president of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, offering the first graduate degrees in Somatic Psychology and Pre- and Perinatal Psychology. She is a psychotherapist in private practice, a weaver of story and song, and a guide to women in times of transition.
JJ Gormley-Etchells
JJ is the founder of the Sun and Moon Yoga Studios in Virginia. She has a very diverse background having studied from many traditions since 1979, most recently the teachings of Desikachar. In 1989 she began teaching yoga and in 1993 opened her own yoga studio, which operated, out of her basement for two years before moving to retail space in April of 1995. She has recently moved to Eureka, MT and travels back to VA to keep her hands in the mix at Sun and Moon. As Director of the Teacher Training Programs at Sun and Moon, she continues to correspond with and coordinate over 60 students in the three programs and the Teacher Training Faculty. She has produced six yoga videos/DVDs, and a chanting CD
Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D.
Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D. and physical therapist, is a respected and internationally-known yoga teacher with 30 years of teaching experience. She is the author of Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times, the best-selling book on restorative yoga. Her new book is Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, both from Rodmell Press, Berkeley, CA.
Upcoming Retreats:
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Dean Lerner
Dean Lerner, a longtime student of B.K.S. Iyengar, is past-President of the Iyengar Yoga Association of the United States and teaches nationally and internationally as well as in his hometown of State College, Pennsylvania.
Rebecca Lerner
Rebecca Lerner: co-director of the Center and an Intermediate junior III Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor, has been practicing and teaching yoga since the 1970's. Rebecca has studied four times in India with Shri B.K.S. Iyengar. In addition to public classes at the Center, Rebecca conducts private yoga therapy sessions giving students individualized yoga programs to suit their personal needs.
Rebecca & Dean's upcoming retreat:
Feathered Pipe Ranch Yoga Teacher Training
Richard Miller
Richard Miller, PhD, author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, is a contemporary spiritual teacher, honored by Yoga Journal and featured in American Yoga and Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? He is president of the Center of Timeless Being, past president and founding member of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy.
Mary Paffard
Mary Paffard has been teaching in Northern California, nationally and internationally since 1985. She has been training teachers since the mid 90s and is currently Director of Teacher Training at Yoga Mendocino, a nonprofit yoga bringing yoga into community and community into yoga.
Desiree Rumbaugh
Desiree Rumbaugh, founder of Arizona Yoga, is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher. She has studied yoga for 20 years and has been a student of John Friend since 1993. Anusara blends an uplifting Tantric yoga philosophy with Universal Principles of Alignment. With a playful sense of humor and a compassionate heart, Desiree inspires her students to practice yoga in a way that brings curiosity, vibrancy and enthusiasm to their lives and celebrates each one's goodness and uniqueness. She has produced a DVD titled, Yoga For I nner Strength.
Barbara Ruzansky
Barbara Ruzansky is the founder and director of West Hartford Yoga (WHY) in Connecticut. She is widely known throughout New England for her challenging instruction as well her compassion, support, humor and warmth. As a teacher and leader Barbara sets the bar high, but encourages self-acceptance while helping her students strive to reach their personal best. WHY Power is a Vinyasa practice, synthesizing Barbara's 25 years of yoga.
Erich Schiffmann
Erich teaches a healing, opening style of yoga emphasizing moving into stillness while being guided from within. He blends five years experience at the Krishnamurti School in England with studies with B.K.S. Iyengar, T.K.V. Desikachar and Joel Kramer. He can be seen on the award-winning video, Yoga, Mind and Body with Ali McGraw, and is the author of Yoga: the Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness. Erich teaches at Sacred Movement Center for Yoga and Healing in Venice, California.
John Schumacher
John Schumacher, a longtime pupil of B.K.S. Iyengar, founded and directs Unity Woods Yoga Center, North America's largest Iyengar Yoga center. John has taught in the Washington, DC area for over thirty years and has trained many yoga teachers nationally and internationally.
John Schumacher upcoming workshop info
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, author and activist, an internationally known speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience.
Brooke Medicine Eagle
Brooke Chalise Medicine Eagle is a Native American metis - an Earth wisdom teacher and catalyst for healing, a visionary, sacred ecologist, harmonist and recording artist. She is the author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing
Upcoming Retreat:
Jean Shinoda Bolen and Brooke Medicine Eagle Retreat
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. is an internationally known authority on Leadership and Mastery. His revolutionary approach to leadership has a depth of insight and practicality that is truly unique. He is known for pioneering the pragmatic application of skillful action to language and purpose in such diverse fields as finance, technology, military, marketing, health and manufacturing.
Richard is a co-founder of Strozzi Institute, Tamalpais Aikido Dojo, Lomi School and founder of Two Rock Aikido Dojo. He has a doctorate in Psychology and holds the rank of sixth-degree black belt in Aikido as well as ranks in judo, jujitsu, and capoeira. He is the author of the nationally acclaimed In Search of the Warrior Spirit, The Anatomy of Change, Holding the Center, and editor of the recently published Being Human At Work.
India Supera
India Supera has brought some of the best teachers of our age to the Feathered Pipe Ranch. She herself has been a passionate and vibrant leader inspiring many in their personal spiritual journeys. As the founder and Director of the Ranch for the past 30 years, she has led many retreats and tours around the world.
Heather Tiddens
Heather teaches yoga and leads ceremony to support and empower people in becoming their most genuine selves. Her classes are known for their physical intensity and detailed instruction, as well as being a safe, sacred space for students to explore their spiritual, emotional and physical healing and growth. Her teaching is grounded in her own experience, healing process and training which integrate Forrest Yoga, Yin Yoga, hands-on healing, psychotherapy and Indigenous ceremony ways and shamanism. She is passionately committed to turning people on to embodying spirit in their yoga practice and in their lives. Heather is based in Santa Barbara, CA, and travels nationally teaching courses, workshops and retreats.
Upcoming workshop info
Cheri Clampett & Heather Tiddens at the Blacktail Ranch
Cora Wen
Cora Wen took refuge in the Buddha at age 13 and has been committed to practicing Yoga to develop compassion and joy since 1995. After a stressful Ivy League education and fervent career as Vice President of a bank, she left Corporate America finding her passion in yoga, and has been leading workshops and retreats internationally since 1998.