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Wah!
Wah! combines reggae, chanting and pop to create a unique mix of spiritual world music. Concerts include chanting, storytelling and songs in English; the atmosphere is festive and jubliant.
The Saratoga Post states "Hypnotic, mesmerizing and energizing - just a few adjectives that could be used to describe a recent performance by Wah! The success stems from Wah!'s extraordinary voice, which might be characterized as Jewel meets Sade...."
Her albums include Love Holding Love, Embrace, Best of Wah!, Savasana, Savansana 2, UnPlugged, and Jai Jai Jai.
Tom Abrehamson
Tom teaches an Iyengar style of Yoga.
Tom has a BA from Princeton and a JD law degree and has studied Iyengar Yoga since the 1980s. He has taught over 4000 classes in the mid-peninsula area since 2000 and has taken hundreds of hours of teacher training with, among others, Manouso Manos, Aadil Palkhivala and Elise Miller.
Tom teaches an "Iyengar-based" class. Tom's classes are mixed-level classes that afford both beginners and more advanced students the opportunity to work at their own levels. His classes combine precise instruction with individualized attention and gentle humor. His students work hard, make progress and have fun.
Tom has taught at Yoga of Los Altos since its inception having had 18,000+ students in his classes over the last 5.5 years. Tom includes pranayama in his classes on a regular basis.
Lauren Anas
Lauren has been practicing yoga for 6 years, starting with Ashtanga yoga and now focusing on Vinyasa flow. Prior to practicing yoga, she studied ballet for 10 years and then found yoga to be a beautiful compliment. With an emphasis on breath and fluid movement Lauren’s yoga classes involve a combination of heat building sun salutations, strengthening postures, and balancing poses. Lauren’s classes are designed to provide an overall physical and spiritual experience with the intention of bringing a sense of peace. Lauren graduated from Avalon's yoga teacher-training program where she studied under John Berg.
Samantha Shakti Brown
Sam is a well known Anusara Inspired instructor. She has been a dedicated student of yoga for 21 years. Sam has a dynamic, precise & inspirational teaching style. Samantha has completed 12 different yoga teacher trainings. Her foundational trainings include: a multi-year internship in Rishikesh, India, Astanga, Vinyasa, Iyengar, & AcroYoga. Samantha was introduced to the empowering method of Anusara Yoga five years ago and has since made it her primary inspiration. She has dedicated thousands of hours to study directly with John Friend the founder of Anusara Yoga, and other senior Anusara teachers.
Andi Bruno
Andi thought it was high time for a yoga studio in Los Altos, so in August of 2003 she started Yoga of Los Altos.
Andi has been practicing yoga for more than 15 years, and started teaching yoga in 2000. She has also had a meditation practice for the last 30 years.
Andi teaches an eclectic style of yoga influenced her many wonderful teachers including Laura Foley, Sarah Powers, Paul Grilley, and Jim & Ruthie Bernaert.
Andi obtained her first teaching certification in Yin Yoga from Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley in 2000. She also completed a 200-hour advanced Anusara teacher training course at the Yoga Kula in Berkeley in 2004.
Andi brings clear and precise instruction to each yoga pose. She also brings a fun tone into each and every class. Andi truly believes that yoga is to be enjoyed !
Daniella Cotreau
Daniella received her formal yoga teacher training at the Mount Madonna Center in the 8 Limbs Ashtanga tradition. She is currently Daniella's first foundational teacher training was in the 8 Limbs Ashtanga tradition taught by Baba Hari Dass at the Mount Madonna Center in Northern California. She has completed 3 Anusara Immersion Trainings and a teacher training in the Anusara yoga tradition with Sianna Sherman and Noah Maze in Berkeley.
Some of her most influential teachers include Anusara founder John Friend, Douglas Brooks, Sally Kempton,Carlos Pomeda, Chris (Hareesh) Wallis, Christopher Tompkins, Desiree Rumbaugh, Ken Graham and Samantha-Shakti Brown.
Daniella's greatest teacher has been her own heart. It was her heart that lead her to the path of yoga.
Darcy Elman
Darcy teaches an Anusara style of yoga.
Darcy recently moved here from Sonoma County. She has trained in Anusara Yoga with Sianna Sherman, Douglas Brooks, Noah Maze, and Carlos Pomeda at the Yoga Kula in Berkeley. For the past 25 years she has also been in private practice teaching The Alexander Technique, and Cranial Sacral Therapy. She has recently been awarded and honored as a senior teacher of the national Alexander organization AMSAT. She is published in Ground Works, Stories of Embodiment. Darcy now lives with her son and soon to be husband in Sunnyvale.
Marti Foster
Marti teaches Vinyasa Yoga. She also teaches Prenatal Yoga.
Marti has a strong foundation in human physiology, dance, and music. She learned early in life about the transformative powers of yoga. Her credentials include certification from Erich Schiffman, Baptiste Teacher Training, and the White Lotus Foundation. She has developed a powerful, eclectic style balancing a challenging asana practice with explorations of ancient meditation techniques and breathwork (pranayama). You can find out more on her web site www.yogasolution.com
Carolyn Fox
Carolyn has been practicing yoga regularly since 1996 and teaching since 2000. She completed teacher certifications at White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara and with Todd Norian in East
Stockbridge, MA and is a registered yoga instructor (200 hour level). Her teaching combines alignment principles with the breath and mindful conscious movement in a vinyasa flow.
Carolyn's professional work as a nurse practitioner contributes to a broad knowledge of both western and eastern concepts of wellness. She has a passion for helping students to find a practice that will nourish their physical, mental and spiritual wholeness.
Chrissy Graham
Chrissy teaches Anusara Yoga.
Chrissy is a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor. She started to practice yoga to heal her body. Chrissy was first introduced to Anusara Yoga through a chance encounter with Emily Dubin, also a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor.
Chrissy went on to study directly with John Friend, Anusara Yoga’s creator. She has taken all of her teache trainingr directly with John, and has accumulated over 350 hrs with him.
Chrissy has also studied with a number of other highly skilled Anusara teachers. In addition to her studies with John, she has studied with fabulously skilled teachers, like Sianna Sherman, whom she now assists locally, and nationally, as well as Mitchell Bleier, and Amy Ippoliti. She has also spent many hours studying in the Philosophical traditions of Rajanaka, Tantra, with Dr, Douglas Brooks.
Chrissy presently teaches all over the Bay area. Chrissy brings a dynamic, and supportive energy to her classes that blend philosophy,yoga therapeutics, and insightful wisdom, from her own life experiences.
Ken Graham
Ken teaches Anusara Yoga
Ken is a fully Certified Anusara Yoga teacher whose love of yoga began at a young age. Ken was introduced to Anusara Yoga in 1999 by his sister Chrissy, who also teaches here at Yoga of Los Altos. It was Anusara Yoga's heartfelt approach and depth that inspired Kenny to teach.
Ken has completed numerous immersions, teacher trainings and workshops studying under the best teachers in the Anusara tradition. Teachers include Noah Maze, Sue Elkind, Naime Jezzeny, Siannna Sherman, Desiree Rambaugh and Anusara's founder John Friend who Kenny still studies extensively with.
Ken teaches public classes, workshops and retreats worldwide. He has toured extensively with Sianna Sherman and John Friend in Europe and Central America. Ken’s passion is to help students discover their own potential and to unveil their treasures along the shores of consciousness.
Ken is considered to be one of the most luminary Anusara instructors in the San Francisco Bay Area. His broad knowledge of Anusara yoga is offered in the spirit of playfulness and connection through the voice of the Heart!
Osha Hanfling
Osha teaches Iyengar Yoga.
Osha has been teaching yoga in the Iyengar Tradition since 1984, having studied directly with the Iyengars in India. She is a very well known and respected Iyengar teacher. She currently teaches in San Francisco at the Abode of Iyengar Yoga and at Yoga of Los Altos on Thursdays at 11am. She is adding a second class on Tuesdays at 11am starting in October 2007.
Osha takes a personal approach with her students, meeting them at their level and inspiring them to deepen their practice. Osha sees yoga as a tool for transformation and inner freedom. She believes that through the process of the asana we harness the mind, wake the sleeping body, and begin to discover and generate awareness of our psycho-spiritual selves.
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Sianna Sherman & Ken Graham
Sianna Sherman is an internationally recognized certified Anusara Yoga teacher who had the great blessing of meeting her life-long mentor John Friend in 1995. Recently named by Yoga Journal as one of 21 talented young teachers shaping the future of yoga, Sianna playfully weaves alignment, therapeutics and creative sequencing with stories, poetry and Tantric philosophy that embraces the fullness of life.
Ken Graham is a fully Certified Anusara Yoga teacher. Ken is considered to be one of the most luminary Anusara instructors in the San Francisco Bay Area. His broad knowledge of Anusara yoga is offered in the spirit of playfulness and connection! Ken's passion is to help students discover their own potential.
Jeff Lang
Yoga’s physical challenge combined with mental awareness attracted Jeff. Originally from the East Coast, Jeff’s search for a yoga teacher led him to our very own Ben Thomas. Under Ben’s tutelage, Jeff completed a 200 Hour Certification at Avalon.
Jeff’s yoga style is influenced both by Iyengar and Vinyasa. Jeff realized that Yoga was an excellent way of uniting the body and mind. Using asana and breathing Jeff believes we can create a state of heightened mindfulness, and are able to expand into our truest nature. The physical benefits of the practice are only outshined by the development of mental lucidity and emotional well being.
Sarah Lopez-Luis
Sarah teaches Iyengar Yoga.
Sarah has practiced Iyengar Yoga since 1992. She is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor with over 500 hours of teacher training from the Iyengar Institute in San Francisco and she is a Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher. Sarah has also studied in Pune, India with the Iyengar family, and has studied with numerous Senior Iyengar instructors including Elise Miller, Janet MacLeod, Judith Lassater, and Ramanad Patel. She believes in recognizing students’ current abilities and then offering them gentle yet challenging ways to advance their yoga practice. Capitalizing on her naturally playful spirit, Sarah brings fun and creativity into her classes. To learn more go to www.yogasarah.com.
Debora Parente
Debora teaches Yin Yoga
Debora has 19 years of experience in the field of health and wellness and has several certifications including the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Her wide range of yoga studies includes Yin, Bikram, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Power Yoga and restorative Yoga. Debora focuses on T.K.V. Desikachar’s style of yoga with the emphasis of breath control. Debora has also completed the Basic, Intermediate, Advance and Master-Teacher training in Integrated Energy Therapy (IET). Debora is currently in the Clinical Ph.D. program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
Birgit Reimer
Birgit Reimer teaches Yoga in the Iyengar/Thomas lineage.
She is an excellent instructor having studied extensively with Benjamin Thomas.
Birgit currently assists Ben with his in ongoing workshops and Pranayama classes. She has deep foundations in Soto-Zen Meditation, Shotokan Karate, as a student and teacher. She has been also studying and practicing Qi Gong (Energy Skills) and T'ai Chi (Shen Style) for many years.
Her classes are a well-balanced composition of Sadhana (practice), chants, pranayama, meditation and philosophy. She is a precise and fun teacher. You will learn more by going to http://www.yoga-is-all.com
Anirudh Shastri
Shastri teaches a Dynamic Vinyasa Flow
Anirudh Shastri is a well-known and highly respected hatha yoga teacher with an extensive background in yoga philosophy. He has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years, bringing his deep knowledge of the physical and spiritual aspects of yogic philosophy to his many students on the peninsula and in the South Bay.
Shastri trained in India and studied under the guidance of Shri Vishnu Prasadji.
Eric Shaw
Eric Shaw is currently matriculated in CIIS’s Hindu Religion and Philosophy doctoral program. He brings over 20 years experience in meditation, movement and learning to his teaching. He teaches yoga and lectures in San Francisco.
For more information go to www.prasanayoga.com
Rebecca Snowball
Rebecca teaches Vinyasa Flow that is inspired by Anusara Yoga
Rebecca began studying yoga in 1995. She immediately took to yoga and committed to a regular practice. She felt her life opening as her passion for yoga deepened. Her desire to share the gift of yoga with the world led her to Ganga White and Tracy Rich of the White Lotus Yoga Foundation. She attended intensive teacher-training in the year 2000.
Rebecca's soulful and compassionate teaching-style creates a meditative and powerful Vinyasa Flow. She believes that if you can breath you can do yoga; that the practice is unique to each individual and that there are no "shoulds" in yoga.
Ben Thomas
Ben teaches Iyengar Yoga.
Ben has been practicing yoga since 1976 and has been teaching Iyengar yoga for more than 25 years. In 1983, he was certified by Yogacharya, Dr. B.K.S. Iyengar of the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI). Ben has studied with B.K.S. Iyengar, his daughter, Dr. Geeta Iyengar, and his son, Prashant Iyengar, on many occasions both in the U.S. and in Pune, India.
Ben is an extremely popular teacher here in the Bay Area and is much loved by his many many students.
Cora Wen
Cora teaches Iyengar Yoga.
Cora Wen has been teaching yoga workshops and retreats internationally since 1996, and has been a dedicated student of Mahayana Buddhism for over 30 years. She has assisted Judith Hanson Lasater since 1998, and apprenticed with Erich Schiffmann and Rodney Yee through the 1990s. Cora blends the Iyengar method to bring attention to the subtle pranic body with a flowing practice to enliven the physical body.
This combination of physical and pranic practice creates a fun blend of joyful awareness. She never takes herself too seriously and adds a playful, yet dedicated devotion in her teaching. Cora provides safe and intelligent alignment and sequences that can provide therapeutic benefits. Visit Cora at: www.corawen.com
Sarah Willhalm
Sarah completed of her masters in occupational therapy this summer (2007). Sarah is now combining her love of yoga and her life long interest in working with children to teach Kids Yoga.
In graduate school, Sarah apprenticed in a pediatric unit at Stanford Hospital, using simple yoga sequences with children with motor impairments, and with various other challenges. Sarah began to see fabulous results in the children’s motor skills, flexibility, focus and most importantly in their ability to relax.
In August 2006, Sarah complete the teacher training course at It’s Yoga Kids, San Francisco, CA. Sarah loves to share her knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm for yoga with the children. She is a wonderful teacher for kids !
Annika Williams
Annika teaches a strong and mindful vinyasa. Her style of yoga is a creative fusion of Vinyasa Flow, traditional Hatha, Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara Inspiration. Her attention to alignment helps students to rapidly build their strength, endurance, and flexibility.
Annika is a Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance and is a graduate of the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program at Avalon Yoga. Annika assisted and studied asana, pranayama, chanting, and the Yoga Sutras in an apprenticeship with Ben Thomas. She also studies Asana, Philosophy, Sanskrit, the Yoga Sutras, Meditation, and Pranayama with Anirudh Shastri.
Annika teaches both public class and private clients.
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