Angie Bayless
An experienced yoga teacher with over a thousand hours of teaching experience, Angie Bayless has been living her yoga for over ten years. Initially drawn to yoga for stress relief, she believes that the yogic principles of strength, balance and flexibility can unlock personal potential. A former yoga studio owner, Angie has interacted with hundreds of yoga students and seen first hand how yoga has the capacity to transform lives. She loves to teach beginners and help people understand the amazing therapeutic benefits of yoga for flexibility and stress relief. A masterful story teller, all of her classes include a theme or intention and include asana, pranayama and meditation, as well as practical applications of yoga for everyday life. Influential teachers include Rod Stryker, Dharma Mittra, Judith Lasater, Deepak Chopra, Mary Bruce and her children. When someone once asked her the ultimate question, "If you could be anything, do anything with your life, what would it be?" She answered....teach yoga.
Alicia Beale
Growing up, Alicia began practicing yoga with Rodney Yee's home videos. Years later, when immersed in a management career in IT, she tried a hot yoga class and instantly resonated with the practice of breathing, sweating, and being. Alicia has continued to grow her practice, studying with a variety of teachers including: Tim Miller, Dave Oliver, Matthew Sweeney, Rod Stryker, Eddie Modestini, and Nicki Doane. But her most influential teachers she met during the teacher training at At One Yoga, namely John Salisbury, Cheryl Hall, and Jenn Chiarelli.
Alicia's classes are a fusion of what she loves and what she's learned from the traditions of Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Tantra. Her classes are demanding and healing, emphasizing that learning to love others begins first by learning how to accept and nourish yourself. From this self-acceptance comes a Yes to life- as Dag Hammarskjold said "At some moment I did answer Yes to Someone - or Something - and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal."
Jennifer Brooks
Jennifer has been practicing yoga since she was first introduced to it in 2001. As a massage therapist since 1998, she found yoga to be a perfect companion to her background in bodywork. The immediate health benefits she saw from her yoga practice sparked Jennifer’s interest in yogic philosophy and a desire to find a deeper meaning. Her dedication to her practice has led her to pursue the 500-hour Yoga Alliance certification. Jennifer's classes are filled with her loving spirit and sense of humor along with an enthusiasm for learning that will leave you feeling invigorated and energized.
Abbie Chapman
Abbie grew up in a small town in north central Missouri. After graduating from the University of Missouri, she started a career as an IT business consultant, traveling full time and often working over 70 hour weeks. After 10 years, she left consulting to become a mom and discovered being at home with three small children could be just as hectic and exhausting. Abbie found yoga as a way of getting back into shape and more importantly, a way of calming her mind and opening her heart. One of her favorite teachers encouraged her to go through teacher training with Martin and Jordan Kirk at Yoga Village. The experience was transforming.
Abbie completed the Anusara Immersion program in January 2008 and immediately began teaching. From her Anusara training, she brings focus on alignment and meaningful messages to her classes, while her sequences and teaching style reflect her interest in many styles of yoga. She designs her classes to challenge students at all levels. She weaves the poses with music from many genres (folk, alternative, reggae, hip hop, and traditional) to make the classes fun and flowing. Abbie is inspired by her teachers, her friends and family, and above all, by her three children who remind her to stay present, laugh a lot and to keep breathing.
Aminda Courtwright
Aminda's background is in classical ballet, jazz and gymnastics, thus she is no stranger to the power of movement and music to take the mind and spirit to new levels. Aminda arrived at her own asana practice after experiencing the deep loss of her best friend and husband, she came to the mat to heal and to understand that yoga is everywhere. Over the years, she has discovered "yoga" in many ways, most profoundly while riding her beloved motorcycle.
With over 800 hours of technical training in a combination of Power, Yin, Vinyasa, JivaMukti and Anjali restorative styles, Aminda is a Registered Yoga Teacher whose classes blend knowledge from different lineages. Her Vinyasa classes focus on alignment and breath with a healthy dose of philosophy and humor while her restorative and yin classes weave together pranayama, story telling, radical affirmation and creative use of Hindu Pantheon to metaphorically delve deep into the ocean of our soul. Visit www.arcreated.com for more on Aminda.
Sandy DeJohn
Sandy's yoga journey began about five years ago when she moved to Scottsdale, AZ and started practicing yoga in order to develop flexibility to improve her tennis game. Since then, she has found so much more! Sandy is a Yoga Alliance Certified instructor and trained at At One Yoga under John Salisbury and Alex Austin. She has attended workshops and retreats from well known instructors like Seane Corne, Jason Crandell, Rolf Gates, and Wade Morissette. Please join Sandy in her basic's class to work on alignment, develop your strength, balance, and flexibility from a physical, spiritual, and mental standpoint. Her upbeat music and positive message will both enlighten and inspire you.
Danielle Gardner
Danielle began her yoga journey four years ago at Paradise Valley Community College. Beginning with just a few basic yoga courses, she quickly excelled and before long was on her way to becoming an experienced yogini. Danielle found the love of yoga and decided to continue her yoga journey. She is currently working on completing her 200 hour teacher training program with A Desert Song Yoga. Practicing with Anusara Inspired teachers, keeps her teaching style focused on the principles of alignment, power of the breath, purpose of presence, and opening to grace. Danielle believes yoga is a transformation and that the goal of yoga is to transcend the essence of the practice and create a balanced life on and off the mat. Start looking for Danielle's name to appear on the schedule more often for kids and adult yoga!
Adam Johnson
Adam lived in Massachusetts for 18 years before moving to South Carolina where he experienced his first yoga class. He told the friend who had invited him, "Thank you, but I don't think this is for me." Three hours later, he felt better than he'd ever felt in his life. From then on, he was a yoga addict. After exhausting all the yoga resources that Greenville had to offer, he flew to Arizona for his 200-hour teacher training. A month later, he moved to Arizona and began teaching at multiple studios in the north valley. His classes are playful, experimental and challenging. Adam helped for the band Waking Avalon, which finished recording a six-song album in May 2009. Adam often serenades his students during savasana, allowing the melodic vibration of his voice enhance their experience.
Ali Kamen
Ali is the owner of Zenergy Yoga and a veteran youth and adult fitness and yoga instructor with over 15 years of combined experience. Ali earned a Master’s degree in Public Health and has been a public health educator for the past decade. Ali began her yoga practice at home for many years before finally experiencing yoga in a studio in 2002. After becoming a mom, Ali found yoga helped her keep her life as a wife and working mom in balance. Ali’s classes are a challenging, vinyasa flow style with a variety of 70's, 80's and current alternative music to keep her students inspired and energized. She is grateful for the knowledge and wisdom gained from her Anusara teachers, Jordan and Martin Kirk and her vinayasa-power teachers, Carrie Kroop and John Salisbury. Ali has found a new passion in introducing yoga to children and teens. As an Arizona State certified teacher and Radiant Child™ yoga instructor, Ali has a true talent for keeping young students engaged, while learning simple life skills, such as relaxation, balance, and breath work. Ali practices these skills with her two little daughters who are both practicing yoginis. A former marathon runner, Ali has found that yoga has added balance and strength to her exercise regimen and calmness and clarity to her multi-tasking life. Read an online review of Ali's class here.
Jeanette Rosario
Jeanette has been a Yoga Instructor for the past 2 years. Trained in the Anusara Method, her classes focus on proper body alignment and injury prevention. As a full-time Massage Therapist, Jeanette firmly believes in addressing the pain and dysfunction that occurs in the body with movement and proper nutrition. This is the main reason why she can be found climbing the walls at AZ on the Rocks and actively pursuing a career in Naturopathy.
Katie Suess
Katie is a whole person wellness advocate. She is a yoga instructor, massage therapist and nutrition coach. Katie began practicing yoga while she danced professionally in New York. She studied with Dharma Mittra and Cindy Lee in New York and studied Anusara yoga with Martin and Jordan Kirk in Scottsdale. Katie has been teaching and performing bodywork in Scottsdale for many years. She credits Simon Park, Mary Bruce and Gary Kraftsow for much of her inspiration and continuing education. Katie's yoga classes are a creative blend of alignment, breath work and fluid transitions set to an ecletic mix of of music. She enjoys guiding and helping all levels of students through their yoga experience. Katie hopes that her work will inspire a peaceful heart, a calm mind, and healthy body. Visit www.katiesuess.com for more information.
Linda Santopietro With a degree in graphic design and a love for the fine & performing arts, Linda sees yoga as a true artform. She was introduced to yoga in 1997, while living in Boston, as a way to create some balance in a hectic corporate design schedule. She's been a devoted student since that very first class, and vowed teaching yoga would someday be her second career. In 2003, after moving to Arizona, Linda obtained her teaching certification and was registered with Yoga Alliance. Her training was based on Anusara yoga, and she's grateful to her original teachers Jordan and Martin Kirk for their continued inspiration and commitment to the practice. Through the years, Linda has practiced and studied with some amazing, accomplished instructors such as Erich Shiffman, Shiva Rea, Ana Forrest, Paul Grilley and Mary Bruce, in various disciplines of yoga including Vinyasa Flow, Power, Yin and Restorative and Meditation. Her classes weave together a variety of ideas as she explains the alignment principals, emphasizes the importance of the breath, and reveals the richness of yoga philosophy with thoughtful readings and inspiring music. Linda always encourages students to fully experience and enjoy the benefits and transformations yoga will provide. "For me yoga is all about awareness... it starts on your mat, on a physical level, and then permeates every other part of your existence. It's a practice that can change over time or in a instant, just like our life."
Contact information: www.garnetleaf.com
Rasoul Sobhani
The inspiring Rasoul brings a beautiful blend of experience to Zenergy Yoga. He has over 20 years of experience as a martial artist and teaches Tai Chi and Chi Qung. He is a registered yoga teacher and graduate of the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. He is currently finishing his 500 hour teacher training program at Scottsdale Community College, with a focus on yoga therapy and alignment. He is the creator of Chi Yoga Do Witch, where he creatively blends yoga, Tai Chi and Chi Qung into one fluid, yet meditative class. Rasoul has a weekly yoga program featured on online at www.timebroadcasting.com. To learn more about Rasoul, please visit www.chiyogado.com.
Sandey Tenuto
Sandey discovered her true potential in life when she was introduced to yoga in the fall of 2008. The energy from practicing yoga nurtured her career as a wedding and kids portraits photographer and enlightened her mind. Shortly after, she became addicted to the yoga high, Sandey completed the 200 hour yoga teacher training program at At One Yoga. Her passion to teach yoga is focused on the little yogis. Sandey works daily photographing kids and loves bringing them a sense of balance and confidence with a dose of laughter when she teaches them yoga. Sandey's beautiful work as a photographer can be seen all over the Zenergy Yoga website. For more information, visit www.tenutophoto.com.
Patricia Vamos
Patricia found yoga in 1998, when she was attending a Women's Business Leadership conference in LA. After hearing Beryl Bender Birch and Judith Lasater talk about yoga, she arrived home to find a new studio had just opened their doors 5 minutes from her home. She was hooked, and on a the eve of her daughter's birth, she was asked to become a teacher!
Since embarking on her journey, her influences include Shiva Rea, Tim Miller, Dave Oliver, Lisa Cohen, Nicolai Bachman and Martin and Jordan Kirk. Her experience with a modern dance company, a love for music of all genres, and passion for helping others, blend beautifully together to create a class that is unique and challenging each time. Her life is kept exciting by the enjoyment she finds in anything active and outdoors - snowboarding, skiing, hiking, climbing, surfing, golfing, cycling, and so much more. Kali, her daughter, is the true love of her life. Her hope is that every student leaves her class feeling incredible.
Rachel Walsh
Rachel graduated from the Yoga Pura, 500-hour Advanced Studies Teacher Training in 2004, and has taught kids and teen yoga classes ever since. Rachel has been working with people of all ages, including infants and toddlers, for more than 15 years. She has managed numerous "Kids Camps" as for many local studios. In 2008, she moved to the UK where she accrued over 90 hours getting certified to teach yoga and meditation to teens for Yoga Bugs in the London Public Schools. In 2009, she was recruited by the world famous Camp La Jolla Fitness Camp to teach yoga and meditation to preteen, teen and adult women. She continued on this career path becoming certified in Reiki levels 1 and 2 in 2009 and completing the advanced Yoga Nidra certification in 2010. Rachel has dedicated her life to all children and their physical, emotional and spiritual well being.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" --Ghandi
All the pictures above were taken by the very talented Sandey Tenuto. Please visit her website for more information.
GUEST TEACHERS
Mary Bruce
Mary is a senior student of Rod Stryker's and leading teacher of Para Yoga, a 500 hour ERYT Yoga Allicance teacher and Anusara certified by John Friend. Wiht over 14 years of experience, her teaching includes all the elements of a meaningful and balanced practice: attention to detail (alignment), awareness of the breath (pranayama), connection with the divine source (bhavana), intelligent sequencing (vinyasa drama), as well as Ayurveda, visualization, meditation, mantra and more. Mary is dedicated to creating sacred space where by practicing these techniques, our essential and best self can unfold and flourish. Contact information: www.marybruce.com
Stephanie Smith
Stephanie has a professional dance background and over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry. She fell in love with yoga after her first Bikram experience in 1996. An innate curiousity quickly led her to dive deeper into her own practice. She was among one of the first groups to certify with YogaFit, bringing yoga into health clubs over ten years ago. She received her 200 hour teacher training at At One Yoga under Dave Oliver and the study of Krishnamacharya lineage of Ashtanga vinyasa yoga. Her inspirations are from some fabulous senior teachers in Ashtanga, Anusara, and Iyengar. Her teachings are a blend of techniques from these various methods.
Stephanie brings a delightful blend of meditative flow and inquiry as well as attending to the details of alignment. Some would say after leaving her class, they have a better understanding of proper alignment a possess a transformed awareness of the possibilities that exist within each of us. "I love to see my students have breakthroughs in their practice, even small breakthroughs are significant; enjoy the adventure."
Bear Tobin
Raised on Kodiak Island on the ocean shores of Alaska, Bear Tobin is an experienced outdoorsman and an all around athlete who believes that yoga enhances one’s adaptability for life’s constantly changing and ever evolving journey. He has been practicing yoga for fifteen years and teaching the healing art of yoga for seven. Bear is ashtanga & vinyasa flow certified and anusara inspired. You will find his classes to be organic as nature itself, yet challenging and inspirational for all life conditions expressing that the planet is your mat for daily prayer & meditation, work & study, rest & relaxation all in your light. Contact Information: www.bearyoga.com
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