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                  Lisa Marie Haley

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                  Lisa is a well known and well followed yoga teacher. She began practicing as a Stanford undergraduate, and has since gained 10+ years experience teaching yoga. She leads retreats, supports the growth of her studio, Be Yoga, and is a spokesmodel for Zobha, and former Lululemon Ambassador (2008-2011). Lisa has been featured in editorials and magazines as an inspiring female entrepreneur and yoga teacher. When she is not teaching she is surfing, painting, playing drums or riding her bike. Lisa enjoys food, love, music, yoga, sunshine, and wine :-)


                  Brian Aganad

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                  Brian's yogic journey began his senior year at USC. A lifelong baseball player, swimmer, and runner, yoga seemed like a natural fit. Overrun by stress and life in general compounded by a lack of exercise that he truly enjoyed, he accidentally found his way into a yoga class at a downtown gym. The endless challenge of sun salutations and vinyasas had Brian hooked.
                  Shortly after, enthralled in the experience of yoga, Brian successfully completed the 200-hour teacher training at the White Lotus Foundation where he was an understudy of Ganga White and Tracey Rich, the founders of Vinyasa Flow in America. He has since taught in Spain and studied at The Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Rome. A year later, in Los Angeles, California, Brian got to meet and study with his longtime inspiration, David Swenson, who’s dynamic practice and instruction further diversified Brian’s understanding of yoga.
                  Brian’s classes are open ended and free flowing giving the student an opportunity to fully explore his or her own practice. “I realize there are anatomically and energetically correct ways to enter a posture; I like to give students that freedom to explore. I am merely a guide.” Completing his BA in electrical engineering, Brian’s fascination with numbers and equations prove invaluable even in a yoga classroom, applying the fundamental laws of physics to break down the more complicated arm balances and inversions.
                  Brian sincerely has a passion for yoga and likes to transpose that energy through teaching. His global experience has equipped him with the tools to handle a kaleidoscope of students. He is welcoming and accepting of everyone who steps onto his or her mat and looks forward to seeing him or her in class!

                  Andy Wilkinson

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                  Yoga blew like a soft breeze into Andy's life.  At first quietly enough to be ignored for many years for all the reasons everyone ignores yoga.
                  Once Andy let that first whisp in, it took his entire physical routine by storm, transforming his mental and spiritual being in the process. Having been active most of his life culminating in years of daily weight and gym training, yoga completely changed the way Andy went about his exercise routine, his mental routine and living life.  Years later of almost daily practice with Vinnie Marino and Brock and Krista Cahill in vigorous flow heavily  influenced by Ashtanga and Iyengar styles of hatha yoga Andy is blessed to share what he has learned to be flow yoga with an inversional twist;  yoga where asana and the associated transitions from one asana to another creates tremendous physical and mental challenge, the music and experience guide you and the environment becomes so supportive that even the impossible becomes inevitable...Come practice for the impossible - possible in your life and learn grace in the transitions!!!


                  Molly Fox

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                  Molly Fox is a pioneer in the fitness industry. She began her career in 1979 at the Jane Fonda Workout in San Francisco. Molly founded and ran The Molly Fox studios in NYC for the better part of 14 years. She then began working with Equinox Fitness Clubs where she still teaches today.
                  Known as someone who loves to create new and imaginative ways to workout, Molly still loves teaching exercise to music as much now as she did in 1979.
                  Molly has been trained and trained the trainers, in everything from traditional fitness to Pilates, Yoga, NIA Dance and a variety of other disciplines. She believes that moving in many disciplines can help us experience our bodies and the joy of being alive.
                  check her out at www.mollyfox.com

                  Shauna Harrison

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                  Shauna is a sweat junkie, a challenge seeker, and an endorphin addict who finds balance on her mat. After playing sports throughout her childhood, she segued into the fitness and yoga world at the age of 18 and hasn’t stopped since. Shauna has taught a wide range of classes including step, hi/lo aerobics, Pi/Yo, indoor and outdoor boot camps, mat Pilates, Hip Hop Cycle™ (which she owns), core, yoga and aerial yoga. She has also taught in a wide range of areas including the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Baltimore and even in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Shauna was originally introduced to yoga as a way of combatting stress and anxiety as an undergraduate student and she continued to utilize her time on the mat as a way of keeping her sane throughout almost 8 years of graduate school. Two masters and a PhD later, yoga had secured a permanent place in her life right along with fitness and sports and Shauna finally had time to dedicate to a teacher-training program. In March 2011, Shauna completed her 200-hour training at the renowned White Lotus Foundation, studying under the amazing Ganga White and Tracey Rich. A few months later she also completed the Level 1 Unnata Aerial Yoga Training with Pik Chu Wong.  As a perpetual student and teacher, Shauna is always looking for new things to try and new ways to challenge herself and others. She is a “practice what you preach” and “preach what you practice” type of person, so she can often be found taking classes in TRX, SPX, Pilates reformer, and Vinyasa, power and aerial yoga and doing a lot of athletic and interval-based training on her own. Shauna uses her varied background to fuse styles, philosophies and principles into strong, athletic, and fluid classes set to bold (usually hip hop and R&B) beats. 

                  Jimmy Halverson

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                  My asana practice is influenced by the level of presence and awareness in relationship to the body I developed while riding a skateboard.  Paying attention to subtle micro movements in the feet along with weight adjustments, timed with velocity to execute as one kicks, pops, jumps, slides, and snaps a board with the the lower body; In conjunction with having to believe and commit to the vision of what's possible while finding balance between action and surrender in the moment, to succeed in landing a trick. 
                  Tore my ACL skating and lived with it for 5 years, surgery to fix it, went to my first class(Hot Vinyasa) it made so much sense!!!  I was more than excited to find a new territory to play in, with a happy healthy body once again! There was a seamless transition from a skateboard to a yoga mat.  Skating and eating for health for over tens years each assisted me greatly, taking to yoga like a fish to the sea :)
                  There's an over all sense for health and well being that stands as my priority and value for engaging my own yoga practice.  I want others to take note of their experience in the moment while in class, because I believe it's important to take time to be with the body and notice how we function in our form. This helps brings awareness to the subtle or not so subtle shifts both physically and energetically that take place when we choose to engage with the how, why, when, and because of what we do in mind when on the mat.  Listening to what is being communicated to us from our internal feedback system with an honest ear helps to lead us to a space where wisdom, will, strength, and flexibility occur.
                  Outside the studio I enjoy teaching one on one, and I am a life/food coach.  I help my clients become aware of choices for their bodies with the goal of vibrant health and well being as the focus. Come to class, listen to some familiar and not so familiar music, have fun being in your skin, while you sow the seeds of intention and taste the fruition of awareness as you move deeper into the layers of your body and sense of self.  This is what I want for you.

                  Lorenzo Neri

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                  Lorenzo has always had an interest in eastern philosophy and martial arts, but living in a small town in Tuscany, Italy, didn’t have access to the many disciplines that strongly attracted him. He moved to California in 2003. Lorenzo started to practice yoga as a therapeutic response to heal chronic pain and minor injuries experienced since his teenage years. He has studied and taken workshops under the guidance of numerous teachers, such as Kent Bond, Sharre Young, Mark Horner, Lorien Neargarder, Maria Alfaro and Mark Stephens. These are the people whose presence, words and writings inspired him to bring more mindfulness and variety into his personal practice, and follow his own journey through yoga as a teacher. In March 2010 he participated in a yoga teacher training program at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara lead by Ganga White and Tracey Rich. Shortly after, he has also begun to study Wushu (Chinese Martial Arts) under the expertise of Sifu Ding Wei.
                  Lorenzo has a fresh, holistic approach to his teaching, brings into his class functional techniques and ideas borrowed from several styles of yoga and other disciplines. He pays special attentions to details and alignment and gives effective adjustments, helping students to find and experience their own yoga, here and now.

                  Eric Wesoff

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                  Eric has practiced and taught Yoga in the SF Bay Area for several years. He is certified by San Francisco's "It's Yoga" in the Ashtanga style but borrows liberally from other Yoga disciplines and has taught more than 2500 classes to adults, children, and people with special needs.
                  He has had the good fortune to practice with a number of distinguished teachers and hopes to carry on their teachings with integrity and grace. His classes emphasize breath, dynamic flow, and finding calm and personal growth in the intensity of the asana.  Current major influences include the teachings of Andrey Lappa.


                  Theresa Tomlin

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                  Theresa Tomlin became a professional dancer at age 17 and for ten years continued dancing for such companies as Disney On Parade, Paramount Great America, and MTV. In 2000, Theresa first discovered the work of Joseph Pilates while recovering from an injury. The Pilates method allowed her to systematically train the whole body while increasing core strength and flexibility. Convinced that the Pilates method is an ideal complement to dance, or any sport or cardio activity, Theresa currently teaches many group and private Pilates and Yogalates classes, weekly. In 2009, Theresa became certified to teach Hatha style Yoga and offers the following insight by Sharon Gannon on teaching: "You cannot do yoga...yoga is your natural state. What you can do is teach yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state."

                  Britta Henkenjohann

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                  Britta’s classes focus on calming the mind and nervous system through a strengthening, breath-centered flow practice. She offers her teachings as a tool to build a bridge between body, mind, and spirit, in order to experience joy, freedom, peace, and self-healing. Every student is encouraged to deeply connect within and to honor his or her individual needs and experience. As the outer is a reflection of the inner, a radiant heart leads to a radiant life.
                  Britta has been certified by the Yoga Allience since Spring 2004 and is a student of Master Yoga teacher Max Strom and Sufi Master Shaykh Muhammad Sa’ id al-Jamal, one of the greatest living Sufi-Masters. She has studied Yoga, Sufism, Healing Touch, and The BodyTalk System over the past 9 years and interweaves the wisdom of her teachers into each class.


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