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Alyssa DeCaro is a yoga teacher, group facilitator, dancer, and musician dedicated to helping others tune in to their “essential instrument” through movement, breath, rhythm, and ensemble connection. As a yoga teacher, Alyssa is known for her fluid sequencing, precise verbal cues, and heartfelt presence. She has been teaching locally and internationally for 17 years and leads popular classes at the Yoga Tree studios in the San Francisco Bay Area.  In 2006, Alyssa founded BODY OF SOUND workshops and retreats based on the concept that your body is your most essential instrument. Her work integrates the audience/performer and student/teacher relationships to create an interactive, rhythmic, ensemble experience. Alyssa taps into creative energy through rhythm, voice, and movement, and believes these to be the most effective tools to break down barriers and establish connection. When leading groups, Alyssa has a natural ability to shape the collective field, transforming an ordinary room into an inspiring space where practice and play intertwine.
Born & raised in Venezuela, ANDREINA FEBRES is very passionate about Latin music and dancing. In 2005, she added samba to her training and performed with Sambamora. She decided to become a Zumba instructor when she realized that she was actually having fun while exercising. She got certified in 2009 and only teaches at Flying because of the wonderful community that we have created here. Andreina is the co-founder of Dancing Saved My Life, raising funds to support women with cancer. If you want to get a feeling for her classes/moves, you could check some of the videos under the Dancing Saved My Life Youtube channel.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDUnGj2FCV4gPSzZesDWTXA   You can contact Andreina via email:  dancingsavedmylife.zumba@gmail.com  or Instagram: afebres.dancingsavedmylife
ABBIE DUTTERER is dedicated to letting students explore how yoga resonates with their bodies and unique needs. Abbie is passionate about the physical and emotional sides of yoga, and the transformative power of facing down fears and tight hamstrings. She teaches vigorous and playful classes deeply rooted in the Forrest tradition, with a focus on the breath and smart sequencing. Abbie completed her initial 200-hr teacher training with her primary teacher, Pete Guinosso, and recently completed the Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training with Ana Forrest. She is an active board member of Lemonade, a non-profit organization that brings yoga to San Francisco’s Juvenile Hall. She teaches weekly classes to incarcerated and underserved youth, and is dedicated to bringing mindful movement to teenagers. Abbie recently left her corporate job to pursue writing and yoga teaching full-time. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two furry gurus.
Gabrielle Williams began practicing yoga in 2002 as a way to maintain focus, peace, and stability while pursuing a career as a modern dancer in NY, NY. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2006, Gabrielle has completed teacher trainings and workshops at Laughing Lotus Yoga, Yoga Tree, and Urban Flow Yoga; she has been greatly blessed to train and practice with teachers as wide-ranging as Katchie Ananda, Jason Crandell, Dana Flynn, Pete Guinosso, David Moreno, Stephanie Snyder, Jasmine Tarkeshi, and Rusty Wells. Incorporating principles of Ashtanga Vinyasa, Bhakti, Hatha, and Raja Yoga, Gabrielle’s classes encourage practitioners to maintain mind/body/breath balance as they engage in artful, challenging ‘flow’ sequences that inspire them to fully embody asanas with equal measures of ‘effort and ease.’ Beyond teaching yoga, Gabrielle is an academic that teaches in areas of African Diaspora, and Liberal Arts Studies. Always a student-of-life, Gabrielle counts yoga as the primary reason that she approaches both personal and professional ventures with confidence, compassion, and never-ending wonder at the experience of existence.
Dorian Young is an enthusiastic, fun, and versatile yoga instructor who teaches multiple traditions including power-vinyasa, yin, traditional hot and tandem styles across various studios in the Bay Area since 2011. His goal is to provide accessible and creative language, so students can build their own set of tools and gateways to deepen their personal practices on and off the mat. In his classes, he encourages students to experiment with sturdiness, and to remember that yoga isn’t about gritting your teeth, but about cultivating peace and curiosity within the postures. His sequences are determined but playful, and he hopes students leave feeling relaxed and joyous, with a newfound appreciation for their bodies and minds.
Laura Camp, ERYT (Owner, Director) began movement training in childhood, and was a professional contemporary dancer for 15 years. In the late 90's, a dance injury led her to yoga. She was mentored by Robert Boustany in Houston, a physicist who had been teaching an eclectic blend of Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Qigong since the early 70's. Laura began her teaching practice in 1998, and she enjoys uniting classical hatha yoga with the dynamics of contemporary dance, the core integration of Russian and Chinese acrobatics, the body tension principles of rock climbing and circus aerials, the softness of release technique, and the mindfulness of Vipassana meditation. She co-directed Monkey Yoga Shala from from 2002 to early 2010; leads retreats, workshops, and 200 hour teacher trainings; and opened Flying Yoga in 2010. CONTACT INFO: lauracampyoga@gmail.com
André is a Bay Area-based performing artist, manifesting his passion for creativity in the forms of dance improvisation, choreography, fitness and instruction, as well as music production, drumming and modeling. André is heavily influenced by his Brazilian mother and musical father and has been studying, teaching and performing in New York for the past decade. Upon graduating with a B.A. from New School University: Eugene Lang College, Andre has gone on to perform in shows ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Dapline’ and ‘Fuerza Bruta: Wayra’ while also teaching youth and adults hip hop dance, creative movement and personal fitness in Brooklyn and Manhattan. André's dance style is a unique blend of hip hop, modern, contemporary, and afro-centric movement techniques. He continues to perform and train youth and adults in the Bay Area and believes that using TRX and other dynamic body weight dance techniques are extremely effective in optimizing strength, flexibility, mobility and endurance. Read more about André at AndréCole.com
Half intuitive healer, half scientist, Hayley offers a path to strength, self-confidence and awe for the miraculous mechanics of the human body by creating a motivating environment to explore our body-minds from the inside out. Reflecting her love for all forms of movement- from dance to strength training, Hayley's commitment to radical self-care and the natural world permeate her juicy flow class, inviting you into intimacy with all parts of yourself through the vehicle of the breath. In addition to being inspired by the latest myofascial and neuroscience, her teaching is infused with the wisdom traditions of Tantric Buddhism, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, guided visualization and somatic psychology. As a passionate body nerd and philosophy student, she can either be found with her head in a book about human anatomy and technologies of liberation or out in nature, on the TRX or on her mat exploring her own. As a celebrated massage therapist and personal trainer specializing in chronic pain, she's able to translate the intricacies of healthy movement and how to correct imbalances through restorative alignment with an attitude of compassion, curiosity and playfulness. She encourages her students to be somanauts on and off the mat, intricately exploring where their bodies and minds are balanced and fluid as well as where they get tight and stuck. This intimacy with our inner body translates as greater inner peace, more easeful relationships and fluidity and joy of movement in class, at work and at play. Inspired to share the wisdom of the earth by her teacher, Abby Tucker, each class is based on the cycle of the moon and the seasons through a combination of unique sequencing (think outside the box of traditional vinyasa), challenging asana for all levels, meditation and pranayama.
JENNY "YENI" LUCERO was born in the small town of Chalchuapa, El Salvador. Coming to the Bay Area later in life, she began her training in West African dance at the age of 15, and soon pursued a more versatile training at San Francisco State University, in which she obtained a BA in Dance and Choreography. Ms. Lucero also had the opportunity to extend her training at the Alvin Ailey School, summer of 2006. She is a professional dancer, instructor and an up-and-coming choreographer. 
SHAKTHI GANESHAN feels riveted by yoga. You will experience gentleness and vitality in her yoga class, warmth and laughter. She invites self-love into practice, integrity, and keeps Indian roots in yoga. Yoga keeps unveiling itself to Shakthi at various points in her life: As a small child, she accompanied parents to Indian temples and Vedanta talks. Shakthi's mother, seeing Shakthi's love of dance, enrolled her to study Indian classical dance. Bharatha Natyam dance animates sacred stories of India and Shakthi continues to study and practice Bharatha Natyam. Shakthi also has the phenomenal training of being board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and having a Masters in Public Health. Late nights post-call working as a physician...tired and completely depleted, Shakthi discovered yoga(!!) As she began taking yoga classes, she felt astounded that she had never encountered chakras or energy body awareness in medical training. Embodiment remains her great fascination. Shakthi has trained with many great asana teachers...including Rodney Yee, Sarah Powers, Shiva Rea, and Ramanand Patel. She studies meditation with the teachers at Spirit Rock, especially Sharda Rogell and also studies Tibetan meditation practice. Shakthi delights in making ayurvedic food, writing poetry and prose, and studying singing. You'll leave her class feeling open, re-vitalized, and excited about life.
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LUIZA SILVA, MFA started movement training at the age of 9 in dance, team sports, and eventually ski racing for Cal Berkeley. In the past 6 years she has become an avid yogi, fitness and circus lover; she enjoys training at Kinetic Arts Center in aerial rope, tissue, pole, and hand balancing. She is a graduate of Laura Camp's 200-hr CampYoga Teacher Training program and an ACE certified personal trainer. She approaches fitness as play and enjoys encouraging students join in the adventure. Her bootcamp classes are high energy, challenging and playful.
“So-ham, Ham-sa.” – I am That, That I am. This is the philosophy with which Susannah practices and teaches yoga. Susannah came to yoga in 2003 after having studied various forms of dance for over 15 years. Having always believed in a strong mind/body connection, she found the transition from dance to yoga to be fulfilling as it allowed her to explore and embrace movement as a method of reaching her highest potential and her highest good. The importance of each breath being a chance to connect to a sense of the Divine within ourselves, and how we use that connection both on and off the mat are what she tries to impart through her teaching. Susannah teaches a strong Vinyasa flow class that focuses on breath, alignment and intention, and asks you to kindly push yourself towards and past your own boundaries – not to mention her much sought after play lists! In 2014 Susannah received her Masters in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness. She is currently in her first year of service as a Lululemon brand Ambassador.
MICHELLE CORDERO’s style is accessible to all. An athlete and gym rat back in 1995, Michelle took her first yoga class and hated it. Breaking a sweat while “standing still” felt like some ancient form of torture. Michelle eventually came to understand the yoga practice as different from traditional athletics yet equally essential for living a vibrant life. Michelle has spent the last 18 years exploring several styles of Hatha Yoga in depth: Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Yogaworks, Vinyasa Flow and Anusara. In 2002 she met Ana Forrest and was inspired by her style enough to fulfill the rigorous requirements to become a Certified Forrest Yoga Teacher. Today Michelle’s Deep Flow classes are a direct expression of her many years on the mat, including 11 years teaching. Michelle has three distinctly different yoga teacher trainings under her belt (Yogaworks 2001 – with Maty Ezraty & Lisa Walford, Forrest 2002, Shiva Rea 2004). An insatiable and curious student, Michelle started studying pole dance in 2008, and she is now certified to teach through Felix Cane Inc/OC Pole Fitness. Her Sensual Yoga classes, a fusion of dance, sensual movement and yoga, receive accolades from women of all ages. In 2012, Michelle completed an 85 Hour Prenatal Vinyasa Training with Jennifer More and is now a Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT). Michelle is fiercely caring, thoughtful, funny and creative. She teaches Forrest Yoga, Deep Flow, Sensual Yoga/Pole classes in the SF Bay Area and beyond. MORE INFO: http://www.michellecordero.com/
Mindi has a contagious enthusiasm for all things Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurveda. She values this combination as a powerful and practical tool for finding peace, balance, and skillful engagement with a chaotic world. Her style blends the "woo woo" with a practicality that enables students to sensibly apply the teachings of yoga to everyday life. She sees devotion to the practice, personal growth and spiritual awareness as a means to interact more thoughtfully with the world, rather than a way of escaping or avoiding reality. As such, Mindi devotes her time to restorative justice and teaching incarcerated populations, making yoga accessible to a more diverse range of students. Mindi discovered yoga 15 years ago in hopes to receive it's benefits on the physical level (strength and flexibility), but after a bout with debilitating panic and anxiety, she realized the potency of it's benefits reached far beyond the physical realm. As she set herself on a path of healing, it was yoga that was the backbone of all her efforts to find inner peace. She was able to increase sensitivity within her body and feel anxiety as sensation and slowly slowly the narrative around it started to erode. She could not be more grateful for this practice. Mindi went from being scared to leave the house to embarking on a long journey to India to deepen her knowledge of Ayurveda and Yoga. Mindi teaches a mindful, breath-focused flow that balances challenge with ease, and always offers enough time to feel into alignment. She encourages students to find peace through (their own breath), while attuning to the subtleties of their inner experience. Students can expect practical sequencing, peak poses, pranayama, chanting, breath work, and a pace that allows for alignment and moving as a meditation. Mindi is a 500 hour certified yoga instructor specializing in Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Krama Method,Ayurveda and Vipassana Meditation. Many thanks and deep bows of gratitude to all her teachers: Alice Joanou, Abby Tucker, Kameko Shibata, Annie Carpenter, Vinod Kumar Rajan, Dr. Sapna Rajesh, Dr. Chitralekha Krishnamurty, and Anodea Judith.
Rebecca is a Registered Dietitian and Registered Yoga Teacher who believes everyone has the potential to positively impact the world, and that wellness is at the forefront of this global change. With an undeniable passion for empowering others to take charge of their health and well being, one of her greatest strengths is establishing meaningful connections with students, clients, and colleagues to collaboratively make the world a healthier place. After taking her first class nearly 13 years ago, Rebecca has continued investing in the practice of yoga through education and experience as student and teacher both. With nearly 8 years of teaching experience particularly in the styles of Ashtanga Vinyasa, Vinyasa, and Yin yoga, Rebecca seeks to create a sacred space for students to connect within themselves more deeply through breath and posture, and expand by confronting physical and mental edges of all kinds. She has studied most extensively with Jonny Kest at the Center for Yoga, serving as the primary faculty member for his Ashtanga/Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training program offered through LifePower Yoga in Atlanta, Georgia before recently relocating to the Bay Area. She also has studied abroad in Rishikesh, India, through a Hatha yoga program focused on advanced yoga teacher training in yoga therapy and Ayurveda. Rebecca believes the most valuable investment we can make is in our health, and is passionately committed to imparting knowledge and providing a support system for those ready to improve the world from the inside out!
Sunny  has been a long time yoga student and teacher. Her classes aim to create a nurturing environment for her students to support inward focus and exploration. After spending a couple years abroad in Korea, Thailand, Costa Rica and Bali, she moved to the Bay area and is currently learning about ayurvedic nutrition. She shares her passion for yoga through teaching, writing and photography. She also enjoys climbing, hiking and exploring the coast. Find out more about Sunny through her website: www.sunnykyoga.com
Troy stepped into her first yoga class as a curious, athletic teenager with an ever busy (planning and preparing) mind. She loved the challenge of the physical movements, the twists and turns and balance experiments, but she kept coming back for the peace she felt at the end of class-- a tranquility she had never felt before. Troy’s love of yoga blossomed at the University of Florida, where she focused her studies on “Spirituality in Health,” Arts in Medicine, and Religion. Just after graduating with her BA in 2010, Troy completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at the YogaVeda School of Yoga and Ayurveda in Alachua, Florida. Whether instructing an energizing, vigorous vinyasa practice; or a gentle, sweet flow, Troy teaches with a nurturing touch. She intends to create a space in which students can tune into their own wisdom, and experience a deep sense of peace.   Find out more about Troy at www.TroyMarjenhoff.com.
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