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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.

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.

Adriana was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She moved to the Bay Area to receive her BFA in Photography in 2005 where she discovered Zumba and fell madly in love with it. Adriana has been dancing since she can remember and there are very few things that make her happier than dancing. Zumba is her Zen!

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

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

CHARLES POON is a southern California recruit and certified yoga, TRX, and Vinbata™ instructor. Drawing from a diverse background including Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, capoeira, martial arts, fitness, and mindfulness practices, Charles is inspired to help others find ease and joy even amidst challenging physical practices.

Write here...Gordon came to yoga in 2008 as an athlete needing to limber up after years of skateboarding, playing basketball, and arbitrary growth spurts. He had only heard of yoga through the popular early 1990’s Nintendo game “Street Fighter,” which featured an Indian Yogi character named Dhalsim who could levitate, stretch his limbs to incredible proportions, and breathe fire. Gordon tried his first yoga class and was initially discouraged to find out that, tragically, he would likely never achieve such abilities. He was, however, completely amazed by the effects of practicing Asana, and was immediately hooked. He has continued to explore many styles of yoga throughout the Bay Area’s wonderfully rich and diverse yoga community, while simultaneously practicing other movement arts, most notably the Indonesian martial art PGB White Crane Silat and bodyweight calisthenic conditioning. He teaches a Vinyasa flow-based class that is duly informed by knowledge accumulated from his other physical practices. Alignment, joint health, “relaxed strength,” and integrating breath with movement are all focal points of his class. He hopes to impart an aspect of yoga that he himself is most grateful for the relationship between mental and physical being becoming increasingly salient and vivid.

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.

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.

KAREN MOORE has been a practitioner of ashtanga vinyasa yoga and an attorney for over 15 years. She would never have developed a life/work balance in the legal profession if she hadn't discovered yoga. Yoga has strengthened her mind, body and spirit to allow her the freedom to pursue her passions outside of law. Karen is a dancer at heart and has embraced ballet, tap, jazz, African, modern, salsa, and samba dance forms over the years. She is a long-distance runner. She has completed three half marathons and one full marathon since 2011. She finds the meditative aspects of breathing during running and yoga are really quite similar. Yoga has assisted her in pursuing all her life's passions because yoga is a catalyst to living life fully and with an open heart. For Karen, every yoga practice is an opportunity to be in the present moment of infinite possibility and true self awareness. It is a time to remember what truly brings us joy.

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

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.

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/

Mira Valeria is a San Francisco-based Yoga instructor and the owner and director of Santa Fe Thrive, an indoor cycling and yoga studio in Santa Fe, NM. She has completed over 1000 hours of training under the guidance of her primary teachers, Jason Crandell and Rusty Wells, and as such, her teaching is steeped in precision, mindfulness and Bhakti -- the practice of love, surrender and service. She is a Yoga in Action leader for the non-profit organization Off the Mat, Into the World, and is part of the 108 Asana Warrior Women Project. Always a student, she is continuously in search of her next training. Mira's classes are rooted in gratitude - to Self, to others, and to all teachers, in whatever form they appear. Students can expect challenging sequences, lots of sweat and, hopefully, some laughter. Find her at miravaleria.com.

ROSS MCINTIRE is a yoga teacher (RYT-200) and TRXpert. A professional drummer who performs in his native Bay Area, Ross integrates rhythm and improvisation into all his classes. Expect a serious and exhilarating workout with plenty of room for humor. Ross's classes focus on the importance of safety and alignment, as well as the connection of presence, breath, and movement. With a background of skateboarding and running, Ross understands that not everyone is an athlete in the traditional sense. Looking for a safe and practical alternative, Ross found yoga and completed his teacher training at Flying Studios with Laura Camp.  rossfit.com

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.

SARAH STONE-FRANCISCO started practicing asana with her mom as a toddler, meditating in her teens, and studying yoga in earnest in college. She has been teaching since 2007, trained with Larry Schultz (to whom I express gratitude daily), opened It's Yoga Cape Town in South Africa, led teacher trainings, retreats, workshops, etc. . . But that's all just the ego stuff, and this isn't a resume. The real story is that if it wasn't for yoga, I wouldn't be living, I mean really living. In 2007, yoga and meditation helped me realize that my career path as an Epidemiologist and Biostatistician was not my dharma. I had always been focused on healing, but the traditional medical route had led me to a Masters in Public Health where I felt the glaring absence of the spiritual. The Rocket sequence quieted my mind so that I could hear my inner teacher guiding me to the other side of the world, to a country I'd never been to, to open a yoga studio when I'd only just barely started teaching: talk about releasing fear and surrendering into the unknown! Every step of that journey was Divinely guided and flowed nearly effortlessly; all I had to do was be truly present and take each opportunity the Universe presented. Yoga saved me from an unfulfilling path and gave me an open mind and heart and a life full of wonder. And in 2014, yoga helped me stay grounded and authentic when my husband and the father of my daughter died. Loss is something we all experience to varying degrees everyday from missing a green light to the death of a loved one. Yoga helps me to keep breathing through the ever-changing-shifting-transforming present. Yoga helps me, at least attempt, to approach loss and gain with equanimity. For every experience is a gift to be opened, a gift that can open us up to fully realizing -- without a doubt -- that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, we are One with Source. In my class, you can expect to work physically and energetically, and love it! The Rocket sequences balance slow breath with swift flowing poses that demand your complete attention, which is how you leave feeling light and free and busted open: no time to think about the past or the future when you're in a handstand right NOW! Beginners and dedicated practitioners are welcome because the Rocket is about modifying the practice to YOUR body. You'll likely hear electronic beats ranging from mellow dub to some eclectic house for Rocket 3: Happy Hour! My classes are heartfelt, encouraging, serious and fun, and occasionally a little humorous. I provide frequent alignment cues and enjoy giving both light and intense hands-on adjustments where appropriate. All you have to do is show up. The rest unfolds from there. Relax, Breathe, Go with the Flow

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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