GOVINDAS AND RADHA Govindas and Radha are California-based bhakti yogis, kirtan singers, and as their spiritual names suggest, "servants of the Divine". They are a husband and wife team with great love and devotion for the Divine, their Guru, eachother, and traditional yogic practices of India - This is the essence which is reflected and transmitted through their teachings and music. Through the sacred practice of Kirtan, repetitiously chanting the names of God/Goddess from ancient India, they will guide you on a musical meditation and yogic adventure deep into the essence of Bhakti---the yoga of the Heart, the yoga of Love... Through the grace of their teachers, they have uniquely melded ancient Indian mantras with western melodies, yet still playing traditional Indian instruments. Their music has been described as a trance inducing mandala, where the eyes close, voices aned hearts open, and meditation, art, and prayer merge together as One. They lead Kirtan concerts, Bhakti yoga workshops, and transformative retreats throughout the world.
R.R. SHAKTI Yoga World Reach Director and Certified Yoga Therapist, r.r. Shakti (Rachel Redding) has been teaching “the blissipline” of Inner Power Yoga since 2000. She is a certified massage therapist and has studied holistic approaches to health and well being for over fifteen years. She has traveled extensively throughout the world gaining insight, experience, and inspiration; bringing yoga and hope to people from all walks of life. Shakti combines ecological awareness, social service, and mind/body integration to offer a message of peace and personal empowerment. She holds an A.A. in Outdoor Recreation Leadership from Colorado Mountain College, a B.A. in Traditional Eastern Arts from Naropa University and is currently pursuing a M.A./Ph.D. in Mythology and Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Sharing her message with people with various abilities, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, cancer patients, those struggling with substance abuse challenges, and friends with special needs; Shakti is a firm believer in the power of yoga to awaken the body’s own healing process by aligning with Grace and celebrating one’s unique expression of their True Nature.

TWEE MERRIGAN

My intention as a yoga teacher and trainer of Prana Flow® is to inspire you to manifest your own reality through the power of pure and positive intentions, thoughts, words, and actions, and to be ready and willing to recognize and to receive those manifestations. It works...especially when you find Spirit within and let go into the magical adventure called your life! My student friend Diane says this about me, “She guides a beautiful inward journey combining asana sequence, music, and words that allow the student to delve deeply into the self.  The experience is a connection to the inner truth - where one feels the authenticity of Twee’s own journey into the soul.”  For more “People Are Talking About Twee” and my Radiant Glitter Tour 2012 dates, please go to tweeyoga.com.Ayurveda studies; surfing; the inherent beauty, intelligence, and power of Nature and Source Energy itself, and her fiance, Jason, their puppy, and newborn baby with whom she resides just outside of New York City. For more “People Are Talking About Twee” and  her Radiant Glitter Tour 2012 dates, Go to tweeyoga.com.

DEMETRI VELISARIUS Demetri Velisarius BSW / RYT 200 /is a Social Worker, Sacred Trainer, shadow boxer, bicycle racer, and Prana Flow Yoga teacher. A practioner in the tantric Buddhist tradition of Vajrayana, Demetri teaches yoga and mediation worldwide with his partner Shiva Rea and has studied with many vajra masters, completed numerous pilgrimages and long term retreats over the past 20 years. His teachings are drawn from his varied life experiences from the authenticity of the streets to wisdom of mountain retreats. 

MICHELINE BERRY

Yoga is not just a path of asana and alignment… it is a path of living life as a vibrant, breathing, ever-evolving art. As both a teacher and artist, Micheline Berry’s work is renowned for catalyzing healing and transformation through a cohesive fusion of vinyasa flow yoga, world beat music, somatic dance, indigenous ritual and multimedia art, often within contexts of exotic natural environments.  As a pioneer in the art of integrating live world music with traditional yoga sadhana, her yoga classes are akin to an urban ritual and are often accompanied by a live ensemble or DJ to guide you deeper into the flow. Her sellout workshops, retreats and teacher trainings empower, deeply rejuvenate and creatively inspire, with a focus on embodying your own creative potential (shaktiprana) and allowing it to thrive and take shape in the world. She is the Founder of Zen Dancing® and the Creative Director/Co-Founder (with Craig Kohland) of the Shaman's Dream World Groove Ensemble and has produced and facilitated over 600+ ritual world music concerts/live music journeys, dance performances and multi-media events since 1996.  Micheline leads Prana Flow™ and Liquid Asana™ Vinyasa Teacher Trainings, Yoga workshops, multi-media performances and retreats internationally including Brazil.  She is based in Venice, California where she teaches at Exhale. www.MichelineBerry.com

MONICA MESA

Monica is the founder and creative director of YOGA FOR THE PEACEFUL, a soulful green community yoga studio, as well as YOGA ROCKS THE BUTTE WINTER FESTIVAL in Crested Butte, Colorado, She is an assistant, mentor, and teacher trainer in Shiva Rea's Samudra Global School for Living Yoga, is featured in her TV program, YOGA MOUNTAIN HIGH, and has three wonderful sons. She teaches Prana Flow Energetic Vinyasa, in which her classes are infused with music, poetry, and an element of spontaneity and joy. Her affectionate and motivational style of teaching is fueled by her studies in the law of attraction, oneness consciousness, and Buddhism. She is devoted to her guru; Neem Karoli Baba, her teacher in the Buddhist tradition; Lama Tsultrim Allione, and her Maha teacher; Shiva Rea. She is proud of her Colombian roots and teaching bilingual workshops and retreats there is one of her favorite things. Monica enjoys living the mountain lifestyle with her loved ones, surfing whenever she can, and is devoted to raising the collective vibration!

BONNIE ARGO

Bonnie Argo, E-RYT, is a vibrant yoga teacher and powerful bodyworker.  She has been teaching movement for over 10 years, and practicing various healing arts modalitites for over 5 years.  Her creative and uplifting stle is inspired by years of rigorous study with some of the world’s top yoga teacher, including Shiva Rea, with whom Bonnie completed her 500 hour training.  She is a mentor in Shiva’s Prana Flow Teacher Training program and assists training programs for Shiva internationally.  Bonnie is the only certified AcroYoga Teacher in the Boston area, having completed both Level 1 and Level 2 teacher trainings with Jason Nemer and Jenny Sauer-Klein.  Bonnie is proud to be an ambassador for the playful, heart oriented, community building work that takes place within the practice of AcroYoga.  She is also influenced by her studies with Ana Forrest, Ellen Heed, Hugh Milne, Sharon Gannon & David Life.  Bonnie co-founded the Radiant Yoga School and offers YA certified 200 hour and 500 hour teacher training programs, along with anatomy workshops for teachers in training, and Thai massage intensives.

JENNIFER ELLEN MUELLER Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Jennifer Ellen fell in love with yoga while living and working in New York City in 2000. began teaching simple asanas to her swim team in 2002, met her teacher, Shiva Rea, and has never looked back. Through a series of coincidences in 2007, Jennifer Ellen was introduced to Gerhard Schmid, a direct disciple of C.M. Sherif Gurkkal, the holder of one of the most complete Kaparippayat lineages alive today. After a year of study and assisting with Gerhard, she traveled to India to study directly with her now Gurukkal, C.M. Sherif Gurkkal (Gurukkal=the kalari term for Guru) . Jennifer Ellen is honored to have received permission to transmit the teachings of Kalari to a western audience. She offers classes and workshops in Kalari as well as traveling to India regularly to continue her training with Sherifka, and assisting Gerhard Schmid, the senior western teacher in the KKA lineage (based in Hamburg, Germany) when he is in the country.
Shannon Paige Schneider Living fully as an author, sacred activist, motivational speaker, dedicated teacher of Shiva Rea’s Prana Flow, and founder of Anjali Restorative Yoga; Shannon is an expressive student of the symbolic nature of Tantra and mystic poetry. She interweaves her student’s unique purpose driven inspiration into the divine play of body and breath to unlock the secret wisdom held within the heart. Her classes are dedicated to a sense of mystery and wonder within a vinyasa of self-honoring, self-cultivation, and radical self-participation. Shannon is the founder and director of om time yoga centers, tours, teaches and speaks nationally and internationally.
SHAKTI SUNFIRE Shakti Sunfire is a leader of the world-wide hoop dance movement and a dedicated student of yoga. Founder and creator of Radiant Hoopdance™, she draws on her own diverse life experience and her endless participation in community, to encourage and mentor unfettered self-expression. Shakti teaches dance and yoga workshops and performs internationally. She is currently featured in 2 published books on hoop dance, one instructional DVD, and countless online articles. She was voted 'best performance group 2008' and 'firehooper of the year 2009' by popular vote in Hooping.org. Shakti is featured in the August 2011 edition of Yoga Journal as a leading light in the fusion of yoga and hoopdance - a marriage of two worlds that is, to her, a spiraling journey into the heart and the basis for her dance philosophy. When she is not teaching or performing Shakti can be found eating salted dark chocolate in her hometown of San Francisco. http://hooping.org/shapeimage_16_link_0

MICHELLE NAYELI BOUVIER

A mover and shaker all her life, Michelle Nayeli embraces the wild, celebratory, and transformational aspects of embodiment. She lives for the nameless connection to the ecstatic divine which we often call ‘flow’; which she finds regularly in dance, yoga, Thai Massage, and especially the hoop. Michelle (aka Nayeli), a mostly self-taught hoopdancer, has taught yoga and somatic arts for over a decade, is one of the most inventive and fluid hoopers in the evolving movement, and a leader in the emergence of Hoopdance as a personal sadhana. Michelle Nayeli has deep roots in a variety of yoga traditions: seven years daily Ashtanga Sadhana and apprenticeship with Tim Miller, RYT 200hr with Tias Little (Prajna Yoga), over 500 hours of study in Anusara, mostly with John Friend, and over 400 hours directly with Shiva Rea, with whom she assists regularly.


BRENDA FLEMMING Brenda Flemming has been studying Iyengar, Ancient Patanjali Astanga Yoga for 28 years and teaching for 20 years.  She started the yoga program at Western State College 20 years ago in Gunnison, Colorado and has run her own studio in the local area. Brenda has a sharp eye, an instinctual knowledge of alignment, and the ability to help people heal through yoga.  Brenda will be at Yoga Rocks to serve people with restorative poses and sequences.  Her classes will be perfect for anyone having trouble adjusting to the altitude.  She will also have a healing teas elixir bar.
RAINBOW MICHAEL Rainbow Michael is a leader in the Flowarts community and inventor of Poi-Yoga Fusion*, a heart centered approach to the Art of spinning Poi. He has been featured in 5 instructional videos sharing his skills with a variety of props to the masses. As an international traveler and teacher he has performed and taught on stages and classrooms around the world. For the last 5 years Rainbow has worked with Waldorf schools in Colorado teaching circus arts for a circus program for kids. Rainbow also has a successful firedancing company where he sells firedancing equipment with his partners at www.Synergyfirehoops.com . When he is not rocking out in the Flowarts community he can be found on his Yoga mat in Boulder , Colorado. http://www.synergyfirehoops.com/shapeimage_19_link_0
AARON KING Founder of King Yoga in 2006. Aaron discovered yoga while working in the music industry for BMG in Los Angeles in 1998. During his 6 years in Phoenix, AZ , as co-founder of At One Yoga, Aaron studied various in-depth styles of yoga. Completing Teacher Training in 2000 and embracing a teaching path empowered him to develop his own unique style. Aaron believes that fusing music and yoga is a vehicle for enhancing a healthier lifestyle on and off the mat. He believes the yoga practice is a lifestyle: embracing patience, balance and truth. His classes incorporate challenging vinyasa flow with creative sequencing set to his unique mix of music. His honest and heartfelt classes encourage his students to use yoga as a vehicle to reduce stress, to find happiness, to move beyond personal limitations; which empowers our spirit. Aaron travels around the country teaching workshops and has been working with Lance Armstrong during his training for the 2011 Tour De France.  
EVAN SOROKA King Yoga's manager; Evan was born in Brooklyn and raised in Aspen; she has also lived for many years in Brazil and Argentina. Evan has practiced yoga since 2001 when she initially stepped onto her mat to help control her juvenile diabetes. Her true yoga journey began via her inability to practice asana after sustaining a number of injuries. She started to live her yoga off of the mat, studying dharma, meditation, and the power of the breath. She realized that it was her soul that was hurting more than her back and shoulder. Evan teaches that it is through the journey of self-awareness where we can heal, prevent injury, and make ourselves stronger. By simply being aware of every sensation, every thought, without repression, we can transform ourselves beyond our cyclical patterns; we can live our lives fully and honestly. Evan believes that her purpose is to serve her students and give them a sacred space where they can truly work-in.  Evan is currently working on a Master’s degree in Yoga Therapy with Gary Kraftsow and the AVI.  
KELLEY DOYLE Kelley Doyle has been living and teaching yoga in the Eastern Sierra mountains for over 15 years where she loves with her husband & 3 children in Bishop, California. Kelley is currently a senior assistant and mentor for Shiva Rea's global school for living yoga. She is fully committed to serving the evolution of (herself &) others through the deep transformational practice of Prana Flow™ Yoga~ energetic vinyasa, that has been her source of inspiration and growth since 2003 when she began her study and journey with teacher, mentor, and friend, Shiva Rea. Continuously inspired by her family, the beautiful mountains & the beach lifestyle she grew up in, her passion for moving meditation whether on rock, in water, or in mudra guides her in an undiluted, joyful expression of what yoga is to her…   http://www.sierrashanti.com/calendar.htmlshapeimage_26_link_0
ERIN KEELEY PHILLIPS Erin Keeley Phillips, (M.S., Anusara-Inspired, Hatha Yoga ERYT) is an athlete (yes, she skis!), and former gymnastics coach, engineer, and public school teacher.   Erin is fascinated with how overcoming turmoil is only the start of what yoga can do; imagine it empowering you to expand beyond your wildest dreams.   She began yoga in 1999 to deal with physical injuries.  A few years later, she survived a loved one’s suicide and came out of the living-hell shining brighter because of yoga.  Always a teacher, by default, her life’s path became guiding others down the same road that brought her to see the stars in the dark.  Her classes are Anusara-Inspired Yoga™ and are strongly influenced by vinyasa and power yoga.  (She is also trained in Anusara® Therapuetics).  Classes are full of passion and intelligent insights, but most of all, because she’s a mother, she will make you feel welcome and safe so you can take the risk to get deeper and shine.    www.resonate-yoga.com.  http://www.resonate-yoga.com/shapeimage_28_link_0
SARA IVANHOE Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe began teaching yoga in 1995 while receiving her BFA from New York University. She holds a Yoga Philosophy degree from Loyola Marymount University as well as their Yoga and Ecology degree completed in accordance with the Green Yoga Association.    She has completed teacher trainings with Erich Schiffmann, Yoga Works and John Friend in the Anusara style.    Sara is the instructor for the “Yoga for Dummies” series, the “Crunch Yoga” series as well as the collaboration with Russell Simmons “Yoga Live” all together selling over 4.3 million units worldwide. She is currently on Fit TV’s “All Star Workouts” and her self-produced “Yoga on the Edge” runs on Exercise TV. Sara has been a regular on Vh1’s “Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab” and has been featured as one of the “Titans of Yoga” in the new critically acclaimed documentary.  
LINDA OLESEN Linda Olesen is a registered Thai Therapist, ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Registered Yoga Teacher and has her Masters in Social Work. The body’s ability to balance and heal itself mentally and physically has always fascinated me. I worked as a Social Worker for many years focusing on improving a client’s quality of life. After children, I chose a path of health incorporating yoga, qigong and fitness intertwining Eastern and Western philosophy’s focusing on a balanced life as we live to the fullest. This path provided a natural segway into Thai Bodywork. Using my background of yoga and fitness with a one-on-one approach supporting another in healing and improving health.www.resonate-yoga.com.  http://www.resonate-yoga.com/shapeimage_32_link_0

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LEIA MORRISON

An avid mountain biker, dancer, telemark skier, water worshipper and general lover of everything Colorado, Leia has been teaching yoga in Gunnison for 10 years. After moving to Colorado for college, she met the love of her life, had two beautiful daughters and is now co-owner of the Sanctuary Yoga Studio in Gunnison.  Leia received her RYT200 through Samudra Teacher training, under the instruction of Shiva Rea and continues her education yearly in both teacher training courses and workshops.  She is an assistant to Shiva Rea, Monica Mesa & Gina Caputo while continuing her education toward her 500 hour yoga teacher certification. Leia has studied numerous styles of yoga including:  Prana Flow, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara and Kundalini.  To serve one is to serve the whole and by harnessing our passion and compassion we can be of service to the world. That sense of compassion and service underlies Leia's practice and teaching.  To find our more visit gunnisonsanctuary.com