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Magnolia Rasak
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Charanpal Kaur
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Katie Jacobson
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Hannah Muse
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Marissa Wilson
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Scott Ebsen (Owner)
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Jessica Weitzenhoffer
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Priya Sampuran Kaur
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Gabriel Benjamin
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Chelsea Shapouri
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Jazz Sarab Meher Kaur
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Jennifer Heminger
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Ayah Buonagurio
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Philips Patton
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Tim Bratton
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Rose Dayal (Manager)
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Mike Ryan
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Aniela Iannarino
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Magnolia Rasak
Magnolia discovered yoga at the age of 16, and it was love at first class! Magnolia began teaching in 2003, and has traveled the world studying various styles of yoga including Hatha, Vinyasa, Tantra, Kundalini and Prenatal. Her studies have guided her throughout India, Thailand, Mexico, Bali, and the U.S. She is drawn to the practice yoga not only for the asana (physical) benefits, but for the greater way of life that yoga encompasses. Non-violence, compassion, awareness, mindfulness, acceptance, and connection to all Beings.
She is both a devoted yoga teacher and clinical hypnotherapist who lives to serve her community. As a yoga instructor, Magnolia utilizes the physical as a means for deeper exploration into the subtle energies at play in our lives. She aims to guide her students towards a state of physical strength, inner harmony, and self transformation through the practice of yoga. She encourages her students to cultivate a deeper awareness of their physical body, while simultaneously expanding their awareness between mind, body and breath. Magnolia weaves yogic philosophy and reflective meditations throughout her teachings. Magnolia’s classes are a sweet treat for the heart and soul!
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Charanpal Kaur
With curiosity and the courage to try something completely unknown to her, Naomi walked in to her first Kundalini class. She walked out feeling sensations that she had never felt before… It was as if she re-discovered her smile. Before long, she developed a loving relationship with this ancient science and technology, noticing how it was changing patterns in her life that she didn’t think possible. It became clear to her that many others would greatly benefit from the technology, and so she committed to become a Teacher.
Naomi studied with Gurmukh at Golden Bridge in Los Angeles. She became certified by the Kundalini Research Institute in 2012, and from Khalsa Way Prenatal Yoga in 2013. Her passionate encouragement and sense of humor holds space for deep emotional clearing and strengthening of character. Her spiritual name, Charanpal Kaur, means the lioness that bows at the lotus feet of God, befriending and protecting all. Charanpal feels that sharing the ancient teachings is the greatest gift she can give back to the people of earth, and is humbled and honored to be a link in the Golden Chain of Teachers.
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Katie Jacobson
Katie Jacobson is a Registered Yoga Teacher and Certified Ayurvedic Health Consultant based in her hometown, Santa Cruz, CA.
It was her love for movement and fascination with the mind-body connection that first sparked her interest in yoga. As a State Champion runner and avid soccer player, she appreciated the immense physical benefits, but it was during her challenging college years that the yoga mat became a place of refuge and she discovered the deeper transformative powers of the practice.
Katie studied with Yogi Vishvaketu at the Anand Prakash Ashram in Rishikesh, India and continues to study with Janet Stone in San Francisco. She teaches Hatha Flow and Yin Yoga, and her classes are typically seasonally inspired. As an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor, Katie intertwines her knowledge of this ancient system of healing with the Yoga wisdom tradition to promote balance of body, mind, and spirit. She is passionate about empowering people with the tools to harmonize with the rhythms of the Earth and return to their true Nature.
Katie’s warm presence creates a nurturing environment in which she encourages students to explore with curiosity, return to their breath, and listen to their inner wisdom. She brings compassion to each posture, inspiring students to look inward and move with authenticity and ease. After facing her own injuries, Katie embodies sincere empathy and concern for students’ safety.
Currently, Katie is deepening her studies as she works towards her Master’s in Integral Counseling Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies.
She loves hiking in her redwood sanctuary and swimming in her ocean temple – Nature is her greatest teacher!
http://www.katiesjacobson.com/about/
As an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor, Katie intertwines her knowledge of this ancient system of healing with the Yoga wisdom tradition to promote balance of body, mind, and spirit. Katie lives her practice by getting her feet sandy at the beach, savoring the smells of nature, visiting local farmers markets, and experimenting in the kitchen . Come breathe, stretch, and flow into bliss!
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Hannah Muse
Ever since yoga found her, Hannah’s heart has been bursting open and spilling over with love. She feels so blessed to live the life of a yogini and is honored to share it with YOU. Her classes are more than just a series of physical poses: although you will probably sweat, her teachings encompass pranayama, meditation, mudra, mantra, philosophy and her asana instruction combines therapeutic physical alignment with dynamic pranic flow that will nourish, strengthen and align both your physical body and your subtle energy body.
Hannah is a devotee of this Great Mother Earth and has led many environmental efforts on her behalf. She is eternally grateful to the teachers who have blessed her with wisdom along this path, especially Baba Hari Dass whose teachings have most inspired her sacred daily sadhana, Kamalesh Hooven, Sianna Sherman, Jane Austin, and many others. Most of all, her practice is inspired by the grace and unconditional love of her family, especially her 4 year old daughter/Zen master Ruby Bea.
Hannah (RYT-500, E-RYT-200, RPYT) teaches classes, workshops, festivals and retreats in her hometown of Santa Cruz, CA and internationally. She also co-teaches Divinitree’s 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training as well as Mount Madonna Center’s Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training. Hannah does not believe that yoga fixes us or fills up something missing; instead she knows with all of her heart that we are already whole divine beings just needing a little reminder – and yoga is the best reminder she has ever found. Jai Maa!!
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Marissa Wilson
Marissa’s life was forever changed upon coming to her first yoga class eight years ago. She did not
expect such a powerful and transformative experience that would eventually lead her down a path of
deep compassion, mindfulness and bliss. The classroom became a safe space to let go of old patterns, tune in to the body, and invite in the true feeling of being at peace. Marissa new immediately that she wanted to learn all she could
about Yoga to help others experience such profound serenity and freedom.Tuning into the moment and into your body, your attention to your breath will allow you to gracefully flow from asana to asana in Marissa’s Vinyasa Flow classes. She teaches the importance of not only connecting with the body, but with the mind and spirit as well. After completing her 200hr Body Temple Hatha training, she approaches these classes with attention to alignment as you flow through an energetic, strengthening and light hearted class. Marissa is working on completing her Bachelors of Science in kinesiology and enrolling in a 500hr training. She also teaches at festivals, workshops, beach and forest classes; inviting others to tune into the sounds, smells and fresh air that nature has to offer without forgetting to smile.
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Scott Ebsen (Owner)
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Jessica Weitzenhoffer
Jessica first discovered yoga when she was 12 in her hometown, Santa Monica, when her mother took her to her first yoga class at YogaWorks Montana. In High School, she attended by donation classes at Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga studio weekly after school. Continuing the practice of yoga into adulthood, she completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2014 with Joan Hyman and Carmen Fitzbibbon of YogaWorks Center for Yoga in Los Angeles, where her love affair with yoga and the urgency to share it with others deepened. Continuing her education over the years, she’s studied with Maty Ezraty, Tiffany Cruikshank, Janet Stone, and Tias LIttle, and recently traveled to the motherland, India, to dig her feet into yoga’s geographical source. Nearly finished with her 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Mount Madonna Center, where she lived and volunteered in the Ayurveda and Yoga Teacher Training departments for 2.5 years, immersing herself in the teachings of Baba Hari Dass and Classical Aṣhțāṅga Yoga, Jessica feels a whole-hearted commitment to honoring and sharing the teachings of yoga.
Jessica’s classes are a balanced blend of form and flow, of strengthening and softening, of effort and relaxation. With focused attention on structural and energetic integrity and breath, she empowers her students to rediscover their relationships to their bodies, and move through obstacles that cause discomfort, dis-ease, and disconnection. Her aim is to allow the practice of yoga to guide us all towards wellness and freedom. -
Priya Sampuran Kaur
Priya Sampuran Kaur specializes in the healing Science of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Priya started her practice in 2004, when she discovered how it truly benefited and transformed her life experiences – capturing her heart and soul.
She brings her gifts of yoga, music, and chanting to uplift others with healing energy, vibrant light, and divine love. Her classes create a safe and peaceful space allowing students to experience their inner strength, truth and vitality – becoming lighthouses of the Aquarian Age! Those who are around her are touched, healed and elevated by her profound compassion and spiritual excellence.Her studies began with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, where she completed a Kundalini Technologies Immersion course, and a “Mastering The Self” course with Naomi Charanpal Kaur. Priya then studied with Wahe Guru Kaur and Santokh Singh Khalsa at The Awareness Center in Pasadena. She became certified by the Kundalini Research Institute in 2019. Priya is honored to be of service to our community and to be a part of the Golden Chain of Kundalini Yoga.
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Gabriel Benjamin
Gabriel Benjamin is a second-generation instructor in the TriYoga(R) Lineage and has been instructing since 2001. Gabriel holds five certifications in Yoga and Ayurveda and has been both a student and teacher at the Kerala Ayurveda Academy. His practices are known for being the perfect blend of challenging and relaxing leaving the students feeling educated, nourished, and balanced.
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Chelsea Shapouri
Chelsea is a Seasonal Plant-Based Chef and Yoga teacher who relocated to Santa Cruz from Ventura, California. Chelsea lives and breathes the philosophy of yoga, community, seasonal living, and the state of harmony that flow brings into her life. Yoga to her isn’t just a physical practice but more of a deep exploration of the self; a way back home to our authentic primal state of being that includes community, strength, courage, mindfulness, acceptance, and connection to the elements that nature provides. -
Jazz Sarab Meher Kaur
This Yogini has been practicing yoga and energy work modalities for over 15 years and has been teaching Kundalini Yoga internationally since 2013. She studied in Rishikesh, India with world famous teacher Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa in an immersion that has forever changed her life. With the blessing of these teachings she strives to share the incredible tools she has picked up along the way to help all students find peace and healing. Her lifelong love of sound and music entwines with Kundalini and Energy work to create an unforgettable experience. Every class includes oracle cards, Kundalini Yoga, Crystal Singing Bowl Sound bath and live original devotional music.
(Usui Reiki Master/teacher, Karuna Reiki Practitioner, Quantum Touch Practitioner, Transcendental Meditator, Theta Healing Practitioner, Multi Instrumentalist, Songwriter, Singer)
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Jennifer Heminger
Jennifer knew yoga would be her thing well before she stepped onto a mat at 18 years old. A long-time student of Janet Stone in San Francisco, Jennifer’s practice has evolved and deepened from a physically-based to a spiritually inclusive one through the years. After using yoga to personally heal from her own injuries, she has a developed deep understanding + dedication to the intention of yoga as a healing practice. She brings a passion for teaching a soulful breath-focused vinyasa, with threads of Bhakti into her classes. Jennifer has additional training in pre-natal vinyasa yoga, acrovinyasa yoga, SUP Yoga, and Trauma Informed Yoga. As an empath + intuitive, Jennifer offers varied modifications for her classes to meet the needs of diverse classes of students. Looking forward to seeing you on the mat!
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Ayah Buonagurio
Ayah Buonagurio is local SF Bay Area professional yoga teacher, dancer, thai massage therapist, legally ordained spiritual minister as well as women’s health advocate & life-coach in the field of reproductive health.
Ayah was introduced to Yoga by her Mother at the age of 15 and fully utilized her practice to heal after a severe car accident. She has been teaching in California and abroad for over 17 years. Her strongest foundation is drawn from over 8 years studies with Anusara yoga utilizing bio-mechanics & therapeutics. Ayah also draws from her professional background ethnic & contemporary dance to emphasize posture, core toning and movements dynamics in class.
She has creatively infused a lifelong path of apprenticing in healing and ceremonial arts into her passion for therapeutic movement and health. She is a Certified Yoga Instructor RYA, and Thai Massage Therapist and is also a Spiritual Minister through the FOI (Fellowship of Isis) as well as of ONACS (Native American Church).
Ayah’s classes embody themes of personal empowerment, she inspires self expression while sequencing through postures that emphasize strong inner body awareness. Integrative alignment principles are introduced which aims to encourage each student’s anatomical alignment with integrity in practice. As a musician she enjoys interweaving the quality of sound, chants, and often live tunes to accompany her classes.
She completed her first teacher training at Greenpath Yoga in 2004 in San Francisco, RYA, (Asthanga tradition with Clayton Horton), and since then has been studying with a variety of Anusara teachers (John Friend, Hanneli Francis, Sarah Rose, Katchi Ananda, Kenny & Chrissy Graham, Desiree Rambaugh, and Stacey Rosenburg), completing various immersions and therapeutics, and teacher trainings. She furthermore draws current inspiration having studied Forrest Yoga with Ana Forrest, and deeper tantra studies with Aditi Devi.
Find out more of her services at
www.divinehealingmovement.com
www.obsidianwomb.com
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Philips Patton
Philips Patton is a Licensed Acupuncturist specializing in Acupressure and Energy Work. He is also a certified Yoga Teacher and has decades of experience meditating (training as a monk at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm) and doing Qi Gong, a beautiful form of energy work with which he healed himself from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He brings all of this into his work as a teacher, creating a supportive space for deep relaxation, healing, and to fully be yourself.
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Tim Bratton
Tim Brattan is a humble student and teacher of vinyasa yoga. His classes blend movement, music, sweat and stillness to create greater strength, balance and flexibility. With a deep sense of gratitude, Tim encourages us to use the body and breath for self-discovery, to venture beyond our limits and to let go of what no longer serves us – emotionally, mentally and physically. Layers peel away, barriers dissolve and the sacred benefits of the practice are revealed. You’ll leave feeling lighter, stronger and more energetic. Come for the yoga, leave with the bliss.
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Rose Dayal (Manager)
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Mike Ryan
Mike Ryan is a wellness professional who has devoted his path to healing, and enjoys sharing it with others. He was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. A competitive basketball and track & field athlete up until his career ending back injury at age 19, he has taken all the “mistakes” he made in his training and is now helping others train smarter, and move better. His training includes NASM certified personal trainer, 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification, 20 hour Yoga Nidra certification, 30 hour Restorative Yoga certification, 80 hour Thai Bodywork certification, 20 hour Animal Flow certification, and 20 hours of continuing education on holistic lymphatic drainage techniques. Mike has mentored under highly reputable trainers in the movement community, as well as current a mentorship in Qi-gong. Mike ran a private practice in New York City, training clients, teaching group classes and leading workshops before relocating to Santa Cruz. Mike believes in the mind-body-soul connection, and offers archetypal astrology readings in addition to his other work. Mike is additionally a certified Wilderness First Responder, and has had extensive travel and backpacking experience.
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Aniela Iannarino
Aniela believes Yoga is a powerful healing tool that creates a sense of being easefully seated and content within oneself. In Sanskrit, these terms are “svastha” = comfortable and “santosha” = contentment. In her classes, she invites students to practice and experience these principles through asana, pranayama, meditation, and contemplating various parts of Yogic philosophy. In a class with Aniela, you can expect a mindfully paced mix of Hatha and Vinyasa styles with some Yin/Restorative postures. You will flow through fun and creative sequences and also practice asanas with longer holds, focusing on alignment. The duration of class will always be punctuated with moments of meditation and grounding.
Aniela is certified at the 500 hour level with her last training in Ayurvedic Yoga from the Kailash Tribal School in Dharamsala, India. She considers herself a forever student of Yoga, and is currently studying Feminine form Ayurveda with the Shakti School. She infuses Ayurvedic Wisdom into the structure of classes. Aniela is also a certified Reiki practitioner. When she’s not teaching, she loves being in nature taking hikes, painting, cooking, going to kirtan, and being a general clown.
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