Yoga Yard Teachers

Grace	Lisa	He Wei(Sylar)	Chen Xue(Snow)
Li Xiaolan (Elaine)	Lin Jia (Linda)	Jessica Meider	Ren Jingsong (Sean)
Stefanie Schau	Robyn Wexler	Zhang Xuanming	Wang Mingbo
Su Zi Yue(Sue)	Isabelle	Angela

Guest Teachers at Yoga Yard
	Chase Bossart: Chase Bossart has taught a number of workshops on breath, meditation and the Yogasutras at Yoga Yard. He is a long time, private student of Mr. TKV Desikachar, and begining in 1991 he has made numerous trips to Chennai, India to study at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (www.kym.org) with Mr. Desikachar and his son Kausthub, altogether spending more than three years in Chennai. Co-Founder of the Yoga Health Alliance, a Yoga Therapy Practice in Santa Barbara (www.YogaHealthAlliance.org) Chase teaches private students and frequent workshops. He has an M.A. in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and wrote his thesis on Patanjali’s Yogasutra. He is also a faculty on Loyola Marymount University’s Yoga Therapy Rx Program. Chase currently resides and teaches in San Francisco as part of the Healing Yoga Foundation (www.HealingYoga.org).
	Matthew Cohen: Matthew Cohen has been guest teaching at Yoga Yard since December, 2003, returning each year to lead a variety of programs including teacher trainings, workshops and master classes. Matthew Cohen has dedicated his life to the study of Martial Arts, Yoga and energetic healing for the past 30 years. Matthew’s teaching emphasizes Yoga as a healing system, blending his in-depth and ongoing study of Hatha and Taoist yoga, Martial Arts, Qi Gong, healing, and dance into a synthesis of physical and spiritual grace. Matthew is the founder of the Sacred Energy Arts Studio in Santa Monica, California, where he teaches Yoga, Martial Arts and Qi Gong. Matthew has taught at many yoga centers around the world. www.sacredenergyarts.com
	Donna Farhi : Donna Farhi taught at Yoga Yard in May 2009. She led a 6 day yoga workshop on Spinal Integration. Donna is a Yoga teacher who has been practicing for 30 years and teaching since 1982.   She is one of the most sought after guest teachers in the world, leading intensives and teacher training programs internationally.   Donna is best known for her unique ability to help students and teachers embody their spiritual practice.   Her work focuses on the refinement of natural and universal movement principles that underlie all Yoga practice.   This concentration on fundamental principles allows student of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic Yoga practice.   Donna has been the asana columnist for both Yoga Journal and Yoga International Magazine (U.S.A.), and has been profiled in three separate publications on outstanding contemporary teachers of our time.   Donna is the author of the contemporary classic, The Breathing Book, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness, Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living, and Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship. American Born, Donna now resides in Christchurch, New Zealand where she pursues her passionate love of horses. www.donnafarhi.co.nz
	Jillian Harris: Jillian taught a series of workshops and regular classes at Yoga Yard in June 2005. Originally from Maryland, Jillian began studying vinyasa yoga fifteen years ago as part of her contemporary dance training. She continued practicing privately while living in the mountains of Utah and touring around the United States with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. After completing her M.F.A. at New York University, Jillian began to share her love of yoga with others, becoming a certified yoga instructor through OM Yoga under Cyndi Lee. She currently teaches at Levitate Yoga in New York City, guiding classes that emphasize breath, alignment, flow, and the joy of movement.
	Genny Kapuler : Genny taught an Iyengar workshop at Yoga Yard in December 2005. Genny Kapuler has studied yoga since 1976 and has been teaching since 1980. She has studied three times in India with the Iyengar family, and currently teaches at the Iyengar Institute of New York in New York City. Before the birth of her child and before she began teaching yoga, Genny performed as a modern dancer; for many years she had her own company. She is also trained as an Alexander-technique teacher and is a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering. She applies this knowledge to her understanding and teaching of yoga, directing her students toward a deeper awareness in asana and pranayama through precision of alignment. Genny also uses the poetics of language to guide her students, and to create ”a mind-state in the room that is gentle and focused.” Through Iyengar Yoga, she says, students attain ever more precise alignment of the skeletal-muscular, organ, and nervous systems. Working towards harmony of body, mind, and spirit, they are able to move out into the world with more grace.
	Judith Hanson Lasater: Judith taught two workshops in Beijing in March 2008, Living Your Yoga and The Shoulder Clinic. She holds a Ph.D. in East-West Psychology and is a Physical Therapist. She has been teaching yoga around the world since 1971; she is married and the mother of three. She is also a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, CA, as well as Yoga Journal magazine. She is president of the California Yoga Teachers’ Association as well as the author of numerous articles on yoga and health for nationally recognized magazines. She is the author of A Year of Living Your Yoga (2006), Yoga Abs (2005), Yoga for Pregnancy: What Every Mom-to-Be Needs to Know (2004), 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and their Teachers (2003), Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life (2000), and Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times (1995), as well as dozens of articles for Yoga Journal Magazine and numerous other publications. www.judithlasater.com
	Libbie Nelson:  Libbie led a five-day workshop at Yoga Yard on 'The Essence of Yoga: Moving Into Stillness,' in November 2005.  Libbie is a physiotherapist, Yoga teacher and therapist practising and living in Byron Bay, Australia Her initial Yoga training was with BKS Iyengar and senior teachers. She now works with Donna Farhi whom she regularly assists and teaches with, and also studies with AG and Indra Mohan. Libbieâs teaching draws on her training in Ayurveda, Traditional Oriental Medicine, Buddhism and Western Allopathic and Alternative Medicine as support in her practice of Yoga as therapy. Libbie has taught Yoga and Yoga therapy classes to students for over twenty years. For the past decade, she has taught Yoga therapy courses for prospective and practicing teachers.
	Sarah Powers: Taught in Beijing in November of 2008, leading a three day workshop on Introduction to Yin Yoga, and a two day workshop on Moving Into Meditation. She is returning to Beijing to teach a five day teacher training on Yin and Yang Yoga in April of 2010. Sarah began teaching in 1987. She interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga and Buddhism into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her Yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of long held poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with a flow or Yang practice, influenced by ViniYoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar teachings. Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as well as learning to open to our emotional difficulties is paramount for preparing one to deepen and nourish insights into one's essential nature--a natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana, Tantric and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. She is co-founder of Metta Journeys, a service oriented organization that offers Yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries. She also teaches trainings and silent retreats with her husband Ty. They live with their teen-age daughter Imani-Jade in Marin, California. She is author of the upcoming book Insight Yoga : Integrating Yin/Yang Yoga and Buddhist Meditation . For more information on her please see her DVDs: Yoga, Yin and Vinyasa and Insight Yoga , and go to www.sarahpowers.com.
	Max Strom: Max Strom visited Beijing and Yoga Yard for the first time in November 2006, where he led a 5-day workshop, Yoga: An Act of Remembrance. Since then, he has completed a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program through Yoga Yard that graduated over 30 students in March 2009. He will return in November of 2010 to lead a series of workshops. Innovator and visionary Max Strom is known for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students and has become one of the most revered and respected teachers of personal transformation and yoga on three continents. Former creator and director of the renowned Sacred Movement, center for yoga and healing in Los Angeles, Max taught to over 400 students each week before relocating to Ashland, Oregon in 2005. Due to an ever-increasing demand for his teachings, Max now travels extensively teaching and lecturing on personal transformation, spirituality, and yoga. In 2008 he taught in nine countries and over 35 cities worldwide. As a teacher, Max is known for his transformational workshops, trainings, and seminars. He has a unique connection with his students that stems from his own personal journey, his gregarious nature, and distinct integrity. He teaches his unique system of transformation as a Way of Life, which includes philosophy, breathing exercises, yoga postures and meditation, guiding his students to grow into happier, healthier, and empowered human beings. You can see more of his work on his DVDs, Learn to Breathe, to heal yourself and your relationships, and, Max Strom Yoga – Strength, Grace, Healing. www.maxstrom.com.
	Cameron Tukapua: Cameron led Yoga Yard's first retreat in the spring of 2005, based on the Chinese 5 Elements of Nature and the theme of Spring Renewal. She has returned each spring to lead an annual spring retreat. Cameron is an acupuncturist and teacher with 22 years experience working with individuals and groups. She has trained in traditional Chinese acupuncture, Indonesian style massage, Zen Shiatsu, esoteric healing and chakra balancing, flower essence therapies and meditation. In 1999 she started the Christchurch College of Holistic Healingin New Zealand which offers a full time spiritually based acupuncture training program and other short courses.
	Margi Young: Margi led a series of workshops in June of 2004 at Yoga Yard. She also guest taught a number of regular studio classes. Margi is a senior teacher at New York City’s Om Yoga Studio.  where she teaches all levels of vinyasa and gentle & restorative yoga. Margi is also one of the Om Yoga teacher training faculty. True to the style of Om Yoga, Margi’s classes combine vinyasa (moving with breath), with a keen sense of alignment and the Buddhist principles of mindfulness. She teaches with clarity, compassion, and humor. Margi has teaching certifications in vinyasa yoga from Om Yoga Center, and in restorative yoga from Judith Lasater. She considers her primary teachers in the yoga world to be Cyndi Lee, Genny Kapuler, John Schumacher, John Friend, Erich Schiffmann and Richard Freeman. Margi also has danced professionally in San Francisco and New York, and earned her masters degree from New York's Tisch School of the Arts in dance choreography.
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