guest
teachers at yoga yard
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Chase
Bossart: Chase
Bossart has taught a number of workshops on breath, meditation and the
Yogasutras at YogaYard. 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).
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Matthew
Cohen: Matthew
Cohen has been guest teaching at Yoga Yard since December, 2003, returning
each year to lead a variety of programs including four teacher trainings
and a number of 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. He is also a teacher at the Exhale Center for Sacred Movement
in Venice, California. Matthew has taught at many yoga centers around
the world.
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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.
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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.
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Judith
Hanson Lasater:
Judith taught two workshps in Beijing in March 2008, Living Your
Yoga and The Shoulder. She
holds a
Ph.D, and is a Physical Therapist who has taught yoga since 1971. She
is also a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, CA,
as well as Yoga Journal magazine. Ms. Lasater frequently trains teachers
in virtually every state of the union and is often an invited guest
at international yoga conventions. 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), Relax and Renew: restful yoga for stressful
times and Living Your Yoga: finding the spiritual in everyday life.
Judith Hanson Lasater 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. Ms. Lasater is the author
of 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
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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.
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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.
He is the founder of Sacred Movement Yoga in Los Angeles, and known
for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students with his soulful,
gregarious nature, and profound integrity. His method integrates
Vinyasa-Yoga with Sufism, Chi Gung, and movement therapy. Max created
and led the Sacred Movement Teacher training program which he now
leads nationally. He has recently released the groundbreaking new
DVD entitled Max Strom Yoga - Strength, Grace, and Healing, and has
published several articles on yoga and personal transformation. He
is currently finishing his book on Yoga.
With an imperative to understand life’s meaning, Max had by the young
age of nineteen studied Taoism, esoteric Christianity, Sufism, and was practicing
meditation and Chi Gung diligently. But over the next twelve years, his passion
for music and writing gradually eclipsed his spiritual quest and he became
immersed in two careers, first in music as a singer-songwriter, and then film
as a working screenwriter. His spiritual quest was re-ignited when he was introduced
to Hatha Yoga. The practice affected him so deeply it ultimately became a “system
of embodiment” for all of his studies. Max has now been devoted to Yoga
since 1991 and has experienced a profound life-change through his practice.
For more information, visit www.maxstrom.com.
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Cameron
Tukapua: Cameron
led Yoga Yard's first retreat in the spring of 2005 based on the Chinese
5 elements of nature and Spring Renewal. She is an acupuncturist and
teacher with 22 years experience working with individuals and groups.
She has trained in traditional 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 Healing in New Zealand which offers a full
time spiritually based acupuncture training programme and other short
courses.
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Margi
Young: Margi
led a series of workshops on backbends and hip openers in June of
2004 at Yoga Yard, and guest taught a number of regular studio classes.
She is a senior teacher at New York City’s Om
Yoga Studio. One of the leading studios in New York, 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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