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Marla Apt
Marla Apt, a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher has been teaching yoga for over 15 years. Marla served as the President of both the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and the Iyengar Yoga Association of Southern California. She is currently on the National Certification committee and is an assessor for Iyengar Yoga teaching certification exams. She has been an organizer of the last three Iyengar Yoga National Conventions (two of them hosting Geeta Iyengar) and also helped with the organization of B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Life book tour in 2005 in the U.S.A.
Upcoming Event:
Iyengar Yoga Retreat Sept 10th - 14th, 2008
Sherri Baptiste
Sherri Baptiste was born into a rich heritage and family of pioneering yoga teachers, her parents Magaña and Walt Baptiste, who established yoga on the West Coast in the mid-1950s. Sherri has been teaching yoga since her her teens and is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga, and her yoga teacher-training program is recognized by Yoga Alliance.
Upcoming Event:
India Yoga Vacation: Oct 2nd-24th, 2008
Baxter Bell
Baxter Bell, MD, has been actively deepening his understanding of yoga and relaxation since making the stress-reducing move from a career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. Baxter is featured in Yoga Journal's DVD, "Yoga for Stress" and has written articles for Yoga Journal, Yoga for Everybody, and International Journal of Yoga Therapy.
Bell's upcoming workshops:
India Yoga Vacation: Spirit of Inquiry
Scott Blossom
Scott Blossom has been teaching yoga for over 15 years and is a licensed Acupuncturist, yoga therapist, and Ayurvedic Consultant. His knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and Ayurveda allow him to teach yoga from a multidimensional perspective, integrating contemporary western and classical eastern concepts of healing and balance.
Chandra Easton
Chandra Easton has 15 years of combined study and teaching of yoga and Buddhist meditation. She blends the receptive yin style of yoga with more active, dynamic forms to prepare the body/mind for meditation. She studied Buddhism and Tibetan language at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, North India, founded by H. H. the Dalai Lama, and holds a degree in Religious Studies at UCSB.
Scott Blossom and Chandra Easton's
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Cheri Clampett
Cheri Clampett, R.Y.T. and certified Yoga Therapist, created the Therapeutic Yoga Professional Education program as a culmination of over 15 years of teaching yoga and adapting yoga systems to people dealing with illness and injury. She has recently presented her style of yoga at Beth Israel Medical Center, The Rusk Institute at NYC Medical Center, and the white Lotus Teacher Training. Cheri focuses on the healing aspects of Yoga: freeing the body, breath, and flow of energy through practicing with awareness and love.
Heather Tiddens
Heather teaches yoga and leads ceremony to support and empower people in becoming their most genuine selves. Her classes are known for their physical intensity and detailed instruction, as well as being a safe, sacred space for students to explore their spiritual, emotional and physical healing and growth. Her teaching is grounded in her own experience, healing process and training which integrate Forrest Yoga, Yin Yoga, hands-on healing, psychotherapy and Indigenous ceremony ways and shamanism. She is passionately committed to turning people on to embodying spirit in their yoga practice and in their lives. Heather is based in Santa Barbara, CA, and travels nationally teaching courses, workshops and retreats.
Cheri Clampett & Heather Tiddens
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Jason Crandell
Jason Crandell is the Yoga Director at The San Francisco Bay Club, a regular presenter at Yoga Journal conferences, and staff instructor at Yoga Journal Magazine. He is Yoga Journal"s Basics columnist and has been featured in Natural Health, Yoga For Everybody, 7x7, and San Francisco Magazine.
Mary Dunn
Mary Dunn, who also teaches yoga in the U.S. and abroad, was one of the first teachers of Iyengar yoga in the U.S., has been instrumental in founding Iyengar yoga centers in San Francisco, San Diego, and New York. She reaches out to all students, sharing her love and knowledge of this life art in a clear, dynamic and generous manner.
Dean Lerner
Dean Lerner, a longtime student of B.K.S. Iyengar, is past-President of the Iyengar Yoga Association of the United States and teaches nationally and internationally as well as in his hometown of State College, Pennsylvania.
Mary & Dean's upcoming workshop:
Feathered Pipe Ranch Yoga Teacher Training
Lilias Folan
Lilias Folan's groundbreaking yoga series, Lilias!, is back on PBS throughout the USA. She's featured in the new Barnes and Noble book, American Yoga, as one of 24 master yoga teachers who have made a contribution to yoga in America. She has shown continual dedication to making yoga accessible to the American public through her books, audio tapes and videos. Watch for Lilia's new book, Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age, Rodale Press, out in 2005.
Marti Glenn, Ph.D.
Marti Glenn, Ph.D., is founding president of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, offering the first graduate degrees in Somatic Psychology and Pre- and Perinatal Psychology. She is a psychotherapist in private practice, a weaver of story and song, and a guide to women in times of transition.
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JJ Gormley
JJ is the founder of the Sun and Moon Yoga Studios in Virginia. She has a very diverse background having studied from many traditions since 1979, most recently the teachings of Desikachar. In 1989 she began teaching yoga and in 1993 opened her own yoga studio, which operated, out of her basement for two years before moving to retail space in April of 1995. She has recently moved to Eureka, MT and travels back to VA to keep her hands in the mix at Sun and Moon. As Director of the Teacher Training Programs at Sun and Moon, she continues to correspond with and coordinate over 60 students in the three programs and the Teacher Training Faculty. She has produced six yoga videos/DVDs, and a chanting CD
Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D.
Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D. and physical therapist, is a respected and internationally-known yoga teacher with 30 years of teaching experience. She is the author of Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times, the best-selling book on restorative yoga. Her new book is Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, both from Rodmell Press, Berkeley, CA.
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Desiree Rumbaugh
Desiree Rumbaugh, founder of Arizona Yoga, is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher. She has studied yoga for 20 years and has been a student of John Friend since 1993. Anusara blends an uplifting Tantric yoga philosophy with Universal Principles of Alignment. With a playful sense of humor and a compassionate heart, Desiree inspires her students to practice yoga in a way that brings curiosity, vibrancy and enthusiasm to their lives and celebrates each one's goodness and uniqueness. She has produced a DVD titled, Yoga For I nner Strength.
Erich Schiffmann
Erich teaches a healing, opening style of yoga emphasizing moving into stillness while being guided from within. He blends five years experience at the Krishnamurti School in England with studies with B.K.S. Iyengar, T.K.V. Desikachar and Joel Kramer. He can be seen on the award-winning video, Yoga, Mind and Body with Ali McGraw, and is the author of Yoga: the Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness. Erich teaches at Sacred Movement Center for Yoga and Healing in Venice, California.
John Schumacher
John Schumacher, a longtime pupil of B.K.S. Iyengar, founded and directs Unity Woods Yoga Center, North America's largest Iyengar Yoga center. John has taught in the Washington, DC area for over thirty years and has trained many yoga teachers nationally and internationally.
Patricia Walden
Patricia Walden's teaching combines the methodical approach of the Iyengar method with her deep personal experience of the asanas. She recently closed The BKS Iyengar Yoga Studio in Somerville Massachusetts which she co-founded and directed for seventeen years and now teaches in the Boston area for her new Iyengar Yogamala studio without walls. Patricia also teaches nationally as well as internationally and is familiar to many through her award-winning yoga videos.
Patricia Walden and John Schumacher
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Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. is an internationally known authority on Leadership and Mastery. His revolutionary approach to leadership has a depth of insight and practicality that is truly unique. He is known for pioneering the pragmatic application of skillful action to language and purpose in such diverse fields as finance, technology, military, marketing, health and manufacturing.
Richard is a co-founder of Strozzi Institute, Tamalpais Aikido Dojo, Lomi School and founder of Two Rock Aikido Dojo. He has a doctorate in Psychology and holds the rank of sixth-degree black belt in Aikido as well as ranks in judo, jujitsu, and capoeira. He is the author of the nationally acclaimed In Search of the Warrior Spirit, The Anatomy of Change, Holding the Center, and editor of the recently published Being Human At Work.
India Supera
India Supera has brought some of the best teachers of our age to the Feathered Pipe Ranch. She herself has been a passionate and vibrant leader inspiring many in their personal spiritual journeys. As the founder and Director of the Ranch for the past 30 years, she has led many retreats and tours around the world.
Upcoming 2008 events info:
India: Sikkim and Bhutan with Cora Wen
Blacktail Ranch with JJ Gomley & Baxter Bell
India Vacation with Sherri Baptiste
India Workshop with Baxter Bell
Cora Wen
Cora Wen took refuge in the Buddha at age 13 and has been committed to practicing Yoga to develop compassion and joy since 1995. After a stressful Ivy League education and fervent career as Vice President of a bank, she left Corporate America finding her passion in yoga, and has been leading workshops and retreats internationally since 1998.
Upcoming workshop info:
Summer Retreat at the Feathered Pipe Ranch
Ganga White & Tracey Rich
Ganga White and Tracey Rich share a unique
blend of energies that combine humor, humanity and inquiry. Through the nature of
the male/female dynamic they express a beautiful living and contemporary expression
of Yoga.
They are one of America's most respected and earliest teaching teams whose
melded energies, yet strongly individual natures, have inspired much of the current
wave now being experienced in Yoga around the world.
They are early creators of what
is commonly called "flow yoga" and their videos and DVD's, The Flow Series: Earth,
Water, Fire and Total Yoga are million sellers. Ganga is the originator of partner
yoga, and his book Double Yoga was first published by Viking-Penguin in 1980.
Their White Lotus retreat center in Santa Barbara, California. Ganga's radical and
ground breaking new book, Yoga Beyond Belief Insights to Awaken and Deepen Your
Practice was just released and has already received wide acclaim.