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Finding the right teacher is essential in yoga (as in everything!). We have some of the most respected teachers in the Bay Area on our staff. All of our teachers have had extensive training and experience, and are friendly, compassionate souls committed to making yoga an enjoyable, beneficial experience for you. Visit a few teachers and find the right match for you!
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mary armentroutI teach Feldenkrais to uncover the joy of embodiment. Trained as a dancer, and still active as a performer and choreographer, Feldenkrais has been a laboratory for studying the intersection of bodies and movement on many levels. Guiding students to discover their own path towards more aware movement - which can cause a re-centering and grounding, or simply more efficient and sophisticated execution of movements, or bring relief from pain patterns - can be life-altering, and this brings me great delight.
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perry chattlerI teach alignment-based, Hatha yoga utilizing modifications to make the practice accessible for people of all abilities. In 2010, I received my 200 hour teacher training certification, and in 2017, I became a certified yoga therapist completing an additional 800 hours of training. I have experience in trauma-informed yoga and in teaching yoga for seniors, for Parkinson’s, for cancer recovery, and for military veterans. Yoga is breath, and a practice of awareness that we can take off the mat and into our daily lives.
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richard rosenRichard Rosen began his practice of yoga in 1980 at the Yoga Room, in Berkeley, CA. Two years later he began a two-year teacher training course at the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, from which he graduated in 1983. In 1987, with his good friend Rodney Yee, he opened the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, CA, which operated until 2012. Richard has written numerous articles and reviews for national yoga magazines, and is also the author of five books, four of them published by Shambhala: Richard lives in a 115-year-old bungalow in beautiful Berkeley, CA.
interview with richard rosen website michael wertzI am Illustrator, Educator and sometimes deejay who hails from the gently rolling hills of
Northerncalifornialand. During COVID19 I turned to meditation and yoga as a means to survive sheltering in place. And music. Though I enjoy all kinds of music (I’m a child of the 80’s, and discovered my first tribe at punk shows), the music that has brought me the deepest sense of comfort in the last year is contemplative, ambient, and longer-form. (We have a very nervous dog in the house, and she can’t deal with drums.) I share this sense of contemplation that this music brings me with my classmates at Mountain Yoga as a fun (but timely) experiment once a month as part of the Feel Good Friday series. Music that evokes a sense of travel. I think they call that a sonic journey. interview with Michael. webiste gail wallaceI teach students new to yoga and continuing beginners. My training is in Iyengar yoga with its emphasis on alignment, but I draw on experience and training with other schools of yoga, movement systems, philosophies, as well as my experience home-schooling my two daughters (who are now out of graduate school.) I hope to help my students feel more happily situated in their bodies and able to move from the inside out into the world.
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