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Finding the right teacher is essential to staying motivated to go to class. We have some of the most respected teachers in the Bay Area on our staff. All of our teachers have extensive training and experience, and are friendly, compassionate souls committed to making yoga an experience that keep you wanting to come back!
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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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amelia pudoffI teach with props, clear communication, and a positive and caring manner. I want people to walk away from their yoga practice feeling better equipped to get the most out of their lives, feeling physically stronger and more agile, and also mentally ready to handle the good and bad with grace. I did my first yoga training in 2011 and completed my 500 hour training at The Yoga Room in Berkeley in 2016. I continue to study in and out of the yoga community, bringing fresh perspectives to familiar poses.
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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Many of Oakland's best-known, best-loved yoga teachers . ~Shawn R.