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IN CONVERSATION WITH MYOGA MEMBER KENNAN ROSSI

Our monthly podcast is hosted by the incisive, conversational and oh-so- charming Mountain Yoga member Kennan Rossi. Enjoy conversations between Kennan and our teachers, students and other sources of inspiration — then sharing your own comments below!

MARCH 2023 JULIE McDONALD + CANDY APPLEGATE

"I just love when I go to zoom classes and see people I know personally, especially when I get to see my baby sister... the energy is so yogic.”
~ candy applegate

Like most sisters, Julie McDonald and Candy Applegate are a lot alike — and couldn't be more different! Julie lives in Oakland and Candy in Hawaii, yet the two sisters come together most every week via zoom in Mountain Yoga classes. Enjoy this charming chat filled with love and humor about two amazing yoginis.

FEBRUARY 2023 GAIL WALLACE + MARY ARMENTROUT

"Why don't we just set up the situation so people can feel this?”
~ mary armentrout

This month's podcast is a particularly lively one, as guests Gail Wallace and Mary Armentrout banter with tremendous insight, warm humor and clear fondness and admiration for one another on how bringing yoga and Feldenkrais together benefits of their lives and those of their students.

JANUARY 2023 BETT BOLLHOEFER

“Yoga saved my life. That's not hyperbole. That really is real.”
~ bett bollhoefer

Mountain Yoga teacher Bett Bollhoefer went from a full-time tech profession to following in her mother's footsteps to become a yoga teacher. Passionate about her yoga and her teaching, Bett has been practicing daily yoga for over 600 days and recently released her self-published book coming out of that experience, "Daily Yoga: Creating a Practice for Life." Bett is the leader our New Year Yoga Challenge.

DECEMBER 2022 BETHANY HOBBS + MINDI MARCUS

“To find in the dark what matters most to our soul, to our community, and to our times.”
~ mindi marcus

Enjoy this fun and funny, profound and touching, surprisingly intimate conversation between two Mountain Yoga teachers who just happen to be the closest of friends.

NOV 2022 RICHARD ROSEN

"The development of a Witness. I think that's a very important part of practical life, a practicing life."
~ richard rosen

Richard Rosen began his practice of yoga in 1980 at the Yoga Room, in Berkeley, CA, went on to open Piedmont Yoga in 1987 with his good friend Rodney Yee and has authored six books, his most current, "Yoga by the Numbers: the Sacred and Symbolic in Yoga Philosophy and Practice" — scheduled for released this December 6 on Shambala Press. Richard teaches workshops on yoga philosophy and monthly pranayama classes at Mountain Yoga.

OCT 2022 DR. BAXTER BELL

"I'd love to the see the benefits of our yoga practice support more social outreach and action...yoga can be a great way to light a fire and give us the energy to move in that direction." ~ baxter bell

Dr. Baxter Bell has taught at Mountain Yoga for almost two decades. His background in Western medicine and yoga therapeutics ensures a safe and healing yoga experience, always entertaining as it is informative. He is co-author of the book Yoga for Healthy Aging. www.baxterbell.com .

SEPT 2022 ANN DYER CERVANTES

"Together we are creating a wholesome space that helps us be our best selves and live our best lives." ~ ann dyer

Ann Dyer Cervantes came to yoga with a degree in dancer and a long career as a professional vocalist. Her teaching of yoga is highly experiential, balancing sensing and doing, power and release. Her area of specialty is the various uses of sound within the yoga tradition, including mantra, naada and kirtan. Ann is the owner and director of Mountain Yoga.

Kennan Rossi has been practicing yoga and meditation for over 25 years. He loves making music and photographs, writing poetry, and backpacking in the Sierra Nevada. After more than 30 years working in technology, he is currently Director of a global technical communications team at Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation®).