Cindy Phillips |
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Cindy is the founder and Director of Island Yoga Space.
She discovered yoga in 1998 while searching for clarity after losing her father to cancer the previous year and thus views yoga as a healing art. This lead her to seek out and study with some of the best teachers in the country; Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers, Betsey Downing and her favorite Seane Corn. She started teaching yoga in 2002. Recently, her most profound guru is her daughter, Makena, who was born Sept. 2008!
Cindy teaches a challenging Vinyasa flow based class with particular attention to alignment. While creatively interweaving underlying themes, she encourages students to listen to their unique internal rhythm during practice and everyday life. Her mantra, “When in doubt... Breathe!”.
By providing the island community with a comfortable and nurturing environment, she trusts that each student will find their inner strengths and overall well-being.
She holds a Bachelors degree in Humanities/ Performing Arts from Southern Oregon University, 200hr.Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Certification from White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara and a 200hr. Anusara Style Yoga Teacher Certification from Garden of the Heart Yoga Center in Sarasota. |
Preston Whaley Jr. |
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Preston Whaley Jr. is a yoga instructor
and yoga therapist. He seeks to guide his students into viewing
the path to body, mind and spiritual wholeness as an inspired life
journey. His training is with the renowned Tias Little
of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where
he completed the Prajna Yoga teacher training program. He completed
the Professional Yoga Therapist program with Joseph Le Page’s Integrative
Yoga Therapy. And over the summer of 2008 finished the Thai
Yoga Healing Arts program, Level 1 & Level 2, with Jonas Westring,
based in Haydenville, MA. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Seminary and a Ph.D. in the Humanities
from Florida State University. Preston's
website is www.yoga-arts.net. |
Randy Pauley |
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Randy began her yoga studies in 1999 with Ashtanga Yoga. She was introduced to Anusara Yoga in 2002 and has continued her studies extensively in this popular style. She holds a 200+ hour Anusara® StyleYoga Teacher Certification from Garden of the Heart Yoga Center in Sarasota and is an affiliated Anusara® Teacher. Randy continually studies with the founder of Anusara, John Friend, and other premier teachers as Betsey Downing, Desiree Rumbaugh, Sianna Sherman, Darren Rhodes and Bruce Bowditch. When Randy is not teaching or practicing yoga she enjoys time outdoors, on the beach emersed in nature. |
Kathleen Gallen |
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Kathleen Gallen graduated college with a BA in Political Science before heading off to serve in The Peace Corp in Eastern Europe. It was after returning home from her service that Kathleen realized a shift in her consciousness and found her life’s passion in yoga, meditation and massage therapy.
Kathleen is grateful to her teachers and has studied with Betsey Downing Anusara Yoga, Shala Worsley at Ashville School of Massage and Yoga, Jean Couch’s Balance Center Studies in Big Sur at Esalen Institute. She has just returned home from her work studies and travels in SE Asia including; Esalen Massage with Ellen Watson in Bali, Asokananda’s Sunshine Network Thai Massage in Thailand and explorations of yoga in India.
Kathleen blends different yoga styles that include teaching meditation, breath
work, and both flow and restorative yoga. Kathleen believes that the sublime
and subtleties are perhaps the larger part of a meaningful life. Kathleen's website
is: www.gallenmassage.com |
Lynn Varsell |
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As a practitioner for over 12 years, Lynn credits yoga as integral to maintaining flexibility, core strength, and postural alignment. Her classes are designed for all levels of practitioner. The open flow classes are a challenging mix of strong anatomical alignment and powerful vinyasa. The Beginner/Level 1 classes focus on yoga fundamentals -- mastering the foundational asanas and pranayama techniques. Her teaching draws from the Ashtanga, Iyengar, Viniyoga and Jivamukti styles of Hatha yoga. She holds a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Certification from The Yoga Institute in Houston, in addition to a bachelor’s degree from Boston College, and a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. |
LaRae Brownewell |
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LaRae Brownewell has multiple Yoga and Pilates certifications and a love for helping people find a more comfortable place in their own body. She has been practicing Yoga & Pilates for 10 wonderful years. After a very severe accident that took a year for her body to heal she began to see a deeper value in her Yoga & Pilates practice and was inspired to become a teacher. LaRae's background is in early childhood education, working as a Pre-K teacher, in after school programs, and as nanny caused her to naturally combine her love of children with her love of yoga. Bringing the joy of childhood to the playful and serious side of yoga in her kids classes. Teaching both yoga movement and yogic concepts of a peaceful practice both on and off the yoga mat. In yoga it doesn't matter how old or young you are, the important thing is that you start the journey.
LaRae's website is: www.yogagirlie.com |
ChrisAnn Esformes |
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ChrisAnn was introduced to Hatha, Anusara and Kundalini inspired yoga in 2007 as a means to alleviate stress associated with working in the corporate world. ChrisAnn was immediately intrigued by the peaceful power created within the union of mindful breathing and body motion that is the essence of yoga. As a result of the amazing impact that her practice has had upon her life, in 2009 she decided to become a teacher of Kundalini Yoga for both adults and children. She recently completed her teachers certification at The Kundalini Yoga Center in Altamonte Springs, FL, studying with teachers trained by the Master of Kundalini Yoga in the U.S., Yogi Bhajan. Her classes focus on a union between breath work and the physical body as a means to tone the nervous system and strengthen body, mind and spirit. She holds a BA in Neuropsychology from Hampshire College and an MA in Mass Communications from University of Florida.
ChrisAnn's website is: www.silvervideollc.com |
Frannie Hoffman |
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Frannie Hoffman is a spiritual intuitive,
educator and a transformational leader. She has touched the lives
of 1,000's across US and Canada for the last 20 years,through
her meditation circles, spiritual counseling practice, writings
and compelling seminars and workshops. She devotes herself to
the life of inner transformation, inspiring and helping others
reconnect and tap into their infinite energy that heals and liberates.
Frannie is the author of "From Modeling Clothes
To Modeling Self - A Journey of Remembering the Simple Truths
of Love."
For more information visit www.FrannieHoffman.com. |
