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| Amey Mathews has been a student of yoga since 1993, and her love for the practice grows deeper and deeper
every day! She began studying yoga as a student at Stanford University, and is always searching out ways to continue
her yogic education. Over the years she has studied Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Anusara, Jivamukti, and Kundalini
styles of yoga. "My goal as a teacher is to create an environment in which students feel safe, challenged, and enthusiastic
about the many riches that yoga has to offer. Yoga is an optimistic discipline, which asserts that we all have
vast potential beyond our current state. For me, the most exciting thing about yoga has been the process of
watching this potential blossom in my life and in the lives of students in my classes." Amey teaches with an
emphasis on the philosophy and concepts behind the postures, and works with montly themes from yoga philosophy
that are blended into each class. She is also the co-moderator of the Santa Cruz Yoga Book Club.
She received her first certification from the White Lotus Foundation in 1999, and in 2004 she
completed a 110-hour teacher training program with her primary teacher, Kofi Busia.
Amey offers her humble gratitude to the many amazing teachers
who have guided her practice; most notably Kofi Busia and Sharon Gannon & David Life. | ||||||||||
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Karyn Bristol is a Certified Iyengar Teacher. She
has been a dedicated student of Iyengar Yoga since 1986 and began teaching in 2003. Her practice had such a powerful, transformative effect on her life that she decided to
to become a yoga teacher. In 2003 she graduated from the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco. In 2004 she completed Kofi Busia's teacher training.
After a two year apprentiship with Elise Miller, a senior Iyengar teacher, she completed the Yoga for Scoilosis Training in 2008. Karyn is registered with Yoga Alliance
at the RYT 500 hour level. She is available for private clients.
831.464.9417
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Kofi Busia is one of the world's foremost teachers in the Iyengar tradition. He has been teaching for nearly 40 years, and has held his Advanced Certificate for 35 years. He has taught, and is recognized, all over the world. He began yoga as a student at Oxford and has taught professionally ever since. Throughout the 1970's and up until the mid-1980's, he studied regularly with B. K. S. Iyengar, and directly from him on a regular basis at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, Maharashtra, South India. Although he has lived most of his life in Oxford, England, he is currently based in Santa Cruz, California, where he is putting the finishing touches to three planned books, one of which is an original translation and commentary, direct from the Sanskrit, of the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali. Until this work is complete he will continue to offer only a skeleton number of classes and workshops mainly in the Northern California area. 831.246.2027. ~ Please visit Kofi's Website | ||||||||||
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Denyse Hurley is the owner of Yoga Within. She began her path with yoga in 1999 and has been committed to the practice ever since.
She has
taught children’s yoga classes at a local school, and is currently working with a local baseball team learning the benefits of yoga. She is certified to teach yoga to children through Indigo Yoga for Kids.
She is also a volunteer for Native Animal Rescue, and is a mom and a 39-year-long resident of Aptos.
She teaches adult Hatha classes on Thursdays. Her goal is to make Yoga Within into a yoga studio that truly meets the needs of its community.
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Kym House is a American Viniyoga Institute certified yoga teacher (500hr) and yoga therapist(500hr) with a BA in dance from San Francisco State University. She completed her basic 200 hour certification at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA. She has had the opportunity to teach in Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii and Canada. Kym has been teaching in Santa Cruz for the past seven years. She offers therapeutic classes for healing body, mind and heart and specializes in back injuries. She is excited to share this intelligent and comprehensive approach to yogic practice with all who desire it. It has been the vehicle for healing in her own life. Kym offers private yoga therapy sessions with a sliding scale option for payment. 831.254.6100. | ||||||||||
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Nancy Finley brings experience from a range of disciplines and geographies. As a practicing architect and professor of architecture and urban design in Japan, she developed a graduate design course in 1993, based on creating a greater discernment of the physical body and the sociological and cultural implications of human movement upon the environment. This later led her to begin teaching yoga to both students and practitioners of Architecture and Engineering. This interest brought her to Europe (Germany and Italy) where she became certified to teach Choreocosmos, a form of Eurythmy as developed by the Sophia Foundation. Since 2002, she is a FGNA licensed practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education. She was first introduced to yoga and meditation at age sixteen, and again much later in Tokyo when she began studying with Iyengar yoga teacher, Joan Seow Harakuma in 1995. Soon after, she met Engineer and Senior Iyengar yoga Instructor, Ramanand Patel. Her background in Hatha yoga is influenced by the BKS Iyengar system through Ramanand, her primary teacher. She continues to study weekly with him in San Francisco. She completed yoga teacher training courses with Kofi Busia and Pranja yoga. With over 3,000 hours of yoga training and 4,000 plus hours of teaching yoga and Feldenkrais, her curiosity continues to deepen. She happily invites you to join her in this splendid study. She is also available for private clients. Check out Nancy’s website: www.nancyfinleystudios.com 831.662.9132 ~ heliosfin@hotmail.com |
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Having immersed herself in the study of yoga, Aruna utilizes the various limbs to navigate through life in a balanced manner. Aruna began her training in the Ashtanga Vinyasa style of yoga with Bhavani Maki who was her initial inspiration into the exploration of yoga philosophy in addition to the asana practice. This inspired her to seek the guidance of Baba Hari Dass and continue her training at the Mount Madonna Center where she now teaches in their teacher training program. Her practice and teaching style have been deeply influenced by her time spent in India studying at the Tantra-based Bihar School of Yoga and by a number of other master teachers from a wide variety of traditions from all over the world. Aruna is currently teaching at PCC, Yoga Within and Divinitree in the Santa Cruz area. She has completed her 500-hour YTT and is currently working on completing a training in the Trauma Release Process (TRE). As a student of Baba Hari Dass, she has been encouraged to deepen her own yoga practice by living and sharing a holistic approach to yoga. She is inspired by weaving yoga philosophy into playful asana classes for all levels of practitioners. | ||||||||||
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Dorothy Raftery is a highly-experienced teacher of Tibetan Heart Yoga, a life-long student of yoga and sacred dance, and a pracititioner of Tibetan Buddhism and motherhood. She brings a joyous and gentle heart combined with skillful means to her classes. See her website www.innerlightpilates.com
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