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Karyn Bristol is a graduate of the Teacher Training Program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute. She
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Kofi Busia is a senior Iyengar teacher who has studied with B.K.S. Iyengar many times in India and
has been teaching yoga for over 28 years. He is also a scholar of Sanskrit and has translated the Sutras of
Patanjali from the original.
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Kym Houseis 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 wildroseyoga1@aol.com Please check out Kym'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 is currently enrolled in a Hatha Yoga Teacher Training program with the Temple of Kriya Yoga. 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 38-year-long resident of Aptos.
She teaches a Hatha class on Thursdays. Her goal is to make Yoga Within into a yoga studio that truly meets the needs of its community.
831.818.2903 denygold56@yahoo.com |
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Judi Jensen Jensen began her yoga studies in 1973. She currently resides in an ashram in the Santa Cruz Mountains, under the spiritual guidance of Swami Gurupremananda, a direct disciple of Swami Muktananda. Though her primary focus in life and teaching is yoga as a spiritual path, Judi enjoys teaching Iyengar-style hatha yoga, with emphasis on yoga postures to support a meditation practice. Previously, she taught yoga for more than 15 years in Palo Alto, along with corporate classes in Silicon Valley. Judi took Iyengar teacher’s training in the 90s at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco and The Yoga Room in Berkeley.
831.240.0477 judidevi@cruzio.com |
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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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Nancy Finley
brings experience from a wide range of disciplines and geographies. Trained as an architect in Japan, she has developed a creative awareness
of the physical body and the sociological and cultural implications of human movement in the environment. In Germany she trained in Eurythmy, and
is a licensed Feldenkrais practitioner (a somatic modality of movement and observation) through the Feldenkrais Guild of North America. Her
background in Hatha yoga is influenced by BKS Iyengar through the guidance of Senior Instructors Ramanand Patel and of recent with Kofi Busia.
In 2006, she completed Kofi Busia’s teacher training course. She was first introduced to yoga in 1974 in San Francisco, and was reintroduced to
its practical wisdom in 1995 while living in Japan. Environment and Self are linked through a willingness to explore mutual awareness; in a
consistent practice of yoga this linkage opens up and shifts towards the subtle. She offers some steps along the way towards this union.
heliosfin@hotmail.com |
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Steve Zlatunich began practicing Iyengar
yoga in 1982, and has been teaching since 1990. He currently studies with Senior Iyengar teachers Ramanand Patel and Kofi Busia. Steve is also a
body worker, specializing in deep tissue massage and Ayurvedic massage since 1990.
831-662-9132 steve@zlatunich.com |
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Aruna
explores the classical wisdom of the ancient science of yoga, creatively expressing it through movement, breath, sound and silence. Her unique style emerges from the journey of her ongoing experience of practicing living yoga.
Years of study, inspiration and teacher training with Bhavani Maki, Astanga Yoga Kauai, eventually led Aruna to continuous study and teacher training under the guidance of her teacher, Baba Hari Das with whom she has spent 4 years assisting and teaching for the Mt. Madonna Institute's yoga teacher training program. She was then guided to explore intensive study and training in the disciplines of yogic lifestyle at the Bihar School of Yoga in India under the guidance of Sw. Satyananda Saraswati and Sw. Nirangananda. After a recent 2 year personal yoga sabbatical abroad, studying with a number of master teachers of various lineages, traditions and styles, she finds herself residing in Santa Cruz, CA.
Aruna has shared her love of the practice of yoga through teaching in the U.S., India, Taiwan and Thailand. She is currently teaching at One Yoga Center at the Vet's Hall, at the Astanga Yoga Institute at the Pacific Cultural Center, as well as, here at Yoga Within. Aruna embraces yoga as a way of living, a path that involves practicing, and eventually Being...openness...acceptance...love
Her classes involve a flow of postures rooted in the idea of strength with ease cultivating balance and equanimity. They encourage a sense of letting go both physically and mentally while maintaining integrity and awareness. They often incorporate mantra, pranayama and meditation. She enjoys working with and encourages all levels of practice and ability. Email: arunalove@gmail.com
Her website is yogaaruna.com
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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. Tibetan Heart Yoga Like twins seperated at birth and now reunited, Tibetan Heart Yoga,
THY, brings together the 'outer' methods (physical postures and breath) with
the traditional 'inner' methods (ethical living, meditation, philosophical
training, and correct worldview) into a powerful synthesis the ancients called
"royal yoga".
THY Series 1 reveals the foundation of Yoga as practiced in the Lineage of
the Dalai Lamas. Tonglen compassion meditations are weaved into asanas which are
used to cultivate one of the six perfections: giving, kindness, patience, joyful
effort, concentration, and wisdom. This is a deep practice of beginning to
relate with friends, enemies, and strangers with an ultimately compassionate mind. Using this 'inner method' during your yoga practice will
transform it from merely a physical into a transformative spiritual daily
practice.
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