Karyn
Bristol
Kofi
Busia
Kym
House
Steve
Zlatunich
Gabriel
Benjamin
Denyse
Hurley
Amey
Mathews
Nancy
Finley
Sarah
Kerlin
Aruna

Judi
Jensen

Karyn Bristol is a graduate of the Teacher Training Program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute. 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 Scollosis Training in 2008. Karyn is registered with Yoga Alliance at the RYT 500 hour level. She is available for private clients.
831.464.9417
kkkkbristol@hotmail.com

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.
831.246.2027
Please visit Kofi's Website

Kym House is a certified yoga teacher with a BA in dance from San Francisco State University. She completed her basic 200 hour certification at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA in 1999. Since that time she has had the opportunity to teach in Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii and Canada. She has now returned to her roots in Santa Cruz, California. She recently completed a 100 hour training in yoga therapy with a host of professionals in San Anselmo, Ca. and has completed the last leg of a two year, 500 hour advanced teacher certification program with the American Viniyoga Institute. She is continuing with the AVI Yoga Therapist Certification which begins March 2007. She is excited to share this intelligent and comprehensive approach to yogic practice with all who desire it.
831.254.6100
wildroseyoga1@aol.com
Please check out Kym's Website!.
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 teaching a Youth Yoga class on Fridays and Hatha class on Thursdays. 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 35-year-long resident of Aptos. Her goal is to make Yoga Within into a yoga studio that truly meets the needs of its community.
831.687.0818
denygold56@yahoo.com
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
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.
831.465.6803
amey@yogawithamey.com
Please check out Amey's Website!.

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
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

Gabriel Benjamin has a family history of eastern tradition as well as extensive knowledge of injury & athletics. His first exposure to yoga practice was during childhood & has been deeply committed for the last 10 yrs. For 7 of those he has been teaching & is certified in 3 levels of Tri Yoga. For past 2 yrs he as assisted many teacher trainings with the senior staff as well as with Tri Yoga's world renowned founder Kali Ray. mistergabriel@yahoo.com

Sarah Kerlin began practicing yoga in 1992 and found it to be a healthy balance to her time spent in the water as an All American swimmer in college. After college she continued to pursue her athletic dreams and has competed as a professional triathlete and as member of the USA National Cycling Team. Throughout the years competing, Sarah as maintained a strong yoga practice as the foundation of her physical and mental training. She now is happy to be working with other athletes to help them increase their understanding of their minds and bodies through yoga. While Sarah loves to teach vinyasa yoga, she has many years background in Iyengar style yoga as well. She completed her yoga teacher training with Linda McGrath and is a Registered Yoga Instructor with Yoga Alliance. Website:locamotionyoga.com Email: sarah@locamotionyoga.com
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