Yoga became an integral part of Kristen's life from her first practice 8 years ago. With a consistent practice she became more centered and gained a stronger spiritual connection and sense of self. Her passion led her to experiment with many different forms focusing primarily on Ashtanga.

Her Ashtanga power flow class connects movement and breath providing an aerobic yet grounding workout. The focus of her classes is to quiet the mind, become present in the moment and get an incredible work out. Kristen believes yoga can truly transform not only your body, but also your life off the mat. She is certified from the It’s Yoga Teacher Training Program in San Francisco. She is also certified to teach children from It’s Yoga Kids.
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Raquel began to practice yoga as a child with her mother and then continued to practice through adulthood. She's studied under and done workshops with several teachers including Tim Miller, Dharma Mitra, Rod Stryker, Lino Miele, and currently practices with Clayton Horton from Greenpath Yoga. Currently almost every day is dedicated to an Ashtanga practice and this practice has transformed her life in ways impossible to verbalize. After years of asana practice she decided to teach.

Her classes are informative, direct, personal and reinforce her belief that a *consistent* yoga practice will change your life (mental, physical, spiritual) completely-all you have to do is show up.

Raquel's also published, "The Love of Yoga", in Enlightened Practice Magazine, appeared in Yoga Journal as a model and taught on national syndicated telivision programs.
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Elyse has studied yoga for over 10 years, completed her first teacher training with Greenpath yoga, has studied in Mysore, India with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, completed her advanced teacher training with yoga Hanalei in Kaua'i,and maintains her Ashtanga practice daily. She loves teaching Ashtanga classes and guided Vinyasa classes, and is looking forward to leading the Mysore inspired class with the Shala.
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Catherine Shaddix began her intertwined studies of hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation and philosophy in 1990, and has devoted her life to the exploration of each of these since. She began studying traditional Ashtanga yoga in 1993, and has since studied intensively with Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty, and her main teacher in America, Richard Freeman. She travels annually to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his daughter Saraswati, and his grandson Sharath in Mysore, South India. Her appreciation of the life-transforming practice of Ashtanga led her to create a yoga program for people with chronic and terminal illness for the BodyMind Restoration Retreats in Ithaca, NY, which she directed for 8 years.

She began teaching in 1996, and her teaching style is infused with the co-arising spaciousness and intensity of her Buddhist training. She has practiced with many of the great Dzogchen masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, beginning with Trulshik Rinpoche in 1991, as well as H.H. the Dalai Lama. She has also trained extensively in the Zen tradition, living for two years at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center, a traditional Rinzai Zen training monastery, with Joshu Sasaki Roshi. She regards the traditional style of Mysore practice, with its attention to breath, internal alignment, and the ritual container of each series, as a perfect vehicle for the cultivation of deep states of concentration, meditative absorption, aliveness, and freedom.
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Olivia Eng finds her greatest passion in performing and creating movement. Her other passions also include music, (playing the guitar, piano, and djembe), learning about other cultures and languages, photography as well as many other aspects related to the arts. She is continually inspired by traveling and befriending people from all over the world. She became a Yoga Alliance certified teacher through Yoga Works (Costa Mesa) and also holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine.

She believes that life should ultimately always be a journey of adventure, love, and undying passion. She is constantly thankful for the opportunity to help others and continue to pursue her desires at the same time.
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Katrina took her first yoga class over ten years ago and fell in love with the combination of movement and meditation that yoga provides. Through a consistent and dedicated practice, yoga has given her strength, flexibility, and peace of mind. As a professional health educator, her goal in teaching yoga is to promote good health and happiness by giving her students a set of tools to increase body performance, relax the mind, and enjoy the present moment.

Although she has studied various forms of yoga over the years, Katrina became a certified Ashtanga yoga teacher from the It’s Yoga Teacher Training Program in San Francisco. By connecting yoga postures and breathing exercises, her classes give a great aerobic and strengthening workout, while also providing a calm space for meditation.
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Sarah completed her teacher training at Greenpath yoga in 2006 and teaches the Feel Good Flow class.
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Dane believes that his role in class is to help lay a safe foundation and an inspiring environment for yogis and yoginis to further explore their own practice, body, mind and spirit.  His love of yoga was ignited by a desire to further his kitesurfing. The physical benefits of strength, energy, flexibility and body control that he achieved kept him on the mat.  Through a consistent practice and study, deeper and deeper benefits continue to reveal themselves. 

Dane seeks to encourage regular practice in students (through those things that inspire his practice - personalized communication of fundamentals, movement rhythm, fun/challenging poses and good music) because it is in developing his own regular practice that he becomes a happier and better person.  Core to his teaching, yoga and life philosophy is confidence that by becoming happier and sharing that happiness with others both on and off of the mat, the world is a better place.

Dane was certified through the It's Yoga Teacher Training Program in San Francisco.
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Christie started dancing when she was 3 years old and has kept moving ever since. She started her yoga journey in 1991 and was introduced to a formal asana practice in 2000 experimenting with various forms of yoga including Ashtanga, Iyengar, Yin Yoga, Bikram, Vinyasa and specifically Baptiste Power Vinyasa. She became certified through Down Dog Yoga Studio, a Baron Baptiste affiliate studio in Washington, DC and has continued her studies at workshops and trainings with such inspiring teachers as Baron Baptiste, Sarah Powers, Shiva Rea, Aadil Palkhivala, and Ana Forrest.

Christie has been a lifelong educator in diverse fields - she is excited to share her passion for yoga, guiding yoga practitioners to a deeper understanding of asana, breath, mindfulness and conscious movement. Yoga permeates every part of Christie’s life; she believes in yoga as a way of being and focuses her instruction with the thought that we are all part of something larger than ourselves, something purposeful. When she is not on her mat, she is enjoying the outdoors, dining, or traveling with her yoga partner and number one supportive husband, Craig!
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Eric Shaw, MARS, MASE, RYT, teaches Prasana Yoga, focussing on alignment in vinyasa.  Prasana trains the limbs and core body into synchronus, grounded movement echoing patterns of Indian dance and Tai Chi.  His teaching style is light-hearted and informative, drawing on a rich understanding of yoga history and philosophy. In over 20 years experience in yoga, martial arts and meditation, he has trained in Shadow Yoga under Zhander Ramete, and in Iyengar Yoga under Tony Briggs and Karl Erb.  He is currently pursing doctoral work in Hindu Religion and Philosophy at The California Institute of Integral Studies.  He teaches and lectures on yoga in San Francisco .
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