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Susanna Barkataki

kirsten — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 01:29:16 +0000

Susanna Barkataki, M.Ed. Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Core Community of Interbeing, is known for her passion for decolonizing yoga – practicing yoga not just as poses but as a way of life. She welcomes everyone to yoga through story, questions, and inspires people to their own authentic powerful experiences.

Susanna is mixed, born in England with a family lineage is from Assam, India, where an ancient line of teaching the traditions of Yoga and Ayurveda is practiced still today. Susanna integrates this lineage with the practical application of a Master’s degree in Education as well as a B.A. in Philosophy for U.C. Berkeley to create a culturally aware and socially relevant practice.

She is the founder of Ignite | Yoga and Wellness Institute in Orlando, Fl. Ignite teaches yoga beyond asana. Ignite provides comprehensive Yoga Alliance Certified 200 and 300–hour yoga teacher trainings, a Health Coach Certification, and online Love and Relationships course. Susanna is viral yoga and wellness blogger for Huffington Post, Yoga International and Elephant Journal, an advisory board member of Yoga Service Council, a member of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition Team, and is part of the Core Leadership of Thich Nhat Hanh’s community of mindfulness. She optimistically believes that yoga can create more personal and social connection, unity and fulfillment.

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B Grace Bullock

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:12:14 +0000

B Grace Bullock, PhD, E-RYT 500 is a psychologist, research scientist, educator, science writer, yoga and mindfulness expert, and author of Mindful Relationships: Seven Skills for Success – Integrating the Science of Mind, Body and Brain (Handspring Publishing, 2016). She is the CEO and Founding Director of the International Science & Education Alliance, an organization devoted to exceptional program planning, design, development, training, research, and capacity building to support equity, diversity and scientific integrity, and promote effective leadership, decision-making and social change. Dr. Bullock partners with public and private organizations to design, develop, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based, yoga and mindfulness programs in schools, community settings, and business. She is an associate research scientist at Oregon Research Institute, Adjunct Professor at the Van Loan School at Endicott College in Cambridge MA, and on the faculty of Oregon Mind Body Institute (OMBI), and at the Integrated Health Yoga Therapy (IHYT) Training program. Dr. Bullock is a long-time yoga and meditation practitioner and instructor, and graduate of the IAYT-accredited American Viniyoga Institute Yoga Therapy Program. She offers private instruction, classes, workshops, and webinars that combine the wisdom of neuroscience, psychobiology, clinical psychology and yoga philosophy and practice. Her goal is to empower individuals, groups, leaders and organizations to reduce chronic stress and increase attention, awareness, compassion, and effective communication to strengthen relationships and embody healthy ways of being.

Dr. Bullock is Contributing Editor for Research at YogaU Online, a frequent contributor to Mindful and Yoga International, and the former Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. For more information see www.bgracebullock.com and www.isaea.com

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Santiba Campbell

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:00:10 +0000

Santiba Campbell, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Bennett College. Dr. Campbell is currently studying Identity Development in regards to academic self, race and ethnicity among African American college students and the effects on physical health, psychological well-being and academic success. This is in addition to exploring principles of equity, diversity and inclusion within the academy and society. A native of North Carolina, Dr. Campbell received her B.A. in psychology from Winston-Salem State University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in the field of Social Psychology from the University of Delaware in Newark, DE. Santiba was first introduced to vinyasa yoga as a graduate student for weekly stretching and stress relief. She continues to practice and strives to develop a more holistic understanding of a yogic lifestyle. She recently completed her RYT-200 training to deepen her awareness.

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Sarah Court

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:51:58 +0000

Sarah Court DPT, e-RYT, is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Yoga Tune Up® Teacher Trainer, and the creator of Quantum Leap. She teaches public workshops, anatomy for yoga teacher trainings, and trains Yoga Tune Up® teachers worldwide. She developed and teaches her Quantum Leap continuing education program to make sophisticated movement science easy for movement teachers to understand and apply to their teaching.

Sarah received her doctorate in Physical Therapy from Mount St. Mary’s University. She brings significant clinical experience to her teaching, attracting clients and students with a desire to move intelligently, regain mobility, or manage chronic conditions.

Sarah is an award-winning graduate of Princeton University.

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Jonathan Dickstein

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:47:41 +0000

Jonathan Dickstein is a PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He researches South Asian religions, Animals and Religion, and Comparative Ethics. He earned a MA in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado-Boulder and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Jonathan is also an Intermediate level Iyengar Yoga instructor.

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John M. Doyle

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:46:04 +0000

John M. Doyle MD , a practicing medical doctor, found yoga at the tail end of his medical training and has been continuing both “practices” ever since. He is a board certified pathologist who moved into Occupational and Urgent Care medicine. His love of yoga morphed into the teaching of yoga. He taught Mysore style Ashtanga and flow classes at Yogaworks and then Dance department college yoga classes at Loyola Marymount University where he also taught yoga physiology and anatomy in the first Masters in Yoga Studies graduate school program.

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Donna Farhi

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:30:39 +0000

Donna Farhi is a Yoga teacher who has been practicing for 39 years and teaching since 1982. She is one of the most sought after guest teachers in the world, leading intensives and teacher training programs internationally.

Her approach to Yoga is informed by the refinement of natural and universal movement principles that underlie safe and sustainable Yoga practice. This concentration on fundamental principles allows student of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic Yoga practice.

Donna is the author of four contemporary classics; The Breathing Book, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness and Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living. Her fourth book Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship is a curricular text for teaching trainings worldwide. She has been profiled in four separate publications on exceptional contemporary teachers of our time, including Yogini: The Power of Women in Yoga.

After nearly four decades of practice Donna believes that Yoga is about learning to befriend our self and to be in friendship with others as a means to building greater fellowship with all of humanity. American born, Donna now resides in Christchurch, New Zealand on a 30- acre farm with her horses, Santosha, Liberty and Ambrosia.

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Ginger Garner

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:00:01 +0000

Dr. Garner is a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill trained doctor of physical therapy (DPT), as well as a licensed athletic trainer (LAT, ATC) and professional yoga therapist (PYT). She has spent over 25 years studying and creating “best fit” evidence-based yoga practices in and outside of healthcare. A clinician and researcher specializing in functional, integrative medicine and wellness, Dr. Garner is the founder of Professional Yoga Therapy Institute® and author of Medical Therapeutic Yoga © 2016, now translated in four languages.

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Ann Gleig

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:50:14 +0000

Ann Gleig is an assistant professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. Her primary research area is Asian religions in American. She is co-editor with Lola Williamson of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013) and her forthcoming monograph on contemporary developments in American meditation-based “convert” Buddhism will be published by Yale University Press. She is currently working on a second book project on the sexual scandals in American Zen and Tibetan Buddhist communities.

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Jivana Heyman

kirsten — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:42:22 +0000

Jivana Heyman, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an international non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings for people of all abilities and backgrounds. Accessible Yoga offers two Conferences per year, which focus on community-building and education, as well as a popular Ambassador program, and Accessible Yoga Trainings. Jivana is co-owner of the Santa Barbara Yoga Center and an Integral Yoga Minister. With over twenty-five years of training and teaching in the Integral Yoga tradition, Jivana has specialized in teaching yoga to people with disabilities with an emphasis on social engagement.

Find out more about Jivana’s work at www.accessibleyoga.org

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