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, 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

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.

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.

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.

Leslie Kaminoff is a yoga educator inspired by the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar. For four decades he has led workshops and developed specialized education in the fields of yoga, breath anatomy and bodywork. His approach to teaching combines intellectual rigor, spontaneity and humor, and is always evolving.

Leslie is the founder of The Breathing Project, a New York City based educational non-profit dedicated to advancing educational standards for yoga teachers and other movement professionals. His unique year-long course, once available only at his home studio, is now available online at yogaanatomy.net.

He is the co-author, with Amy Matthews, of the best-selling book “Yoga Anatomy.”

Hala Khouri, M.A., SEP, E-RYT, has been teaching yoga and the movement arts for over 20 years. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing, a body-based psychotherapy that addresses trauma and its symptoms.

Hala is a co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, a training organization that bridges yoga and activism within a social justice framework. She leads trauma informed yoga trainings nationally and her own 200hr Yoga Teacher Training in Los Angeles. She has been in private practice for 10 years working with individuals and couples. Hala also works with A Thousand Joys training direct service providers in vicarious trauma and self-care.  She lives in Venice, CA with her husband and two sons where she also teaches public yoga classes weekly.

www.halakhouri.com

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James Mallinson is Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Classical and Indian Studies at SOAS, University of London.

He took his BA in Sanskrit and Old Iranian at the University of Oxford, followed by an MA in Area Studies (South Asia), with Ethnography as his main subject, at SOAS. His doctoral thesis, submitted to the University of Oxford, was a critical edition and annotated translation of the Khecarīvidyā, an early text of haṭhayoga.

Dr Mallinson has published eight books, all of which are editions and translations of Sanskrit yoga texts, epic tales and poetry. His recent work has used philological study of Sanskrit texts, ethnography and art history to explore the history of yoga and yogis. His next book, written in collaboration with Dr Mark Singleton, is Roots of Yoga, to be published by Penguin Classics in 2016.

From 2015 to 2020 Dr Mallinson will be leading and ERC – funded research project on the history of hatha yoga which will result in ten critical editions and translations of key yoga texts, four monographs and two large conferences to be held at SOAS in 2017 and 2019.

 Jules Mitchell MS, CMT, RYT is a San Francisco based yoga teacher, educator and massage therapist. She blends the tradition of yoga with her extensive study in biomechanics to help teachers develop their craft and empower them with education. She regularly contributes to yoga teacher training programs and leads workshops worldwide, balancing the somatic aspects of yoga with the most current exercise science. Bringing the most useful and applicable pieces of that science into the yoga community is her passion, even when it invokes a discerning analysis of tradition. Her upcoming book, Yoga Biomechanics: Redefining Stretching, is expected to become available in 2018 through Handspring Publishing.

Neil Pearson is a physiotherapist, and Clinical Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia. He is founding chair of the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division, the first PT to receive the Canadian Pain Society’s Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award, and a previous Director with Pain BC. Neil has worked for the Doctors of British Columbia to develop and deliver Continuing Medical Education on pain management, and is currently collaborating on numerous community-based pain care-movement programs while providing a distance pain science mentorship program.

Neil is a yoga teacher registered with Yoga Alliance and YACEP, and a yoga therapist, certified with International Association of Yoga Therapists. He developed the Pain Care Yoga certificate training program, a series of videos based on the integration of pain science, the lived experience of pain, and yoga, and online patient pain care curricula.