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Maryam Ovissi

Maryam Ovissi

  Maryam Ovissi became an avid student of yoga in 1999, after studying privately with Simin Yahaghi, her first yoga teacher, in California. Since 2001, she has been teaching Hatha, Hatha Flow, Vinyasa, Prenatal and mom and baby classes. Maryam is a certified yoga...

Arturo Peal

Arturo Peal

Arturo Peal is a Certified Yoga therapist who holds a Masters Degree in Chinese Medicine and practices Craniosacral Therapy. He has been involved in the "alternative" health-care field for more than 30 years, teaching anatomy and physiology for yoga teacher trainings,...

Neil Pearson

Neil Pearson

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...

Heather Peterson

Heather Peterson

Heather Peterson is the Chief Yoga Officer and the longest continuous staff member at CorePower Yoga. She has been teaching yoga since 2002 and was hired as the second studio manager for the company in 2003. Throughout her tenure, Heather has served in a number of...

Heather Haxo Phillips

Heather Haxo Phillips

Heather Haxo Phillips, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500 is a restorative yoga and certified Iyengar yoga teacher based in Berkeley, California. She is the owner of Adeline Yoga and has been teaching for nearly 20 years. Heather is the director and lead instructor of the Adeline...

Nivedita Ashok Pingle

Nivedita Ashok Pingle

Nivedita Ashok Pingle, M.B.B.S., M.Sc., is a yoga therapist and the founder of the Millennium Concept, a yoga therapy clinic. Since 1998, she has assisted over 3,000 patients with yoga therapy to control chronic disorders especially affecting lT professionals, such as...

Octavia Raheem

Octavia Raheem

Octavia Raheem is a Yoga Alliance experienced registered teacher (E-RYT) at the 200-hour level. She completed teacher training at Peachtree Yoga Center in Georgia in 2007 and began teaching later that year.  Octavia holds additional certifications and...

Swami Ramananda

Swami Ramananda

Swami Ramananda is the President of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition who has been practicing yoga for over 35 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless...

Luvena Rangel

Luvena Rangel

Luvena Rangel, HHP, E-RYT, RPYT, YACEP comes with over 15 years of experience in international oil and gas, aviation, and logistics businesses. Born and raised in the Middle East and with an academic background in science and medicine from Ukraine, she pursued her...

Matthew Remski

Matthew Remski

Matthew Remski writes and presents on yoga and ayurveda in the shadows of capitalism and climate change. He is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction including Threads of Yoga: A Remix of Patanjali’s Sutras.

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