Tag: Santa Barbara

Yanoula Athanassakis

Yanoula Athanassakis

Yanoula has over 20 years of yoga teaching experience. You can expect a fun, strong, and steady flow. The class will include music and a focus on core strength and intelligent movement. Yanoula has taken multiple trainings and been certified on both coasts (E-RYT 500), and continues to evolve in her own practice and instruction. She…

Shannon Stone

Shannon Stone

My relationship with yoga began over 30 years ago, evolving slowly & intuitively over time. Classes with me are accessible to anyone interested in practicing yoga. Centered around Patanjali’s 8 Limbs of Yoga & The Yoga Sutras, students can expect creative, playful, & soulful offerings, honoring the history & roots of yoga. I highly encourage…

Sean Haleen

Sean Haleen

Sean Haleen has been teaching alignment focused Yoga since 2007 and was named one of the top Millennial Yoga teachers by Yoga Journal. His passion for teaching exudes through his detailed, challenging, yet famously playful classes that explore the body in unique and engaging ways.

Madeleine Pizey

Madeleine Pizey

Madeleine came to this work in search of a way to heal some of her deepest wounding. What she found from being able to go within herself, to be still inside that sea of emotional turbulence, was a truth that would change her life in ways that she is still discovering decades later. She has…

KiaOra Fox

KiaOra Fox

KiaOra Fox is an Integrative Embodiment Specialist, certified in 5Rhythms®, Reset Meditation, Hypnotherapy, Massage Therapy, Hatha Yoga, Restorative and Therapeutic Yoga, Pre and Post Natal Yoga and BASI Pilates. She has been teaching for over 20 years in both group and private practice.  KiaOra was born with the empathic gift of attunement and is able…

Jessica Chazen

Jessica Chazen

I love not knowing what a yoga class will bring…what will be released, what inspiration will come through. I am forever a student of my yoga practice and my life, and I love sharing the practices that heal me with my students. I encourage my students to view the entire asana practice as a meditation,…

Elyse Grossman

Elyse Grossman

I’ve always been physically active and was looking for something both challenging and grounding which is how I found my way into my first yoga class in Santa Cruz in 1995. I developed my personal study of yoga in San Francisco and Oakland and completed my first teacher training in 2014. Yoga ignited the essence…

David Hurwith

David Hurwith

David Hurwith made a life of dancing and performing for three decades. David’s company, The Antediluvians, performed his work at venues large and small worldwide. In the midst of his dance career he began studying anatomy, kinesiology through Body/Mind Centering®. David’s interest in the body’s natural expression and health supplanted an art career.   For the…

Amber Goodenough

Amber Goodenough

Amber was instantly hooked after attending her first yoga class in 2006. Since that time her journey of self-discovery led her to complete her 200hr Hatha Yoga teacher certification with Susi Amendola in Omaha, Nebraska. Amber is also a holistic life coach for women with chronic pain and anxiety. She believes that connection with self…