In order to reduce stress from a corporate marketing job, Kellen took a yoga class in 1996. A year later she founded Fair Havens Yoga in North Carolina, teaching yoga part-time. In 2000 she made a life change and left the corporate world to teach yoga full time in Nashville. Certified by the White Lotus Foundation in 2003, Kellen has rereturned to Santa Barbara to live. She has practiced Ayurveda since 2004, graduating from The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque and studying extensively with Dr. Vasant Lad.

Weaving ancient Ayurvedic healing principles with graceful movement of Vinyasa Yoga, Kellen’s AyurYoga classes create balance in body and mind. AyurYoga uncovers both the physical and energetic experience of a pose. Classes explore the relationship of the poses with the 5 elements, 3 doshas, pranayama, and marma points. Offering students space to experience yoga on a personal level, Kellen helps students turn inward and uncover their true nature through the poses, breath and mindfulness. One of Kellen's yoga philosophies is: "All of life is relationship. When our relationships are balanced, our life is balanced. Finding balance and maintaining balance is a daily process and lifelong adventure." Besides teaching yoga, Kellen gives Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultations.
www.fairhavensyoga.com

Bonnie’s body awareness wasn’t always as refined as it is now, but she learned quick after sticking her foot in the toilet while dancing around in the bathroom. She was introduced to yoga in her teens; with much gratitude, realized how her yoga practice supported her physical wellness and dance career, but moreover, yoga has become a practice for spiritual wakefulness and expanded mindfulness.

Bonnie is a full-on believer of awareness through motion cultivated by internal examination, exploration and expansion, guiding us to our sukha, our space of bliss. Rooted by the transformative yogic breath, various modalities such as dance and pilates inspire her playful and flowing practice. Bon gets super stoked on sharing the art and science of practicing yoga, she thinks it’s a killer way to help our inner light shine brighter and raise the vibration of this earth.

Besides being a yoga instructor, she currently dances professionally for State Street Ballet and teaches children dance for Santa Barbara Dance Institute.

Brett Land began practicing yoga soon after he enrolled in a PhD program in Religious Studies at UCSB because he found the calming and focusing benefits of the postures a powerful antidote to the mental rigors of graduate school. He is especially drawn to the strength and poise that a strong posture practice offers. In 2009 he began teaching classes at Yoga Soup almost immediately after completing teacher training.

His classes usually begin with breath instruction, then segue to standing poses that are held for longer counts, which quicken, and culminate in a vinyasa –light style. A unique thing about Brett’s yoga classes is that they reflect his broad intellectual background; one is as likely to hear the Hatha Yoga Pradipika referenced as they are Thoreau’s Walden Pond or Bachelard’s Poetics of Space. Brett tends to agree with Pattabhi Jois that anyone can do yoga except for the lazy. If pressed, Brett would say that we need poetry to approach the yogic dimension because the thing we brush up against in any yoga class—the clearing, the opening, the easing back of tension—is beyond what we can describe. If pressed further, he would admit that asana is more a whisper than a pronouncement, that it is written more in cursive than typeset, and that, when held in the hands, it is more like feather than rock.

Candice started practicing yoga as a meditation, not as a workout, so every time by the end of the practice she would be confused about how she got so sweaty. She is a mental health counselor who has studied the worlds' wisdom traditions (Religious Studies BA). She delights in all the offerings of Santa Barbara living... especially, oh, the summertime! As we move attentively through the practice, we investigate what is always available for us: breath, truth, expansion. Candice is YogaWorks trained in principles of alignment and offers a practice in which that is safe and fun, strong and nourishing, joyful and authentic. Above all, you get the privilege to continually meet and befriend your true self, just as you are.
"The place to be happy is here, The time to be happy is now." --Wisdom from a coffee mug at Candice's workplace.

Cynthia's classes draw from her many years as a dedicated practitioner in many schools of yoga. Because our lives are fluid and changing, influenced by both our
physical and energetic experiences, the classes have a spontaneity that is
directly influenced by the students, the music, and the deeply rooted grace of
the yoga asanas themselves.

Cynthia has taught courses in yoga philosophy, yoga asana, and human anatomy and brings a very instructional component to her teaching. This attention to detail brings us deeper into our bodies, creating safety in the practice. Cynthia continues to pursue her understanding of the practice wherever and whenever she can. So how often can we practice our yoga? In a certain sense, we are already constantly streaming and honing our attention, our attunement to our bodies and thoughts, and our relationships with ourselves and with others. The time on the mat is simply meant to be playful, fun, a little sweaty, one part adventurous and one part elegant,
and always transformational.

Dana Karpain studied the science of Yoga for 18 years under the guidance of Sri Swami Satchidananda, the founder of "Integral Yoga". Dana has been teaching Integral Yoga for over 15 years inviting participants to re-connect within, and revitalize, strengthen and restore their health and well-being. For more information please visit Dana's website:www.youryogaclass.blogspot.com

Deborah Donohue is a Professional Writer, Yoga Therapist, Reconnective Yoga Practitioner and Reconnective Healing Practitioner. She has also served many families in the community through her work as a Transition Doula (mid-wife for the dying and in support of their loved ones).

Her empathic approach and ability to hold space for others evolved through decades of dealing with her own profound and exceptional health issues that both humbled and gifted her life. She has worked in the healing arts for three decades, many of those caring for people with acute and chronic challenges: AIDS, cancer and cardiac among them.

Emma has been practicing Yoga since 2000, taking her first 200hr teacher training in 2002 at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, after living in Bermuda for 7 years practicing Esthetics and Massage Therapy, Emma continued her journey, left the corporate spa world behind, and headed to Southern California, where she decided to emerse herself in Yoga and its community, after taking that leap of faith, trusting in the Divine flow Emma started teaching on a regular basis. “I blend my teaching style now, I took my second teacher training with YogaWorks, where I was inspired by Iyengar & Ashtanga. YogaWorks teaches a blend of styles, creates a theme and stimulates the student with great alignment techniques.

I create a similar environment, alignment is both important in Kripalu and YogaWorks, and I enjoy creating my own signature style connecting within the Divine Self. You will have a little fun in my class, you will feel empowered in my class and therefore very connected to your body and how it feels. Its important to me that your experience is authentic and that you give yourself permission not to go beyond your limits, you were Born Divine, so, Be Divine” Jai Bhagwan

www.borndivineyoga.com

Jenni Rawlings teaches a powerful vinyasa flow class that focuses on the core principles of yoga while maintaining a fun and supportive environment. She has practiced yoga nearly every day since 1997, and was a dedicated Mysore-style Ashtanga practitioner for 8 of those years. She is a certified Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga instructor, and has also completed a yoga teacher training course with Sarah Powers, an advanced teacher training course with Heather Tiddens and Denise Zaverdas, and a 72-hour Yoga Anatomy course with Leslie Kaminoff. She holds BAs in both Religious Studies and Cultural Anthropology from UCSB.

Jenni has also been a long-time supporter of the Santa Barbara yoga community as the owner of Drishti the yoga store, where she spends many of her days.

www.drishtiyoga.com

Justine discovered yoga as a philosophical tool and compliment to her athletic lifestyle. She was lured in by it's duality: strength and ease, focus and grace. Having found meditation through breathe, and control through awareness, she believes body consciousness and expression through motion are necessary in our fast paced world. After ten years of dedicated practice, she can confirm the truly transformational effects a yoga practice can have in all areas of life.

YogaWorks trained, Justine's classes reflect a modern mix of Iyengar and Ashtanga styles yoga; focusing on principles of alignment, depth of breathe, and subtle body energies. She draws from Ayurveda, chakra alignment, and Buddhist principles, after completing trainings under Tias Little, Sarah Powers, and Richard Freeman. Although each class, like each student, may differ slightly, she works to create a safe place in which we can let go of stress and open ourselves to the surprises yoga may bring into our lives.

The Buddhafield Dharma Center class offers the practice and study of Buddhist and Shambhala meditation taught in the tradition of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the Vajra Regent Osel Tendzin, and Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. Trungpa Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master, artist, poet and social visionary who played a major role in bringing Buddhism to the West. He was the founder of Naropa Institute, Shambhala Training, and Shambhala International, a global association of meditation centers. Osel Tendzin was his dharma heir, the first Westerner to be empowered as a lineage holder in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the co-founder of Shambhala Traning. Thrangu Rinpoche is the Abbot of the Thrangu Monasteries in Nepal and Vancouver, Canada as well as Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. He is also the tutor
of the current 17th Karmapa. Tharngu Rinpoche is revered as one of the great living meditation masters of Tibetan Buddhism.

Sessions each Sunday from 10:45 am to 12:15 pm will include instruction in sitting and walking meditation as well as talks and readings. Call 451-4731 for information.

Randy Sunday is a senior student and meditation instructor. He was the personal representative of Trungpa Rinpoche to New York City and the Director of Dharmadhatu/ Shambhala Center there. He was the founding President of the Buddhist Council of New York and the national coordinator of Shambhala Training. He currently works in end of life care.

Megan loves Yoga. She has immersed herself in an Interdisciplinary study and practice of the many forms of Yoga, Meditation, Bodywork and Healing since 1999. Megan shares a wealth of knowledge and it is from her personal experience and love of teaching that she welcomes you to her Breath of Yoga.

www.megandeainza.com

Over many years, Vikki discovered, explored and studied many different forms of yoga, religions, Eastern & Western philosophies, meditation and “spiritual mindfulness”, quite like a puzzle, piecing together parts of each practice, but never arriving “home” as she describes.  However, after taking her first Kundalini Yoga class in 2007 at Yoga Soup with Siddhi Ellinghoven, Vikki knew immediately that Kundalini Yoga had finally brought her “home”.  Kundalini yoga  became as Vikki passionately describes “my beloved”, as the practice,   gently and sometimes not so gently guided her physically, spiritually and mindfully into the “fullest expression of My Authentic Self”.    During a sabbatical in Italy and an extended stay at a Kundalini ashram, Vikki discovered that her calling was to teach.  Vikki is a KRI certified (200 hr)  Kundalini yoga teacher and a member of the 3 HO International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Assocation (IKYTA).  She says of  her commitment to the practice  and experience of  the powerful affects  of Kundalini Yoga, “It is my honor,  passion and intention  to share this transformational  practice with as many people as possible,  to guide each student “home” to his/her own true Divine nature,  and to assist each individual in reclaiming his/her Destiny to live as  a sovereign Being, in fullest expression of the Authentic Self - walking in grace, joy, oneness, and happiness  upon this planet”.