DEVI YOGA CENTER

Devi Yoga Center Teachers

• Kashi
• Kai
• Zoe
• Sara

• Ileana
• Mercy
• Yusuf
• Hannah

Kashi Ananda

Kashi is the owner/director of Devi Yoga Center. She is a senior teacher of TriYoga International, has studied with Kali Ray, the founder of TriYoga since 1991 and is on the TriYoga teacher training staff. Her lifelong exploration of movement, breath and spirit has strongly influenced her teaching style. She has been a professional modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She performed and toured with Poppo & the GoGo Boys in NYC and Group Motion Dance Theatre in Philadelphia among others. Most recently she has begun a choreography project around the flow of TriYoga. Kashi has introduced and inspired many students in the flow of TriYoga who have since gone on to open their own centers from Pennsylvania to South Africa. She is grateful for this comprehensive and complete method of yoga to higher awareness and the Divine Inspiration of Kaliji. In her classes, Kashi creates a safe and joyful environment for students to enter deeply into the inner flow while giving clear and precise guidance for the correct alignments and the gentle spinal wave-like movements unique to TriYoga. The devotion, dedication and compassion that she brings to her teaching, reflect her many years of study with her Guru, yoga master, Kali Ray. Kashi has over 17 years experience in teaching group classes, private and semi-private sessions, corporate classes, children, teens, monthly workshops, retreats and teacher training.

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Kai Panym

Kai began her in-depth study of yoga fifteen years ago through living at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Grass Valley, CA. From this comprehensive and classical foundation, she has practiced and taught a variety of styles, including Bikram hot yoga, Vinyasa flow yoga, and the Ashtanga primary series. Inspired by numerous vipassana meditation retreats, Kai views all forms of yoga as opportunities to cultivate the art of mindfulness. Most recently, Kai was certified to teach the TriYoga methodology and is an intern furthering her study with senior teacher Kashi in Sebastopol and workshops with her Guru Kali Ray in Santa Cruz. She is inspired to practice and pass-on the systematic and graceful Flows of the TriYoga system which seamlessly unite asana (postures), mudra (focus), and pranayama (breath control) in ways that mirror the elements and cycles of the living Earth. Kai cultivates a sacred and nurturing context for her students, encouraging fellow yogis to sense the support and honor the guidance of their inner wisdoms.

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Zoe Rivers

As a massage therapist for many years I understand the importance of taking care of the body on all levels, honoring where it is at each moment. When I discovered TriYoga in 2007 I knew I had found the perfect yoga practice. After completing the Basics teacher training to deepen my own practice I then felt drawn to share this with others. Having this practice in my life has given me greater flexibility and strength, at the same time gaining a deeper connection of mind, body and spirit. Combining the trinity of breath, postures and focus, TriYoga is truly a complete yoga practice. Zoe is a certified TriYog Basics teacher and teaches Gentle TriYoga.

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Sara Alexander

In teaching TriYoga I hope - at best - to share with each student some of the transformations that Tri Yoga has brought to my life: a calmer mind, a free-er spirit, a more open heart, a stronger - and largely pain free - back! At the very least, each yoga class is, potentially, a sanctuary in a hectic world. I first studied yoga (Iyengar) and dance and studied and taught Tai Chi Chuan in Paris in the early 1970's. I pursued my fascination with the interface of mind and body, and of Eastern spiritual thought and Western psychology in San Francisco, completing a M.A. in Holistic Psychology in 1983. I have been a Marriage and Family Therapist in San Francisco (and, soon, also Sebastopol!), for almost three decades. Severe back pain led me to study TriYoga with Kashi in 2005, and I became certified to teach Basics in 2008. www.saraalexandermft.com.

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Ileana Champlain

Ileana began practicing yoga in 1990. Shortly after her discovery of yoga she went to live at the Ananda Ashram in Nevada City. Soon after that her love for the practice led her to India where she lived, and studied with Papaji, studying the teachings of Advaita Vedanta, ( the practice of the non-dual). In 2001 she recieved a yoga teacher certificate from Kripalu and has been teaching ever since. She went on to study Anusara yoga with John Friend and bhakti yoga with Saul David Raye. Ileana also graduated from Ayurvedic studies in 2006, with a speciality in ayurvedic nutrition. She has studied classical Odyssey dance with Guru Vishnu, and currently dances with the bollywood troupe Amrita. Ileana invites all of her students to join her on the journey of deep nourishment, strength, and liberation through the practice of yoga.

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Mercy Sidbury

Pilates

Educated at Mount Holyoke and Oberlin Colleges, Mercy Sidbury cultivated a passion for the study of somatics through her 25 year dance career in the Bay Area and New York. Besides her own personal movement investigations, other influences on her practice in movement education include Bartinieff Fundamentals, Feldenkrais principals, Body Mind Centering, therapeutic exercise, Reiki, Caritas energy work, Iyengar, Kundalini and Kripalu yoga, tai chi, Authentic Movement in addition to 30 years in the field of Pilates. Since 1988, she has taught dance technique, choreography, pedagogy, anatomy, kinesiology and somatics work in the California State University system and other professional and university settings in California and across the U.S. She currently runs Bodywise Pilates Studio in Sebastopol, CA.

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Yusuf Erskine

O.N.E. Yoga
Doctor J. Yusuf-Quddus Erskine began hatha yoga in 1972. He completed his teacher training in 1974 at the Swami Vishnudevananda yoga ashram in the Bahamas. For 10 years, in Charlottesville, Virginia, he presented yoga classes and meditation seminars, integrating Sufi philosophy with hatha yoga. In 1981, while on a pilgrimage to India, Yusuf-Quddus had an epiphany activating his desire to be a healer. A process of discovery ensued, in which he discovered that osteopathic medicine was the best pathway that would allow him to incorporate his yogic experience with medicine and healing. In 1992 Yusuf-Quddus Erskine D.O. started in private practice in Sebastopol, Ca.
Currently his focus is in Osteopathic manipulative medicine, HIV care and classical Homeopathy. Combining his expertise in osteopathic manipulation, therapeutic exercise, and a lifelong practice in hatha yoga, Yusuf Quddus Erskine teaches an ongoing O.N.E. Yoga class series and occasional workshops. New students are welcome!

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Hannah Caratti

Hannah Caratti, M.A., is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the
500-hour level with Yoga Alliance. She has led devotional singing
and taught music for 30 years. For more information about Hannah, and to hear
audio clips of Hannah & Friends' music CDs, please visit www.yogahealingarts.net

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