Teacher Index

Abigayle was reluctant to go to her first yoga class. As a personal trainer and competitive body builder, she was very athletic, but not flexible. She had injured her rotator cuff during a bad bench press, and nothing seemed to be helping. Physical Therapy wasn’t working, and Abigayle was in constant pain. When her friend, a yoga teacher, suggested she try one of her classes, Abigayle declined the invitation, saying her body couldn’t do “all that pretzel stuff!”. Her friend laughed and insisted that it would not be a problem.

Alice Duffy

Alice’s serious study of yoga began when she entered Yoga Yoga Teacher Training in 2002 and became a registered yoga teacher a year later. She has training in Kundalini, Hatha and Prenatal yoga and recently completed training as an Anusara Inspired™ Yoga teacher. Having taught Hatha yoga for years, Alice took an Anusara Yoga™ class one day and was amazed. This tradition has deeply affected both her personal practice and her teaching.

Alyson (Shabad Atma)

Alyson was introduced to Kundalini yoga in 2001 as a way to make a positive change to her own life. She went to her first class "just to get some stretching in." Little did she know, it was going to make her feel happier, healthier, and ignite her Higher Self to live an extremely fulfilled life.

Amy

Amy is a 200-hour certified Hatha Yoga instructor, registered and insured with Yoga Alliance. She began her practice in 2001 with Rodney Yee videos recommended to her by a massage therapist. As her home practice grew stronger, she knew she needed a public class with a live instructor to help her with alignment and modifications. The first public class she attended was here at Yoga Yoga where she continued to strengthen and build her practice, all the way through Teacher Training in 2009.

Ana Pilar

Ana Pilar Cruz is a prolific cook, voracious reader, amatuer gardener, local farmers market peruser, beginning rock climber, and intrepid green belt explorer. Ana Pilar has made Austin her home for the last 8 years, after living in Mexico City and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Angela D.

Angela’s first yoga experience was in the 70's with her mother, Carol Strickler, who has been teaching for more than thirty years. She remembers really liking the “nap” at the end and, in fact, believes the world would be a better place if we could all take a collective nap.

Angie

Angie began practicing yoga in 2000 at a meditation retreat in Guatemala. Over that past ten years, she has studied and explored yoga, Shamanism, and other healing arts. She apprenticed with her yoga teacher and mentor, German Garro, while living in Argentina and has since taken over 550 hours of yoga training and taught more than a thousand classes.

Annick

Annick has been teaching at Yoga Yoga since 2000! Annick's Ashtanga and Hatha Flow classes, as well as her weekend workshops, have a strong following. Since becoming a teacher, Annick has logged over 500 hours of training with some of the most gifted teachers in the world. When students see Annick work deeply into postures, they can hardly believe that when she began practicing she couldn’t even touch her toes.

Ari

Arianne (Ari) Stiles was only three years old when she took her first yoga and meditation class at Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship Temple in Phoenix. Thirty-something years later, Ari returned to yoga to recover from an injury and from personal loss. And then she kept coming back, even after she got better.

Beth

The practice of yoga has been a powerful force in Beth’s life since 1999. She was first amazed at the physical effects of an asana practice on the body, but has since learned that yoga goes much deeper—it has the power to transform not only our bodies, but also our habits, and therefore, our destiny.

Beth L. (Jagat Prakash)

Beth L. was born and raised in Austin. She likes to sing, dance, do karaoke (she is a three-time champion), ride her bike and jog with her dog, Bruce Banner. Her favorite local hangout is Barton Springs and one day she would like to travel to India.

Billy

A practitioner of Hatha yoga since 1995 and Kundalini yoga since 2008, Billy has an ever‐expanding appetite for yogic philosophy and Vedic astrology. In addition to the seasons, he looks to lunar nakshatras as the basis for thematically weaving together practice and philosophy for both his Hatha and Kundalini classes.

Brandon

Amrit Dev (Brandon) attended his first Kundalini Yoga class looking for a way to get a little exercise and relieve some stress. He was immediately hooked on deep breathing and the sound of the gong, and soon discovered an affinity for the spiritual aspect of the practice. He has completed Yoga Yoga’s 200-hour Kundalini Teacher Training program and is continuing his studies through the Level 2 Kundalini modules. He feels blessed to be a part of such a large and wonderful yoga community.

Brock

Born and raised in Idaho, Brock grew up loving the outdoors, snowboarding, and playing soccer. He has studied several martial arts, including Wing Chun kung fu, Tai chi, Chi Kung (Qigong), and Aikido, though he discovered yoga as a way to deepen his Vipassana meditation practice. After sitting in meditation for long periods of time, the agony his body felt was enough for him to seek relief, and he felt that yoga reflected a similar mentality. “Yoga is my moving meditation to prepare me for my still meditation.”

Charlie

Charlie was practicing Bikram yoga every day for two years when he stumbled into Kundalini. After two months of this practice, a high contrast to Bikram, he knew he wanted to teach. The Anusara method, which combines spiritual endeavor with physical work, was a perfect mix. Today, teaching keeps Charlie engaged in yoga. In his Hatha Star classes, students who are new to yoga will get to experience the physical work of Hatha postures. But Charlie also emphasizes the ways that yoga works in our lives beyond the mat. "We must ground our spirituality in real life."

Chris P. (Bhagat Singh)

Chrispy is a Yoga Educator trained in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Hatha and Kundalini as taught by Yogi Bhajan. He is also an ordained Rector and Spiritual Counselor who uses these modalities to bring clarity, empowerment and transformation to his teaching. He has studied with world-renowned masters of the crafts in Tantra, Ayurveda (the yogic science of life), the Chakra system, the Five Elements, Jyotish (the yogic science of astrology) as well as both Yogic and Western anatomy. He is an explorer of sacred traditions, a conduit for teachings, an ethusiologist and studied in entheogens.

Christina (Nirinjan)

Christina (Nirinjan) is a graduate of Yoga Yoga's Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training program and has taught public classes since 2004. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level and is currently enrolled in Yoga Yoga's Kundalini Level 2 Advanced Teacher Training Program.

Clayton

Clayton began his Ashtanga practice in 2004 with Sharon Moon at Yoga Yoga, during a period of recovery after surgery. Clayton went on to become a yoga teacher and yoga teacher trainer. He has taught internationally in the Sivananda Teacher Training program in Vietnam, Cambodia and Taiwan, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Clayton is returning to Austin after spending the summer in Barcelona, Spain to study Ashtanga with authorized teacher Elena Figarola.

Cody

Cody’s teaching style could be referred to as an intensive study in energy ecology. Like his personal practice, his classes emphasize pranayama and raising energy. He has completed 500+ hours of training with his master teacher, Yoganand Michael Carroll, in the Pranakriya Yoga tradition and is currently working towards certification as a yoga therapist.

Colleen (Amardev)

Colleen has been teaching since 1994, and in her training she has explored various lineages of the practice. Her original certification was in Hatha Yoga in the early 1990s, and currently teaches both Hatha and Kundalini classes. She has studied with Jon Friend, Eric Schiffman, Rodney Yee, Sandra Andersen, and Gary Kraftsow, as well as completing Yoga Yoga Teacher Training. Colleen plays the gong, and is certified with the KRI as a Kundalini Yoga Teacher.

Cyndi (Hanspreet Kaur)

Originally from Texas, Cyndi (Hanspreet Kaur) has lived everywhere from Idaho to Deutschland and has happily made Austin her home since 2005. When Cyndi moved here, she found herself surrounded by bright, energetic people who raved about how yoga affected their lives.

DeLora

DeLora was raised in El Paso, and moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas (and get a break from the dry, desert heat). She studied deaf education and graduated with a degree in speech. She then embarked on a tour of the United States. In 1991 she landed back in Austin and has been here ever since.

Deva

Deva was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a military family and traveled extensively in his formative years. In 1982 his family settled in San Antonio but it took 20 years (2002) to finally feel at home in Texas, which coincided with a powerful spiritual awakening, discovering Kundalini Yoga, moving to Austin and becoming a yoga teacher.

Don

Don was born in Beloit, Wisconsin. He completed his undergrad and attended law school at the University of Wisconsin. After that he lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for 40 years, then moved to Austin in 2005 after retirement.

Eduardo (Wayo)

Eduardo Wayo Menachem Ramirez took his first yoga class in college—an Intermediate Hatha Flow that left him eager to explore more. In Austin a few years later, he earned his 200-hour teacher certification and began teaching on the 4th of July, 2004. Around this time, Eduardo enrolled in a 5-day Viniyoga workshop with Gary Kraftsow and was immediately drawn to the breadth and depth of Kraftsow's teachings. He took the 500-hour Viniyoga Teacher Training Course and developed a particular passion for Sanskrit chanting and the role of sound in asana.

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