Hope you all had a fabulous, fun–filled summer! We’ve added some NEW classes (please see below) & we extend a huge welcome to our new (& returning) teachers who are ready to help you back into your Fall Wellness routines!
NEW!! Beginning September 13th – Mondays 12pm – Vinyasa Flow ALL LEVELS with Lisa Griffiths…also join Lisa Thursdays 12pm for All Levels Vinyasa beginning September 2!
Lisa began practicing yoga in 2000 and has been teaching yoga for over 8 years now. She originally started practicing Ashtanga and then moved into a study of Vinyasa, enjoying the varied Vinyasa teaching styles of Shiva Rea, Cyndi Lee and Bryan Kest. Though she still loves the creativity of Vinyasa, both practicing and teaching, she had the good fortune to meet Kino MacGregor last year and was inspired to dig back into Ashtanga. Her personal practice now involves a balance of both styles. And while she teaches mainly Vinyasa, students often comment and compliment Lisa on her detailed and precise instruction, a skill she has honed teaching many multi-level classes.
Mondays – 10:30am Deep Yoga Bliss – All Levels – with Laura Plumb
This restorative class incorporates gentle movement, deep breathing, healing sound and Yoga Nidra to help you restore peace, balance, vibrancy to heal body, heart and mind.
Mondays – 7:30pm Yoga Foundations (For Beginners) with Jonathon Patriarca…also join Jonathan Fridays 12pm for All Levels Bheemashakti Yoga beginning September 3…and on Sundays 12pm for Level 2-3 Bheemashakti Yoga!
After working as a Nurse for seven years specializing in pediatric bone marrow transplants and oncology, Jonathan became inspired to study yoga. He first became a certified teacher at White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara and subsequently taught Vinyasa Flow in the San Diego area.
Jonathan took his first trip to India in 2004 to deepen his yoga practice, which included studying Ashtanga Yoga with Sri Pattobi Jois in Mysore. He had difficulty increasing flexibility so he remained open to other styles of yoga, but did not find a style that helped him improve to an advanced level. A chain of events led Jonathan on another trip to India in which he studied a few different styles of yoga including Iyengar and Hatha yoga. It was on this trip that he began studying with his current master H.R. Suresh. It was with Suresh that he learned of a spiritual practice of Ashtanga Pranayama and meditation. In addition, he learned the most effective way to increase the level of his asana practice based on an ancient system called Swara Yoga. He moved to India to study full time with Suresh and thus opening a yoga shala with his master called Bheemashakti Yoga Center in Mysore. He has now returned to San Diego to introduce this incredible yoga system. (Please see our website class descriptions for more info on Bheemashakti Yoga.)
REMINDER: We offer “Sunrise Yoga” Classes 7am Wednesday (Amanda Collins) & Friday (Laura Plumb!)
Also – KID’S CLASSES RESTART Thursday, September 16th at 3:30pm with Kate Thompson
Kate says she has always had a passion for working with children. Her motto for teaching is to “Encourage children to be exactly who they are.” Growing up she was always in athletics- from playing Basketball and Volleyball to participating in the high jump and triple jump during track season. She started down her yoga path about ten years ago and it was then that she got her first glimpse on how to really control and understand movement in her own body. Enjoying the physical benefits of yoga is what kept her practicing and it wasn’t until her first teacher training that she began to see the mental and emotional benefits as well. She began combining her love of yoga and teaching children after a training in Encinitas with Pamela Hollander. Since then she has taught children’s yoga in elementary schools, various San Diego yoga studios, The Children’s Museum and the Healing Arts Festival in Balboa Park. She loves to incorporate music, imagination, stories and games in her playful kid’s yoga classes. Her main goal is for children to develop a friendship with themselves. She adds, “One of my favorite books is The Story of Ferdinand and for those who have read it, I want to make my yoga class feel like sitting under that cork tree”.
