PLANET GRANITE SUNNYVALE INSTRUCTORS
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Tuesday 5:45 pm - Vinyasa Flow Jill Glikbarg (500 RYT) has been practicing yoga since 1986 in the Hatha traditions of Ashtanga, Iyengar, Power and Vinyasa. She completed her teacher's training in Vinyasa Flow with Mark Stephens of Santa Cruz Yoga center, has completed intensive teacher workshops with Rod Stryker , Susi Aldous, Dharma Mittra and Shiva Rea. She has dedicated her life to teaching yoga full time in the Silicon Valley /Bay Area providing not only public classes but corporate and private sessions. She focuses her narrative on the intimate conversation between breath and body that is often drowned out by the musings of the mind. Her class sequencing physically and energetically culminate into a peak pose and then she guides her students toward relaxing into release and stillness. Practicioners are led with verbal cues and hands on adjustments into safe alignment while deepening their practice. Her narrative takes the mystery out of yoga and allows all levels of students to experience the practice with humor, grace and joy.
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Monday 7:30 pm - Vinyasa Flow Vinyasa - Yin Through her love of yoga and desire to help others obtain maximum well being, Joanie became interested in the healing arts. She is a BodyTalk practitioner (an energy based healing modality), trained at the highest level of the system. She has also studied Reiki, Sound Healing, and Healing Touch. The sensitivity and awareness brought about by her healing practice has augmented her yoga practice and teaching abilities. Her classes offer a welcoming environment that encourages a conscious experience. Allowing the space for the student to create a relationship with body and spirit while deepening awareness of Self. |
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Sunday 4p - Vinyasa Flow Eric has practiced and taught Yoga in the SF Bay Area for several years. He is certified by San Francisco's "It's Yoga" in the Ashtanga style but borrows liberally from other Yoga disciplines and has taught more than 1500 classes to adults, children, and people with special needs like climbers. He has had the good fortune to practice with a number of distinguished teachers and hopes to carry on their teachings with integrity and grace. His classes emphasize breath, dynamic flow, and finding calm and personal growth in the intensity of the asana. Current major influences include the teachings of Andrey Lappa.
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Saturday 11:15am - Vinyasa Flow Janya, CAS, PKS, RYT, is a graduate of Avalon Yoga Center under the mentorship of John Berg. She received the Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist degree from California College of Ayurveda and American Institute of Vedic Studies. She has completed 200 hours certification course in yogic meditation and vedanta philosophy at Sivananda Ashram, Grass Valley. She also completed a 50 hours certification course in Somatic Psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Janya had a few colorful past endeavors before settling into her diligent yogic path. She was a model and actress in her teenage years in Bangkok where she grew up. She studied fashion design at F.I.T. in NY and after her graduation went on to work for Donna Karan and Calvin Klein. She is grateful that her path has magically led her to yoga and Ayurveda. Since 2003 Janya has been an avid student and devoted practitioner of the two sister sciences. As a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist she guides her clients through diet and lifestyle changes as well as implementing herbal medicines, five sense therapies, yoga and meditation. As a yoga teacher Janya emphasizes body and breath awareness. She weaves spiritual teaching of yoga into her classes allowing students to connect with all aspect of themselves and gain physical, emotional and mental health. Her teaching is gentle yet challenging. With sincere guidance and support she urges her students to take an active role in creating optimum practice for themselves. For more information please visit www.medicine-yoga.com. |
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Monday 6:45a - Vinyasa Flow Styles of Yoga - Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Restorative, background philosophy I tend to draw upon many styles of yoga as I believe there is only one yoga and each style of yoga brings new understanding to the yogic path. I try to tune into the needs of each student whether it is building strength and flexibility or becoming more self aware in their own practice. I focus on alignment, infusing balance and creating space with each asana as, I consider, most injuries are caused by either being misaligned, out of balance or from a lack of space. www.dorisyoga.com |
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Sunday 11:15a - Slow Flow Lorraine came to yoga in the 1990s after many years as a dancer, performer and dance instructor. She has extensive training and experience teaching vinyasa and yin yoga. Her primary yogic mentor is Paul Grilley, with whom she continues her studies of Taoist yoga and yoga anatomy. Other influential teachers include Ganga White, Ana Forrest, Sarah Powers and Aadil Palkhivala. Lorraine's classes emphasize awareness and connection of body, breath, mind and spirit. She creates a nurturing space for students to discover joy and freedom in their practice. She encourages them to cultivate patience and gratitude and to take time each day to be still, look within and reconnect with what is true. |
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Linda has been practicing Yoga for about 14-15 years. Prior to that she studied ballet in the Northeast. Her Yoga Practice has expanded over the years and she has come to love the fluidity of movement with connection to the breath in Vinyasa Flow. In Vinyasa, every asana builds upon the previous asana with purpose and intent, with hands on adjustment to guide to a fuller expression of the pose. She completed Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training with Mark Stephens in Santa Cruz. She enjoys learning more about yoga and attend teacher training workshops, expanding her Vinyasa practice. |
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Wednesday 7:30pm - Vinyasa Flow Vinyasa - Anusara Inspired She is known for her eloquent explanation of alignment, ability to help students find freedom and healing in their bodies, for her fun, creative sequencing, and for her skill in teaching extremely advanced as well beginning Yoga students. Annika also works in the field of Yoga therapeutics, working with Pacific Therx, a leading physical therapy clinic in Portola Valley & Los Altos, as their Yoga Physical Therapist, helping clients to heal & rehabilitate from injuries, surgeries, & illnesses. Annika's classes combine a flowing Vinyasa practice with opening, strengthening, & healing alignment. Her sequencing reflects her dance influences & inspires the bliss of movement. Annika is a devoted student of the spiritual philosophy of Yoga, and she offers a compassionate & empowering space for us to open to our highest Selves, offering an opportunity for awakening to the beautiful, brilliant spirit at the heart of everyone's being. |
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Wednesday 12noon - Yoga Foundations As a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance, Misako hopes to share her belief that the practice of yoga can offer dynamic opportunities to discover the youthfulness of the body and to open the heart and mind. She strives to infuse her classes with playful challenges, attention to healthy alignment, and a deep connection to the breath. Misako completed her Yoga TeacherTraining at Avalon Art & Yoga in Palo Alto and is currently a student of Chinese Medicine and Therapeutic Yoga. Her own studies of the Anusara Yoga and Shadow Yoga styles have inspired her to create an integral experience that seeks to balance the neuromuscular system of the physical body as well as the eternal nature of the spirit. |
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Heidi has been stretching and enduring intense athletics throughout her life. Finding traditional Hatha yoga in 2001, led her to believe that yoga is a life long practice to quiet the mind and find your true self. Soon after, she fell in love with the alignment based Ashtanga/Vinyasa style thanks to Laura Camp and Tim Thompson of the Monkey Yoga Shala in Oakland. In July of 2008, Heidi became a certified yoga instructor through the Yandara Yoga Institute in Todos Santos, Baja, Mexico, where she studied alignment based Hatha, Kirtan/chanting, yoga philosophy and Pranayama. Currently her yoga practice is shared with surfing, rock climbing, running and dance. Throughout her classes she incorporates fluid breath, graceful movements, and light-hearted fun into her teachings. As a yoga and elementary school teacher she is constantly acknowledging her students needs and giving them encouragement in a caring environment. Heidi wishes to challenge her students in a positive way allowing each student to find their true potential spiritually and physically.
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Alex Iglecia, MA is a teacher, trainer, mover and shaker working at the intersection of human development and body-mind training. His background includes transformative research during and a MA in Conscious Evolution, Yoga, Yoga Tune Up®, Freediving, Personal Training, MAT, Kettlebells, Self Defense & Martial Arts. Alex is the founder of The Epic Workout® |
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Sunday 9:30a - Yoga Foundations A student of yoga since she was a child Nimmi Kovvali recently completed her Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training program under the guidance of senior yoga instructor Mark Stephens in Santa Cruz, CA. Her love for the practice inspired her to share the benefits and joy of doing yoga with others. Nimmi’s personal practice is based on the principles of satya (truth), ahimsa (non-violence) and aparagraha (not hurting), which she strongly emphasizes in the classes that she guides. She offers a safe space for her students to explore their practice through the use of props and modifications to asanas. Nimmi’s classes have a strong emphasis on pranayama and mantra practices and are choreographed to music allowing her students to explore not only the physical practice but also the practice that develops deep within. Nimmi has studied under the guidance of several well known instructors including Scott Blossom, Marti Foster, Jill Glikberg, Mark Stephens, Ben Thomas, Kent Bond, Janya Wongsopa and Srivatsa Ramaswami. |
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Amy has been practicing yoga since 1994 and still there is nothing she does not love about this path. She believes that the practice of yoga is a powerful one causing extreme amounts of transformation, love, awareness, and consciousness to arise from within us. She has study with many great teachers and styles from Iyengar to vinyasa flow, for the past 6years she has dedicated her studies to that of Anusara yoga. She is currently a licensed/certified Anusara-Inspired teacher with plans to finish her full Anusara certification soon. Her classes are taught in a way that encourages the students to step inside their own hearts and let the truth from within be refined and expressed back out. She uses the principles of alignment, yoga therapeutics, and a philosophy of empowerment and love as a way to create a space for students to explore the field of their body, mind and heart. Her hope is to offer back what has been so graciously given to her by her teachers thus far. Classes may include pranayama (breathing exercise ) chanting and meditation. Amy also loves art, creativity, music, travel and nature. |