PLANET GRANITE SUNNYVALE INSTRUCTORS
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Tuesday 5:45 pm - Vinyasa Flow Jill Glikbarg 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 One Yoga Center, and has completed intensive teacher workshops with Rod Stryker (Pure Yoga - Tantra), Susie Aldous (Viniyoga), and Shiva Rae (Vinyasa Flow). Her empahsis connects breath and body in a progression of sequences culminating to a peak and gradually relaxing into release and stillness. Practicioners are led with verbal cues and hands on adjustments into safe alignment while deepening their practice and experiencing the subtle energies that lie within us all.
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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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Wednesday 7:30 pm - Slow Flow Susannah first discovered yoga in 1993 at Yoga College of India (Bikram) in San Francisco during her first year of law school. Since 1998, however, her practice has mainly been Vinyasa yoga, but with an Iyengar-based focus on alignment, primarily as a result of study with Kent Bond, both privately and as a student at Willow Glen Yoga. She also studied Ashtanga and "Power" yoga before realizing that often strength, as well as peace, can come from slowing down and moving more deeply into one's practice. After an 8 year career as a public defender, Susannah changed paths and became a Yoga Alliance certified yoga instructor through Avalon in Palo Alto. She wants each student to find the joy and peace that yoga has brought to her, and strives to do this with her own blend of knowledge, compassion, music and, of course, humor.
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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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Thursday 5:45 pm - Hatha 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 6:30a - 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 9:30a - Vinyasa Flow A dancer since childhood, Lorraine was naturally drawn to the flowing practice of vinyasa yoga. Through yoga she found a deepened awareness of self: a union of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual states. Her desire to share yoga with others led her to White Lotus Foundation where she completed her first teacher training with Tracey Rich and Ganga White. Since then she has studied with various teachers including Aadil Palkhivala, Ana Forrest, Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley. She is also a student of Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Her classes emphasize awareness and connection of body, breath and mind. She encourages her students to find balance between movement and stillness, strength and grace, effort and surrender. |
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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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A registered yoga teacher and an avid practitioner of the Ashtanga yoga system, Coreen teaches both private and public classes. She completed her teacher training at Avalon Art and Yoga Center in Palo Alto under the guidance of Ben Thomas, a senior certified Iyengar teacher. Her main teaching influences include current yoga instruction from Adarsh Williams in the west and Sri K Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswamy in the east. She has taken many workshops and advanced teacher trainings with the following teachers: Nicki Doane & Eddie Modestini, Bhavani Maki, David and Simi Roche, David Swenson, Lino Miele and Leigha Nicole. Coreen made her first trip to India earlier this year to study directly with Sharath at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore and plans to return yearly. Coreen teaches in a lighthearted and compassionate way to allow students to progress steadily through many different postures and variations while still preserving the essentials of the traditional Ashtanga format. She specializes in linking breath and movement through proper use of the vinyasa and correct anatomical alignment. Her classes are dynamic and challenging, in a warm, encouraging way that allows students of all levels to participate. Coreen's passion is bringing the joy of yoga to everyone.
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Wednesday 12noon - Yoga Foundations As a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance, Misako hopes to shareher 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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