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Tom Abrehamson
Tom teaches an Iyengar-based style of yoga. He includes Pranayama in his classes on a regular basis.
Tom is an certified yoga teacher (E-RYT) with a BA from Princeton and a JD law degree who has studied yoga since the late 1970s. He has taught over 5000 classes in the mid-peninsula since 2000 and has taken over six hundred hours of teacher training. Tom has taught at Yoga of Los Altos since its inception and has had 25,000+ students in his classes over the last eight years.
Tom's classes are mixed-level classes that afford both beginners and more advanced students the opportunity to work at their own levels. His classes combine precise instruction with individualized attention and gentle humor. His students work hard, make progress and have fun.
Cheryl Acheson
Yoga is Cheryl's passion, and she brings a wonderful energy to every class. Cheryl has formal training in both Iyengar Yoga and Anusara Yoga. Her teachers include Tom Abrehamson, Kenny Graham, Darren Rhodes, Kelly McGonigal and current mentor, Chrissy Graham. Cheryl has had over 150 hours of Anusara training, 200 hours of Yoga Alliance training and 120 hours of apprenticeship.
Cheryl teaches Yoga Basics which focuses on alignment and safely building an asana foundation.
Karen Alderete
Karen teaches a Vinyasa style of yoga. She has also studied Anusara Yoga. Karen first came to the practice as an augmentation to her overall fitness and has become devoted to Yoga for the positive effects it brings to every aspect of her life. She completed a teacher training program in 2008. She has since completed advanced immersion teacher training in Anusara Yoga. As a Certified Massage Therapist, Karen infuses anatomical alignment principals and injury-prevention techniques throughout her teaching.
In her classes students find a supportive and safe environment in which to explore the deep connection to the spirit through challenging the body and mind. All levels of practitioner are welcome to share the experience.
Karen also works at Stanford as a program manager for Alumni Travel. She travels the world in that role.
Lauren Anas
Lauren was a previous classical ballet dancer with a love for dance, yoga, and anything that helps the body open up and release stress from our daily life. She graduated from teacher training in Palo Alto, CA in 2007 and recently returned from India, a month long trip to deepen her yoga practice. Lauren has studied with teachers from different traditions including Ben Thomas, Richard Freeman, and Max Strom.
Yoga has helped Lauren physically maintain a healthy body and the meditation of it has created a foundation for her to live a much happier and sustainable life.
Lauren teaches yoga in order to share with others the freedom that yoga offers, freedom in the body and mind. Her style is Vinyasa and her classes are challenging, with the intention of building strength, flexibility, awareness, and confidence, using the power of the breath and the movement of the body. Lauren wants her students to find their edge, to find a place where they physically are working hard and still very much enjoying all that yoga has to offer. Class is a place to practice, smile, explore, and enjoy!
Andi Bruno
Andi thought it was high time for a yoga studio in Los Altos, so in August of 2003 she started Yoga of Los Altos. Andi feels extremely blessed that the studio is thriving and she is very grateful to all the wonderful students and superb instructors that are an integral part of the Yoga of Los Altos community.
Andi has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years, and started teaching yoga in 2000. She has also had a meditation practice for the last 25 years.
Andi's yoga practice has been influenced her many wonderful teachers including Laura Foley, Sarah Powers, Paul Grilley, Jim & Ruthie Bernaert, Noah Maze,and Hareesh Wallis.
Andi obtained her first teaching certification in Yin Yoga from Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley in 2000. She also completed a 200-hour advanced teacher training course at the Yoga Kula in Berkeley in 2004. Andi competed another 200-hour teacher training in early 2009. Andi then completed Advanced Teacher Training with Noah Maze and Darren Rhodes in September 2009. In early 2011 Andi completed another 100 hour teacher training with Noah Maze. Andi just completed a 150 hour philosophy immersion with Chris (Hareesh) Wallis.
Andi loves all forms of yoga - Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Therapeutic, Iyengar, Anusara, and Yoga Nidra. She also believes that it is extremly beneficial for serious yoga students to develop a regular pranayama and meditation practice to accompany their physical asana practices.
Other than teaching yoga, Andi's favorite thing is to take yoga teacher trainings and to ski (which she plans to do alot this coming year).
Andi brings clear and precise instruction to each yoga pose. She also brings a fun tone into each and every class. Andi truly believes that all of yoga is to be enjoyed !
Daniella Cotreau
Daniella Cotreau is the founder of Body Temple Yoga. Her teachings embody a Heart-Centered approach to Hatha Yoga, She artfully blends detailed alignment cues with inspiring themes, making her classes a beautiful and delightful synergy of precision and grace.
Daniella's teachings are highly influenced by her 6 years of training in Anusara Yoga. This intensive education has given her incredible tools for helping hersel as well as her students make healing and long lasting changes in their bodies and lives. She is a certified E-RYT 500- RYT 500 yoga instructor with over 6000 hours of teaching experience.
Daniella's highest intention is to empower each student to awaken to their own Heart. She wants her students to uncover their individual gifts and inherent talents and use them to serve life/humanity/our planet fully.
Hillary Easom
Hillary began practicing yoga in 1997 using a book recommended by a friend. Soon after, she started taking classes in Iyengar and later Vinyasa yoga and loved the energy created in a classroom of yogis practicing together. Yoga helped her develop body and breath awareness that worked wonders during two pregnancies and childbirths. Hillary then completed formal yoga teacher training.
Hillary’s classes combine breath awareness and physical postures in an effort to open the body, mind and spirit to all that is possible. She aims to ensure that every student—regardless of fitness level or experience—finds something magical in the practice. She loves teaching prenatal yoga.
Marti Foster
Marti Foster, a native Californian from our own community of Los Altos. She was raised with a strong respect for physical health, intellectua growth, and spiritual awareness. From a very young age, dance, movement and music were an integral part of her everyday life.
From very early on, she knew that her life's work would be dedicated to the healing sciences. Her intense curiosities about human physiology led her into professions including the fields of Neurological Health Care, Cardiovascular Medicine, and Sports Medicine Rehabilitation.
Marti teaches Vinyasa Yoga, a form of yoga in which a sequence of asanas are linked to complement one another. This style of yoga often resembles a choreographed dance. Each class is individually choreographed and set to music, making each class one of a kind experience.
Today, her teaching has expanded into a new maturity. At the beginning of her yoga journey, it was only a method of attaining physical well-being and increased athleticism. However, she has found that yoga is also a vehicle to heal the mind and spirit. This powerful aspect of yoga, blended with Marti's creativity now brings a true integration of body, mind and spirit into her unique interpretation of Hatha yoga.
Amy Fowlkes
Amy is an Anusara Inspired Instructor.
She is a licensed physical therapist with master’s degrees in physical therapy (MPT) and exercise physiology (MS). Her interests in alignment and muscle balance led to studying of Anusara Yoga. She has studied with Kenny Graham, Laura Christensen, and Stacey Rosenberg. As a physical therapist, this style of yoga aligns and resonates well with her knowledge of biomechanics and therapeutic exercise.
Amy enjoys integrating anatomy, physiology, and precise alignment to her classes and workshops. She has a great passion for helping people to heal themselves and is highly recommended by local physicians and patients for her skill at treating patients. She is currently the clinic director and works full-time with patients at Mountain View Physical Therapy. The Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness and the alignment principles of Anusara yoga are a perfect fit with her background.
With a sports background in collegiate running, triathlons, and competitive road cycling, Amy likes to invite students to work hard and safely push their limits!
Chrissy Graham
Chrissy teaches Anusara Yoga.
Chrissy is a Certified Yoga Instructor. She started to practice yoga to heal her body. Chrissy was first introduced toYoga through a chance encounter with Emily Dubin.
Chrissy has also studied with a number of other highly skilled Anusara teachers. She has studied with fabulously skilled teachers including Mitchell Bleier and Amy Ippoliti. She has also spent many hours studying in the Philosophical traditions of Rajanaka with Dr. Douglas Brooks.
Chrissy presently teaches all over the Bay Area. Chrissy brings a dynamic, and supportive energy to her classes that blends philosophy,yoga therapeutics, and insightful wisdom, from her own life experiences.
Osha Hanfling
Osha teaches Iyengar Yoga.
Osha has been teaching yoga in the Iyengar Tradition since 1984, having studied directly with the Iyengars in India. She is a very well known and respected Iyengar teacher. She currently teaches in San Francisco at the Abode of Iyengar Yoga and at Yoga of Los Altos on Thursdays at 11am.
Osha takes a personal approach with her students, meeting them at their level and inspiring them to deepen their practice. Osha sees yoga as a tool for transformation and inner freedom. She believes that through the process of the asana we harness the mind, wake the sleeping body, and begin to discover and generate awareness of our psycho-spiritual selves.
Doron Hanoch
Doron has superb training and transmits his vast knowledge of yoga and meditation to his students in a fun and enjoyable way. Doron recently returned from studying in India at the Mysore Mandala Ashram under the tutelage of MV Chidananda in the Krishnamacharya linage.
Doron is a certified 550 hour Yoga Teacher (RYI). He was introduced to yoga and meditation in 1992 while traveling and studying in the Far East. Doron has gone to India many times to deepen his spiritual and asana practices. He has studied under the guidance of Pattabhi Jois and his family including Sharath and Saraswati. He is fortunate to have studied with some other great Ashtanga teachers such as Richard Freeman (teacher training, Boulder, CO), Rolf and Marci, (Goa, India) Tim Miller (India), Adarsh and Heleen (Mountain View, CA), Amy Santos (New York), Gouda Hedwig (New York), and Shashadri (Mysore, India) and a Vinyasa teacher training with Mark Stephens (Santa Cruz).
Doron’s teachings are based on the foundation of tradition with a practical and non-dogmatic way. Movements flow from one to another in rhythm with the breath, emphasizing grace as the opening to a meditative practice. Doron is also a trained chef, a certified nutrition consultant (registered with the AADP) and an artist. He uses all his skills to create a holistic experience for his students.
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Karen McCavitt
Karen has been practicing yoga for 20 years and graduated from The Iyengar Yoga Institute's Advanced Teacher Training Program. Karen has been featured in the Yoga Journal for her expertise in yoga for cyclists. Karen's focus is to balance strength and flexibility in a flowing style.
Cassandra McDonough
Cassandra is a Prana Flow and Kripalu certified yoga instructor with over 700 hours of teacher training. She invites students to practice the healing and life-affirming practice of yoga using her sweet and caring teaching style. Cassandra spent a year immersed in an intensive volunteer program at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA where she had the opportunity to study with many world-renowned teachers from many healing traditions. She continues to study with both the Kripalu Center and Shiva Rea.
Marissa Nasca
Marissa loves yoga and it shows. Yoga has been a wonderfully healing practice for her and she started teaching to share it with others.
Marissa completed a 200 hr Vinyasa teacher training in 2008. She completed a yoga Immersion with Madhuri Martin in Denver, Colorado. Marissa just completed another Teacher Training and is enjoying the journey. Anatomy, philosophy, and heart felt enthusiasm are at the core of her classes.
Marissa's light spirit provides a playful atmosphere for her students to build confidence and expand.
Sheryl Nonnenberg
Sheryl Nonnenberg has been practicing yoga for 11 years and graduated last year with 200 hours of training. She has also studied with Tias Little, Sarah Powers, Paul Grilley, Rodney Yee and our own Rebecca Snowball.
Sheryl teaches Yin as she enjoys the passive practice, as well as a meditative experience
Sheryl is an art writer/researcher and live in Menlo Park with my husband, Lane. She has two adult children, Cara and Reid.
Dina Prioste
Dina has been teaching vinyasa yoga since 2004 and received her 500 hours of teaching certification from Atmananda Yoga and B Yoga, both in New York City. She’s also certified to teach Therapeutic, Prenatal and Kid’s Yoga. Dina’s classes incorporate mindful intention and flowing sequences to build strength, improve flexibility and increase confidence in her students.
Birgit Reimer
Birgit Reimer teaches the Iyengar Yoga style in the direct lineage of her deeply respected mentor Yogacharya Benjamin A. Thomas, a senior teacher in this tradition. Under her mentor's guidance she studied for 10 years and has completed more than 2000 hours of training. Birgit teaches level I-III asanas and pranayama. She continuously travels to India to study with the Iyengar family.
Birgit's classes are a fusion of asanas, pranayama, meditation, chants and the rare opportunity to learn the Yoga Sutras of Sri Patanjali. Birgit's deep roots in Soto Zen meditation, Shotokan karate and energy work - contribute to a well-balanced and harmonious atmosphere in her classes. She encourages the students to create balance and equalibrium through alignment and precision, to move with the rhythm of their breath and she encourages here students to keep both the heart and mind open, humble and free.
Michelle Darby Ross
Michelle Darby Ross began practicing yoga in 1996 and became a certified teacher in 2002. Her goal in teaching pre-post-natal yoga is to provide a supportive environment where mothers can connect with their bodies and each other, and develop and nurture their physical and emotional strength using community, asanas and breath.
Michelle's initial interest in yoga was primarily for flexibility and rehabilitation after experiencing numerous sports injuries. However very shortly after beginning this journey she discovered the spiritual depth that appears with regular practice. She spent the first few years practicing with a beloved Iyengar instructor in San Francisco. In 1996 she started practicing Transcendental Meditation and studying Ayurveda. In 2002 she became certified to teach Bikram Yoga and soon afterward started offering Bikram Pregnancy Workshops. In 2006 Michelle was delighted to discover Anusara yoga and has taken workshops and intensives.
While pregnant with her twins in 2009 she became certified to teach Whole Birth Pre-Natal Yoga with Robin Sale. Michelle is the proud mother of twins Tate & Fiona born on April 27, 2009.
Anirudh Shastri
Shastri teaches a Dynamic Vinyasa Flow
Anirudh Shastri is a well-known and highly respected hatha yoga teacher with an extensive background in yoga philosophy. He has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years, bringing his deep knowledge of the physical and spiritual aspects of yogic philosophy to his many students on the peninsula and in the South Bay.
Shastri trained in India and studied under the guidance of Shri Vishnu Prasadji.
Hillary Skibell
Hillary offers students a physically challenging practice. She puts emphasis on breath, core, and subtle body awareness. Each of her classes draws on the student's inner experience to uncover what is possible on the mat and beyond the mat. Along with her studies in Vinyasa Flow, Iyengar, Yin Yoga and Meditation, Hillary draws fron her belief in an integrative approach to yoga.
Rebecca Snowball
Rebecca Snowball is an alignment based yoga teacher and certified Vinyasa teacher. She training initially with Ganga White and Tracy Rich of the White Lotus Foudation and is currently on the path to Yoga Certification. She has completed over 300 hours of yoga study, including an immersion with Kenny Graham, Teacher Training Level 1 with Stacey Rosenberg, Teacher Training Level II .
Rebecca is a magnificant yoga teacher having recently won high praise in the 2012 People's Choice Award for one of the best yoga instructors on the Peninsula - Palo Daily News.
Janya Wongsopa
Janya teaches Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga
She received her formal yoga training in a 200 hour program under the mentorship of John Berg. Janya also received the Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist degree from California College of Ayurveda and American Institute of Vedic Studies as the class valedictorian. 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.
She has studied yoga with Scott Blossom, Judith Lasater and Sarah Powers as well as several gifted teachers in the bay area.
Janya’s teaching emphasizes body and breath awareness. She weaves spiritual teaching of yoga in to her classes while keeping participants constantly tuned in to the body. This allows participants 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.
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