Gioconda Parker
Gioconda is a Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor and has received Yoga Alliance’s recognition as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT- 500hrs). She teaches beginning, all levels and advanced Hatha and Vinyasa classes as well as private sessions. She served as the Yoga Program Director for Castle Hill Specialized Fitness for five years, and was instrumental in creating and directing their 300 Hour Teacher Training Program and 200 Hour Advanced Teacher Training Program. She has led international yoga retreats, workshops and seminars, and enjoys sharing the joy of yoga with students of all levels in a variety of formats and environments. For more information, visit www.giocondayoga.com.

Sharon Moon
Sharon is a Registered Yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance and brings 35 years of study and practice into her yoga classes. She began the study of Ashtanga with David Swenson in 1995 and continues to learn from him every chance she gets. She also now studies Ashtanga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his eldest son Manju Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy. She encourages her students to challenge themselves while working within their limits. She sees yoga as a tool to give us the ability to live in the present moment and experience the peace and contentment that comes from knowing the true Self. Sharon is forever grateful to David Swenson and to Guruji for making it all possible.

Christina Sell
Christina Sell has been practicing yoga since 1991. She is a certified Anusara Yoga instructor and author of Yoga From the Inside Out. Christina directed Prescott Yoga in Arizona until June 2006, when she and her husband relocated to Texas. Christina is on the faculty of Yoga Yoga Teacher Training. Christina’s classes are fun, inspiring, challenging and dedicated to helping people of all ages, sizes and abilities discover the joys of yoga practice and conscious living. She lives in San Marcos with her husband, their two retired greyhounds and four cats. She and her furry family enjoy long walks, bicycle rides, dinner parties with friends and hanging out on the river. Christina is a certified Anusara Yoga instructor.

Hannah Emlen
Hannah is currently a student of Anusara Yoga. She has been a long time student of Baron Baptiste, whose honest, inspiring teachings remain close to her heart. It was in 1999 at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts that her transformation was ignited. She spent many years studying with Baron and eventually became an assistant at his studio and at bootcamps. These experiences continue to feed her growth, and she is forever grateful for them.

Hannah’s classes blend biomechanical precision, soulful expression, breath and silence of the heart; Her greatest aim is to instill truthful, accurate and joyful living off the mat.

She holds a BA in Music from Swarthmore College, and was a classical cellist for 15 years. She is currently studying Visionary Craniosacral Work with Hugh Milne, and is a student at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, where she is working on a degree in Clinical Psychology with emphases in Somatic and Pre and Perinatal development.

Andrew Gray
When Andrew first began teaching yoga five years ago, he simply wanted to teach challenging classes with lots of advanced postures. Then he realized that the students who struggled the most were the students who needed yoga the most, and so he now does everything in his power to make those students feel included. He wants everyone to feel the joy of breath and body awareness cultivated through a mindful yoga practice. He has a 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teaching Certificate in vinyasa yoga and a 40-hour Ashtanga certificate from David Swenson, but the teacher he is today is due to the wonderful students he has had over the years. Find out more on his website: www.elanyoga.com.

Elizabeth Cafferky
Elizabeth is an Anusara Inspired teacher who began practicing yoga in 1995. She was originally introduced to ISHTA Yoga, the Integrated Science of Hatha Tantra and Ayurveda which is a hatha style taught by Alan Finger and derived from the Sanskrit word meaning personalized. This path lead her to teacher training at Be Yoga/Yoga Works in New York in 1999, where she received a 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification. Since then, her practice and training has been enhanced through learning the Universal Principals of Alignment and the tantric philosophy of opening to grace which are the fundamentals of Anusara Yoga. She received a second 200 hour Yoga Alliance certificate focusing on Anusara from Lois Nesbitt and has studied closely with John Friend, the creator of Anusara. With over 600 hours of training in Anusara, she is in the process of completing that certification and has received 500 hour ERYT status from Yoga Alliance. Elizabeth is also Pilates mat certified from the Kane School of Core Integration and has studied Yoga Therapeutics and Kinetic Awareness, furthering her knowledge of injury management and the healing aspects of yoga. She enjoys teaching group classes and private clients to assist students in exploring their own potential and reaching their own inner goodness.

Malia Davis
Dedicated to yoga for almost six years now has opened Malia’s eyes and ears to the flow of life, on and off the mat. Malia’s first discovered Bikram yoga, while seeking her BFA in Design at the University of Texas. What she thought was just a physical practice became a much deeper, mind, body, and spiritual practice. A dear teacher, friend, and mentor, Vanessa Fiola, introduced Malia to Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga in 2004. Thus, she attended one of Baron Baptiste’s Power Revolution Weekends. Baron’s teaches you to live from authentic truth and thus, she decided it was time to do just that. Malia has attended Baptiste Power Yoga Institiute’s Level 1 and 2 trainings, along with various trainings and workshops with Shiva Rae and Ana Forrest. She enjoys teaching various styles: gentle hatha, power vinyasa yoga, lunar vinyasa yoga, kids yoga, pre/post-natal yoga, and corporate yoga. Malia is currently working on her 500 hour registered yoga certification through Yoga Alliance and teaches group classes at various studios and private lessons in Austin, Texas. For more information visit, www.yogawithmalia.com

Elaina Howard
Elaina discovered yoga as a teenager and has been practicing and studying yoga since 1996. She found yoga to be a calming centering influence on her life and wanted to share this experience with others. In 2007, Elaina graduated from 200 hr Hatha Teacher Training at Yoga Yoga in Austin, Texas. Elaina’s emphasis is on Ashtanga Yoga, the eight-limbed path, as a journey of transformation in both her personal practice and in her teaching. She has continued her training with David Swenson, Mary Flinn, Donna Farhi, & Russell Case. While Elaina likes to create a class environment where her students can relieve stress and learn to quiet their mind, her teaching style is also fun-loving and full of laughter. When she is not teaching or practicing yoga, Elaina is pursuing her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Texas. “Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.” (Buddha)

Dido Nydick
Dido is a 500RYT certified yoga teacher. She has been practicing for 8 years and completed her training in ISHTA (Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantric and Ayurveda) in New York City in 2003 under the direction of Alan Finger and staff. She is also certified as a "Relax & Renew" Restorative instructor by Judith Lasater and trained in Pre-natal yoga by Carrie Parker Gastelu. Dido continues to study with teachers that emphasize the connection between mind, body and spirit. Her classes include poses, breathwork, meditation and philosophy to create a state of well-being.

Mark Franke
Mark practices and studies the Anusara method of yoga. He is currently working toward certification as a teacher of this method. When he is not teaching, he spends his time practicing asana, playing music, reflecting on his experience in the world, and connecting with the people he loves.

Lisa Long
Lisa Long began studying yoga in 2000, and over that first year practiced a variety of styles. On one favorable day, she found a local Ashtanga studio with two teachers who presented the asana practice with clarity and enthusiasm. Lisa has been practicing Ashtanga ever since, and has been blessed to study with many great teachers, including Rossella Rossi, Andrew Eppler, Eddie Modestini, Nicki Doane, David Williams, and David Swenson. She is pleased to have recently completed 100 hours’ intensive training in Encinitas, California, with Tim Miller. She looks forward to continued studies with Tim and will be making periodic visits to Encinitas. Lisa has taught in the corporate fitness setting and has also offered private yoga sessions. She now focuses her teaching efforts at various studios in San Antonio and at Seventh Street in Austin. She enjoys a daily Ashtanga practice of the primary series (illness purification or yoga therapy) and the intermediate series (nerve purification). Lisa believes the ‘prescribed method’ is very much worth exploring to discover not only its physical benefits, but also its more subtle and transformative aspects.

Tavivalaya Meksawan or Mikki Huey

With 2 completely different names, life in 2 different continents, I always feel somewhat of a misfit. I don’t belong to either of those names or continents. Yoga practice brings me finally back to my center and teaches me to appreciate the value of present.

I am not a vegetarian. I skip physical yoga practice some days. My headstand is not always straight, mostly slanted to the right.

But, what I learned over the years is that yoga is a state of mind and it is a life-long practice. What I'm doing on the yoga mat, simply is just the physical activity. The real yoga starts when I incorporate what I gain physically from the yoga mat into other aspects of my life. So, even when I don't "practice" yoga, I still "practice" yoga. I read about yoga, I think yoga. I talk about yoga, mostly with another person, or sometimes, dog.

Yoga is part of my life and that is how I teach my class, simply from my heart. I am a yoga teacher but your body is your teacher. I hope to see you soon!