As soon as I was born I was ready to move! I started walking at nine months and began taking dance and acrobatics at the age of three. It was in these foundations that lead me to see the importance of movement in everyone’s life. I started teaching dance and acrobatics in 1998 and also became a massage therapist in 2002. In 2001 I started work for Dance Associates it was with this company that I began to put some elements of yoga in all of my classes for children and put combinations of movement together like rhythmic with acrobatics curriculum. It was in my work with the rhythmic/acro kids that lead me to discover AcroYoga. When I found AcroYoga I was so excited to see the work I was doing had come full circle having the elements of yoga, acrobatics, and Thai massage all in one practice. I was so drawn to this and became part of the AcroYoga family in 2007. I have been teaching that in this practice we can see the strength and power that we have in ourselves. This practice opened my mind to all that I can do with children as well as adults. Though AcroYoga I hope to create a sacred space for connection and play as well as a channel for healing touch and community.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Jon Dollar
Jon is an Intermediate Dynamic Yoga instructor, 500 YRT. His practice was primarily Iyengar based for 1year, until he discovered Dynamic yoga. Over the past 5 years he has been studying under Godfrey Devereux, creator of the Dynamic Yoga Training Method. Jon has completed two rigorous apprenticeships at Windfire yoga training facility in Tuscany, Italy, studying the Dynamic Yoga Teaching Method, which includes completing over 500 contact training hours studying the theory, practice, and teaching of yoga postures, breathing, and meditation according to the organic principles of integrity inherent to the human body mind. Jon has also obtained a bachelors of science in bio-medicine, with minors in chemistry, microbiology, and philosophy. Currently he is pursuing a Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at AOMA.
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
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.
Rachel Hector
Rachel Hector is an Ashtanga teacher from Yoga Yoga’s Teacher Training program who initially came to yoga for health reasons. These days she says she’s more influenced by her teachers, including Sharon Moon and Bella Lajuzan, who have had a profound effect on her yoga practice. Rachel shares the confidence, happiness and health she developed through consistent practice with her students.
Tavivalaya Meksawan or Mikki Huey
Mikki is the founder and owner of Seventh Street Yoga. It was during one of her regular vinyasa flow practice that she had an idea about a beautiful yoga practice space. The class was a lot of fun but she felt the setting could be better. So, the concept of Seventh Street Yoga was born.
Originally, yoga teaching was not part of the plan, but it came naturally to her when she was faced with a critical decision to keep the studio open. Mikki teaches Ashtanga-style vinyasa flow aka Ashtanga fusion. All of her classes are light hearted and fun but extremely challenging with emphasis on honoring our body as our teacher.
Mikki is grateful for the opportunity to bring about her idea into reality and she hopes that her journey may offer some inspiration to others to pursue their dreams. After all, the beautiful space at Seventh Street is meant to reflect and inspire the beautiful feeling we have as a result of yoga practice.
Mikki feels that she has come full circle in her yoga journey from dreaming about a yoga space while practicing yoga to now teaching yoga in that beautiful space. She also believes that it is never about the specific style of yoga that makes us feel better. All kinds of yoga are equally good. It is yoga! It is all good! So, smile, have fun, enjoy each other, work our butt off and have a great time with it!
See you soon!