Katlin Robinson

Yoga Therapist

Katlin Robinson is a C-IAYT certified Yoga Therapist, ERYT200 / RYT500 Yoga Teacher, and has practiced yoga and mindfulness techniques for almost 20 years. She specializes in yoga for mental health and women’s wellness, including teenage anxiety, fertility, mother care, perimenopause, and beyond. She has a special... more

Anusha Wijeyakumar

MA, CPC, RYT, Dip Mentoring Anusha is the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrant parents. Being raised in the philosophy of Sanatana Dharma and a lifelong student of Hinduism and Buddhism, she has a vast knowledge in both. Anusha is also knowledgeable in the areas of meditation, pranayama, mantra, and the philosophy... more

Marla Apt

Marla is a Senior level Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher with over 25 years of experience teaching throughout the United States and abroad. Since visiting India for the first time to conduct research for a degree in Buddhist Philosophy, Marla has returned annually to study yoga under the direction of B.K.S. Iyengar and... more

Lisa Clark

Lisa Clark, ERYT500 Lisa Clark, brings 40 years of study, personal practice, teaching and living yoga to her classes, workshops and teacher trainings. A master teacher, she has spent a lifetime merging enigmatic yogas with current up-to-date somatic experience and exploring how the body-mind expresses itself. Lisa,... more

Dr Shailla Vaidya

Shailla Vaidya, MD MPH CCFP(EM) C-IAYT Dr. Shailla Vaidya is a graduate of Dalhousie Medical School, the University of Ottawa Family and Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and the Harvard T.Chan School of Public Health. She is a member in good standing with the College of Physician and Surgeons of Ontario, the... more

Dr Suzanne Martin

Dr. Suzanne Martin is an international speaker, coach and mentor in the field of human movement and potential. As a doctor of physical therapy, exercise physiology and gold-certified Pilates expert, she authored three movement titles with Penguin Books and a fourth in 2018, Spinal Asymmetry and Scoliosis , with... more

Jivana Heyman

Jivana Heyman, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an international non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings. He’s the author of the book, Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body (Shambhala Publications 2019), co-owner of the Santa Barbara... more

Bobbie Ellis

For 35 years Bobbie Ellis has been deeply committed to exploring the territory of inquiry using the wisdom of the body through yoga, continuum, expressive movement therapy, creative process, writing and poetry. She had a 30+ year career in massage therapy and continues to draw on that wisdom. Bobbie is the director of... more

Stu Girling

Stu Girling teaches yoga anatomy workshops around the world and interviews renowned yoga teachers and related professionals. Stu practices Ashtanga Yoga and teaches anatomy & physiology on Yoga Teacher Training Programs. The concept for his site loveyogaanatomy.com arose from the search for yoga anatomy and... more

Dorothy Holtermann

Dorothy Holtermann, CHHC, founder and creator of Eat For Your Genes System, CEO of Nurture Nature Nutrition and Author of Love Food that Loves you Back, an early pioneer of nutrigenomics, dedicated to embracing ancient wisdom and cutting edge science to offer you personalized holistic nutrition solutions to radically... more

Sat Dharam Kaur

Sat Dharam Kaur, ND is a teacher of Kundalini yoga and a registered Naturopathic Doctor, practicing at Trillium Healing Arts in Owen Sound, Ontario Sat Dharam specializes in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. She has a worldwide reputation as a teacher and activist and has been a featured speaker at The... more

Dr Staffan Elgelid

PT, PhD, GCFP, RYT-500, C-IAYT

Dr. Staffan Elgelid PT, PhD, GCFP, RYT-500 is an Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at Nazareth College in Rochester NY. Staffan is a Physical Therapist, Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Yoga Therapist. He teaches in yoga therapy programs, conducts workshops nationally and internationally and sees private... more

Christine Wushke

Yoga Therapist, Author, Hakomi Practitioner

Christine Wushke has over twenty years of experience helping people find wellness and spiritual transformation. She is a certified yoga therapist and registered as a continuing education provider with Yoga Alliance. To her work with yoga she brings her background as a Certified Hakomi Practitioner and a specialist in... more

Shawnee Thornton Hardy

Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, Author

Shawnee Thornton Hardy is a C-IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, RCYT, M.Ed, Educational/Behavior Specialist and the founder of Asanas for Autism and Special Needs and Founder/Director of Yoga Therapy for Youth. She has worked with children and youth for over 20 years, specializing in working with children with... more

James Knight

Gentle Somatic Yoga

James Knight, E-RYT has been an Integrative Therapist and Yoga Instructor for over 25 years. He one of the pioneers in the field of Somatics and is certified as a Hanna Somatic Educator by the Novato Institute for Somatic Studies. His passion is synthesizing the neuroscience of Hanna Somatics with Hatha yoga and other... more

Surya Little

Yoga Teacher, Therapeutic Yoga

Surya Little’s path includes parallel studies in yoga and nutrition. In 1987, she began her spiritual healing while living in Brienz, Switzerland at the Hairakhandi Babaji Ashram. Surya traveled to the foothills of the Himalayas of North India to practice bhakti and karma yoga within the community of her spiritual... more

Shy Sayar

ERYT-500, YACEP

Shy Sayar (ERYT-500, YACEP) is a senior yoga teacher & continuing education provider at the highest level offered by Yoga Alliance. Well into his third decade with yoga, Shy has tens of thousands of hours of experience bringing yoga to students of all levels, treating patients, and training yoga teachers and... more

Donna Brooks

Yoga Therapist

Donna Brooks is an ISMETA registered somatic movement educator and therapist and a certified Yoga therapist . She designs and teaches yoga-based therapeutic programs for diverse populations, especially baby boomers, the aging or injured, and people with chronic illness and chronic pain She has designed and taught the... more

Deborah Wolk

Yoga for Back Care and Scoliosis

Deborah Wolk, C-IAYT, has been teaching and working with students with back issues, scoliosis, and other injuries for over 17 years. Her yoga practice working with her own scoliosis informs the work she does to help others. Deborah met Bobbie Fultz in 2000—her first Yoga & Scoliosis teacher. She later met Elise... more

Celeste Mendelsohn

C-IAYT

Celeste Mendelsohn is a certified yoga teacher with a special focus on working with people in recovery. Her personal experience motivated her to develop Yoga Tarana. She was affected by the trauma of her family’s addictions and that of others who also struggle with the disease. She used her own life experience to... more

Leila Stuart

Yoga Therapist, RMT, Author

Leila Stuart, BA, LLB, RMT (Registered Massage Therapist), has been a dedicated and ever-evolving student of yoga for over 40 years, and has been teaching yoga since 1993. Drawing on her passion for anatomy and her background as a massage therapist specializing in structural alignment and movement repatterning, she... more

Carol Krucoff and Kimberly Carson

Carol Krucoff, C-IAYT, E-RYT, is a yoga therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, where she offers individual sessions and classes for people with health challenges and co-directs the Integrative Yoga for Seniors Professional Training. Certified as a yoga therapist by the International... more

Linda Sparrowe

Yoga Teacher, Author

Linda Sparrowe has a long and varied career as a writer, editor, speaker, and mentor in the holistic healing arena, with a special emphasis on women’s health. As the former editor-in-chief of Yoga International magazine and past managing editor of Yoga Journal , Linda has been instrumental in bringing the authentic... more

Lynn Jensen

E-RYT, RPYT, MBA

Lynn Jensen, E-RYT, RPYT, MBA has been teaching yoga since 1997, and practicing yoga for over 30 years. She is dedicated to teaching women to use yoga as a daily tool to support hormonal and general health. In 2002, Lynn founded the Seattle-based Yoga for Fertility program, and since then has helped nearly 2,000 women... more

Sue Elkind

E-RYT 500, RPYT

Sue Elkind is recognized internationally in the yoga community as a teacher’s teacher, with over 20 years of yoga experience. Her in-depth knowledge of alignment and therapeutics, along with her passion to teach from her heart, allows her students to expand their potential both physically and spiritually. Sue is an... more

Mira Binzen

Yoga Teacher, Global Family Yoga

Mira Binzen is a registered Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level (E-RYT, RCYT), a certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher and a professional Integrative Yoga Therapist (1,000-hour level certificate). She holds a degree in Child Psychology from The University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development,... more

Carol Krucoff

Yoga Therapist and Author

Carol Krucoff, C-IAYT, E-RYT, is a yoga therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, where she offers individual sessions and classes for people with health challenges and co-directs the Integrative Yoga for Seniors Professional Training. Certified as a yoga therapist by the International... more

Katie Silcox

Yoga Teacher, Author

Katie Silcox is the New York Times best-selling author of the book, Healthy, Happy, Sexy - Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women . She is also a nationally-recognized yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner, writer for Yoga Journal , and a senior teacher within the Sri-Vidya ParaYoga lineage under Yogarupa Rod Stryker. Katie... more

Melina Meza

BS Nutrition, Ayurvedic Health Educator, 500-ERYT

Melina Meza has been sharing her knowledge of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and whole foods nutrition with yogis around the world for over 20 years. Melina pioneered Seasonal Vinyasa, an innovative multi-disciplined approach to well-being, and is the author of the Art of Sequencing books including her latest, Asana... more

B Grace Bullock PhD

E-RYT 500, Researcher, Psychologist

B Grace Bullock, PhD, E-RYT 500 is a psychologist, research scientist, educator, author, yoga and mindfulness expert and creator of BREATHE: 7 Skills for Mindful Relationships . Her mission is to reduce stress, increase health and wellbeing and improve the quality of relationships. She offers classes, workshops,... more

Tari Prinster

Yoga Teacher, y4c

Tari Prinster, a cancer survivor, yoga teacher, and author of Yoga for Cancer , developed the yoga4cancer (y4c) methodology using contemporary research on cancer and yoga. Since 2003, Tari has trained over 1,500 yoga teachers and worked with thousands of survivors through classes and retreats through her organizations... more

Susi Hately

Yoga Teacher, Functional Synergy Inc.

Susi Hately is the owner and principal instructor of Functional Synergy Inc. She started yoga in 1995 after becoming frustrated with her recurring injuries as a teenage athlete. She credits yoga with getting her back running. Having experienced the benefits of yoga, she began showing her kinesiology patients the yoga... more

Neil Pearson and Shelly Prosko

Yoga Therapists & Physical Therapists

Neil Pearson PT, MSc, BA-BPHE, CYT, E-RYT 500 Neil makes the complex experience of pain more understandable, while providing practical techniques, and hope for change. He is a physical therapist, yoga therapist, Clinical Assistant Professor at UBC, and instructor for five yoga therapy training programs. Neil is the... more

Cyndi Lee

Yoga Teacher, OM Yoga

Cyndi Lee is the first female Western yoga teacher to fully integrate yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism in her practice and teaching. Founder of NYC’s influential OM yoga Center, Cyndi now teaches workshops and Teacher Trainings worldwide. She is the creator of #selfieatsixty, a series of photos, blogs and an upcoming... more

Leeann Carey

Yapana Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer

Leeann Carey is an acclaimed yoga instructor with over 25 years of teaching experience, who has taught and inspired thousands of students and teachers worldwide. She is the founder and creator of Yaapana, a 300-hr yoga therapy and continuing yoga education program, which educates yoga instructors how to apply yoga... more

Steffany Moonaz PhD

Yoga Therapist, Researcher

Steffany Moonaz, PhD, RYT 500 is a yoga therapist and researcher in Baltimore, MD. She began investigating the importance of mind-body activities at just 3 years old, and has always had a passion and a curiosity about the healing power of mindful movement. Dr. Moonaz spent 8 years at Johns Hopkins University, creating... more

Gabriel Halpern

Yoga Teacher, Yoga Circle

Gabriel Halpern holds degrees in philosophy and health psychology and is a long time member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. In 1985 he founded the Yoga Circle in Chicago which he still directs. Gabriel knows first hand what it is to live with pain and bounce back with zest for life. Suffering from... more

Gill Solberg

Yoga Functional Anatomy

A teacher of movement and of yoga, Dr. Gill Solberg graduated from the Zinman College at the Wingate Institute with a specialization in posture disorders. During his advanced studies he specialized in clinical kinesiology and in adapted physical activity for populations with special needs, which was also the subject... more

Alan Finger and Sarah Platt Finger

ISHTA Yoga, Tantra, yoga philosophy

Yogiraj Alan Finger is founder of ISHTA Yoga, a style of yoga which blends the ancient and contemporary sciences of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda into a complete and comprehensive system of self-development. ISHTA aims to give each student an understanding of how to incorporate aspects from various yoga styles and... more

Suhas Kshirsagar BAMS MD

Medical Doctor, Ayurveda

Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar is a classically trained Ayurvedic physician and a gold medalist from prestigious Pune University. A Rig Vedic Bramhin by tradition and an accomplished Clinician by training, he adds tremendous value to his clients and students alike. He is an insightful Medical Astrologer and Vedic Counselor. He... more

Narelle Carter Quinlan

Yoga Teacher, Yoga for Scoliosis

Narelle Carter-Quinlan BAppSc (Biomed, Hum Mov Stud) is a global leading exponent on yoga with scoliosis and embodied spinal anatomy. An anatomist by academic, experiential and yes, cadaveric training, her unique body of work integrates the practice of yoga with the embodiment of anatomy and embryology. Passionate... more

Amit Gal Alon

Yoga Functional Anatomy

Amit Gal Alon Amit Gal Alon is a graduate of the Zinman College at the Wingate Institute. His specialization is the kinesiology and anatomy of the movement system. He also earned a degree in multimedia and visual communications at Tel Aviv University. CEO of Multifit, a company that produces learning systems for the... more

Jill Miller

Yoga Teacher, Fitness Therapy

Jill Miller is a yoga and fitness therapy expert with more than 26 years of expertise including the moving arts of Yoga, Modern Dance, Pilates, Bodywork and Shiatsu. After many years of movement studies, she felt within her tissues that there were gaps of critical information missing from so many techniques. Yoga Tune... more

Peggy Cappy

Yoga Teacher

Peggy Cappy is creator of the popular PBS series Yoga for the Rest of Us . Her special gift is the ability to adapt traditional yoga poses so they can be done by anyone, and she has over 30 years experience in creating accessible yoga programs for a variety of audiences. Peggy's gentle and practical approach draws on... more

Anita Boser

Hellerwork Structural Integrator, Yoga Teacher

Alignment is Anita’s profession, both in her practice as a Hellerwork Structural Integrator and as a yoga teacher. She believes that alignment is more than good posture; she has found it to be a path to greater awareness, self-discovery, healing, and profound living. For years Anita thought that her body was simply a... more

Ellen Saltonstall

Yoga for Osteoporosis, Sciatica, Back Health, and Arthritis

Ellen Saltonstall (E-RYT 500, C-IAYT) is a yoga instructor and body therapist based in New York with extensive training in the Iyengar and Anusara methods. She has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for over 40 years. She teaches Bodymind Ballwork, a method of self-massage using rubber balls which she... more

Eva Norlyk Smith PhD and Terry Smith PhD

Terrance R. Smith, Ph.D., RYT 200 and Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D., E-RYT 200, RYT 500 are co-founders of YogaUOnline and creators of the Healthy Back, Healthy Body program and series of therapeutic yoga courses aimed at restoring posture balance, core integrity and facilitate healthy aging. Terrance R. Smith has extensive... more

Shakta Kaur Khalsa

Yoga for Children, Yoga for Women's Health

Shakta Khalsa has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 35 years. She is a trained yoga professional at the highest level (E-RYT 500), and was named one of the top five Kundalini Yoga teachers in the world by Yoga Journal . Shakta’s specialties are women and children’s yoga. She is the author of five well-known... more

Amy Weintraub

Yoga For Depression and Anxiety

Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and author of the bestselling Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton, 2012), has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over 20... more