Ph.D., Somatic Awareness
![Judyth Weaver]()
Judyth Weaver, PhD is a multifaceted teacher and counselor. She holds a Ph.D. in Reichian Psychology and was co-founder of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and founding chair of its Ph.D. Program in Somatic Psychology. She taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies for 25 years as well as being... more
![Nina Zolotow and Barrie Risman]()
Nina Zolotow, RYT500, MFA , is Editor-in-Chief and a contributing writer for the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog and is the author of the recently published book Yoga for Times of Change by Shambhala Publications. She is a long-time yoga writer, long-time yoga practitioner, and certified yoga teacher. Her special areas of... more
PT, DPT, E-RYT
![Dr Sarah Court]()
Dr. Sarah Court PT, DPT, E-RYT is a physical therapist, movement mentor, and yoga teacher trainer. She is the creator of Quantum Leap, a continuing education program and mentorship community that makes sophisticated concepts easy for movement teachers to understand and use in their work. She teaches public workshops... more
MBA, MS, C-IAYT, E-RYT-500, YACEP
![Pamela Stokes Eggleston]()
Pamela Stokes Eggleston, MBA, MS, C-IAYT, E-RYT-500, YACEP, is the Founder and Director of Yoga2Sleep, Co-Founder of Retreat to Spirit , and Clinic Faculty at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. She is a certified yoga therapist and meditation teacher with specialized training in plant-based nutrition,... more
![Diana Zotos Florio]()
I am a physical therapist, yoga teacher, certified strength and conditioning specialist, mother of three and the cofounder of Threes Physiyoga Method (TPM). I love all forms of movement and consider it to truly be medicine. Through my work at TPM, my mission is dedicated to bridging the gap between yoga and healthcare... more
PhD, MA LMT Somatic Therapist, Educator, Researcher
![Cynthia Price]()
Cynthia Price has been working to enhance and facilitate client body/interoceptive awareness for 40 years – as a massage and somatic psychotherapist, and as a researcher and educator. She developed the evidenced-based mind body approach Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT), which is designed to teach... more
![Deborah Marcia Rubin]()
Deborah is a certified Wellness Educator, Buteyko Breathing Educator, Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, Meditation Instructor, Vitality & Health Tips, Content Creator, Workshop Leader, speaker, and designer of the Clarity Process. Deborah created, owned, and operated several successful businesses and taught and coached... more
![Sarah Bell]()
Sarah Bell (ERYT-500, YACEP) has been teaching yoga for more than twenty-five years. She was on the faculty of the Yoga Works Teacher Training Program for fifteen years, having trained hundreds of teachers in both the 200-hour Introductory Courses and the 300-hour Professional Programs throughout the country and... more
Yoga Therapist
![Katlin Robinson]()
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
Yoga Therapist
![Beth Gibbs]()
Beth Gibbs, MA, is a certified yoga therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapists and a faculty member at the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. She holds a masters’ degree in Yoga Therapy and Mind/Body Health from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She is the author of Enlighten Up!... 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
PT, PhD, GCFP, RYT-500, C-IAYT
![Dr Staffan Elgelid]()
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
Yoga Therapist, Author, Hakomi Practitioner
![Christine Wushke]()
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
Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, Author
![Shawnee Thornton Hardy]()
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
Gentle Somatic Yoga
![James Knight]()
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
Yoga Teacher, Therapeutic Yoga
![Surya Little]()
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
ERYT-500, YACEP
![Shy Sayar]()
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
Yoga Therapist
![Donna Brooks]()
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
Yoga for Back Care and Scoliosis
![Deborah Wolk]()
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
C-IAYT
![Celeste Mendelsohn]()
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
Yoga Therapist, Author
![Leila Stuart]()
Leila Stuart, BA, LLB, RMT (Registered Massage Therapist - retired), 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... 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
Yoga Teacher, Author
![Linda Sparrowe]()
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
E-RYT, RPYT, MBA
![Lynn Jensen]()
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
E-RYT 500, RPYT
![Sue Elkind]()
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
Yoga Therapist and Author
![Carol Krucoff]()
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
BS Nutrition, Ayurvedic Health Educator, 500-ERYT
![Melina Meza]()
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
E-RYT 500, Researcher, Psychologist
![B Grace Bullock PhD]()
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
Yoga Teacher, y4c
![Tari Prinster]()
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
Yoga Teacher, Functional Synergy Inc.
![Susi Hately]()
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
Yoga Therapists & Physical Therapists
![Neil Pearson and Shelly Prosko]()
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
![Douglass Stewart]()
Douglass Stewart has been teaching yoga for nearly 15 years. He was a featured yoga teacher on the TV show Yoga Zone hosted by Alan Finger, founder of ISHTA Center, filmed in Jamaica. Douglass recently co-wrote a teaching curriculum for The Reconnection and traveled to Amsterdam, Italy, Mexico, and Canada to launch... more
Yoga Teacher, OM Yoga
![Cyndi Lee]()
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
Yapana Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer
![Leeann Carey]()
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
Yoga Therapist, Researcher
![Steffany Moonaz PhD]()
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
Yoga Teacher, Yoga Circle
![Gabriel Halpern]()
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
Yoga Functional Anatomy
![Gill Solberg]()
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
ISHTA Yoga, Tantra, yoga philosophy
![Alan Finger and Sarah Platt Finger]()
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
Medical Doctor, Ayurveda
![Suhas Kshirsagar BAMS MD]()
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
Yoga Teacher, Yoga for Scoliosis
![Narelle Carter Quinlan]()
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
Yoga Functional Anatomy
![Amit Gal Alon]()
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
Yoga Teacher, Fitness Therapy
![Jill Miller]()
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
Yoga Teacher
![Peggy Cappy]()
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
![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
Yoga for Children, Yoga for Women's Health
![Lana Reed]()
Since the 1970s, Lana Reed (aka Shakta Khalsa) has had the great blessing to combine her two big loves–children and yoga–into what eventually became her life’s work; Radiant Child® Yoga. She is a trained yoga professional at the highest level, designated by Yoga Alliance as E-RYT 500, and was named one of the top five... more
Subtle Yoga
![Kristine Kaoverii Weber]()
Kristine Kaoverii Weber, MA, C-IAYT, eRYT500 has been studying yoga and holistic healing for nearly 30 years, teaching yoga since 1995, and training teachers since 2003. Her organization, Subtle®Health, LLC, provides holistic mind-body trainings, education, and clinical services with the mission of enhancing community... more
Yoga For Depression and Anxiety
![Amy Weintraub]()
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
