Started Practicing Yoga: 1999 Became Teacher: 2002 (Bikram's Yoga College of India) How I got into yoga: After a car accident in 2003, I was diagnosed with a disc herniation in my lower back. I wasn't able to sit upright, I could only lie on the floor with my feet elevated. My doctors told me I would eventually have to undergo back surgery - which I didn't like the sound of. I had fallen out of my yoga practice, became weak, lazy and tired. Everyone was telling me something different. My chiropractor said I needed adjustments, my physical therapist said I needed to do elliptical running, my neurosurgeon said I needed to make an appointment to cut out the disc, and my Yoga teacher was telling me, "Lock the Knee!" I found that yoga was the only remedy with lasting results. The... Read the profile >>
Objective To expand peoples knowledge of yoga and how it effects their body. To help people understand the value of proper breathing, yoga asanas, and how it can improve their lives. Dorian Bio From the age of 6 dorian has been practicing the ancient technique of yoga. From an early age he accepted the teachings of Paramahansa Yoganda and became a disciplined disciple. Although the bulk of his practice was rooted in deep meditation and Kriya Yoga he later discovered the art of a more extensive Hatha practice to form a marriage between the two. "you must master the body first and then the mind will come next." These are the words Dorian lives by in his practice. "When I was sixteen and visited India for a month I fell in love with a culture that was so rich in wisdom... Read the profile >>
Jesa Simpkins (RYT-200hrs) began practicing yoga diligently in 1998. In 2009 she completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Aloha Yoga Kula in Hawaii. Shortly there after she began training under Andrea Torres at Samadhi Hawaii and is currently one of her aerialists. Her love and practice of aerial arts, dance, Pilates, and yoga (Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara), lead her to meet Ana Prada who began training and sharing her movements known as Aerial Yoga. After many hours of practice and collaboration with Andrea and Ana, Vayu Aerial Yoga was created, combining their love of aerial arts and hatha yoga. Along with Vayu Aerial Yoga, Jesa also teaches prenatal yoga, aerial classes and dances with Samadhi Hawaii and the Iona Contemporary Dance Theater. Read the profile >>
In 1999, at the Bikram College of India in Los Angeles California, Lehua experienced a class that would forever change her concept of working out. They called it yoga and since Madonna was doing it, it must have been cool! "After tearing my ACL and meniscus from years of I running, I reluctantly decided to try yoga, I thought to myself how hard could it be?" Said the once self proclaimed gym rat. "When I left the class of 200 plus model types, dripping in sweat and muscles shaking uncontrollably, I knew I found something that had replaced my gym addiction." After a year of training in the Bikram style, Lehua got a tip on a new teacher in Santa Monica, California who was bringing in 120 students a class and teaching a method called Power Yoga. His name was Bryan Kest. Having gone as... Read the profile >>
Born and raised in Honolulu, Ms. Beppu began her ballet training with Hawaii State Ballet under the direction of Mr. John Landovsky while attending Punahou School. She also studied at the Boston Ballet School and spent summers in New York City training with various teachers and coaches such as David Howard, Wilhelm Burmann, Alaine Haubert, Finis Jhung and Diana Cartier. Romi danced professionally with three major ballet companies on the mainland - American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, and Ballet West. During her tenure with these companies she toured internationally, dancing in Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Japan as well as in the continental US. She danced professionally for 16 years and attained the rank of “Principal Dancer,” a highly regarded position given to only a few... Read the profile >>
Open Space Yoga, Bikram Yoga Honolulu, One with 8 Yoga
Yoga has opened the doors for Ruby to develop a balance between strength and flexibility, contraction and expansion, movement and stillness in both body and mind, connecting the two as One. As an Integrated Massage Therapist with over 2,900 hours of training on the human body, Swedish Massage, Thai Massage, Lomi Lomi and Reflexology, Ruby is passionate about living a healthy well balanced life full of meaning, growth and an abundance of love. In 2010, she received her Bikram Yoga Teacher Certification in Las Vegas and recently completed her 200 hour certification as a Registered Yoga Teacher with Mary Bastien, Murti Hower and Jennifer Reuter at Open Space Yoga Read the profile >>
Purple Yoga / Open Space Yoga / Aloha Yoga Kula / Honolulu Club // Yoko started yoga while in the IT industry in Tokyo. She moved to Oahu in 2005 and decided to devote herself to the study of yoga. // She graduated from Yoga Hawaii’s teacher training in 2006 and extended her teaching skills with Yoga for Kids and Prenatal Yoga. She has completed an apprenticeship in Pregnancy Yoga with Cathy Louise Broda at Purple Yoga, and is currently her Ashtanga apprentice. Yoko is also a Shiatsu therapist (MAT-11603) and is training to be a doula. // Yoko practices and teaches Ashtanga yoga, and spent three months at Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India. She also studied Sanskrit and Yoga Sutra chanting under Dr. M.A. Jayashree while she was there. Read the profile >>
