About Sianna Sherman

Sianna Sherman is an internationally renowned yoga teacher, community activator, evocative storyteller and a passionate speaker at festivals throughout the world. She is the catalyst of Rasa Yoga, founder of Mythic Yoga Flow® and co-founder of RITUAL dedicated to the empowerment of women as community leaders. As a globetrotting yogini, she offers high vibration gatherings, teacher trainings, workshops, sacred site retreats, and pilgrimages wherever she goes. Sianna is an innovative, visionary spirit with a deep devotion to Soul Alchemy. Her life mission is to Ignite Magic! 

About Maty Ezraty

In this candid interview, Maty shares her personal struggles in working with issues of low self worth, and how the practice of yoga and meditation have supported her to heal. She speaks of the need for practitioners of all levels to make the space to slow down and observe the mind in order to cultivate the mental peace so many of us are seeking.

About Maty Ezraty

​​Maty Ezraty is a uniquely inspiring teacher known for her dynamic style of teaching, a keen eye for observation and a depth of knowledge that is steeped in years of practice.

Maty discovered yoga in her early 20's after years of dance. Seeking meaning in her life and a sense of freedom from daily suffering, she found in yoga calmness of mind, confidence, and a strong feeling of being centered.

While living in Los Angeles, Maty had the opportunity to meet and study with many of the world's most renowned yoga teachers, including the three who would have the greatest influence on her teaching: Dona Holleman, Gabriella Giubilaro and Pattabhi Jois.

Maty met Pattabhi Jois in 1985 when he visited the Center for Yoga in Los Angeles where she was a teacher and director. This encounter initiated a long journey of study and practice including many trips to Mysore. She was one of a handful of women to complete some of the advanced sequences.

In recent years, Maty has frequently studied at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India where she has had the privilege of attending Geeta Iyengar's classes. The Iyengar system is a rock in her practice and teaching.

Maty began teaching yoga in 1985. In 1987 she opened Yoga Works. The first school of its kind, Yoga Works offered different styles of yoga including Iyengar and Ashtanga as well as workshops with many of the world's best-known teachers. This created a diverse and engaging dialogue within the yoga community.

Maty created the Yoga Works classes out of a desire to create consistency in the curriculum while integrating elements from the different traditions. These classes were divided into levels and drew from the Ashtanga concept of Vinyasa and the precise instructions taught by the Iyengar system. Classes were safe, made use of props and centered around a theme.

Yoga Works grew to offer more than 120 classes per week, serving more than 700 students per day. Maty directed and shaped the Teacher Training Program for over 16 years. She has trained some of the leading teachers in the US. In 2004, Maty sold Yoga Works, which continues as a leading school today.

A prominent figure in the evolution of yoga in the United States, Maty has been called a “innovator” by Yoga Journal for which she wrote the Asana Column in 2001 and in 2009.

Maty's viewpoint is unique and holistic, gleaned from her years of study in the Ashtanga and Iyengar traditions. She is known for her joyful, engaging and determined approach and is revered as a teacher’s teacher.

Today, Maty holds workshops, retreats and teacher trainings internationally. She is a student of Vipassana meditation and has studied with Joseph Goldstein at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and at Spirit Rock in California.

She continues to be inspired by her many years of practice and is devoted to bringing the spirit of yoga and her love of meditation to all her students.

Stop Waiting. Wholeness is Who You Are

In this moving satsang transmission, Anand Mehrotra shares the power of tuning into your Self as pure, loving consciousness as you heal through the many layers and levels of your being. He offers wisdom for understanding our modern challenges and dis-ease, and how a holistic approach to yoga as a total lifestyle brings the wholeness we are seeking.

About Anand Mehrotra

Anand Mehrotra is a world renowned visionary master, evolutionary thought leader, and entrepreneurial and social change trailblazer. He was born and raised in Rishikesh, India – the birthplace of yoga. Combining the ancient wisdom of his upbringing with a lighthearted rebelliousness, Anand’s unique brilliance appeals to modern audiences in both the East and West. He is the founder and Master Teacher of Sattva Yoga – a holistic, ever-evolving practice that combines asana, pranayama, meditation, kriya, and wisdom. Sattva Yoga inspires students to experience freedom, radical aliveness, and their most authentic Selves on every level.

Self-Less Healing

With gentleness and heart, Richard and Mary share their decades of experience in embodying and teaching selflessness as a path and practice of wholeness. Be prepared to be deeply inspired as they share the precision, acceptance and kindness that allows yoga to be the work that leads to a life well lived. 

About Richard Freeman

​Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968, beginning with one simple sitting posture in the Zen tradition. He spent nine years in Asia studying yoga asana, Sufism, Sanskrit language, and Indian philosophical texts, contextualizing them within the turbulent political times of that period in history. In 1974 Richard began working with B.K.S. Iyengar, with whom he studied precise alignment principles, applying them to his own internally rooted experience of the forms. Drawing from this variety of contemplative traditions, and from Buddhism, in which he cultivates a deep interest, Richard teaches the Ashtanga Vinyasa method of yoga as taught by his principal teacher, the late Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India.

Richard’s metaphorical, often humorous, teaching style appeals to students of many backgrounds and nationalities. He teaches workshops and trainings throughout the world, and remains an avid student fascinated by the linking points between different traditions and cultures. He is the co-founder, with Mary, of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado; has produced a number of highly regarded yoga audio and video recordings; and is the author of The Mirror of Yoga and co-author of The Art of Vinyasa (Shambhala Publications).

About Saul David Raye

Saul David Raye is known for his unique and transformational approach to yoga, and spirituality. Saul’s teaching draws on 25 years of study and practice in yoga, Bhakti& tantra other forms of universal light, love and wisdom. His teaching is authentic and empowering, it comes from the heart, allowing students to connect deeply with their own inner power and light. Saul's teachings are grounded in a deep love and respect for Mother Earth and the great Spirit that flows through all of life. Saul shares this work through teacher trainings, workshops, classes, and sacred journey's. 

Anxiety & Healing Human Disconnection

In this candid conversation, Kathryn shares her journey with anxiety and the importance of human connection on the healing path. She cautions us of the pervasiveness of spiritual bullying, and shares why seeking a cure is not always the most helpful approach when it comes to our healing.

About Kathryn Budig

​​Kathryn Budig is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher, author, and co-host of the podcast, Free Cookies. Kathryn is known for her accessibility, humor, and ability to empower her students and readers through her message, “aim true.” The Kansas native graduated from the University of Virginia with a double degree in English and Drama before moving to Los Angeles, where she trained at Yogaworks under the tutelage of her mentors, Maty Ezraty and Chuck Miller.

With over a decade of experience in her field, Budig served as the yoga editor to Women’s Health magazine for five years, contributed recipes and sat on the Yahoo Health Advisory Board, and regularly contributes to Yoga Journal and MindBodyGreen. She was a featured athlete in Under Armour’s “I WILL WHAT I WANT” campaign, and is the founder of her animal project, Poses for Paws. Kathryn is also a budding designer, creating a capsule collection for KiraGrace, Asha Patel Designs and Vapour Beauty. She is the creator of the Aim True Yoga DVD, author of The Women’s Health Big Book of Yoga, and best-selling Aim True. You can practice with her regularly on Yogaglo.com.

Self-Less Healing

With gentleness and heart, Richard and Mary share their decades of experience in embodying and teaching selflessness as a path and practice of wholeness. Be prepared to be deeply inspired as they share the precision, acceptance and kindness that allows yoga to be the work that leads to a life well lived. 

About Mary Taylor

​​Mary Taylor began studying yoga in 1971, soon after she came home from France with a grande diplôme from Julia Child’s cooking school, L’Ecole des Trois Gourmandes. She found yoga at first a means of finding equanimity during the stress of University, and it was that thread of balance that got her hooked. It was not until 1988 and finding her primary teacher, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and the Ashtanga Vinyasa system that she experienced the profound and transformative impact that a dedicated and daily practice can have on all aspects of life. She continues to study and practice yoga and Buddhist teachings with great enthusiasm and inquisitiveness, with an eye on how the residue that is produced on the mat (and cushion) through these teachings informs and supports all aspects of everyday life.

Mary travels and teaches with Richard and also within the caregiver and hospital setting as part of the core faculty of the Being with Dying program (Upaya Zen Center) and the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Trainings. In 1988 she co-founded with Richard the Yoga Workshop. Mary is also the author of three cookbooks and the co-author of What Are You Hungry For? Women Food and Spirituality (St. Martins Press) and The Art of Vinyasa (Shambhala Publications).

About Laura Plumb

Dedicated to the emerging field of Physician/Poet/Priest where Mind-Body Medicine engages the Spirit for Whole Being Wellness, Laura is the author of the best-selling book “Ayurvedic Cooking for Beginners”; writer and host of the international 58-part TV series “VedaCleanse”, with recipes and daily practices for seasonal wellness, and the 12-part series “Divine Yoga”, filmed upriver on the Ganges and inspired by Pujya Swamiji. She is a practitioner and teacher of Ganga Yoga, Ayurveda, and Jyotish, and blogger at food-alovestory.com. Laura leads trainings and retreats internationally, and offers online seasonal cleanses and courses. In a world where some 13% people in our world are considered malnourished, stress has depleted the soil of our emotional lives, and materialism has depleted our spirit, Laura feels that her work is to feed the hungry… To feed the body with real food, feed the mind with true inspiration, and feed the heart with all that is holy.

Yoga for the Modern Body, Mind & Lifestyle

In this potent conversation, Francisco shares the origins of yoga as a practice of returning to nature, where healing happens effortlessly. Founder of Kaiut Yoga, he speaks of the need to embrace rather than resist our modern lifestyle and adapt yoga to meet the needs of healing and health we have today.

About Francisco Kaiut

​​Francisco Kaiut is the creator of The Kaiut Method and CEO of Kaiut Yoga Ltd. He lives in Curitiba Brazil.

Francisco was inspired to develop his yoga method driven by his need to manage his pain from a shooting accident when he was five years old. He is a certified chiropractor and yoga master and has studied Cranial Sacral Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage Therapy as well as Polarity Theory in the UK. Over time, through extensive research & development, Francisco has integrated the principles of all these health and wellness modalities to create a biomechanical yoga method designed to work with the modern body & mind.

In 2005 he opened his main Kaiut Yoga Studio in Curitiba Brazil. Today there are various studios in Brazil and a growing number of studios in the US as well. There are approximately 500 teachers teaching Kaiut Yoga worldwide. The word is spreading with Francisco and his work featured in the likes of Yoga Journal and Huffington Post.

Francisco spends much of his time traveling the world with a singular focus to introduce the benefits of a regular Kaiut Method practice to as many people as possible. Kaiut Yoga teacher training programs are now held in the US, Brazil and Europe. Retreats and workshops with Francisco are offered across North America, Europe, and South America.

Healing through Intimate Relationships

In this interview, Honza and Claudine share how the practice of yoga, and specifically acrovinyasa, has supported them to heal through connection. Listen in as they speak of the importance of communication, cultivating trust and the power of taking personal space to create health in relationships.

About Claudine Lafond

​​Claudine believes that anything is possible. Her personal mission in life is to live a life of purpose, fueled by love, truth and courage. She has been drawn to movement and self expression for as long as she can remember. Claudine embodies compassion, warmth and kindness in all that she does. She celebrates in the unique light and beauty within everyone’s being. Her essential nature reflects lightness infused with depth and honesty. Her intention is to create an inclusive environment where students can move freely, feel good, have fun and experience the infinitude of possibilities within themselves. As she likes to say, "in every breath, there is opportunity for transformation. Yoga isn’t a practice contained to a mat, nor is it a practice available only to a certain group of people. It is a powerful tool for transformation and healing and should be available to everybody in the world."

Yoga found Claudine over 15 years ago in her hometown of New York City and and the practice immediately resonated. Since then, she has sought every opportunity to learn from teachers around the world within various lineages. Her teaching is influenced from Kripalu, Anusara, Iyengar, Forrest, Hatha,Vinyasa and AcroYoga as well as fitness, pilates and holistic health. She believes that above all, humor is an essential ingredient in yoga and that laughter is the best core exercise there is. Claudine's humble guidance points her students towards the wisdom and strength they already possess.

Holding deep gratitude for all of her teachers and students, she humbly acknowledges that we are all lifelong students. Through an extensive range of leaders, Claudine has forged an intuitive and playful teaching style. Her vibrant approach to life, courageous spirit, and open heart is infectious. Claudine contributes regularly to Women's Health Australia as the yoga expert and has recently been featured in Mantra Yoga and Health in the U.S. The desire to invite others to follow their bliss, has led Claudine and her husband Honza, to the creation of the brand YogaBeyond®, and the practice ACROVINYASA™, a highly transformative and inspiring stream of yoga.

Healing through Intimate Relationships

In this interview, Honza and Claudine share how the practice of yoga, and specifically acrovinyasa, has supported them to heal through connection. Listen in as they speak of the importance of communication, cultivating trust and the power of taking personal space to create health in relationships.

About Honza Lafond

​​An adventurer and a spiritual truth seeker, Honza has long sought to answer some of the deeper existential questions of the human condition. Over the last 15 years, his journey has taken him from humble beginnings in the Czech Republic, where he grew up, right across the globe to Australia, where he calls home. Paralleling his passions within our interconnected culture, Honza has turned his creative interests into entrepreneurial endeavours such as evolution of yoga within the global community, motivational education, art of social media, inspirational photography and more.

A teacher of movement, wellness and spirituality, Honza is known for his unique teaching style incorporating elevated thinking within empowering physical practice. The intention behind his class delivery is to inspire a spark within a person. His teaching explores the practices of hatha, vinyasa, yin and acroyoga, as well as life-coaching and fitness training. The desire to invite others to follow their bliss, has led Honza and his wife Claudine, to the creation of the brand YogaBeyond®, and the practice ACROVINYASA™, a highly transformative and inspiring stream of yoga.

Honza teaches with raw, yet playful and compassionate honesty to help bring your practice off the mat and into your daily life. He likes to be on his hands, upside down or on his back balancing a flyer. Expect inversions and arm balances in his classes, workshops and teacher trainings. In his own words, "The challenge that inversions and arm balances offer builds confidence and strength, but more than anything it excites the ever present child within all of us. To me, the playful nature of yoga is just as important as its more disciplined aspects. It is the balance between the two that makes yoga a blissful pathway of coming home.”

Creating a Culture of Health

In this potent conversation, Tyrone shares the importance of creating a culture of health that allows everyone to thrive. He shares life-changing stories of his work within communities and the power of people coming together to practice yoga, communicate authentically, and create social change that heals and empowers.

About Tyrone Beverly

​​Tyrone Beverly is the founder of Im’Unique. Mr. Beverly considers himself to be constantly evolving, a student a nature and works towards positively contributing to humanity.

Indigenous Yoga & The Healing of Nations

A Navajo woman who grew up with the historical trauma of her people, Haley Laughter shares her mission to bring the healing power of yoga to indigenous communities everywhere. In this interview, she describes how she weaves classical yoga with Native American philosophy and traditions to heal minds, bodies, hearts and communities.

About Haley Laughter

​Haley Laughter is a Navajo Yoga instructor, her clans are as follows;

Bit’ahnii (Leaf clan), Tódich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), Dibéłzhíní (Black Sheep clan), Táchii’nii (Red Running Into the Water People clan).

What motivates Haley is her desire to bring yoga and wellness to her Indigenous people.

Haley is the founder of Hozho Total Wellness (HTW). She teaches classes and gives presentations on wellness and self-care through yoga across Indian Country. Familiar with her Navajo teachings, indulging in sacred ceremonies and being a woman water carrier, Haley found her unique niche of incorporating the four elements and Indigenous teachings on mind, body, breath, spirit and asana. Her format allows her to teach the practice of yoga while preserving culture. The company motto is “Be Indigenous Yoga Inspired!”.

Haley was the first to bring forth yoga as way to sustain health in the Native American nation-wide community online. She started by posting pictures of her in various yoga asanas, wearing her moccasins, on the high-profile Facebook page Healthy Active Natives. With over 70k followers on HANS, this allowed Haley to create an Indigenous Yoga platform, from where she was able to build her “mobile” studio and take yoga to the reservations for classes, conferences and various events. Haley created an active Instagram and FB following with over 22,00 followers combined, who are mostly Indigenous. Through social media, she has connected with other Indigenous teachers, to where she is establishing the Indigenous Yoga Instructors Association (I.Y.I.A), a network to where Native American yoga instructors can collaborate and share ideas on how to better serve our people, reservation, and communities through yoga.

You can follow Haley on Instagram & Facebook @ Hozho Total Wellness. “Be Indigenous Yoga Inspired!”

Mayan Shamanism and The Power of Ceremony

In this profound teaching, Miguel reveals the healing of physical, emotional and spiritual dis-ease through Mayan shamanism. He shares the journey to become a shaman, and the tools, instruments and philosophy that guides the ceremonies that create the experience of miraculous healing.

About Miguel Angel Vergara

Miguel Angel is a Maya Wisdom Keeper and Master Teacher who lives and works in Yucatán, Mexico. He studied with a Maya Elder for 17 years and continues to work with Elders who are keeping the Maya Sacred Wisdom alive. Working with Iluminado Tours and Casa K’in since 2004 he has guided groups to the ancient Maya Teachings in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize and has shared his knowledge in workshops throughout the world, in Canada, USA, Europe, Taiwan and China. The ancient Maya are often shown in various yoga positions and recently Miguel Angel and Kat Tudor have collaborated to bring the essence of the Maya wisdom back to life through the creation of Halach Uinik Yoga, which is an important part of the Halach Uinik Training, a gift of Transmutation, Transformation, and Realization from the ancient Maya. Miguel Angel humbly and sincerely weaves a path to the pure authentic essence of the Maya cosmology and creates a space with beautiful ceremonies and stories where you can transform yourself and find your true Spiritual Path. He is the author of "The Sacred Knowledge of the Maya."

About Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji, Ph.D was raised in an American family in Hollywood, California and graduated from Stanford University. She was completing her Ph.D. when she left America in 1996 to come and live permanently at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. She has been living there for the last twenty years, engaged in spiritual practice and dedicated service. She was officially initiated into the order of Sanyas (monastic renunciation) in the year 2000, by her Guru, His Holiness Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji. She is Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, President of Divine Shakti Foundation and Director of the annual world-famous International Yoga Festival at Parmarth. Sadhviji is a renowned speaker who gives keynote addresses at large forums, on a wide variety of topics ranging from conscious business to science and spirituality to sustainable development to the keys of happiness and peace in life to all aspects of yoga.

About Roberto Milleti

Roberto Milletti is the Founder of Odaka Yoga. Roberto has been featured in “Om Yoga Magazine UK” as one of the three world leaders in new, contemporary forms of yoga. Roberto teaches at studios and yoga festivals worldwide. He is a Master of how to embrace flow and move Ki (the inner power) to open students up to endless possibilities, living by the mantra “We are not here to do yoga, we are here to become yoga”.

About  Francesca Cassia

Francesca Cassia is Co-Founder of Odaka. Francesca is an acclaimed International Yoga teacher. Her life has been dedicated to the empowering and transformative process of placing the body and mind in a dynamic interplay to reach the perfect alignment. Students call her the “Queen of Psoas”. She has been teaching yoga and running teacher trainings for over 20 years.

Medicine, Love & The Power to Self Heal

A longtime practitioner of both allopathic and alternative medicine, Dr. Paul Dugliss shares key insights into the role the heart plays in our innate power to heal. Experience a profound guided meditation and a wisdom transmission for YOU to heal whatever arises in your path.

About Dr. Paul Dugliss

​Paul Dugliss, M.D. practices Ayurvedic Medicine, Ayurvedic Spiritual Counseling and Internal Medicine. He also is an acupuncturist and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is the former director of Oakwood Healthcare System’s Complementary & Alternative Medicine Center in Westland, MI. He also directed the Maharishi Vedic Medical Center in Lexington, KY and the Center for Enlightened Medicine in Ann Arbor, MI. He began studying Ayurvedic Medicine in the mid-1980s and has trained both in this country and in Europe. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the Board of Directors of the Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America (AAPNA). He is the author of several books including Ayurveda – The Power to Heal, Enlightened Nutrition, Capturing the Bliss: Ayurveda and the Yoga of Emotions, The Myth of Cholesterol, Patanjali in the Light, Think with the Heart / Love with the Mind and Yoga & Ayurveda. Dr. Dugliss is the Director and Academic Dean of New World Ayurveda, an organization providing training in this comprehensive system of natural medicine (www.NewWorldAyurveda.com). He has a master’s degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology and is currently focusing his practice of medicine on Ayurvedic Medicine and Ayurvedic Spiritual Counseling.

Ceremonial Earth Activism

In this beautiful interview, Kat shares stories of sacred ceremony in the tradition of the indigenous peoples of North American and the Yucatan that have the power to heal not only ourselves, but the earth. Tune in to hear her recent victory in a Supreme Court case that has set a precedent for our rights as citizens for a clean environment.

About Kat Tudor

Kat Tudor is the visionary behind SunWater Spa, Sun Mountain Center, and the Smokebush Foundation for the Arts in Manitou Springs, Co. Her gift is bringing the arts and the healing arts together in inspiring classes, unexpected collaborations, and community projects. She’s been teaching art, dance, yoga, aqua yoga, and improvisational arts since 1979 in Colorado and around the world ranging from local happenings and installations (The Uncle Wilber Fountain: an interactive and whimsical fountain in Colorado Springs co-created with husband Bob, The Tesla Toaster), to international ceremonies (Aqua Luz: a planetary project for healing Earth’s water with crystals, Yogic Spirals for Peace). Most recently, she’s been collaborating with Miguel Angel Vergera, Mayan Wisdom Keeper and Scholar on Halach Uinik Yoga - Transmutation, Transformation, Realization - which comes from the teachings, glyphs, and secret practices of the Mayan.

The Art of Authentic Relating

Ryel is on a mission to ignite human connection for all people. In this vibrant interview, Ryel shares how the practices of authentic relating are changing lives from the prisons to the boardroom and everywhere in between. 

About Ryel Kestano

Ryel is the Co-Founder and Senior Course Leader at ART International. ART designs and facilitates programs for both companies and the general public that train participants in the practice of authentic relating, a profoundly transformational and groundbreaking interpersonal means of relating and communicating. Ryel also co-founded ART's nonprofit sister organization, Authentic Relating International, dedicated to bringing authentic relating to prisons, schools, and other institutions. Prior to co-founding ART International, Ryel oversaw all training operations at the Integral Center in Boulder, a world-renowned leader in transformational workshops. He has been a course leader, course supervisor, facilitator and coach since his own transformation several years ago. Ryel is also the co-founder and visionary behind Virtuance, one of the largest providers of real estate photography in the world, and the co-founder and visionary behind Pink Mammoth, one of the Bay Area's largest and most successful creative arts collectives. Ryel has four very authentic kids and lives in Boulder, CO.

Service & the Super Power of Giving Back

When yoga transformed his own life, Rob Schware started The Give Back Yoga Foundation to touch the lives of those in need. In this inspiring interview, Rob shares stories of the healing and transformation he has witnessed in the lives of inmates in prison, war veterans and more.

About Rob Schware

​​Rob Schware, PhD, heads the Give Back Yoga Foundation and is President Ex-Officio & Advisor for the Yoga Service Council. He also writes for The Huffington Post Blog.

In late 2006, Rob brought his two decades of management experience with the World Bank to a second career: helping to grow the yoga service movement. He wanted to combine his development and project management expertise in over 30 countries including India, Indonesia, Turkey, Rwanda and Palestine with his passion for yoga, by forming an organization whose mission it is to bring yoga to underserved populations. In 2013, his work of co-founding and furthering the Give Back Yoga Foundation earned him the International Association of Yoga Therapists’ Karma Yoga Award for “extraordinary selfless service in reducing suffering and elevating consciousness through yoga.” And in 2016, he received Yoga Journal’s Good Karma award.

He has been married to Alice Trembour for 35 years, which, like yoga, is in and of itself a regular commitment to a practice. They have three children.