Castle Hill Yoga instructors are a diverse and highly-trained group of individuals that bring their expertise and inspired styles of teaching to the classroom. They are certified in a variety of yoga traditions, qualified to teach continuing education, and consistently provide the highest-quality yoga instruction in Austin.
Anne Schultz
Anne Schultz | Anne Schultz is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor. She has practiced yoga since 1994 and has taught yoga since 1997. She currently studies locally with Devon Dederich in Austin. Anne-Marie regularly attends workshops and teacher training sessions with senior instructors in the Iyengar tradition. She studies most closely with Eddy Marks, Mary Obendorfer, Laurie Blakeney and George Purvis. She recently spent a month studying at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India.
Anne is also a professor of Philosophy at Baylor University in Waco. |
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Bea Love
Bea Love
(Website) | Bea is a certified and registered yoga teacher who brings a decade of experience on the mat with Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Jivamukti and other styles of Hatha yoga. Bea draws inspiration from in-depth and personal study with master teachers, including Manouso Manos, Sharon Moon, and John Friend. Bea welcomes and supports all yoga intents, whether to release daily stress and relax, to deepen physical strength and flexibility or simply to engage life fully through focused breathing and movement. She is delighted to guide students at all levels through her classes, workshops and private sessions; she teaches internationally and bases her practice in Austin, Texas.
For more information about Bea, please visit her website at http://www.bealoveyoga.com.
Download a coupon for your first free class with Bea! |
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Brigitte Edery
Brigitte Edery | Brigitte's been a devoted student of yoga since 1987 and has been registered as a certified yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance since 2003.She began practicing yoga after years of chronic back pain and a severe accident that left her blind in one eye.
Her first experience (of yoga) was with Swami Satchidananda's Integral Yoga in NYC.
After moving to Austin in 1989, she discovered the healing benefits of Iyengar Yoga, a system of Hatha known for its precision and structural alignment. Most recently, her love of yoga has led her to John Friend's Anusara® Yoga which integrates universal principles of alignment with a life affirming, heart expanding tantric philosophy that rocks! She has attained 'Anusara Inspired' status through her extensive study and practice of this transformative style.
When she's not on the mat practicing or teaching, Brigitte loves to paint, travel, dance (especially West African), read and relax with family and friends. |
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Charly Pivert
Charly Pivert | Charly Pivert is a Certified Anusara® Yoga Instructor who has studied with John Friend since 1994. With over 20 years of teaching experience, Charly brings a deep understanding of how the physical practice of Yoga can connect to one's heart and have the power to transform lives. Charly teaches and lives in Austin, Texas. |
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Dido Nydick
Dido Nydick
(Website) | Dido is an E-500RYT certified yoga teacher. She has been practicing since 1999 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. 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. Visit her Website at www.didonydickyoga.com. |
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Eriko Yokoyama
Eriko Yokoyama | Eriko got on the Ashtanga train in 2004 and has not looked back ever since. She has been teaching yoga since 2006 and studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswamy in Mysore India in 2007. She has been a student of Paul Dallaghan since 2008. Eriko believes in daily practice and an incremental approach appropriate for each student's current level. Eriko is grateful for positive changes which practice has brought about in her life, and she wishes to assist other students as they discover the wonderful benefits of their own journey. |
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Gillian Barksdale
Gillian Barksdale | Gillian Stahl Barksdale is a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor who began her yoga practice in 1996. She completed a three-year intensive teacher training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles, and has enjoyed teaching since 2001. Gillian has studied with many talented Iyengar instructors including Manouso Manos, Leslie Peters, Karin O'Bannon, Jo Zukovich, and Gloria Goldberg. In addition, Gillian feels privileged to have attended the Yoga Journal Conference in Estes Park where B.K.S. Iyengar taught in 2005, and the Iyengar Yoga Odyssey with Geeta Iyengar in 2001. Gillian teaches with clear and precise, verbal and visual instructions, and brings a sense of joy and humor to the class. |
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Gioconda Parker
Gioconda Parker
(Website) | Gioconda Parker, ERYT-500 has been practicing and teaching yoga for over a decade, and still finds new inspiration every day. She balances a deep respect for the lineages that have carried this ancient tradition and a desire to make these teachings relevant and accessible to everyone. Gioconda has led workshops, intensives, teacher trainings and retreats, and enjoys sharing yoga in a variety of formats and environments. She also works with individual clients, helping them to develop a personal connection with the practice and to incorporate it into their daily lives. For more information visit: www.giocondayoga.com. |
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Jenny Russo
Jenny Russo | Jenny was introduced to yoga 15 years ago. In 2004, she completed her first teacher training program with Clayton Horton. She studied closely under his care and participated in his Mysore assistant program at Greenpath Yoga in San Francisco. She completed another "teacher training" with David Swenson in 2007.
Her appreciation for Eastern practices, including Vipassana Meditation and traditional Ashtanga Mysore-style yoga, draw her continually to India. She has found the Ashtanga practice most useful to effect cleansing and self awareness. In India, she has studied under Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Sharath and Saraswati, as well as Rolf Naujokat. Now, back in Texas, her intention is to inspire conscious living in her own community.
Jenny's classes incorporate movement with breath to aid in circulation within each system of the body. This way, toxins can be released and the usage of energy becomes efficient. She works with beginners to build strength, stamina and flexibility. She encourages her students to use their practice as an opportunity to turn inward and find stillness. |
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Karlie Lemos
Karlie Lemos | Karlie is a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200 hour level, but has acquired over 400 hours of formal training and is working toward Anusara Inspired Status. Her training includes work with John Friend, Desiree Rumbaugh, Christina Sell, Shiva Rea, Dharma Mittra, Mirka Kraftsow and with Baba Hari Das at the Mount Madonna Ashram where she studied philosophy. She was introduced to the practice of yoga in 1998 and took the seat of the teacher in 2005.
Students in Karlie's classes can look forward to an informative, introspective and challenging class that meets each student at their level. Because of her background in the Iyengar tradition and training in Anusara, alignment and patience are the cornerstones of Karlie's practice and her teaching. She believes students can discover a lot about their potential through a heart centered practice and disciplined meditation. |
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Kellie Arnold
Kellie Arnold | Kellie Arnold is an Anusara-Inspired™ instructor. She first found yoga when searching for the next physical activity to challenge her body. She fell in love with it when she found it soothed her mind as well. She originally trained with Baron Baptiste who taught her how to be herself. Then she found Anusara® Yoga which continued her passion for authenticity while adding the alignment for the nerdy engineer inside. Her classes illustrate her journey; a journey that can take on many forms and yet at the heart of the practice is goodness and bliss. |
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Kim Schaefer
Kim Schaefer | Kim graduated from Yoga Yoga's 200-hour Hatha Teacher Training program in 2006 and has since been immersed in the heart-centered practice of Anusara Yoga. She has completed a 108-hour Immersion and two Level I and Level II Anusara teacher trainings with certified Anusara teacher Christina Sell. She has studied Yoga Therapeutics with Noah Maze and Desiree Rumbaugh and has taken several workshops with Anusara Yoga founder John Friend. Currently, Kim is an Anusara-Inspired™ teacher and is working toward her Anusara® certification. In addition to her Anusara® training, over the years Kim has been fortunate to study Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater, to take workshops with Donna Farhi, Sean Corne, and Jonny Kest, and to study the principles of Ayurvedic medicine with Robert Svoboda and Craig Williams. In her work as a therapeutic bodyworker and heart-centered healer, Kim uses a variety of modalities to encourage clients to connect deeply with their own spiritual essence. Kim is trained in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports, Pre- and Post-Natal Massage and Trigger Point Therapy. She also has advanced training in Craniosacral Therapy from the Upledger Institute. Kim is inspired by the inner light that radiates from each of her students when they practice yoga and offers a sincere and compassionate approach to all of her clients. To learn more about Kim, visit her website at http://www.purebalanceaustin.com |
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Kimberly Wharton
Kimberly Wharton | Kimberly Wharton is a certified yoga instructor who hails from Los Angeles where she was teaching for Yoga Works, Team Survivor and various studios and businesses. Kimberly was recently named in Backstage Magazine's 'Best of L.A.' under favorite yoga class. Kimberly has studied with Alan Finger (ISHTA lineage), Kia Miller (Yoga Works techniques), Jasmine Lieb (Therapeutics), and Jillian Pransky (Restoratives). She continues to deepen her practice daily, as well as share her passion with her students. Whether the goal is to heal, relax, lose weight, or find focus, Kimberly assists her students on their journey to feel better, function better and find their truth. |
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Liz Belile
Liz Belile | Liz Belile started practicing the Iyengar method of yoga while living in Los Angeles in 1991. She began her study of Anusara Yoga when she met John Friend in The Woodlands in 1998 and has continued the path with steadfast passion and love ever since. Liz is particularly interested in therapeutic applications of the Anusara principles and has studied therapeutics with John Friend for several years. In 2009, she completed Part II of John Friend's Advanced Therapeutics Training. Liz has been teaching yoga since 1999 and is also a bodyworker. She is passionate about women's health issues and about helping people find relief from chronic pain. |
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Malia Scott
Malia Scott | Malia's eclectic style of teaching vinyasa yoga draws from years of study in Baptiste Yoga, PranaFlow® and most recently, Anusara® Yoga. Drawing inspiration from all of her teachers, Malia encourages her students to connect with the teacher "within", dissolve the blocks and to find a balance of strength and ease both on and off the mat. She enjoys teaching open-level classes that leave you feeling grounded, centered, empowered, and at peace in your mind and body. She currently teaches public group classes, workshops, teacher training intensives, festivals, conferences and leads LONG weekend yoga + lifestyle/adventure retreats. She loves spreading the yoga gospel and enjoys serving the Austin yoga community. She is involved with Community Yoga Austin,Breakfast Yoga Club ATX and Austin's Free Day of Yoga. Malia enjoys being a wife, a student, a teacher, a mama to two English Bulldogs, a graphic designer, a marketer, a blogger and an entrepreneur. |
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Mandy Eubanks
Mandy Eubanks
(Website) | Mandy Eubanks is a certified Anusara® Yoga teacher who was introduced to yoga in 2003 while still living in her hometown of Tulsa, OK. In 2005 she moved to Austin, Texas where she was first introduced to Anusara Yoga. Mandy's heart was touched by the method, practice, and the Anusara community and since then Mandy has been a dedicated student of Anusara Yoga. She has trained extensively with John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga. She has also studied closely with several other certified Anusara Yoga teachers. Mandy's teaching style is playful and nurturing. She strives to create a safe and supportive space in which students can grow and expand in her Anusara® classes. |
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Maricarmen Wilson
Maricarmen Wilson | Maricarmen's teaching practice is based on the zen philosophy of keeping the open mind of a beginner. With over 18 years of asana, pranayama and philosophy study and 14 years of teaching, she has been inspired and guided by her Iyengar, Jivamukti, Prajna, and Ashtanga teachers. Her Shakti Flow classes are a reflection of her commitment to remain awake, curious, and self aware in one's own practice. In the unique and creative design of each class, students are encouraged and supported to tap into their power, intuition and true potential with grace. She is eternally grateful to her teachers Tias Little, Sharon Moon, Peggy Kelley and Stan Hafner... to the influences of Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley, and Aadil Palkhilvala . Maricarmen is the founder of Inspired Shakti ... She lives her yoga with her husband and three beautiful boys in Austin, TX. "The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habit of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.." - Baker roshi |
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Matt Borer
Matt Borer
(Website) | Matt is a full time yoga instructor mainly in the Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow traditions. He likes to call his style of instruction "yoga mutt:" taking a little bit of information from every resource possible and integrating it into each class. With over 12 years of personal practice and over 6,000 hours of teaching time, there is a lot of experiential knowledge combined with compassion and patience to be had in his classes. You will laugh as hard as you work and will enjoy a wonderful sense of community, friendship, and self awareness throughout the process. When not teaching, Matt can be found here in Austin playing music, two-steppin, and rock climbing wherever there is available rock! For more information about Matt, please visit his blog at http://yoga4liberation.com |
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Paula (Malisa) Shames
Paula (Malisa) Shames | Malisa ERYT-500 has practiced Hatha and Vinyasa yoga since 1994. She holds a BA in Psychology with a Masters in Social Work. She understands and conveys the importance of the body-mind interplay in the practice of yoga. Malisa has had the privilege to study with Ana Forrest, Ramanand Patel, Rodney Yee, Mary Romeu and Murti. Her teaching focuses on the alignment of the body and the flow of the breath as means towards openness and balance. Malisa's classes are known for their consistent expression of healing and depth in a warm, supportive environment. |
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Rhonda Green
Rhonda Green
(Website) | Rhonda, a.k.a. "Uma's mama," took her first yoga class in 1997 and began teaching in 2002. Her teaching is grounded in the ashtanga vinyasa tradition and then opens and expands from there.
Rhonda's principle teacher is Richard Freeman and she taught at his studio, the Yoga Workshop, prior to moving to Austin. She enjoys teaching a strong class that is empowering, mindful and emphasizes alignment and meditative flow. Through life's joys and obstacles Rhonda continues to be grateful to get on the mat and knock at the door of self discovery.
Check out Rhonda's prenatal yoga demo video on youtube. It was filmed three days before the birth of her daughter. She's 41 weeks pregnant. http://youtu.be/UThiJs_Pq-E |
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Sam Rice
Sam Rice
(Website) | Sam Rice is an Anusara-Inspired™ instructor. She was introduced to yoga as a way to relieve a low back injury and quickly found out that a regular practice brought relief in her low back and an awakening inside herself that she was not expecting but that once experienced, kept her coming back to the mat. Sam's yoga background is in Iyengar and Anusara Yoga. She is dedicated to delving deeper into the Anusara method and she is currently a student of Christina Sell. Sam has also studied with Darren Rhodes, Lois Steinberg, Jodi Petlin, and many other amazing teachers. She wishes to create a welcoming environment in her classes and "strongly encourages laughter and humility while playfully exploring a student's edge." Sam's classes focuses on alignment and on helping students to open their bodies and gain body awareness. It is the possibility of transformation that inspires Sam's practice the most and she hopes to pass on some of the insight and inspiration she has gained from her own teachers to all of her students. |
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Sharon Moon
Sharon Moon
(Website) | Sharon has been a student of yoga since 1972. After a 12 year detour into Tae Kwon Do she fell in love with Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 1994. She has been teaching it nationally and internationally for 15 years. She first learned Ashtanga from David Swenson and then went on to study directly with Guruji Pattabhi Jois, his son Manju Jois and his grandson Sharath Jois. Over the years she has also been inspired by senior Ashtanga teachers Nancy Gilgoff, Dena Kingsberg, Louise Ellis and Mark Darby.
Sharon feels yoga has given her life structure, depth, meaning, and purpose in ways she never imagined it could. She sees yoga as a tool to take us to the sweet place within our hearts and to bring lightness of being into our lives. She strives to impart these things into her teaching. For more information about Sharon and her inspired style of teaching, visit http://www.moonyoga.com |
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Sheila Singh
Sheila Singh | Sheila is inspired by many traditions of yoga. She sees her mat as a place for compassionate self-inquiry and healing and hopes to hold a space for students to do the same. Students can expect a meditative and fluid quality in Sheila's class and can hopefully find a place to nourish their bodies, quiet their mind and use the breath as a powerful way to connect to spirit and experience. |
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Steven Green
Steven Green
(Website) | Steven teaches ashtanga yoga in the tradition of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. Inspired by
the internal forms approach of Richard Freeman, his focus is on tapas, form and meditative movement.
Steven has a patient and light-hearted approach empowering students to explore asana as a means to
facilitate awareness. He came to yoga with a background in the martial arts, philosophical studies,
and music.
Watch an Ashtanga yoga demo of Steven Green shot on location in India. |
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Tracy Kwang
Tracy Kwang
(Website) | Tracy Kwang began practicing yoga in 2006 to build up her core strength following a back injury. She received her 200-hour certification from Yoga Yoga in 2008 and began teaching immediately. Since then, she has furthered her training through attending various workshops with master teachers such as Jonny Kest, Melanie Fawer, David Williams, and Manju Jois, and completing advanced trainings such as David Swenson's 40-hour Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training and Nancy Gilgoff's Primary Adjustment Clinic. Tracy firmly believes that yoga is a tool through which people are able to explore and heal themselves and she encourages her students to make their practice their own. For more information visit: www.tracykwang.com. |
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