Buddy Macuha

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  See Class Schedule Watch VideoBuddy’s smooth blend of movement, humor, and insight into poses create a yoga class unlike any other you’ve experienced.  While flowing, you’ll push beyond what you thought you could do while grooving to your favorite songs.  Buddy’s goal is to inspire students to live their lives fully on all levels while looking to the future as a wonderful adventure that brings on endless possibilities.  He received his 200-hour yoga training from Yogaworks with Annie Carpenter and his 500-hour training with Stephanie Snyder.  He is thankful to share his gifts he’s been given from these incredible teachers.

  Buddy brings over 20 years to the yoga and fitness industry.  With a BS in Kinesiology specializing in Exercise Science, his knowledge of the human body is unmatched.  He is a Master Trainer for Keiser Fitness Company and a 6-time lululemon Ambassador. He has appeared on television and magazines as the “fitness guru” while sharing his knowledge through his podcasts and webinars with iTRAIN.com.  He is excited to be part of the Yoga Tree family and looks forward to the adventures ahead!

Charu Rachlis

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  Charu Rachlis, born and raised in Brazil, has been teaching yoga in San Francisco since 1997. She teaches in a Bhakti lineage. She has over a 20-year history of Tibetan Buddhist meditation; her teachings incorporates Meditation, Kum Nye (Tibetan Yoga), Asthanga Yoga and a MA in Psychology from Brazil. Charu honors the profound teachings of BKS Iyengar.

  Through the practices of Yoga and Meditation, one reaches a more subtle and refine state of being. Layers of stress and unhappiness are released – presence, clarity is born.”

Dana Damara

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  Dana Damara has embraced yoga as a lifestyle both on and off the mat. Through her children, writing, yoga, and fulfilling relationships, Dana radiates that power of soulfulness and spiritual awakening through yoga, both for others and herself. She has studied with Seane Corn, Johhny Kest and Sienna Sherman, building on their philosophies, creating a flow that opens the heart, quiets the mind and exudes a balance of strength and grace.

  Her passion is proper alignment with powerful breath and effortless flow. Her belief is that the mat is a sacred space that we arrive at to find more meaning, depth, authenticity and integrity in our lives off our mat. Her secret? EQUANIMITY, TRUST, INTUITION and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Come and play with this spiritual warrior…your life will shift immediately.

Erika Van Gemeren

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  Erika Van Gemeren classes are sweaty, soulful, and nurturing. Her goal is to inspire and instill her passion for yoga and its transformative effects to others. She reminds her students to live from their hearts and to dance like no one is watching.

  Erika is a San Francisco-based, full-time yoga instructor who has been practicing since 1999. Erika first studied Ashtanga with Tim Thompson and Laura Camp at Monkey Yoga Shala in Oakland, Ca. Her discovery of Vinyasa brought her back to her dance roots. Taking classes with Janet Stone, Elise Lorimer and Rusty Wells inspired her to become an instructor. She completed Yoga Tree’s 200 hour teacher training and then went on to train with Janet Stone and completed her 500 hour program. She continues to train with Janet Stone and Scott Blossom.

Janet Stone

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  In 1996, Janet Stone traveled to India, the birthplace of her grandfather, where she met a powerful yogi and became dedicated to a conscious evolution through yoga.

  As one of San Francisco’s premiere yoga instructors, Janet blends a wealth of knowledge and yoga experience to create a unique, vigorous-yet-sumptuous approach to Vinyasa yoga that effortlessly melds awareness with movement and breath. Her classes are often strong, sweaty and deeply nurturing, full of great music, humor and lots of heart. Based in San Francisco, she also teaches workshops, teacher trainings, and retreats all over the world.

  Janet surrounds herself with impassioned teachers like Shiva Rea, Max Strom, Scott Blossom, and Dharma Mittra and delights in the teachings of many other wonderful guides. She currently follows the teachings of her two young daughters, India and Lilianna, who shed the light on all things profound and wondrous.

Jason Bowman

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  See Class Schedule Jason Bowman has led eight 200-hour Yoga Alliance Certified teacher trainings as well as several immersions, workshops, retreats and guest lecture series both internationally and around the country. His practice has been greatly influenced by Ashtanga Yoga as he’s learned it from Richard Freeman and Maty Ezraty and Vipassana Meditation as he’s learned it from SN Goekna. Jason is well known for his ability to be thorough while maintaining a light-hearted sense of humor. His classes encourage a personal examination of the space between theory and direct experience and his love for the practice shines through in his ability to teach with a concrete yet creative voice. After living in Boulder for many years he has recently moved to the Bay Area. Find him online at jasonbowmanyoga.com

Jody Greene

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  Jody Greene came to the practice of yoga in 2000, and her path to teaching continues to unfold daily through practice, study, and the karma yoga of assisting. She is deeply blessed and enlivened by her root teachers, Mark Stephens and Janet Stone. In 2001, Jody began studying Zen Buddhism, and has practiced in both lay and monastic settings throughout the past decade. She is currently especially interested in exploring the intersections and diversions of Zen and Tantric Philosophy, under inspiring and inspired teachers Daijaku Kinst, Paul Haller, and Hareesh Wallace.

Julie Locke

Vinyasa

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  Julie offers a deep, powerful, heart-felt, Vinyasa flow. By linking breath with movement, Julie inspires students to open their heart, connect to their truth, and ignite their inner brilliance. Initially drawn to yoga to help balance her athletic lifestyle, and busy nursing career, in which she specializes in Cancer treatment, Julie continues to be astounded by the magnitude of yoga. She feels her yoga journey has only just begun, and remains open to its continued evolution. Filled with gratitude, Julie shares her passion for yoga, teaching, and healing, with others.

  Julie attributes her zest for life, courageous spirit, and open heart, to her awe-inspiring Cancer patients. She feels that her patients, along with the ever-powerful Mother Nature, are her greatest teachers. Julie completed her 200-hour Vinyasa YTT with local great, Pete Guinosso.

  “Find your truth and rock it. Life is too short to do otherwise.”

Kerri Kelly

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  In the late 90s, Kerri found yoga, and with it found a powerful tool for healing her own body and a spiritual tool for changing her life. Yoga led her to a risky next step: leaving a successful, high-powered marketing career to dedicate herself to empowering others through yoga. Kerri is the founder of Yoga Catalyst, a movement-inspired coaching program to help individuals reshape their body and reignite their life. Since joining Off the Mat more than five years ago, she has been instrumental in building the community around yoga and activism and mobilizing the global community to create positive social change.

Laura Burkhart

Vinyasa

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  Laura’s creative and intelligently sequenced flow classes are known for being challenging, with a smooth and rhythmic flow. She incorporates strategically selected music organized to create a specific cadence and theme for each class. Laura is conscientious about catering to different levels and ability to ensure that all feel welcome and comfortable.

  Laura’s extensive studies, primarily under Shiva Rea and primary mentor Jason Crandell, have helped forge an intuitive, spontaneous and eclectic instruction style.

  Laura worked as the Yoga Director at the San Francisco Bay Club’s Mind/Body Center, has appeared in numerous online videos by Yoga Journal and Yogaglo, and was the June 2010 master class model for Yoga Journal Magazine. In addition to teaching yoga classes, Laura is the founder of Yoga Reach International, a company that specializes in yoga travel-adventures with a philanthropic intent: to help the communities that it touches through both hand-on projects or donations. Yoga Reach fosters a platform to bring well- being, adventure-travel and service together to benefit both communities in need and enrich the lives of those participating in the retreat.

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Mark Morford

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  Mark has been practicing a fluid, energized style of Vinyasa yoga since way back 1997, and teaching since 2000. He’s been blessed to study with a wonderful variety of powerful, luminous and generous teachers, and has been inspired by — and workshopped with — many of the premier instructors normally name-dropped in this kind of bio, so he’ll just avoid doing that here and merely say, he’s had a wonderful ride. And it still feels like it’s just beginning.

  Mark’s popular classes and workshops are an athletic, challenging and often deliciously irreverent blend of focused breath and strength-building movement (asana) set to great music, all designed to invigorate the body, calm the frenzied urban mind and bring you more fully into the present moment, as you discover — or, more accurately, remember — a more profound notion of Self, one that will doubtlessly enjoy more of your personal attention. He strives to weave in luminous-but-practical threads of yoga philosophy and the 8 limbs into his classes, as well tantalizing tastes of Shivaic Tantrism and Buddhism et al, to infuse/inspire our collective intention and more fully experience spanda, that subtle pulse/tremor of the cosmos.

  Mark’s yoga will give you an opportunity to crack open your heart, peel away layers of urban anxiety, sweat out toxins and bad text messages, drink in spaciousness, build strength and stamina, look tastier in a bathing suit, sample some divine rasa (nectar), find connection and stability in your daily life, and slide through the world with more authentic grace and flexibility. He promises you will never leave his class feeling, breathing, or moving in quite the same way you came in.

  Bring a towel. Leave your baggage. Peel off your stress, your expectations, your self-imposed limitations. Come for the sweat, stay for the consciousness. It’s so good you’ll forget you’re actually defying gravity.

Michelle Bouvier

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  Yoga first found Michelle in 1994, and her passion for the transformational power of sadhana in her own life led to teaching in 2000. An athlete and dancer for most of her years, Michelle believes movement is pure artistic expression of the deepest parts of our soul, as much as a method to find our way to a greater source within. This spanda, or pulsation, reflects the natural movement of the Universe on all levels of Consciousness~ inward/outward, contraction/expansion, inhale/exhale, and is a guiding principle in Michelle’s classes.

  She believes we are best able to ‘drop in’ to meditative presence through connection to our unique inner rhythms; that it is in this state of ‘flow’ where we are most deeply nourished in body, mind, and heart. On the mat, Michelle is devoted to serving this intrinsic rhythm of life with graceful strength, a playful spirit, sweet sweat, and a smile toward our evolution!

Pete Guinosso

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  Connect into your inner yogi with Pete Guinosso. Known for his joyful energy, compassionate guidance, sense of humor, skilled touch, and spiritual yet light-hearted approach, Pete creates an environment for his students to uncover the deeper benefits of their yoga practice.

  Pete began his own practice after thirty years of running, cycling, and contact sports. Motivated by a desire to connect his mind, body, and spirit through movement and breath, he spent several years and over 600 hours training with Ana Forrest, including assisting her 24-day Foundation Teacher Training course.

  It is through this experience that he learned how to compassionately guide students of all levels through a vigorous asana practice with integrated breath work and awareness. Pete resides in the Bay Area and makes yoga and the depth of the practice available to students in group classes, workshops, and retreats. He is also available for private consultations.

Pradeep Teotia

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  Born and raised in a small village outside of New Delhi, Pradeep is an internationally certified yoga teacher who draws mostly from his training in India. He has practiced and studied yoga his entire life – starting with his grandmother in his early years. He is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners through the integration of meditation, yoga philosophy, nature’s vitality, spontaneous humor, and joy. His unique teaching style brings alive the holistic nature of healing in a way that is simple, powerful, and accessible – allowing people to connect more deeply with their own authentic power and spirit.

Tim Floreen

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  Tim first came to yoga looking to add a little stretching to his gym routine, but he soon found the practice transforming his life in ways he never expected: he felt healthier, more relaxed, and more in touch with himself than he ever had before. He began teaching yoga full-time in 2000. He’s taken teacher training programs with Bikram Choudhury, Baron Baptiste, Rusty Wells, Janet Stone, and Dharma Mittra, he’s been on the teaching staff at studios in Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston and San Francisco, and he’s appeared as a yoga model in several publications, including Yoga Journal.

  Tim teaches a vigorous flow class, but always with the understanding that students should modify and take breaks as needed. Two more ingredients he likes to incorporate into every class: a sense of fun and a good soundtrack.