Our Instructors
Stephan Buehl - Owner
I’m so happy you are visiting us here on our website and perhaps previously in person at Yoga of Sausalito. Most of my life I have dedicated to serve a new humanity; a new humanity that thinks positively and has respect for each other and the planet. I have been traveling around the world living in many different countries in order to learn and understand and support different cultures, religions and their way of healing themselves and their extended body, our planet. With Yoga of Sausalito, I have created a space where we can share, heal and grow together with our community. My carefully chosen staff aligns with my philosophy of a heart-based humanity. Everybody is welcome, nobody is first and nobody is left behind. I am a positive person and my goal is to make everybody happy around me and for everybody to leave Yoga of Sausalito with a big smile on their face. Please come and experience why people feel good here.
Stephan sees himself as a Healer and has been involved in the Healing and Spa profession for more than 20 years. He is a Meditation Instructor, a Massage and Pain Management Therapist and a Reiki Master. He had the privilege to study with Philosophers and Healers from around the world. He also traveled and studied with Deepak Chopra and organized his events in Mexico for several years. Stephan is a Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor and Creating Health Facilitator certified by the renowned Chopra Center. He brings his vision of a world where humanity lives in harmony, connected to source to the programs at Yoga of Sausalito.
Brad
Yantzer
  Brad provides biomechanically precise instruction influenced by his ability to integrate over 22 years of study of healing and movement modalities. His classes focus on stability from the inner body (center) so that the outer body (superficial sleeve) can then move and lengthen in functional movement while being stabilized. This freedom allows the energy (chi) to move freely through the body and the joints to perform their function accurately. Brad believes that optimum health is dynamic and that as the human body is one system made from many systems, if one is not in order the others cannot perform optimally either.
Brad's "Exploratory Movement" class is an integration of correct biomechanics of the body based in energy flow as well as physical kinesiology. Based in the ancient yoga shastras the class follow the correct motif the texts expound upon. Each class is based upon what each individual in the class needs for their unique circumstances regarding their body posture, mind, energy, and injury and/or limitations. Furthermore, the class is in attunement for the season, time of day, cycle of the moon and planetary constructs as well as balancing the 5 pranas of the body to create balance of the physiology thereby creating health.
His style is eclectic, based on natural or functional biomechanical and energetic movement of the human body but throwing into the mix many other modalities. Taking his cueing from Ayurveda, ancient texts of yoga, kinesthetic imagery, functional anatomy, different Asian arts, and a love of movement and energetics he unwinds your body in an expansive way rather than contracting your musculature and energy inward. The response is a delightful centering of your body on its gravity line to further your movement with a fluidity and ease. The class is safe for the injured and useful for therapy as well as being easy enough for the beginner but also challenging enough for the advanced.
www.evolutionmovement.com
Calie Candia
 
Calie has been practicing and studying Yoga for over 30 years. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with the National Yoga Alliance. Her Vinyasa (flow) style blends yoga postures with well chosen music, and sprinkles the class with humor and wisdom. Herclasses always address the body mind connection that can turn daily stress into a tool for self discipline and growth.
Her knowledge of the body creates a wisdom practice for all levels and as she states, “Iam the queen of modifications.” She has also taught workshops in: “Flow into Meditation,” where Vinyasa is combined with seated meditation using the Tibetan Buddhist teachings of Natural Meditation Practice.
Christa Reynolds
 
Christa is presently a mixed lineage yoga teacher and therapist, teaching classroom style and private instruction in the Bay Area for over 12 years. Christa has studied many traditions over her twelve years to include, Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Yin yoga, Kundalini, Anusara, and for the last five years Iyengar, developing her own unique style of flow and alignment.
Christa’s love of yoga has taken her to India twice, once to study asana yoga with Pattabhi Jois in 1996. Her second visit in 2006 focused more on Karma Yoga. She joined Global Peace Works out of New York and facilitated 27 individuals from around the world, from different faith traditions to gather together and build a library and community center in the slums of New Delhi. She continues to study the multiple faiths of the world to include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, and Taoism. Her studies of the multiple faiths have resulted in her creation of Enlighten : Take a Spiritual Journey Around the World, a board game playfully exploring the World’s Religions.
Christa also received her degree in Interfaith Spiritual Direction from Chaplaincy Institute of Berkeley in 2006 and is presently guiding people in individual sessions to greater communion with the divine.
http://www.enlightengamesinc.com/about-us-1024.html
Cynthia Bernheim
Cynthia combines her enthusiasm and love of yoga with a knowledge of alignment and body mechanics. Her classes are fun and playful with easy-to-follow instructions encouraging students of all levels to work deeply while honoring and working with their limitations. Cynthia began teaching Yoga after 20 years in the business world in order to make a positive change in her life and share that with others. She’s been a sports enthusiast her whole life, but was missing a holistic form of movement (and way of life) until she discovered yoga. Yoga soon became her way of life.
Cynthia received her training as a yoga teacher in the 500 hr. Advanced Studies Program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. She has also completed the Anusara Immersion taught by Laura Christensen. Cynthia currently volunteers her time as a Board Member for the the Northern California Iyengar Yoga Association.
Jamie Lamka
30 years of practice (25 years of study with Manouso Manos) and 18 years teaching experience. Jamie has worked with and developed yoga-specific programs for contractors, aging athletes (male and female), and health care providers. He has taught yoga and fitness classes for recapturing strength and flexibility as we age; HIV, cancer, and osteoporosis support; and healthy menopause. Carpenter, dancer, gym rat and dedicated yogi, Jamie's strength is his grasp of the fundamentals, compassion for pain, and understanding of human challenges. As a highly educated and experienced journeyman yoga teacher, Jamie offers his students individual attention and life-supporting knowledge.
No effort on the Yoga path is ever lost, nor can any obstacle hold one back forever. Just a little progress on this path can protect one from the greatest fear.” BKS Iyengar
“Jamie Lamka is a superb yoga teacher. He knows his craft and how to teach it. I call him “Coach”.
David Meggyesy, seven year NFL veteran, ageing athlete. Co-founder, Esalen Sports Center.
Jen Sterling
Jen has been a student of yoga since 1998 and is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. In 2004 she completed her yoga teacher training at High Desert Yoga and graduated from The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM, where she studied under Dr. Vasant Lad.
As a personal trainer for 10 years, Jen has enjoyed helping individuals to achieve better body awareness, core strength, alignment, and connection to their breath. By incorporating yoga philosophy and Ayurveda into her work, she creates a space for others to explore and experience how the mind, body, and spirit are all connected.
Over the past 12 years, Jen has studied with many master teachers, and is in deep gratitude to Ramanand Patel, Dr. Vasant Lad and Kim Schwartz, who have shown her how to walk the yogic path.
Karin Scholz Grace
Karin is a certified Hanna Somatic therapist, bringing a wide range of training and skills to her diverse healing arts and coaching practice. Based in Sausalito, California, she offers individual sessions and group classes in Hanna Somatics, Somatic Yoga, somatic coaching, leadership development, meditation, stress reduction, and the Enneagram. Karin holds an MS from Stanford University, and is currently a student of the Diamond Approach.
In addition to her private practice, Karin also facilitates Interpersonal Dynamics and High Performance Leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at USF School of Law. She is also a regular speaker and presenter at workshops and conferences such as the Association of Hanna Somatic Education conference, the International Enneagram Association Conference, and the International Association of Yoga Therapy Conference.
Having used Somatics to recover from her own debilitating spinal injury, Karin embodies this transformative healing practice from a place of personal experience and deep compassion. She loves empowering each student with the tools to make dramatic shifts within themselves and find greater capacity, flexibility, and comfort.
Katrina Knudsen
 
Katrina has been an enthusiastic Anusara yogi on the journey to unite her mind, body, and spirit since Anusara's inception in 1997. A long time Anusara Inspired teacher, she is currently a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor. She has been studying and training with John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga, for over 7 years.
In addition, Katrina has been studying and practicing extensively with the philosophy, history, and meditation master Paul Muller-Ortega since he began teaching publicly in 2007. She's completed the year-long Entering the Heart of Shiva course with Paul.
As a teacher, Katrina is deeply dedicated to helping students get a revelation of their own divine nature and to taste the bliss of their hearts through Anusara Yoga's® Universal Principles of Alignment.
Kelly Farr de Flores
 
Kelly Farr de Flores began studying ballet at the age of four and continued to study dance for many years to follow. More than a decade ago her love of dance made way for a smooth transition into yoga. Her devoted practice then led her to the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica, for her teacher certification.
Since 2005 she has been dedicated to sharing the art, science and philosophy of yoga with others. An incredible love of travel and thirst for knowledge has since led her to many foreign lands to explore yoga workshops and classes. Her most recent studies have been at the Anand Prakash Ashram in Rishikesh, India and at Power Yoga with Bryan Kest in Santa Monica, Ca. She has also taken courses in pranic (energy) healing. Kelly is continuously evolving as a yoga practitioner and teacher, always keeping her mind and heart open to new ideas. Her daily organic yoga practice flows with an open heart which radiates in her teaching. She weaves many forms of yoga together to meet the specific needs of her students.
Her vinyasa flow classes are guided by the rhythm of the inhalation and exhalation in such a way that the body, mind, and spirit are blended in a beautiful interplay of breath and movement creating a meditation in motion. She encourages her students to go inside themselves to find what they need, being mindful to honor the present moment. Join her and let your light shine out.
KK Ledford
 
KK is a Certified Anusara yoga teacher who grew up in the forests of East Texas. She was blessed to begin her Anusara journey studying intensively with her teacher John Friend in 1998 and has thousands of hours of studying directly with him for over 11 years. KK brings a wide background of spiritual engagement to her poetic and challenging classes with a Master’s degree in Women’s Spirituality, an integrated knowledge of therapeutics and Tantric philosophy, and an outlook steeped in nature-based spirituality. KK emits a big radiant energy, strength and enthusiasm for yoga.
Always passionate, KK has dedicated the past 13 years to teaching yoga full time and has spent 20 years studying and savoring the mysteries of consciousness. With a sense of humor and fierce dedication, she brings together yoga, astrology, herbalism, and embodied spirituality to her dynamic classes. She inspires students to work hard, learn sophisticated and heart-centered alignment, deepen their commitment to their practice and awaken to their own innate power and splendor.
Her ongoing and extensive studies in Kashmir Shaivism and meditation are with Prof. Paul Muller-Ortega, and she has studied the philosophy of Rajanaka over many years with Prof. Douglas Brooks. In addition to her public yoga classes and private sessions, she educates and facilitates workshops and ceremonies for women and officiates weddings.
To learn more, visit: www.wildmoonwisdom.com/
Laura Christensen (Abbey)
 
Laura is a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and serves on the Anusara Yoga Certification Committee. She has been practicing and studying various forms of yoga for over 18 years. She apprenticed with John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga, for more than one year, on tour, full-time and has studied with him directly for over 8 years and 2,500 hours. She continues to be an extremely dedicated student and teacher.
With large doses of articulated radiance, Laura inspires students to recognize and unveil the wellspring of unique potency inside and merge it with the ever-flowing gift of Grace. Through her clear and skilled instruction, and sweet, supportive spirit, students discover new depths within their hearts and new heights in their asana practices.
LauraChristensen.com
Laurel Hunt
The daughter of a naturopathic physician, Laurel has grown up with a great appreciation for natural solutions for healthy living. Before coming to yoga, Laurel worked for ten years as a sign language interpreter. Laurel's journey has been inspired by many teachers, including Darren Main, Laura Christensen, and Stacie Vining.
Laurel's classes are Hatha Flow, featuring a variety of inversions, twists and back bends, suitable for both beginning and advanced students. Students get a work out but come away from the class feeling grounded and centered.
www.yogalaurel.com
Mirabai Warkulwiz
Mirabai's Restorative classes offer a spiritually uplifting and deeply healing, wholistic experience. Her classes include centering exercises, Restorative asanas (gentle postures where the body is fully supported with props and held for longer periods of time enabling the body to open and relax). Both calming and rejuvenating, restorative poses help bring balance and energy to our busy lives. Classes also include some very gentle stretching, pranayama (breath work), yoga nidra (deep relaxation), and meditation. Classes are for all levels, and are beginner friendly.
Mirabai planted her yoga and meditation roots in 1998 in San Francisco at the Sivananda Yoga Center and at the Integral Yoga Institute. Amazed at her healing of a back injury and countless other positive life changes, she became yoga certified through 200-hour teacher training programs both at the Integral Yoga Institute in 2004, and at the Greenpath Ashtanga Studio in 2005. In July 2008 she completed another 170 hour Intermediate Teacher Training program in Hatha and Pranayama through the Integral Yoga Institute in Virginia. Mirabai has also trained in Restorative yoga with Judith Lasater and other mentors. She has a deep passion for sharing these ancient yoga practices with her students.
Mirabai is also Reiki Level 1 certified, studies Aryuveda, loves nature and hiking, dancing, and is a Kirtan musician who leads gatherings around the Bay. Shr enjoys implementing music or chanting in her classes. www.mirabaiandfriends.com
Sienna Smith
Sienna is a certified Anusara-Inspired, Viniyoga teacher, and a clinically trained yoga therapist. Sienna has appeared in Gary Krafstow’s top-selling yoga DVD, Yoga for the Low Back, Hips, and Sacrum, and has graced the pages of Yoga Journal three times since 2007 with her recent Yoga Journal article and online video called Office Yoga in Nov 2011. She began her yoga studies in 1995, and has taught in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000. Her earlier studies were with Georg Feuerstein—one of the foremost Western scholars of yoga philosophy—and she has studied extensively with Viniyoga founder Gary Kraftsow. Recently she has refined her teaching with over 250 hours with Anusara founder John Friend and Sianna Sherman. Sienna is the owner of Yoga Mountain Studio in Fairfax, California, where she teaches group yoga classes and works privately with yoga therapy clients, guiding people of all levels and abilities toward optimal alignment on all levels of being to improve their physical health, and create a life of freedom and joy. www.YogaMountainStudio
Tim Lenheim
Tim is uniquely combining spirit, strength and flexibility and successfully reveals mind-body consciousness previously unknown to his individual students. Tim's eclectic background ranges from three years in the Navy to being ordained as a monk in the country of Burma, from the Baptiste method of yoga to Anusara Yoga.
Yvette Eyzaguirre-Myrner
 
Yvette has a passion for yoga, healing and promoting happiness in the present moment. She strives to bring the mind and body back to balance and harmony. She believes in the renewal of the self and has successfully helped students relieve their chronic pain. She is sensitive to her students' individual needs and her presence is peaceful and compassionate.
Yvette completed the Anusara Yoga Advanced Studies Intensive Teacher Training in 2001. She studied the principles of Anusara, including the bio-mechanical alignment in postures, breakdown of postures with modifications and props, prevention and treatment of injuries, seeing and understanding bodies, principles of sequencing postures, reclining and sitting pranayama. She has also studied guided explorations of chakra energy, meditation theory, and Vipassana meditation. Yvette has recieved atunement and was initiated into the Master level of the Usui Shiki Ryoho System of Natural Healing. Yvette participated in the Gyudmed Tantric Monastery's Tibetan Purification of the Universe Ritual in 2001, with Tibetan Buddhist Monks.
She hopes all living beings find happiness and peace. She has also participated in Dance Mandal Kathmandu, Foundation for the Promotion of Sacred Performing Arts workshops on Charya Nirtya Sacred Buddhist Dance of Nepal, "Dance as a Spiritual Discipline" with director Prajwal R. Vajracharya. Yvette lived in La Paz, Bolivia for three years studying art and healing of the Inca tradition. She walked, hiked, and meditated from the snowy tops of the Andes Mountains to the lush jungles of Yungas where she paid homage to Pachamama (Mother Earth Goddess) and the Virgin of Copacabana. She also hikes in the Eastern Sierras connecting to nature and it's greatness.
http://web.mac.com/yvetteeyza
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