Guest Teachers
RYT 200
Bob Bauer attended his first yoga class in early 2000 as a way to offset the physical stressors of a daily long distance running routine. Realizing after his third class “hmmm, I feel….different…” he knew yoga is what he personally needed to balance his life. Both physically and mentally, the practice of creating space opened up a livelihood of restorative possibilities. In late 2003, he attended his first Kundalini class with Sierra Hollister. Through her guidance and inspiration, he learned the teachings of Yogi Bhajan. As his desire to learn continued to grow, in August 2008 he completed the 27 day Kundalini Immersion course in New Mexico. Bob reflects upon returning to the land of his personal daily obligations; “the gift of sharing the ancient teachings of Kundalini Yoga has allowed me to receive the opportunity to do the same.”
RYT 200
is experienced in the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra. Katherine discovered yoga in 1990 and received her teaching certification from the Asheville Yoga Center in 2004. She is completing advanced studies toward her 500 hour certification and teaches yoga in Asheville.
RYT 500
Jacob Felder has been practicing Yoga since 1969. He is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level. He is also a Meditation Trainer successfully using a training method he personally developed, "The Awareness Approach". With over 20 years teaching experience, Jacob is a passionate and patient instructor to meditation and yoga students of all levels.
His latest project is the production of an audio Meditation Training CD available at amazon.com., Meditation: The Awareness Approach
For further info or private training sessions contact Jacob Felder, RYT at: yogajacob@hotmail.com OR 336-407-8602 OR visit his website at: www.jacobfelder.com.
RYT 500
Candy Evans has been studying the wisdom tradition of yoga and practicing mediation and Tai Chi for more than 20 years. She completed the 230-hour teacher training program at the Asheville Yoga Center in North Carolina under the direction of Stephanie Keach in 2007. She is currently pursuing her RYT 500 certification and has studied with many great and inspiring teachers both well-known and not-so-well-known. She holds a BFA in Theatre from Virginia Commonwealth University and has worked as a trainer and teacher for more than 15 years.
Candy spent her childhood largely out of doors in both the Utah desert and the Virginia woodlands and enjoys practicing and teaching yoga in all sorts of settings. Her most dominant sources of inspiration include Momma Earth, the philosophies of South East Asia, Quantum Physics, and Native American wisdom traditions. Candy’s yoga classes are a flowing celebration of body and breath infused with a playful spirit, some poetry and prose, loads of practical bits of data, along with some laughter, which all combine to allow each student to connect with the Infinite Source of Grace and to take their yoga off their mats and into their lives.
Yoga Master
David Williams has been practicing Yoga daily, without interruption, since 1971. In 1972, David met K. P. Manju , the son of K. Pattabhi Jois, and saw Manju demonstrate the Ashtanga Yoga 1st series.
This was at Dr. Swami Gitananda's Ananda Ashram in Pondicherry, South India, where David received his 6 month Yoga teachers training course certification.
In 1973, David began studying Ashtanga Yoga with K. Pattabhi Jois at his home in Mysore, India, and became the first non-Indian to be taught the complete Ashtanga Yoga system of asanas and pranayama directly from Jois. David introduced K. Pattabhi Jois and Manju to America and the western world when he, along with Nancy Gilgoff, organized and sponsored their first visit to Encinitas, California, in 1975.
David is responsible for teaching the Ashtanga Yoga system to many of today's leading teachers and practitioners, including David Swenson, Doug Swenson, Danny Paradise, Bryan Kest, Jonny Kest, Tracy Rich, Chuck Miller, and Maty Ezraty.
David is 60 years old. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has lived on the island of Maui, Hawaii, since l975, and teaches private individual or group classes by appointment.
For more information, please go to David’s website, http://www.ashtangayogi.com.
Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis grew up in Greensboro but left in 1980 and has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area until last year when she came back to the south and moved to Myrtle Beach, SC.
She had the good fortune to be in the bay area where she took weekly public classes with some of the finest yoga teachers in America - Judith Hanson Lassiter, Sarah Powers, Rodney Yee, and Richard Rosen just to mention a few.
She opened a yoga studio in California and after 10 years sold it, but it’s still thriving today.
