Leslie Howard, an Oakland-based yoga teacher specializing in all things pelvic for women. She leads workshops and trainings nationally and internationally. Healing her own hips and pelvis led her to intense study of the anatomy and physiology of this vital bodily structure. She designed a successful study for UCSF on yoga for incontinence and recently received a grant to study yoga for pelvic pain. Her teaching is informed by over 3000 hours of yoga study with senior Iyengar yoga teachers. She is a presenter for the Yoga Journal Conferences and is featured in the documentary, “Yoga Woman”. She has online videos at pranamaya.com andyogauonline.com

Christie has practiced Iyengar Yoga for over a decade.

Her training as a registered dietitian, as well as yoga student, has inspired a wide-ranging interest in health and wellness with a goal of life-long fitness with an active lifestyle.

David A. Cronin is a meditation  instructor, speaker, photographer and writer. He has been teaching since the 70’s. As an ordained, non-denominational minister, he brings his spiritual insights and understandings into all his classes.

He has used meditative, mindfulness and compassion practices to help him navigate through life and teaches from his direct and personal experiences.

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Sonam Targee had a successful clinical practice of Pan-Asian herbal medicine for 33 years. Through there many years of teaching and borrowing liberally from the Ayurvedic, Chinese, Native American, Tibetan and Wiccan traditions,he has created an electric complimentary medicine practice. He has lectured in yoga centers and hospitals around the country, his intentions being to pass along the profound information that has been taught to him to help alleviate suffering and bring about healing for all living beings.

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Mary Obendorfer

Mary is a Senior Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and a current assessor for the National Board of Iyengar Yoga Teacher Certification. She teaches internationally and across the US, conducting teacher trainings, workshops, and yoga vacations.

Mary has been to India 15 times, most recently for six months in 2009 and a full year in 2003, to study closely with the Iyengars at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune. She has practiced yoga since 1981.She was one of the few people from around the world to attend the invitation only Back Bend intensive given directly by Mr. Iyengar. She also worked with Dr. Mary Schatz in India documenting the therapeutic yoga that Mr Iyengar is so famous for. She has served as president of her local association (IYASC).

Eddy Marks

Eddy is a Senior level certified Iyengar teacher, has been to India 15 times and has practiced yoga for since 1976. He has also taught at the Yoga Journal & Asia Yoga conferences. He is currently an assessor for the National Board for Iyengar Yoga Teacher Certification. He has a degree from UCLA in Kinesiology (the study of human movement) and teaches anatomy & physiology for yoga practitioners. Before he moved to San Diego he was employed as an exercise physiologist and taught yoga in the cardiac rehabilitation program of the famous Pritikin Longevity Center. There with the guidance of Mr Iyengar, he was the first to introduce yoga for cardiac rehabilitation which was a great success. He has served as president of his local association (IYASC) and as a board member and archivist for the national association (IYNAUS).

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