Bikram Yoga Castro - San Francisco

LaMott Atkins is a Certified Bikram method hatha yoga instructor. An Afro American - Black Yoga Teacher, LaMott graduated from the Bikram training program in November 2000, and he began his yoga teaching career in San Francisco, where, for two years, he taught yoga classes in as many as four yoga studios simultaneously including Mission Yoga and Funky Door Yoga. He later worked for Bikram Yoga College of India traveling throughout the United States teaching at yoga studios in Oakland, Philadelphia, Miami, Dallas, and Baltimore. In September 2004, LaMott returned to San Francisco full-time when he chanced upon the opportunity to open Bikram Yoga Castro.

Santosha Yoga with Maya Breuer

Maya Breuer, RYT, a Certified Kripalu Yoga teacher with more than 20 years experience, is the founder and director of the Santosha School of Yoga and the national Yoga Retreat for Women of Color™. She has studied extensively with yoga masters in the Kripalu tradition in India . Maya is a member of the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers, the Kripalu Yoga Teacher's Association, the International Women of Vision and Action Group, and the National Yoga Alliance. She is also an affiliate of the International Yoga College and serves on the Kripalu Center Board of Trustees. In 2004 she received the first Yoga Trailblazer Award from the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers. Maya is a contributing author to Stephen Cope's Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? and the just published Kripalu Yoga On and Off the Mat ( December 2005). She is also a jazz singer and visual artist whose yogic philosophy incorporates these aspects of her creativity. Presently Maya is completing her first book, Soul Yoga.

Body for Life

An Afro American Yoga Teacher, Ava Gallon-Reed. is certified through Powerhouse Pilate's and the American Council of Exercise (ACE). She is certified in mat and reformer Pilate's and is currently and always will be a student of Pilate's  She has trained in New York through Polestar Pilate's and just recently returned from a trip to Miami working on her second certification in the advanced reformer work from Polestar Pilate's She has over 5 years of experience using the Joseph Pilate's method and over 7 years in personal training.

"I am very passionate about Pilate's and Personal training and I love to instruct others. My mission is to share and practice mind/body fitness, which I like to call artistic fitness to those who are just beginning as well as those who have experience. I believe that integrating mind/body fitness in one's life only help the mind, body, spirit connection, that which aids in reaching ones full potential."

Afro American Yoga Teacher - Ben Thomas

Ben Thomas has been practicing yoga since 1976 and has been teaching yoga classes for over 25 years. He is a Senior certified Iyengar yoga teacher by Yogacharya, Dr. B.K.S. Iyengar of the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune, India. His original certifications was granted by B.K.S. Iyengar in 1983. He has traveled to Pune, India to study with B.K.S. Iyengar, his daughter, Dr. Geeta Iyengar, and his son, Praschant Iyengar, on ten occasions:

 

Jaki Nett - Iyengar Yoga Teacher

Jaki Nett, college instructor, author, former Playboy bunny and an Iyengar Yoga instructor and student, has been teaching yoga classes for two decades around the world. Jaki is a faculty member of the Advanced Studies Program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, an Iyengar certification assessor, and an internationally known workshop teacher. She is also an invited instructor at The Yoga Journal conferences and gives public yoga classes in St. Helena, Corte Madera, and San Francisco, CA.

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