Neriah Davis has been practicing Pilates since 1997 and is in the process of becoming certified to teach Mat and Reformer Pilates. She has clocked over 100 hours of personal training. After the birth of her first child, Neriah jumped into Pilates with her whole heart and soul. She found that Pilates transformed her body in record time. By following a strict Pilates and Yoga regimen, Neriah shed her baby weight and found that she looked and felt even better than she had before her pregnancy.
TINA SKANDALIS
Tina practices
and teaches yoga as a way to explore and nurture the body, mind, spirit
connection, focusing on the breath while exploring the body and soul. The
foundation of her yoga practice is grounded in her studies of shamanism and
her desire to support people in the exploration of their true authentic
self.
Tina started her yoga practice in 2000 while attending UCSB, where she
earned a BA in history focusing on public health and contemporary
environmental policy. Throughout her life she has felt a deep connection
with nature leading her to a more simple, natural and healthy way of living.
Tina moved to Murphys in 2007 with the intention of grounding in the
principles of nature as a focus for healing,
Tina views yoga as active meditation, an intense exploration of the body
heart, mind and spirit. Within her teaching she conveys basic principles of
breath, depth and movement, incorporating core work and basic alignment.
Her understanding of the body developed over the past ten years through the
influence of Heather Tiddens teaching yoga from a shamanic perspective,
Christa Rypins anatomy, imagery, core Pilates and yoga and Leslie Howard
Iyengar style yoga.
WILDER
Wilder has a pH.d. in clinical psychology, is a graduate of the Barbara
Brennan school of healing, has trained in Tibetan Buddhist practices and has
explored sound and movement in her own body and with others for the past
several decades.
COLLEEN
Colleen began studying yoga about 10 years ago and has been teaching on and off for the past 9 years. She recently moved back to Calaveras County after living in San Diego for 6 years and studying Ashtanga yoga with senior teacher Dana Rae Paré. She is a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level and has also completed teacher trainings in Tri-Yoga, Kundalini yoga and Yoga for teens. She is a credentialed high school science teacher and a mom of 2 boys.
KEITH ROBERTS
Keith is certified in Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Ganga White and Tracey Rich of the the White Lotus Center, the first Vinyasa flow teachers in the U.S.
A tennis player, bike rider and skier, Keith seeks to maintain and improve his athletic abilities with Yoga. The Vinyasa workout provides the perfect blend of flexibility, strength and stamina as well as brings stabilization to the nervous system.
Keith incorporates Iyengar cueing into held poses, and connecting the breath with movement while flowing through space. Keith is responsive to the needs of the students, allowing his classes to evolve as the students needs change.
