Featured Teachers
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Tim Feldmann
Tim is the former Director and Miami Life Center and an internationally recognized and highly acclaimed Ashtanga Yoga Teacher. His teaching integrates extensive studies of F.M. Alexander Technique and sitting meditation with 20 years of experience as a professional dancer and an internationally acclaimed choreographer. His in-depth knowledge of functional anatomy, alignment as well as the idiosyncratic body and mind in stillness and in motion creates the platform upon which his solid understanding of the Ashtanga method rests. In addition to engaging in the pilgrimage, he will teach each morning offering ample time to support the development of your yoga practice.
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Kino MacGregor
Kino MacGregor is a Miami native who is happiest on the beach with a fresh coconut and a poet at heart who always stops to smell the flowers. She is the founder of Omstars—the world’s first yoga TV network. With over 1 million followers on Instagram and over 500,000 subscribers on YouTube and Facebook, Kino’s message of spiritual strength reaches people all over the world. Sought after as an expert in yoga worldwide, is a international yoga teacher, inspirational speaker, author of four books, producer of six Ashtanga Yoga DVDs, writer, vlogger, world traveler, co-founder of Miami Life Center.
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Marque Garaux
Marque is the owner of Great Lakes Ashtanga Yoga in Geneva, Ohio. He discovered Ashtanga Yoga while seeking different ways to alleviate his lower back pain. After noticing an almost immediate physical change, Marque then slowly began to see other positive changes happening in his life as well. In the fall of 2014 Marque decided to follow in the footsteps of the teachers that he most respected and applied for study at the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute (KPJAYI). Marque was accepted and spent the first 2 months of 2015 in Mysore, India learning under the guidance of R. Sharath Jois. Marque returned to India each year since and has practiced with and assisted both Sharath and Saraswathi. Marque received the blessing (Level 2 Authorization) from Sharath on December 12th, 2017 during his morning practice.
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Khenpo Tokpa Tulku
Khenpo Tokpa Tulku (Karma Gyurmey) was born in 1978 in Nubri in northern Nepal. In 1987, when he was nine years old, he was ordained as a Buddhist monk at Ka Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal. There he pursued his elementary studies, which included memorizing many texts and learning the monastery's tradition of chanting. In 1998 he commenced studies in the monastic college at the Sangye Yeshe Higher Shedra. He studied there for nine years, focusing on texts related to sutra- and mantra-level Buddhism as well as general fields of study. Currently he teaches to those who are interested in Buddhist teachings, both ordained and lay, from both East and West.
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Jessica Stickler
Jessica has been teaching Jivamukti Yoga since 2008 (she and Cory completed the training together), and spent many hours studying directly with Sharon Gannon and David Life, the co-founders of Jivamukti Yoga. She completed 300 hour certification in 2008 and became an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher in 2010. She serves as a mentor in Jivamukti's apprentice teaching program and teaches Jivamukti Method internationally in Australia, Germany, Trinidad, Czech Republic, Russia, and France. Jessica loves to teach a wide range of students, from beginners through advanced practitioners, and has worked closely with those who are recovering from injury.
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Vanessa Coomans
Vanessa is a 500h RYT Yoga Teacher who has shared her passion for yoga and teaching since 2015. Vanessa is a dedicated Ashtanga practitioner who believes in the value of incorporating Yin into her practice. She is also trained in Hot Yoga & Yin Yoga and received both 200hr and 300hr teacher training certifications from Tim Feldmann & Kino MacGregor through Miami Life Center. It truly nourishes her soul to help people reconnect with their true selves and with their bodies. It keeps her humble and grateful. For Vanessa, Yoga is not something that she does, rather it is who she is and how she tries to live her life. She loves to teach beginners yoga as it reminds her of her own journey. She hosts yoga retreats around the world.
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Giuliana Carducci
Giuliana is interested in exploring movement, meditation and writing as tools to heal and find balance in everyday life. She started practicing Ashtanga Yoga 10 years ago in New York City while pursuing a graduate degree at Columbia University, and has been a dedicated practitioner since then. She has had the honor to practice under the guidance of several teachers including Eddie Stern, Greg Nardi and Sharath Jois, and she now practices under the guidance of Kino McGregor and Tim Feldmann. Giuliana is an energetic and inclusive instructor. that aims to create a collaborative and fun space for self-exploration in her classes. She has 200+300 YTT certifications and teaches regularly in Miami and Italy.