Liya Garber
Liya Garber creates a heart-filled, fun, joyful way to calm the mind and align with one's inner truth. She brings a unique and special gift of laughter and humor to every class.
Her yoga journey began in the heart of New York City where she lived a fast-paced life as a business executive. As the stress of this life began to affect her health, Liya turned to yoga and began to heal. The results were undeniable and she has been on a dedicated path of self healing and discovery ever since.
In addition to yoga, she is a certified Mindfulness and Wellbeing Strategy coach and studied deep esoteric Kabbalah, including the sacred Tree of Life and dream work, in Los Piramidas Del Ka, a school in Guatemala. She is certified in both Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga and is a registered KRI (Kundalini Research Institute) instructor. She took her Level 1 and 2 trainings with Gurmukh and Gurushabd in India.
Liya is gifted with a special energy for creating sacred space in which humans can elevate and reconnect with their hearts and destiny. With sincerity and grace, she creates a special connection with each of her students. Her goal is to reach as many humans as possible in this life time.
Her highest values are authenticity and honesty with herself and others.
Liya Garber
Liya Garber creates a heart-filled, fun, joyful way to calm the mind and align with one's inner truth. She brings a unique and special gift of laughter and humor to every class.
Her yoga journey began in the heart of New York City where she lived a fast-paced life as a business executive. As the stress of this life began to affect her health, Liya turned to yoga and began to heal. The results were undeniable and she has been on a dedicated path of self healing and discovery ever since.
In addition to yoga, she is a certified Mindfulness and Wellbeing Strategy coach and studied deep esoteric Kabbalah, including the sacred Tree of Life and dream work, in Los Piramidas Del Ka, a school in Guatemala. She is certified in both Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga and is a registered KRI (Kundalini Research Institute) instructor. She took her Level 1 and 2 trainings with Gurmukh and Gurushabd in India.
Liya is gifted with a special energy for creating sacred space in which humans can elevate and reconnect with their hearts and destiny. With sincerity and grace, she creates a special connection with each of her students. Her goal is to reach as many humans as possible in this life time.
Her highest values are authenticity and honesty with herself and others.
Julie Viscuso
Julie is a passionate, fun-loving gal filled with energy and joy. She lives in gratitude for all of life's blessing, trusting that everything is a wonderful opportunity from which to grow and learn.
She has developed a deep understanding of the link between mind, body, and soul through her life experience. When faced with her own health challenges, she developed the opportunity to personally explore what happens when we make the choice of love over fear. Her struggles have led her down a beautiful path of cultivating a relationship with her soul. This has healed her mind and body greatly and has strengthened her desire to encourage, serve, and love others as they move through their own personal journeys.
She trained with the highly respected Gurmukh and Gurushabd and was certified by the Kundalini Yoga Institute.
She is also a practitioner for the Lupus Foundation of Northern California helping to spearhead their “Living Well with Lupus” Wellness Initiative and is a certified Holistic Health Coach by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
She is honored to bring the healing powers of self love and Kundalini Yoga to people living with health conditions and/or seeking to enhance their lives.
Julie Viscuso
Julie is a passionate, fun-loving gal filled with energy and joy. She lives in gratitude for all of life's blessing, trusting that everything is a wonderful opportunity from which to grow and learn.
She has developed a deep understanding of the link between mind, body, and soul through her life experience. When faced with her own health challenges, she developed the opportunity to personally explore what happens when we make the choice of love over fear. Her struggles have led her down a beautiful path of cultivating a relationship with her soul. This has healed her mind and body greatly and has strengthened her desire to encourage, serve, and love others as they move through their own personal journeys.
She trained with the highly respected Gurmukh and Gurushabd and was certified by the Kundalini Yoga Institute.
She is also a practitioner for the Lupus Foundation of Northern California helping to spearhead their “Living Well with Lupus” Wellness Initiative and is a certified Holistic Health Coach by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
She is honored to bring the healing powers of self love and Kundalini Yoga to people living with health conditions and/or seeking to enhance their lives.
Lauren Marsh
Laurens passion is sharing Kundalini Yoga as a method to getting closer to the soul. She believes in the power the practice has to clear stagnant old emotional energy that can keep you feeling blocked, stuck and unhappy. As well as, serving as a beautiful daily practice to align your frequency with your true tone. She loves sharing the teachings as a way for people to connect into exactly what they need in the moment, to awaken the senses and be inspired to be the divine creators they innately are.
She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Spiritual Life Coach, Holistic Health Coach and Reiki Master. She has been practicing Kundalini yoga and meditation for over ten years. She finds it to be the most effective tool for moving energy in the body and learning to hear the voice of the soul beyond the thinking mind. In her classes, feel safe and at home in yourself as she guides you in exploring what is available to you when you get out of your own way and open your heart to the divine flow of your own life.
Lauren Marsh
Lauren is devoted to uplifting humanity through a remembering of the soul's journey; the process of coming to Earth to forget who we are so that we can remember and learn soul driven lessons.
In her early 20's she was introduced to spirituality and began to remember why she was here. An awakening that brought her to realize the human capacity to suppress traumas and emotional pain in the body to avoid discomfort and to cope (where the ego and shadow self is born). She is passionate about empowering others to heal and grow through understanding the difference between the ego/shadow and the real soul self.
She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Soul Coach, Holistic Health Coach and Reiki Master. She has been practicing Kundalini yoga and meditation for over ten years. She finds it to be the most effective tool for moving energy in the body to release stored trauma and to create a safe home to feel and hear the soul beyond the thinking mind.
She is committed to helping others move through the fog that keeps them from knowing who they really are; beyond their body, learned behavior, and personality that may feel like their identity, but is simply just a piece of the puzzle. In her teaching, she will touch on the core virtues that resonate most deeply in her; love, compassion, empathy, and forgiveness and within these creating healthy boundaries.
Yael Haar
Yael is a kundalini yoga teacher, dancer, and new earth visionary. Her passion is to empower others to find their joy and balance in their lives. Kundalini yoga was the technology that brought commitment, connection, and natural magnetism into her life. Yael is excited to share this experience and guide others to their inner wellspring of wisdom.
Yael Haar
Yael is a kundalini yoga teacher, dancer, and new earth visionary. Her passion is to empower others to find their joy and balance in their lives. Kundalini yoga was the technology that brought commitment, connection, and natural magnetism into her life. Yael is excited to share this experience and guide others to their inner wellspring of wisdom.
Aleksandra Dubov
(substitute teacher)
Aleksandra is a trained opera singer, photographer, healer and performer who teaches Kundalini yoga and chanting as a way to cultivate spiritual transformation in her life and those around her.
She invites people into a space where they can access deep connection to their unique voice, develop self expression and commit to a life where we embody our Sat Nam (True Self). She's had a lifelong relationship with Vocal studies, performing on many stages and sang as a Cantorial Soloist in various Synagogues around the country.
Drawn to the rich chanting practice in Gurmukhi, she discovered Kundalini yoga and experienced the radical transformation that takes place when combining movement, breath-work and chanting in a daily practice.
Aleksandra Dubov
(substitute teacher)
Aleksandra is a trained opera singer, photographer, healer and performer who teaches Kundalini yoga and chanting as a way to cultivate spiritual transformation in her life and those around her.
She invites people into a space where they can access deep connection to their unique voice, develop self expression and commit to a life where we embody our Sat Nam (True Self). She's had a lifelong relationship with Vocal studies, performing on many stages and sang as a Cantorial Soloist in various Synagogues around the country.
Drawn to the rich chanting practice in Gurmukhi, she discovered Kundalini yoga and experienced the radical transformation that takes place when combining movement, breath-work and chanting in a daily practice.
Nia Nyree
(substitute teacher)
Nia Nyree is a KRI certified, kundalini yoga teacher , she is certified by Krishna Kaur & Y.O.G.A for youth and is a published author. Her latest book “crystals for the urban chick” is a beginner’s guide to using crystals. She serves as a spiritual coach, supporting women’s individual journey to self-actualization through a 6-week immersion program. Her healing tools include energy work, crystal healing, reiki, full/new moon ceremonies, and female healing retreats. She is known for a yoga style that integrates soulful sounds & the practice of kundalini.
After 9 years of practicing Vinyasa & Bikram yoga, Nia stepped into her first kundalini class with Abhjot Kaur & has never looked back. Within a year she traveled to Rishikesh, India to train with master teachers Gurmuck & Gurushabd. Kundalini yoga is a life-changing yoga of awareness offering benefits that can be felt after just one class. So whether you are a beginner on your yoga journey or experienced, practice with Nia can provide the right spiritual fix.
Ryan Baker
(substitute teacher)
A former professional chef, Ryan spent many years working in some of the best kitchens in the world. In 2017, after years of stress, unprocessed trauma, and substance abuse, Ryan fell into a massive depression that kept him sedentary for a year and a half. A chance encounter with Kia Miller at Esalen in August of 2018 inspired Ryan to heal his addictions and devote himself to a life of recovery.
Soon after, at the behest of yoga teacher and addiction expert, Tommy Rosen, Ryan began his kundalini yoga training with Gurmukh in 2019.
Now two years into recovery, Ryan believes that everything we are looking for in a healthy, spiritual life can be found within the exquisite container that is kundalini yoga- which includes: kriya yoga, sacred mantra, meditation, pranayam and community.
Ryan’s classes are focused primarily on liberating human beings from the trappings of addictions, as well as offering practices that promote strong mental health.
Leila Chambers
(substitute teacher)
Leila inspires students to find health and wholeness at all ages. Her journey started as a busy professional in event planning, and she turned to yoga as a tool for stress release and flexibility. At the time, she never imagined becoming a yoga instructor. She was in her mid-forties yearning for yoga’s benefits, but she felt lost in most vinyasa classes. Then she tried Kundalini Yoga, and went from barely keeping her spine straight just sitting on the floor, to enjoying a daily practice that reduced stiffness and elevated her spirit.
Almost a decade later, life events changed her destiny. When her parents struggled with advanced age, Leila discovered the tools she learned were gifts to share with others to improve quality of life. This life-changing experience inspired Leila to complete Level One Teacher Training in San Francisco with Awtar Kaur Khalsa in April 2019. The experience was so profound that she did a second teacher training with legacy instructors, Sat Santokh Singh Khalsa and Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa the following fall. Leila continues to partner with visionary self-empowered teachers on the Aura Team to expand her role as instructor to connect to the healer within.
Leila loves helping students find their inner spark through yoga and focuses on keeping Kundalini kriyas inclusive for all fitness abilities.
Leila Chambers
(substitute teacher)
Leila inspires students to find health and wholeness at all ages. Her journey started as a busy professional in event planning, and she turned to yoga as a tool for stress release and flexibility. At the time, she never imagined becoming a yoga instructor. She was in her mid-forties yearning for yoga’s benefits, but she felt lost in most vinyasa classes. Then she tried Kundalini Yoga, and went from barely keeping her spine straight just sitting on the floor, to enjoying a daily practice that reduced stiffness and elevated her spirit.
Almost a decade later, life events changed her destiny. When her parents struggled with advanced age, Leila discovered the tools she learned were gifts to share with others to improve quality of life. This life-changing experience inspired Leila to complete Level One Teacher Training in San Francisco with Awtar Kaur Khalsa in April 2019. The experience was so profound that she did a second teacher training with legacy instructors, Sat Santokh Singh Khalsa and Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa the following fall. Leila continues to partner with visionary self-empowered teachers on the Aura Team to expand her role as instructor to connect to the healer within.
Leila loves helping students find their inner spark through yoga and focuses on keeping Kundalini kriyas inclusive for all fitness abilities.
Hannah Duffy
Hannah is a designer and healer - her corporate career spans 10+ years working as a design researcher and innovation consultant, and her healing career spans 7+ years studying and coaching within self-development and spirituality. She now bridges this passion with the other love of her life, Kundalini Yoga, as a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor.
Hannah brings a vibrant Generator/ Scorpio energy to every class she teaches. She loves to use her design skills to creatively design each class so that each participant feels not only held and supported, but leaves with an actionable step to take towards up-leveling their life.
Kundalini Yoga changed Hannah’s life; after her mom passed away in 2012, she jumped into the 9-5 world, moved across the world, and discovered a passion for learning more about herself, eating healthier, practicing self-awareness, meditating, and bringing more compassion and positivity to her everyday life. Along the way, Kundalini Yoga was what helped Hannah to heal and finally emerge from the challenges that came up along this journey from depression, eating disorder, breakups, and grief. She’s incredibly excited to now use the immense amount of space she’s created for herself to hold and help others along their healing journeys as well.
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Mary Jane Schmudlach
Mary Jane is a vibrant, earth loving individual who is committed to her personal healing journey and authentically sharing it forward to inspire others. Her energetic, playful spirit is rooted and interwoven in the teachings of every class.
In her early 20’s she was diagnosed with an autio-immune disease that redirected her life to a path of lifestyle transformation and healing. After unplugging from the matrix and spending 6 years immersed in intuitive self-practice, internal discovery and personal embodiment, she tapped deeper into holistic health, exploring multiple modalities and connecting deeply with Kundalini Yoga, Reiki & using food as medicine.
Mary Jane is gifted with her ability to follow her intuition and surrender to the flow of the universe. Her goal is to help as many conscious individuals as she can to connect with their inner teacher, exploring the process and practice of manifesting the unique gifts they are meant to bring into the world.
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