WE’RE PROUD TO BE JOINED BY THESE TEACHERS, SPEAKERS & BODYWORKERS!
SASHA GIEDER (MIKSIS)
YOGA TEACHER, FOUNDER OMBOLDT
Sasha’s exuberant love for yoga shines through in every class she leads. With roots in Ashtanga and Baptiste Yoga, her classes are fiery yet grounding. She began her yoga journey in 2004 and in 2012 became an E-RYT certified Yoga Alliance instructor. Sasha holds a B.A. in Human Development and a Master’s in Counseling Psychology, specializing in both somatic mind/body therapy, trauma-informed care and perinatal mental health; she is currently accruing hours towards her Marriage and Family Therapist license. Sasha, most recently, completed a 40-hour training with Hala Khouri in Trauma-Informed Yoga (Somatic Experiencing) and uses this approach when teaching incarcerated youth and other groups of this nature. Sasha is a birth doula and is certified through Postpartum Support International as a perinatal mental health specialist; she utilizes these training modalities to support her pre/post-natal yoga classes, as well as in her private practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist.
Her hope in life is to improve the lives of those open and willing to roll out the mat and discover the magic of the Practice and what’s within. Yoga can be utilized as a tool to not only calm the body and mind, but also to alleviate symptoms of illness, both in the physical and beyond. Sasha finds her work in yoga to be that of a guide through the process of healing.
Her love for the practice and for those she has the pleasure of sharing it with is what energizes her teaching. If you love a lively and high-spirited practice that will bring you deeper into a grounded sense of self, you will love this class! Expect to breathe and flow through intentional sequencing and high energetic movement, all backed by upbeat and luminous playlists carefully mixed to awaken the power of what’s within. Her classes are appropriate for all practitioners who enjoy a physical challenge that leaves you feeling whole and alive!
ALEXANDRA ROSE
BUTI & YOGA TEACHER
Alexandra’s yoga journey started in 2008. The transformation and love that she received through her practice was immediate. She discovered Buti Yoga in 2016 and knew instantly that it was life-changing. Buti is not just a workout, it’s a chance to step on your mat and break away from any emotional or physical barriers you are holding. A moment to create, let go, connect, and sweat with an open heart.
She received her 200 YYT through Buti Yoga in 2016 and has been teaching ever since.
You can expect classes that are physically challenging, powerful, and grounding.
Alexandra wants her students to leave her classes feeling empowered, strengthened and opened into a greater sense of self.
JESS TRUDEAU
YOGA TEACHER
Jess Trudeau ERYT500, RYT 900 comes to the mat with nearly 2 decades of teaching experience since her first class to Mongolian women while in the Peace Corps. She has led teacher trainings, retreats, workshops, and classes worldwide. A practicing artist with a BFA in Fine Art she enjoys the creativity found in sequencing and empowers students to find strength, shelter, devotion, and voice through their movement practice. Her mantra is “move like yourself”, using yoga as a gateway to come home to oneself. She embodies the belief that until we give adequately to ourselves, shining light into our own souls, only then can we find the wealth of energy to give with true intention.
Her appreciation of sequencing and alignment draw from teaching and training at Laughing Lotus and Yogaworks NYC as well as studying with Blissology Bali and Heartwood Institute CA. The spark of empowerment through community is what motivates Jess to continue to teach and share this ancient practice.
Expect a joyful, energetic, upbeat class with creative and intelligent evolution of sequencing, including fun musical playlists to carry you toward inspiration on and off the mat! Modifications are welcome and the opportunity to explore postures with supported direction is given. A perfect balance of challenge and play, peak postures are carefully paired with corresponding asanas to safely guide you along your journey. Jess’s classes are open to all that want to deepen their practice.
JEN MADRONE
SPIRITUAL WELLNESS COACH, TEACHER, SOUND HEALER & REIKI MASTER
Dedicated to the healing and spiritual evolution of the planet, Jen has been guiding others through the processes of healing and transformation for over 20 years.
She teaches and guides from experience. Her personal journey of Awakening and egoic death have given her a deep understanding of, and respect for the transformational process. Her own experience has taught her that this process is beautifully destructive and can leave the experiencer feeling completely lost, alone, and questioning their sanity.
From her love of sound healing she has learned that everything is in vibration, having its own unique frequency, and it is this innate frequency that holds the key to our healing and growth. Through resonance we can we can change the ingrained patterns of trauma and suffering and reconnect with our authentic vibration to create a life of peace, passion and purpose.
Through the years, her work has also been deeply influenced by her love of indigenous healing and mysticism. Within all of these studies she has found a common thread of perennial wisdom~a deep understanding that inside each of us lies an infinite potential for complete healing and deep transformation.
CARRIE VARELA
YIN YOGA TEACHER
Chakra Awakening is designed to help you awaken, relax and balance all seven chakras.
ALLISON & ALEX BACKMAN
Partner Workshop focused on Intimacy
PEGGY PROFANT
C-IAYT Yoga Therapist | Certified Life Coach: Coach Training Alliance-Yoga2Life | Yoga Alliance ERYT500, YACEP | Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher | Founded World Family Yoga, retreats for families | Founded Om Shala Yoga
Peggy believes we are all perfect beings, even with our “imperfections”, and that there is a place inside us that has an eternal spark of absolute pure goodness, wisdom and joy.
She feels our job is to find that spark that we all share, let go of that which doesn’t resonate and align with our authenticity true calling. This enables you to serve without feeling depleted.
Life can be hard, excruciatingly so, and there is nothing that can protect us from the grief of loss or the heartbreak of betrayal. The good news is there is a map within you. This map gives you access to an inner compass that leads you to walk you down a path where life is full of joy and beauty, poetic and playful.
Yoga philosophy gives Peggy a map that guides her to navigate through the myriad of circumstances, to recover, gain wisdom and compassion. This inner compass gave her the capacity to love more deeply, which is the greatest joy of being human!
SUZANNE DUNNING
YOGA TEACHER, FOUNDER TOSHA YOGA
Suzanne was first introduced to the magic of yoga by her mother when she was a little girl. As a teenager she began attending Ashtanga classes and a few years later teaching her fellow high school students.
Her first teachers included Shiva Rea and Lori Snyder. She first officially trained in 2005 with Alice Joanou, a Vinyasa teacher in the TKV Desikachar lineage. And with Christopher (Hareesh) Wallis and Christopher Tompkins in meditation and Tantra. Later with Leslie Kaminoff of The Breathing Project in New York and still later with Tom Meyers of Anatomy Trains.
She has a degree in Integrative Medicine from UC Berkeley where she worked and studied with teachers such as Michael Pollan, Jack Kornfield, and Joanna Macy while writing her thesis on ancestral recipes for healing.
Suzanne has steeped herself in the study of Ayurveda and aromatherapy and plant medicine for over 20 years. She became a clinically trained herbalist through the Northwest School for Botanical Studies in 2009.
Suzanne’s heart is devoted to the disarming power of beauty- to the world of culinary flavor, the spectrum of the emotional scent landscape, and the insistence of poetry to strip us of our defenses.
I believe that the universe needs us to create beauty in the best way we know how and without any attachment to the outcome. There is no greater beauty than actions fueled by pure hope- occasions and opportunities that demand that we leap into the darkness and see what happens. My hope is that Tosha will be a refuge....that you will find inspiration here....that you will find solace here, and in doing so, come to know your heart better.
EMMA FUGLSBY
MEDITATION TEACHER + MINDFULNESS COACH
Mindfulness Meditation + Mindset Journaling. Empty your mind, and fill it with what you practice.
Emma teaches meditation based in self-compassion and mindfulness techniques. Her coaching is designed to help you feel empowered and aligned, from how you speak to yourself, to how you interact with the world. She is a certified Yoga Instructor, and throughout the years has sat at 10-day silent meditation retreats. Emma has taught all levels classes at private retreats, special events, corporate wellness, and community centers. Your emotional wellbeing, and continued growth is Emma’s passion, and life’s work.
TIFFANY KELLY
MASSAGE THERAPIST
Arcata Lomi Massage.
Aloha! I am a Lomi Practitioner and have been spreading Aloha through Lomi Massage for over 13 years. The sands of my birth reside on the North Shore of Oahu and I was blessed to train in Lomi on the beautiful islands of Kauai and Maui! I look forward to sharing this beautiful practice with YOU at this beautiful event!!
JUSTINE SOPHIA SCHACHTER
MSOM, LAc, LICENSED ACUPUNCTURIST
Justine Sophia Schachter, MSOM, LAc, is a licensed Acupuncturist located in Willow Creek California. Believing in the deep connection between the mind, body, and soul, Justine seeks to help individuals tune into their bodies and tap into self in order to help alleviate pain and suffering in the world. Justine wholeheartedly embraces the holistic model of individualized healthcare. Treating the root cause of illness, Justine uses physical symptoms as signals of unattended, underlying imbalances within the body that present the opportunity to examine and work on one’s life in both the physical and emotional realms. She works with the knowledge that each client carries with them a completely unique personal story and life circumstances that have led them on their current path and strives you make sure you feel heard. Justine offers acupuncture, herbal medicine, cupping, bodywork, and nutritional counseling to help you feel your most vital and powerful self. With a commitment to health as a universal right and the belief that the power of this ancient wisdom is for everyone, Justine is passionate about bringing this medicine to the people! She is skilled in treating all types of both acute and chronic pain, digestive issues, allergies, asthma, sinus infections, fatigue, insomnia, autoimmune conditions, headaches, hemorrhoids, menstrual health, and any other health concerns you may have. She is passionate about spreading the knowledge of the great efficacy of this medicine and its lesser known strengths such as treating psycho-emotional disorders like trauma, PTSD, addiction, depression, insomnia and anxiety. Come find balance in this wavering world!
Justine earned her Master’s degree at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley. Over the course of over four years of intensive study, she completed over 1,000 hours of clinical training and provided over 500 acupuncture treatments as a student intern. She has worked in community style acupuncture clinics treating doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff at UCSF, and women and men of all ages at the SF Homeless Prenatal Program. Formerly, Justine was a member of Community Health Core, an Americorps program in West Oakland and believes that healthcare is a universal right and strives to work for health and social justice for all. Whether you feel healthy and simply in need of a yummy energetic tune-up or are working through more serious health conditions, the wonders of Chinese Medicine are sure to energize your individual experience on this earth.
CONNIE MARSH
Founder of Psyche Assist, Connie is certified and specializes in Trauma Informed Breathwork (Pause Breathwork 2022) and Psychedelic Therapies and Integration (Psychedelics Today 2023). She Believes in order to live in alignment with our true self, one must turn their focus to the inner programming of the body.
By healing the nervous system, releasing stuck/ traumatic energies in the body, and deconstructing old programming handed down to us by our caretakers and sometimes generations before, we allow space within ourselves to rewrite the narrative of our life, step into our truth, and live our highest reality.
TAMRA JAMES-STOCUM
Certified Yoga, Pilates, & Fitness Teacher
Tamra is fascinated by all things human kinetics. We must move through the world to survive, so why not make it effortless and optimal?! Tamra grew up in Tucson, Arizona chasing her two brothers in the desert, playing every sport under the sun, and climbing any tree she could find. She moved to Arcata, California to attend Cal Poly Humboldt on a full ride soccer scholarship in 2011. She graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt in 2014 with a BS in Kinesiology, Exercise Science and started an internship at the local Pilates studio in downtown Arcata. Tamra started doing Pilates in tandem with college soccer and fell in love. She received her teaching certification for Pilates through, BASI or Body, Art, and Science Institute. She started teaching right after graduating college and kept diving into learning with a Yoga Teacher Training, a Holistic Health Practitioner Program, and studying breath work. Tamra took on ownership of the Pilates studio where she started as an intern in 2019. She dove into teaching online when the pandemic hit, thus Pilates on the Vine was born. When Tamra is not teaching movement classes she is spending time with her family. Her husband, Byron and daughter Marigold love to hike, camp, surf, and connect with friends.
SONJA LYTH
Certified Yoga, Pilates, & Fitness Teacher
Sonja is a fitness/wellness expert who is passionate about helping her clients build a strong core foundation from the ground up so that they feel stronger, lighter, and empowered in their bodies. Over the last 18 years, she has spent countless hours designing and implementing a broad range of individualized, group exercise, and nutritional programs that have led to incredible transformations.
Sonja utilizes Pilates technique as a foundation for all her functional fitness programs. You'll find a bit of contemporary style in all of her classes, and no matter your level, she will encourage you to challenge your physical capabilities for healthy improvement in overall strength, balance, and grace.
Sonja holds a degree in Kinesiology and Nutrition as well as certifications through Balanced Body, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. Sonja is thrilled to bring her health and fitness background to Movewell on Demand!