Marleen is a 200 hour registered yoga teacher (RYT) through Yoga Alliance and has been teaching since 2002. She has done certifications in Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga, YogaFit Seniors and YogaFit Kids. Since her certification she has done courses in Yoga Therapeutics, Restoraflow Yoga, Itsy Bitsy Yoga for Tykes and Thai Yoga Massage. She is always furthering her education and has benefited from taking classes with Sandra Summerfield Kozak, Judith Lasater, Aadil Palkhivala, Saul David Raye and others.
Besides teaching group classes and private sessions she enjoys practicing the healing arts of Thai Yoga Massage and Trigger Point Therapy.
Marleen believes yoga can be beneficial to each and every body and that it can be positively addicting!
Sandra Summerfield Kozak, M.S. is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher and teacher trainer who has been teaching yoga for 40 years. She has taught monthly workshops throughout North America and teacher seminars in Europe and the U.K. for more than 15 years. Sandra is the author of “Forgiveness: The Path To Happiness”, and “Yoga For Your Type”, and “BreathSounds” CD’s.
Sandra has served as Vice President of Unity in Yoga, and the World Yoga Union, and an advisory board member for Yoga International Magazine, for which she was a columnist. Since 1973 Sandra has developed and presented nationally televised yoga segments, internationally accredited teacher training courses, accredited university yoga programs, and yoga vacations. She has been interviewed in 6 countries for books, magazines, newspapers, and national television.
Sandra’s Masters' thesis was on the "The Physiological Effects of Yoga: Asana, Pranayama, and Meditation”. Currently Sandra paints and teaches yoga and personal evolution in private practice in Benicia, California.
Barbara Fredericks, a long time student of yoga has recently completed her first year; 200 hour certification at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco.
Barbara's mother introduced her to yoga at the age of 12. But like many teenagers, Barbara decided that whatever her mother was doing couldn't be cool and went off in another direction. It wasn't until her early thirties, after spending long hours hunched over light tables and computers and after sustaining a serious running injury that she came back to yoga. In the time since, she has studied and practiced many different methods of yoga. When it came time for her advanced studies/teacher training, for her, all roads lead back to the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar.
She is excited and eager to share her love of yoga with you.