Amy has been practicing and teaching yoga since discovering Ashtanga in 1999 and completing her first teacher training with Larry Schultz at It’s Yoga, San Francisco. She has practiced and taught up and down the California coast, sharing her love of the practice with people of all ages, abilities and intentions. Amy and her family happily settled on the Monterey Peninsula in 2009, where she found her teachers, Adarsh and Heleen Williams, and the wonderful community of yogis at Monterey Yoga Shala! Amy is the Owner and Director of Monterey Yoga.

Amy’s experience as a social worker over the years has allowed her to integrate yoga into her work supporting adults with developmental, physical, neurological and cognitive challenges. Her experience as a mom inspired her to teach yoga to kids of all ages and abilities. She truly believes the power and benefits of this practice are accessible to anyone with the intention and motivation to delve deeper into their internal landscape. Amy’s classes strive to offer an accessible and compassionate guide into this system, allowing students the space to find and connect with their own breath, their own practice, and their own unique way of being in the world.

Angelynn started her Ashtanga practice in 2009. Since then she has followed a practice of yoga and meditation every morning and it has become a fixture of her daily routine. She studied the Intensive Yoga Teacher Training under Adarsh and Heleen Williams and is honored to accept a teaching position at Monterey Yoga Shala.

Angelynn loves to share her experience of yoga with others. She hopes that with regular practice and support, she can help her students achieve stillness of mind and feel peace in their daily living.

Ashley has a deep passion for learning and sharing tools that help us to live. Naturally then, she fell in love with yoga when she began practicing in 2011. Ashley practiced Bikram yoga for 6 years where she discovered lessons learned on the mat could also be applied to improve life off the mat. She discovered the power of consistent, steady practice in creating profound changes in the mind, body, & soul, and competed in the National Yoga Asana Championship 3 years in a row.

In 2017, she began wanting more from her yoga practice. It was this desire that led her to discover Ashtanga Yoga, this studio, and to complete her 200-hour teacher training with Adarsh Williams and Heleen Zondag-Williams. She fell in love with the simplicity but rigor of the series, and empowering nature of Mysore practice.

Off the mat, Ashley is a licensed psychotherapist where she leads group therapy at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. In addition to therapy, at the hospital she leads gentle yoga classes as well as groups focused on meditation, breathing techniques, and mindfulness. Her yoga practice informs her therapy work, and her therapy work informs her yoga practice. As a yoga teacher, Ashley aims to create a space where students can discover a deeper connection with their own personal practice and the inner teacher that lives in all of us.

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Adarsh Williams teaches a contemplative style of yoga that embraces both modern innovation and traditional wisdom. Since 1995, Adarsh has been engaged in the field of natural healing and has received certifications in therapeutic massage and active isolated stretching. He continues as a student of Ashtanga Yoga and it’s sister sciences of Sanskrit, Ayurveda, and Bhakti. Adarsh has continuously traveled to Asia since 2001 for study and pilgrimage and has received teaching Authorization by his late Guruji Shri. K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. Adarsh directs the Monterey Yoga Shala in Monterey, CA specializing in progressive instruction for beginner through advanced levels.

Through in depth study of human anatomy and physiology and formal training as a massage therapist, Adarsh is highly regarded for his sensitive yet deep adjusting style. He has experience working with a wide variety of students of diverse abilities, ages, and backgrounds. With a deeply held belief that anyone can develop a personal yoga practice, Adarsh is an energetic teacher who infuses his enthusiasm for practice and hard work in his students.

WEBSITE

SmartStretch.com

Heleen started practicing yoga in 1992 during college in the Netherlands. For 8 years she practiced Sivananda Yoga and eventually completed the TT (teacher training) at the ashramin upstate New York. Shortly after, Heleen moved to London to pursue life as a yoga teacher, which in turn led her to a position of General Manager at one of London’s best known dance and holistic centres.

During this time, she studied Ashtanga Yoga with Liz Lark and John Scott. John inspired her to go to Mysore and study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. After meeting Guruji on his world tour in 2001 she traveled to India the following year to study at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Instituteand returned there every year until she became pregnant with her first child in 2007. Heleen now lives life with her children in the Netherlands and teaches locally and Teacher Intensives internationally. Heleen has also created a Kids Yoga curriculum for kids that is taught in schools of the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District in California.

WEBSITE

Heleen.yoga