Rima Miller
Suffering from acute asthma as a child, Rima learned to relax and strengthen her breath through the practice of yoga. As a teenager, under the guidance of Marcia Moore (author of Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation), Rima began her journey into a lifelong practice. Rima is a gifted actress and pursues a career in theatre/dance. Her classes are full of creativity, humor and joy. She focuses on the subtlety of internal movement as a way to bring more awareness and compassion into the world.

Susan Emmet Reid
took her first yoga class over three decades ago before
embarking on a career as a professional actress and dancer. Her practice andteaching are deeply informed by her ongoing studies in the yoga tradition ofBKS Iyengar, and a wealth of experience in guiding people throughtherapeutic and creative movement. Her classes encourage precise, classical alignment as well as attention to the refined movement and breath of the fluid, subtle body. Susan holds a BS in dance from Skidmore College and is also certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

Rain Willson grew up in southern Florida where she studied and performed theatre, dance, and music from a very young age. She recently graduated with honors from the College of Santa Fe, NM with a self-designed major in “Performance for Social Change.” Since living in Santa Fe, Rain has explored different movement forms including Middle-eastern dance, African dance, contact improvisation, acrobatics and aerial arts. She has studied circus with Wise Fool, NM, at Circomedia in England, and with various teachers around the country. Recently Rain has been working with interdisciplinary projects, combining her theatrical background with aerial dance and circus arts to create conceptual and multimedia work.

Connie Wind has been a performer her whole life. She has studied many physical disciplines, training primarily in dance, aerial arts, and theatre.She is currently a student at the College of Santa Fe.

Mary Jo Mulligan
Mary Jo began practicing Ashtanga yoga in 1990 and is an official "Authorized" teacher of the Ashtanga yoga system as directed by Pattobhi Jois. She has been to Mysore, India on three occasions and has spent a total of six months studying with Pattabhi Jois and Sharat. She started practicing and studying Ashtanga yoga with Tim Miller in Encinitas, CA since June ‘96 and has completed 4th Series. Mary Jo spent the past three years teaching at Tim Miller’s studio. Mary Jo has also done extensive training with several world recognized senior teachers from the Ashtanga, Iyengar and Viniyoga traditions (including sutra study and chanting).

Mary Jo teaches with detailed instruction towards proper alignment. She is serious and disciplined, yet light-hearted and compassionate in her practice and teaching. She teaches group classes, private lessons and workshops. Check out one of Mary Jo’s classes come June and her website for further information at www.ashtangawithdetail.com.

David Moreno Mandala Yoga
David began practicing yoga in the late 70's following a
professional dance career. He has studied in both the Iyengar and Ashtanga styles of yoga and began teaching in 1992, while continuing his professional work as a production designer for film, television, and wellness conferences. David has recently been made Assistant Director to the Southwestern Yoga Conference and also teaches Pilates in Santa Fe. His teaching style is humorous and athletic and he brings a great deal of joy and light-hearted expression to the practice of yoga.

Alessandra Ogren
Alessandra Ogren began her circus career as a teenager with the High Flyers Circus in Bloomington, IN. She went on to study theatre at The Evergreen State Collage in Olympia WA. This took her to San Francisco to work with Wise Fool, a giant puppet, stiltwalking and street theatre company. She returned to the trapeze, performing both solo and double trapeze in 1996, with the forming of the Turnbuckles, a performance art/dance company that toured nationally in 1998. Intermittently while in San Francisco Alessandra took classes at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. In 1997, Alessandra took her solo trapeze act on tour with "Circo de Manos", a collaboration between Wise Fool and Clowns Without Borders, to the war torn areas of Chiapas Mexico. She returned 2 years later as a clown and acrobat with Wise Fool. She was part of a delegation to Posoltega Nicaragua, to bring laughter and art to the refugee camps after the devestating floods in 1999. Relocating to New Mexico in 1998, Alessandra has been teaching static trapeze to kids and adults. She helped conceive of and start the One Railroad Circus, which has performed around New Mexico since the summer of 1999. With Amy Bertucci she has choreographed work on the double trapeze, and the "birdcage". (an original double spinning hoop apparatus) Alessandra also has choreographed and performed on the Spanish web, tissue (aerial fabric), and poles. Alessandra continues to work with Wise Fool with whom she has been perfecting the arts of puppet making and stiltwalking, for over eight years.

Julie Brette Adams
Julie Brette Adams has been engaging in dance and rhythmic endeavors for most of her life. As a young girl she performed often in her parents' Washington, D.C. living room. Before her teens were out, she had lived in Haiti, danced samba in the streets of Brazil, merengue and salsa in the Dominican Republic, and studied various traditions of African dance. Today, she performs a fusion of Modern and Jazz dance with Latin and Afro-based rhythmic roots. In her dozen years in Santa Fe, Julie has generated a steady stream of dance concerts, including the Dancing One Soul series (initiated in 1996), Falling Home (1998) and Heart Rising (1999) (with musician Matthew Andrae), Bless and Surrender(2000) (with dancer/choreographer Scott Lundius) and One Woman Dancing (2002) (with percussionist Jefferson Voorhees). She has taught dance and fitness for 20 years and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. Many years of dedication and experience enable Julie to integrate creativity, safety, joy, proper alignment, and clarity into her Yoga classes.

Kathryn Mark (Tots) 505-699-3464
Kathryn Mark is a seasoned, accredited teacher who has taught thousands of children since 1991 and has been a highly sought professional in northern New Mexico since 1998. She creates a learning environment that is noncompetitive while challenging a child's individual abilities. She has a special talent for facilitating multi-aged groups of children, in order to promote fun, forward-moving learning experiences.

Anna Rider
Anna draws on her thirty years of experience as a dancer, choreographer, and movement educator to create an environment allowing for the discovery of different approaches to fitness and well-being while having fun. She graduated from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in New York City, and received her Masters in Dance from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA

Keren is an inspirational instructor in authentic movement, contact improvisation, yoga, and her unique creation of the "sacred space jam", a group devotional improvisation with music and movement. authentic movement groups form periodically. see also www.ritualartist.net

Jeff English (T'ai Chi) 505-577-8402

Ellenita B. Salko, DC, CBP
Dr. Ellenita Salko is a chiropractic physician and BodyTalk practitioner, specializing in mind body medicine. She teaches yoga and practices a blend of Iyengar vinyasa flow using anatomy imagery and chakra meditation. She is a 2000 graduate of Cornell University and a 2003 graduate of New York Chiropractic College. She currently teaches anatomy, physiology and pathology at New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts. Her office is located in Santa Fe. Call for more information (505)-629-3116.

MATTHEW GALVANO
A survivor of acute leukemia at age 18, Matthew has a deep commitment to living a pure, simple and healthy life. He was lucky to find the path of Yoga - beginning with the Iyengar method - and Zen meditation while still in college, and found such deep resonance with those practices that he left his conventional schooling to receive what he jokingly calls "a higher education" in Santa Fe. He lived, served and practiced at Upaya Zen Center for two years under his teacher Roshi Joan Halifax, to whom he attributes his very modest (but earnest) understanding and practice of the Dharma. During his time at Upaya, Matt received the Zen Peacemaker precepts and worked as kitchen manager; he has a good deal of knowledge in the realm of nutrition and healthy eating and is an advocate of whole, organic, traditionally-prepared foods. Also while at Upaya, he had the great fortune of studying with Richard Freeman during two of his retreats there and also of meeting Tias and Surya Little, whom he considers his primary Yoga teachers. His determination to practice was so strong that he would walk 8 miles round-trip to the Little's studio and clean the floors and bathrooms so that he could take classes on exchange (being a Zen student does not pay especially well).

He has deep gratitiude to Tias and Surya for their generosity and looks to pay forward the blessings he has received. Matt has a deep appreciation for the Yoga tradition and study is an important part of his life; for Matt, asana was just the beginning. He encourages his students to be gentle with and mindful of their bodies but is not afraid to challenge them, either. Coming to Yoga practice with a deep appreciation of self-care and character development, his way of teaching encourages students to look deeply inside themselves and who and what they really are. He feels that Yoga can address all of the problems facing the individual in society today - from arthritis to nervous disorders - but acknowledges that there are many paths to reach health, joy, and union with the Divine.

In addition to teaching Yoga, Matt is a full-time lead clerk in the produce department at the La Montanita Co-op in Santa Fe. When he is not practicing asana, meditating, teaching or working (which he enjoys immensly to begin with), he enjoys cooking, gardening, making homemade sourdough bread, fermented foods and kombucha, playing guitar, riding his bike, writing poetry, drinking chocolate elixers at Kakawa, and spending time with his friends. Matt is truly grateful for the miracle of life and hopes to share his joy with you!

Marianne Spider Ober

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