Completing both the Immersion and the Teacher Training Program will fulfill requirements for 200-hour Certification with Yoga Alliance. The hours you accrue can also be credited toward Anusara Teachers Certification.

Chrissy Graham has been a student of yoga for 9 years, and is a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor. Her goal in starting a practice in Yoga was to heal her body, and to find a higher path of fulfillment and enjoyment in life.  Chrissy was first introduced to Anusara Yoga through a chance encounter with Emily Dubin, also a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor.  Chrissy’s first meeting with Emily Dubin was a propitious one, indeed. After her first Anusara Yoga class, she new this was the style of Yoga she wanted to immerse herself in, and she has been diving into the currents of Anusara ever since.  Following one year of introductory studies with Emily Dubin, Chrissy went on to study directly with John Friend, Anusara Yoga’s creator. She has taken all of her teacher, and therapy trainings directly with John, and has accumulated over 350 hrs with him. She has also studied with a number of other highly skilled Anusara teachers.

In addition to her studies with John, she has studied with fabulously skilled teachers, like, Emily Dubin, Sianna Sherman, whom she now assists locally, and nationally, as well as Mitchell Bleier, and Amy Ippoliti. She has adoringly spent many hours studying in the Philosophical traditions of Rajanaka, Tantra, with Dr. Douglas Brooks. Chrissy presently teaches public classes, workshops, and mini Immersions all over the Bay area. Chrissy brings a dynamic, and supportive energy to her classes that blend philosophy, Therapeutics, and insightful wisdom, from her own life experiences.

Kenny Graham is a fully Certified Anusara Yoga teacher. He has studied under the best teachers in the world and is full of gratitude for his teacher and mentor Anusara Yoga’s founder John Friend. Kenny teaches workshops, teacher training’s,immersions and retreats in the United States and around the world. His passion is to support others in finding more ease in their life and in discovering their own unlimited potential. Kenny’s broad knowledge of yoga is taught in a kind and authentic way that brings students deeper into their own hearts with self acceptance, honesty, compassion and love.

Laura Christensen has been practicing and studying yoga for over 20 years. She teaches nationally and internationally and was blessed to discover Anusara Yoga in 2000. Since then, much of her life and attention has been focused on the study of this elegant, yet fun system of yoga. It has been her great honor and blessing to study extensively and directly under her teacher John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga. In addition to her many comprehensive studies with John, Laura traveled with him full-time as his apprentice in 2005-2006 and studied by his side. She has assisted him all over the US and throughout Europe in Workshops, Immersions and Teacher Trainings and has thousands of hours of direct study with John; thousands more with other Senior Certified Anusara Teachers.

Sianna Sherman is an internationally recognized Anusara Yoga teacher who first discovered yoga in 1989 when coming across a book that described the powers of the subconscious mind. With a completely ignited heart, she radically changed her life and began to seek teachers of meditation, asana and empowered awakening. Her journey turned in myriad directions, each a salutation to the immense gift of consciousness. She studied with many great beings who helped her along the way. Some of her studies included: herbalism, naturopathic medicine, shamanism, swedish and thai massage therapies, ayurveda, ritualistic priestess medicine, yoga, Tantric philosophy and meditation. In 1995 she had the great blessing of meeting her primary mentor John Friend and has studied with him extensively ever since their first auspicious meeting. She also studies closely with 2 renowned Tantric scholars, Dr. Douglas Brooks and Dr. Paul Muller-Ortega. In 2008, Yoga Journal named Sianna as one of 21 talented young teachers shaping the future of yoga. Sianna playfully weaves alignment, therapeutics, and creative sequencing with stories, poetry and living wisdom insight that embrace the fullness of life. She delights in spontaneous dance and long walks in nature.

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Abby Tucker is a Certified Anusara Yoga© instructor, first began studying Anusara in 1998, auspiciously, on Anusara’s first birthday. From the first class, Abby’s spirit was ignited in a new way, leading her to leave behind the world of Washington, DC public relations for a wild journey into the wilds of her heart and of Berkeley, California. In 2005, Abby was introduced to Dr. Douglas Brooks and passionately studies the teachings of Rajanaka Tantra, which have illuminated an infinite wellspring of places to explore.

Since 1998, Abby has completed nearly 2,000 hours of classroom and Anusara training hours under the tutelage of her teacher and Anusara founder John Friend, as well as with senior teachers Sianna Sherman, Jim Bernaert and Noah Maze. It has been Abby’s great blessing and privilege to serve as apprentice to Sianna, assisting her at public classes in Berkeley, as well as at national workshops and events. In addition to her more recent philosophy studies, Abby credits much of her solid foundation in yoga history—from the Vedas to the Tantras–to yoga scholar Carlos Pomeda.

Known by her students as an engaging storyteller, Abby intricately weaves the details of everyday life with Anusara’s broad-based, life-affirming tantric philosophy throughout the practice. Abby encourages her students to have fun in their practice and to expand their edge by using their bodies as a playground–an experimental and experiential laboratory of postures, breath, spirit, and magical places. Her bohemian spirit radiates throughout her life on and off the mat. Abby seeks to make her practice and life a joyful reflection of the beauty and fun to be had in life. Wildly passionate about her asana practice and philosophy studies, she also nourishes her soul through skiing, hiking, travel, and all types of food, music and art.

Abby wishes to thank all of her teachers for their dedication, and to extend her deep gratitude to John Friend, Dr. Douglas Brooks, and her friend and mentor Sianna Sherman.

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Noah Mazé is recognized in the yoga community as one of the most advanced and proficient practitioners and teachers of Anusara Yoga®, and is widely sought out as a teachers teacher. Noah was born into a household of yogis, was raised with the practices and traditions of yoga, and his teaching style is expressive of the depth of his knowledge and lifelong experience in the principles and practices.

In addition to studying closely with Anusara Founder John Friend for many years, Noah studies with Professor Douglas Brooks, one of the world’s foremost scholars of the Srividya traditions of the Hindu Tantra. Noah has also studied extensively with Richard Freeman in the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga tradition. Noah also serves on the Anusara Yoga® curriculum committee and is a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher.

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Katchie Ananda is an internationally recognized, certified Anusara yoga teacher whose leadership in yoga and social change prompted Yoga Journal to name her one of five top yoga teachers making change in the world and East Bay Express to name her 2008 “Best Yoga Teacher”. Katchie was also certified in Jivamukti and Integral yoga, as well as extensively trained in Ashtanga Vinyasa under Richard Freeman. She is the co-founder of Yoga Sangha, now Yoga Kula, a studio in San Francisco renowned for its commitment to “Spiritual Activation.” Deeply inspired by her teacher, Jack Kornfield, Katchie is an avid practitioner of Vipassana Meditation and volunteers at the San Quentin State Prison, teaching yoga to Inmates. Katchie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, where she is committed to raising awareness about the interconnectedness of life.

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Christopher D. Wallis : His in-depth study of yogic and mystical traditions is enhanced by his extensive experience teaching Yoga Philosophy students at UC Berkeley, giving him the ability to communicate the ancient teachings of India in a fresh and accessible way.

His in-depth study of yogic and mystical traditions is enhanced by his extensive experience teaching Yoga Philosophy students at UC Berkeley, giving him the ability to communicate the ancient teachngs of India in a fresh and accessible way.His in-depth study of yogic and mystical traditions is enhanced by his extensive experience teaching Yoga Philoso

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