Laurie Broderick-Burr has a BA in dance, a college teaching credential and is a certified massage practitioner. Since 1984, she has taught yoga, dance and fitness in Santa Cruz and is currently a Cabrillo College faculty member. She is the director and choreographer of Yogamotion, a performance art company that fuses the explosive power and grace of Hatha Yoga with fluid rhythmical dance movements.

For One Yoga Center, Laurie has crafted a monthly class of creative vinyasa steeped in the traditions of precision alignment and taught with the Iyengar method in mind; for the advanced beginning through advanced student (no beginners, please). It will begin with a centering meditation, progressing into traditional Surya Namaskar, veering into creative flow and ending with asana taught in the Iyengar style. These special classes will be offered during Jillian's regular 10am Sunday class times on the following dates: Sept 30, Oct 28, Nov 25 (tba), Dec 23 (tba); and (2008) Jan 27, Feb 24, Mar 23, Apr 22, May 25 and June 22.

Jillian Chelson Briscoe, MS PA-C has worked as a family practice physician assistant at Bay Area clinics since 1998. Most recently she left a position at the University Student Health Services at UC Berkeley. In 2003, she contributed as the yoga teacher for a NIH yoga pilot study exploring the use of yoga as treatment for people with lung disease. Jillian studied family and community medicine at the Stanford Primary Care Associate Program in the school of medicine, and Yoga at the San Francisco Iyengar Yoga Institute.

She has taught hundreds of public yoga classes and workshops around the Bay Area, including the past seven years at YogaTree in San Francisco. It has been her great privilege to study with some of the most renowned yoga teachers in the United States, including Judith Hanson Lasater PhD, Janet Macleod, Manuso Manos, Tony Briggs and Gary Krafstow. Throughout her broad professional experience, Jillian has witnessed how yoga, meditation and pranayama compliment and fortify us while living in this wild crazy exciting life. Come let Jillian offer you a life sustaining practice.

Cappy Israel has been a student and teacher of yoga for three decades. She guides her students gently toward finding the body's own wisdom and healing through a flow of postures integrating breath and awareness. Cappy has a diverse background in the healing and performing arts, including modern dance as both a performer and a teacher. She holds a Masters in Creative Arts in therapy, a national certification in massage and bodywork, and a Yoga Teachers Certification from Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in West Stockbridge, MA, where she was on staff for 10 years.

Datta brings together a dynamic blend of the Kundalini and Vinyasa Flow traditions. He spent his childhood as a Sikh, including several years in India immersed in the traditions of Kundalini and White Tantric yoga of Yogi Bhajan. After finding his own path as an adult, Datta found great success in his career as a top local real estate agent, using yoga along the way to cultivate a mindful approach and to refine his personal and business relationships.
In 1999, a Bikram studio moved into one of his properties, broadening the scope of his yogic awareness. After a few years of intense Bikram practice, he began exploring other forms of yoga, including Vinyasa, Forrest, Integral, Anusara and Universal Freestyle before finally receiving his formal education and certification in Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Mark Stephens' teacher training program. He also counts Mark Tanaka and Melanie Vizzusi as major forces in the development of his methodology.

Other key influences along the way have included Sri Dharma Mittra and Andrey Lappa. Datta’s focus is to share the techniques he has used in his own success with others, effectively “bridging the material and the etherial. His classes draw from his experience on and off the mat, combining asana, pranayama, bandha and mantra to create internal strength, balance and harmony. All levels of students are invited, with props and modifications given for those seeking a customized practice suited to their personal preferences or needs.

Jayla teaches Anusara-inspired yoga, aiming to provide her students with an expansive experience of their deep aliveness and full potential. She completed a 200 hour teacher training in Anusara Yoga with Noah Maze and Jimmy Bernaert, and studies Anusara with John Friend, Desiree Rumbaugh, Kenny Graham, and Jenni Fox. She also incorporates her studies of vinyasa and Iyengar yoga into her classes.
Jayla has taught yoga and dance at Cabrillo College and other schools over the past 20 years and enjoys working with a wide variety of people. She focuses on using effective biomechanical and alignment principles to build strength, flexibility, core power and mind/body awareness. She views yoga as a path for personal growth and the integration of mind, body, heart and spirit. In addition to her yoga studies, Jayla also receives inspiration from the teachings of Buddhism and her work as a psychotherapist. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.

A celebration of our bodies ... and the joy of peeling away our deepest fears and sorrows - the yoking of biomechanics, breath-attention and energy movement: This is the center of Phil Lynch’s journey to yoga. Phil’s unique yoga teaching style has evolved from his own visceral synthesis of three different schools of yoga: Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Triyoga. Each student receives encouragement and support as Phil gracefully links postures with breath, passion and lightness.
Blending yogic philosophies into modern-day metaphors and action into experience, Phil encourages students to cultivate a strong and flexible body and spirit, steady emotions and an open heart. Phil believes in his students sometimes more than they believe in themselves. As the student’s self-doubts are observed and released, space is created to receive new life affirming experiences. Through his unparalleled dedication and belief in cultivating an inner core of strength, Phil has become a teacher’s teacher, guiding even the most seasoned practitioner to new levels of sadhana (spiritual practice). Find out more on Phil by visiting yogawithphil.com.