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STEPHANIE BENNETT
Yoga, Vinyasa. Kid's Yoga

Stephanie isa Certified Massage Therapist and Registered Yoga Instructor. She attended the Massage Therapy Institute in Davis, CA in 2000 and has offered relaxing and theraputic massage in the Sacramento region. In January 2006, she completed The Bo Tree's Teacher Training program. In her own words - "This experience transformed my life! Through my yoga practice my eyes have been opened to an entirely different quality of life. I am on a path to achieve integration of the Body, Mind, and Soul! I feel honored and blessed to be here on this earth to help bring awareness to our community of how important it is to treat our bodies like temples."

Stephanie is also practices yoga in the world by raising her 5-year old son.

 

MEGHAN BOWEN
Prana Flow, Yoga

Meghan has been practicing yoga since 1999. During the first few years of her yoga practice, Meghan primarily practiced and trained in the Ashtanga and Iyengar styles. She began to teach in 2001, while pursuing her B.S. in Exercise Science at UC Davis.

In 2002, Meghan's yoga both blossomed and rooted when she met her teacher, Shiva Rea. Shiva's path of living yoga, rather than doing yoga, her natural Bhakti quality she brought to the practice, and the way she softened the intensity of the practice with pulsation and deep devotion to the Shakti have continued to inspire and influence Meghan's practice, teaching, and life. Since then, Meghan has completed several teacher's immersions and retreats with Shiva, including a yoga and ayurveda study in Kerala , India . She recently completed her 500 hour RYT with Shiva as a Prana Flow teacher.

TERI BOWEN
Natural Vision Improvement

Teri is the creator and visionary behind The Bo Tree. Her evolution from an engineer into a creator of space for healing is quite inspirational. In 1999 she experienced a dramatic improvement in her eyesight. That experience solidified her belief in the innate healing capacity of the human body. Her belief that any condition can be reversed and any illness healed is huge. She now knows that real healing occurs when people connect with each other, without doctors and drugs. Given a healthy space, surrounded by like-minded people, mixed with a little yoga, massage, and acupuncture, she believes anything is possible. Through her guidance, The Bo Tree has become more than a yoga studio, but a place people come together to connect, heal and tap into the flow of "Miracles Happen, Dreams Come True. All Things are Forever Possible."

 

 

SUZANNE DANTE
Vinyasa, Yoga

Suzanne has been practicing yoga for 10 years and teaching for 5. She is a graduate of The Bo Tree's Yoga Teacher Training program. She is also a belly dancer and mother of 2.

 

 



DENNIS EAGAN
Yoga, Vinyasa

Dennis has been practicing yoga for twenty years. He graduated from the Advanced Studies Program at the Piedmont Yoga Studio in 1998 and has been teaching yoga ever since. Dennis’ teaching is based on his knowledge of several schools of yoga, and is infused an eclectic mix of sound biomechanical principles, breath awareness and philosophy. He offers workshops, teacher trainings and wilderness retreats throughout the west from Baja to Alaska.

He is director of The Bo Tree's Teacher Training/Advanced Studies program and is is co-director of the Advanced Studies Program at the Yoga Movement Center in Walnut Creek, California. He is certified at the ERYT 500 level with Yoga Alliance. Continuing Education credits are available for students working toward certification.

DEBBIE EERNISSE
Gentle Yoga, Yoga

Debbie is a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, an ACE certified personal fitness trainer (on land and in the water) specializing in older adults, an ACE certified aqua aerobics instructor, plus a 2005 graduate of The Bo Tree’s Yoga Teacher's Training Program. Debbie also has a Psychology degree from UC Davis with a minor in Adult Development and Aging. Debbie's specialty is working with men and women who are just getting started with an exercise program or with people who have limitations and wish to take a cautious approach. Debbie enjoys outdoor adventures with her husband and two children as well as running, dancing, and cooking.



 

LISA FISCHER
Prenatal Yoga

Lisa is an ACE certified aerobic instructor with special training in pre/post natal fitness. Lisa has taught conditioning with weights, spinning, step, ball classes, and lo-impact aerobics for over 15 years. Through the years Lisa has practiced yoga and meditation and especially enjoys working with pre/post natal students providing them with a balanced mix of strengthening poses, focused breathing and meditative relaxation.

 

 


HEATHER LAWRENCE
 Restorative Yoga, Yoga

Yoga took root for Heather in 1998 while studying genetics at UC Davis. A few years later, her yoga practice blossomed to include teaching. A 2004 graduate of The Bo Tree’s Teacher Training Program, Heather’s practice and teaching are nourished today by several teachers in the Hatha (physical) and Bhakti (devotional) traditions. Mindful and playful, her classes celebrate the movement of breath in the body and cultivate devotion to our own unique experience of Spirit.



CHRISTINE POLLARD
Yoga, Vinyasa

Christine began practicing yoga in 2000 and starting teaching in 2004. In the years since she first began this journey Christine has been continually amazed and delighted by the infinite adaptability of her yoga practice to the changes in her life. She finds that yoga offers health, strength and flexibility to her body; and likewise offers those attributes to her mind and spirit as she turns to face each new bend in her life’s path. For Christine yoga is a practice of self-realization that extends beyond her mat and into her daily activities and relationships. It is a joy for Christine to help her students discover what practicing yoga can bring to their own lives. Christine is a 2004 graduate of The Bo Tree’s Teacher Training Program and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Christine practices yoga in the world with her son, Eli.

ANA PEREZ-EXPOSITO
Yoga, Vinyasa

Ana started practicing yoga in 1999 with Alejandro Maldonado, a great Ashtanga teacher in Mexico City who opened a world of strength and movement to body and heart. The discovery of vinyasa flow with Meghan Bowen introduced an unlimited world of breath waves and freedom to her practice. She completed the Yoga Teacher’s Training at The Bo Tree in 2005 and recently a long workshop with Ana Forrest. Spending two years in one of the poorest countries in the world where suffering and joy are full of intensity transformed her individual practice into a shared one by teaching. Meditation became a way to discover the transformational and healing capacity of the mind when she completed an Introductory Course of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the first level Reiki tune last year in Nepal.

Ana believes that yoga movement is natural to all beings and with a little of Latin flavor she tries to transmit this powerful 5,000 year old oral tradition that was given to us as a wonderful gift to open the heart and clear the mind through the breath and the kindness of strength.

JAMES VITIELLO
 Yoga

 

 

 

 




 

 

KIRSTEN YOUNG
Yoga
Kirsten is a 2008 graduate of The Bo Tree's Teacher Training Program.