Swami Ramananda

Swami Ramananda

Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the...

Swami Karunananda

Swami Karunananda

Swami Karunananda, E-RYT500, has taught Yoga for fifty years. Today, she specializes in programs that focus on Raja Yoga, meditation, pranayama, and personal transformation. In 1989, she developed the Integral Yoga Teacher Training program in Raja Yoga and...

Swami Vidyananda

Swami Vidyananda

Swami Vidyananda began practicing Yoga in 1969 and has been teaching Integral Yoga® and training Yoga teachers since 1973. She became a swami (monastic) in 1983. She has taught and trained Yoga and meditation teachers throughout the US and Canada, as well as...

Sampada Desai

Sampada Desai

Sampada Desai, M.A., LPC, NCC, E-RYT 500, CLL/CLTTLicensed Professional Counselor and Experienced Yoga Teacher Sam is a licensed professional counselor with over thirty years of clinical experience in various settings such as a health organization, schools,...

Mala Cunningham

Mala Cunningham

Dr. Cunningham, Ph.D., C-IAYT,  E-RYT500, YACEP is a leading speaker, author, and educator in the field of Mind-Body Medicine and Health Psychology. She is the President of Positive Health Solutions and is the Founder and Director of the renowned...

Satya Greenstone

Satya Greenstone

Satya Greenstone, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, has been a student of Sri Swami Satchidananda for over 40 years, sharing the teachings of Integral Yoga in many diverse settings with students of all ages and backgrounds. Since 1999 she has been a primary teacher for the Basic Yoga...

Sandra Sushella Gilbert

Sandra Sushella Gilbert

Sandra Susheela Gilbert is the director of YCat: Yoga Therapy in Cancer and Chronic Illness. She has spent the last thirteen years as Senior Faculty of YCat and facilitating YCat programs alongside her mentor, colleague, friend and YCat creator, the late, Jnani...

Kamala Itzel Hayward

Kamala Itzel Hayward

Kamala Itzel Hayward is a Yoga therapist, Yoga teacher trainer, Integral Yoga minister, founder of Integral Yoga SF's BIPOC Basic Teacher Training, and fierce and compassionate advocate for love. Kamala has personally experienced the transformative power of...

Durga Leela

Durga Leela

Durga Leela (spiritual name), C-IAYT, E-RYT500, YACEP, is the founder of Yoga of Recovery R. Durga holds the RYT-500 qualification, having completed both the Sivananda Yoga teachers Training Course and an Advanced Yoga Training. She is also...

Steffany Moonaz

Steffany Moonaz

Dr. Steffany Moonaz, PhD, C-IAYT, founded Yoga for Arthritis after 8 years at Johns Hopkins University where she studied the effects of Yoga for people living with arthritis. She now serves as the Director of Clinical and Academic Research at the Maryland...

Hamsa Spagnola

Hamsa Spagnola

Judi Hamsa Spagnola, C-IAYT, RYT/TRM, is an Integral Yoga certified teacher and has been teaching various styles of Yoga for more than 30 years. She created and developed the Gentle/Chair Yoga Teacher Training Program & Manual for Integral Yoga International and...

Sivakami Sonia Sumar

Sivakami Sonia Sumar

Sonia Sumar began teaching Yoga for children with special needs after her daughter Roberta was born with Down Syndrome in 1972. Sonia noticed many positive changes in Roberta from using Yoga, so in 1975 she became a Certified Yoga Teacher and in 1980 she opened the...

Lakshmi Sutter

Lakshmi Sutter

Lakshmi Sutter, C-IAYT, Ph.D. E-RYT500, YACEP serves as the Program Director of the Integral Yoga Therapy program. Lakshmi previously served in the Integral Yoga Academy at Yogaville as Academy Director, as Integral Yoga Teachers Association Director, and as...

Sarala Sue Evans

Sarala Sue Evans

Sarala Sue Evans, MBA/MHA, C-IAYT, RYT500 discovered Yoga during a stressfultime while working in academic healthcare management in 2000. She found the practiceto be healing. Now a Certified Yoga Therapist and a 500 hr Certified Integral Yogateacher she enjoys sharing...

Diana Meltsner

Diana Meltsner

Diana Meltsner, e-RYT500, C-IAYT, offers yoga therapy sessions privately and at Integral Yoga Therapy Clinic in San Francisco. She has worked in the clinical setting for Kaiser Permanente since 2005 as a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and health educator. Her clients...

Dr. John Murphy, IV

Dr. John Murphy, IV

Dr. John Murphy, IV, is an osteopathic family physician practicing in Dayton, Ohio. John completed his undergraduate degree at Case Western University, his medical degree at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and his residency in family medicine at Grandview...

Rev. Brahmi Romero

Rev. Brahmi Romero

Rev. Brahmi Romero began her Integral Yoga studies in 2002, achieving Advanced Hatha, Raja, Meditation, and Stress Management certifications, and was ordained in the Integral Yoga Ministry in 2021. She is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, assisted in the accreditation of the...

Ausra Duverge

Ausra Duverge

Ausra Duverge, C-IAYT, started teaching yoga in 2015. After an initial 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Dubai, UAE, she has continued to expand her knowledge in Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy. In 2017 she completed an Ayurvedic Health Counselor program at Kerala Ayurveda...

Laura (Uma) East

Laura (Uma) East

Laura Uma East (she/her), is an innovative holistic yoga therapist and certified personal trainer. Uma’s first love was activated when she discovered raja yoga as a teenager via sacred books. Since 2003 she has been teaching yoga and received her C-IAYT in 2013. She...

Christopher Kavi Carbone

Christopher Kavi Carbone

Christopher Kavi Carbone (E-RYT500, C-IAYT) has been involved with yoga practice, in the practice, teaching and therapeutic elements, for over 20 years now, beginning with his time in New York City and the wonderful IYI there- and continuing onwards as yoga educator,...

Marie Prashanti Goodell

Marie Prashanti Goodell

Marie Prashanti Goodell (C-IAYT and E-RTY) has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2012. Prashanti teaches Hatha, restorative, gentle, wheelchair yoga, stress management, and meditation classes in both health care and corporate settings. She incorporates many...

Alessandra Uma Cocchi

Alessandra Uma Cocchi

Alessandra Uma Cocchi, MA, C-IAYT, serves as an Integral Yoga therapist, Integral Yoga trainer, and Accessible Yoga trainer for Europe.She founded YAP Integral Yoga Centre in Italy (2004), and YAP Specialized Yoga aside in 2015. The latter represents the Yogatherapy...

Peter Karow

Peter Karow

Peter Karow is a long-time practitioner of yoga and meditation. He is a Yoga Alliance certified yogateacher and is certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a Yoga Therapist. He hastaught at the Integral Yoga Institute New York City since 2010....

Swarupa Sky Oak Speaker

Swarupa Sky Oak Speaker

Swarupa Sky Oak Speaker, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP has the honor of being a second generation initiate of Sri Swami Satchidananda; having been exposed to the Yoga practices and teachings from birth and throughout this life. He has been actively studying and teaching...