Practicing yoga since 1979 and teaching since 1981, Amy received her certification from the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco and is currently founding Director of the Shasta Yoga Center and the Vajra Pani Yoga Teacher Training program. Amy has studied with BKS Iyengar, K Pattabhi Jois, and TKV Deskachar, with a variety of American teachers - mainly Judith Lasater and Kofi Busia, as well as Buddhist (Mahayana) teachers from the U.S. and Asia. In her teaching, Amy emphasizes breath and alignment, mindfulness, moving from one’s core, and cultivating one’s optimal experience for the benefit of all beings. Drawing on ancient yogic teachings and elements of the Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara lineages, Buddhist practice, and other wisdom traditions, she weaves a creative, invigorating yet calming, centering yet expanding exploration of Self through Asana.(530) 926-0221
Jan Schrag
Jan Schrag has been a yoga practitioner for over 30 years. Jan was first introduced to Kundalini yoga and then to Tri Yoga. As an expressive arts major (dance and movement) in college, yoga was a natural progression. She recently completed the Vajra Pani Yoga Training with Amy Cooper. As a newly certified teacher, she brings a passion for sharing the yoga teachings along with a commitment to service andempowerment of others. (530) 925-4204
Mona Therese Winston
Mona Therese, E-RYT, is a Reiki Master Teacher and a Yoga and Meditation Teacher from Denmark with over 17 years experience. Mona Therese's Journeys to India and to Thich Nhat Hahn's Plum Village Monastery, and her time with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, have inspired her to maintain true to the traditions on the path of Yoga and Meditation. Mona's teaching is influenced by her teachers and different yoga styles, which are Ashtanga, Iyengar, Sivananda and Kriya Yoga. (415) 305-6205
Nancy Schneider
Nancy has been practicing Yoga for 30+ years; Amy Cooper being her main inspiration over the past 18 years. A 2009 Vajra Pani Yoga graduate with a 200 hour certification, Nancy brings her enthusiasm and experience to all those who want to encounter the life changing joys of practicing Yoga. (530) 859-2100
Megan Hawk
Megan has been practicing Yoga for 10 years, and has taught for 4. She is certified in the Vini Yoga style and has her PreNatal Yoga certification with Colette Crawford of Seattle Holistic Center. (530) 926-2378
