People at Yoga Mendocino
Codes used below:
* Yoga Mendocino Program Directors
(%) YMTC, Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate indicates that a teacher has a minimum of 650 hours of serious community minded teacher training and has been evaluated after a minimum of one years teaching by our core faculty.Yomo founding teachers.
(&) Yoga Mendocino Foundations 450 hr Teacher Training
(#) Yoga Mendocino Basics 240 hr Teacher Training
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 Maggie Norton* has studied yoga and meditation in the British Isles, India and the U.S. and has taught yoga since 1983. Maggie is also trained in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and iRest Yoga Nidra. Maggie is Co-Founder and Program Director of Yoga Mendocino.
Since moving to Mendocino County she has provided services in yoga, massage therapy, and stress reduction in clinical settings as well as for the City of Ukiah Community Services Department, and Mendocino County Wellness Program. Maggie encourages a practice of focused exploration to allow for the possibilities of expansion and ease of movement in each student. She particularly enjoys a body sensing approach to a mindful and playful yoga practice, seeing the body as a doorway to deep connection and presence. Her strong sense of compassion, warmth, and curiosity infuse her teaching.
(707-468-4789) email: maggie@yogamendocino.org
- Mary Paffard* began teaching in Ukiah in 1985 and launched a yoga program through the auspices of the City of Ukiah that was the starting point for Yoga Mendocino. Mary teaches workshops and retreats nationally and internationally. Her work creates a rich internal dialogue where yoga practice can take deep root and evolve its unique expression in each being.
More info at www.maryyoga.com. (707-468-4842).
- Peggy Agnew(%), GCFP, RYT and Certified Bones for Life teacher has been practicing yoga for over 20 years, studying with Mary Paffard and many other well known yoga teachers. Peggy has a private practice in Ukiah as well as teaching Feldenkrais and Bones for Life classes. She helps her students find a deeper knowledge of themselves through a playful yet challenging exploration of yoga asanas.
707-743-1295(home) 707-489-1574(cell) email: pagnew@pacific.net
- Kathie Bell (%) has been a teacher at Yoga Mendocino from the very beginning. She moved out of the area last year and is greatly missed and always welcomed back for periodic classes and workshops.
 Traci Joy Burleigh(%) began practicing yoga in 1993 and has studied with many internationally pioneering teachers since then. She is a health educator with a lifetime background in movement and teaches to explore our essential wisdom. She lives in the SF Bay Area seeing private clients, working with both youth and adult incarcerated students, and contributing to Yoga Mendocino's teacher training programs. Traci also works as a medicinal herbalist, Ayurvedic practitioner, nutritional consultant and sexual health educator, locally and internationally. She can be reached at www.artsofflesh.com and 415-515-0052
- Yoke Choong (&) has been teaching at Yoga Mendocino this past year after completing our FOUNDATIONS 450 hour program. She has practiced yoga for 7 years. Using the breath as a focus, she guides students toward self-awareness.
- Amunka Davila (#) is a Spanish speaking health care practitioner and graduate of Yoga Mendocino's Basics program.
- Isa Davila (&) is a health educator, with a special focus on pregnancy & birth and has been practicing yoga since 1993. She coordinates parenting education classes at UVMC, where she teaches Mother Well Yoga. She hopes to bring a sense of ease, grace & joy to her students.
(707-468-4506)
- Theo Denaxas teaches the Iyengar hatha yoga system focusing on strength, posture & alignment.
- PJ Flowers is a new instructor at Yomo. Bio to be posted shortly.
- Rayna Freedman is a new instructor at Yomo. Bio to be posted shortly.
- Mary Kameko is a new instructor at Yomo. Bio to be posted shortly.
- Patricia Kearney (&) is a graduate of our Teacher Training Foundations program.
- Nancy Kozak (#) is a very experienced yoga practitioner and is a graduate of our Teacher Training Basics Program.
- Marcie Ley is a new instructor at Yomo. Bio to be posted shortly.
- Starr Marzano (&) is a new graduate of our Teacher Training Foundations program.
 Darca Nicholson, M.A. started practicing yoga in 1968 at the University of Iowa. In 1989 she began practicing with Mary Paffard. Darca is a health care practitioner in private practice & yoga instructor at Mendocino Community College. Darca is a well known local teacher & bodyworker, who brings a wealth of experience to offer a challenging & creative class and a local author of Body Matters Simple Secrets for Elegant Aging (first printing Dec. 2007, Overhead Press POB 595 Ukiah, Ca 95482.) email: darca@pacific.net or 707-462-3547.
- Terri Nieves is a graduate of our Teacher Training program.
- Jessica Thompson (&)is a new graduate of our Foudations Teacher Training program.
- Kirsten Turner (#) is a Ukiah native with an extensive background in dance. She has practiced yoga for 14 years, taught in SF and is just completing Yoga Mendocino’s BASICS 240 hour certification program. She currently teaches Ballet at Mendocino College and is known as a personable instructor with a clear voice who is easy to follow. Her yoga classes focus on exploration, alignment and connection with breath having ease & joy as a goal.
- Janka Livoncova (%) - Janka is a 500 RYT registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She has been practicing meditation and yoga for 14 years, and teaching for 6. In 2005, she completed her 200 hour teacher training with Stephanie Keach in Asheville, NC, and in 2009 completed her 500 hour level with Mary Paffard in CA. Her style is also influenced by the teachings of Angela Farmer and Vanda Scaravelli, with an emphasis on grounding and undoing, the central channel and belly. She is also currently studying meditation and Buddhism with Daeja Napier.
My interest in the work of Vanda Scaravelli was sparked about 6 years ago when I read an article in Yoga International, 'When movement becomes meditation: The Legacy of Vanda Scaravelli.' Vanda wrote in her book Awakening the Spine, that "There is a way of doing yoga poses that we call 'asanas' without slightest effort." When I met her long time student Diane Long, she embodied that and more. I was stunned by her fluidity of movement and her quiet, relaxed strength. I want to thank my mentor Mary Paffard. It's through her teachings and support that my practice has been transforming into an effortless, meditative experience, and that is what I would like to offer and share in my classes.
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- Karla Pirruccello (%) - I began my path in yoga in 1995 and after studying actively for seven years I made the decision to teach. Under the guidance of Ganga White and Tracy Rich, I completed a 200 hour teacher training in 2002 at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara California. Since that time I have found inspiration and direction from a number of distinguished teachers. Mary Paffard and the teachers at Yoga Mendocino have been my main mentors and have greatly enriched my personal yogic growth. In July 2009, I completed the Yoga Mendocino Far Away teacher training program, which consisted of 675 training hours. My passion for yoga comes from my desire to develop a relaxed mind, a strong, supple
 body and a more compassionate spirit. More importantly, I am dedicated to sharing this journey of personal discovery with others. Learn more about Karla at her website - http://web.me.com/spirrucc/karlayoga
- Anne Schneider (%) - completed the Far Away program in 2009. She teaches in John Day, Oregon during the fall, winter, and spring seasons. For information on current classes, contact her by phone or email (541-575-2749; aschne@centurytel.net).
(%) YMTC, Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate indicates that a teacher has a
minimum of 600 hours of serious community minded teacher training and has been
evaluated after a minimum or one years teaching by our core faculty. This
certificate confirms that at the time of evaluation, the practitioner had a
high level of practice, integrity in teaching and interest in the meditative
aspect of the practice. Our teachers are interested in teaching the student
not just the pose and working in dialog with those interested in unraveling
the natural breath, posture and deeper internal rhythms of the body and the
mind. Safety is a high priority in our programs, and our trainings include
anatomy and physiology and a period of history of yoga. We also incorporated
a 5-10 day silent vipassna retreat prior to or during their course of study
with us. The YMTC is approved at the 500 hour RYT level with Yoga Alliance.
We are an approved school with Yoga Alliance for both our YMTC 600 hour+
programs at the 500 RYT level and our Basics 240 hour level at the 200 RYT level.
The YMTC can be achieved in a variety of ways:
Our 450 Foundations Course for advanced students (minimum 5 years of yoga)
combines 100 hours Summer Intensive and a silent meditation retreat.
Our Basics 240 Program combines with 450 Foundations Course and a silent
meditation retreat.
In certain circumstances, where a teacher who has a similar education and
background and wishes to become a YMTC teacher and has a 500 RYT certificate
from a complementary teacher, we will use a similar evaluation process and if
the teacher meets all our requirements, they too can become a YMTC teachers.
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