* 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. Since moving to Mendocino County she has provided services in yoga and 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 is Program & Therapeutics Director of Yoga Mendocino. Maggie brings warmth and compassion to her classes and encourages a mindful and playful approach to practice.
(707-468-4789) email: maggien@saber.net
- 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.
(%) 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.
Congratulations! to our YMTC Graduates:
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