Our Teaching Staff
Lori Moore
Lori has been teaching since 2000 and is formally trained in the Ashtanga yoga tradition (power yoga) by Ashtanga master David Swenson, vinyasa teacher Seane Corn, and Shannon Wells. Additional teachers she’s trained and studied with include Ana Forest, Shiva Rea, and Erich Schiffmann and anatomy teacher Mark Uridel. Lori is also the former owner of My Yoga Lounge in Sacramento (2004-2009). Besides teaching on-going classes and workshops, she leads yoga retreats and teacher training programs (training some of the best yoga instructors in the greater Sacramento area). She also teaches students privately, specializing in working with those with injuries and special health conditions, teaches corporate classes/wellness programs, and gives talks on the benefits and history of yoga.
She enjoys reading, music, dancing, wine tasting, riding her bike, running, hiking/travel/camping, serving her community, adventure, working hard, having fun, and spending time with her family, cats, dogs, and loved ones.
Althea Moyinhan
Althea’s primary yoga teacher training was in 2002 with Ganga White and Tracy Rich at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara. Ongoing workshops/study has been with Wally Eastburn, Janet McLeod, Shiva Rea, Judith Hansen Lasater, Doug Swenson, Viniyoga/Yoga Therapy and Gary Kraftsow.
She’s married with three beautiful children (and an adorable dog!) She is a voracious reader and enjoys dancing, knitting, traveling, and spending time at the beach. Additionally, she’s a registered nurse with a Master’s Degree in Public Health, is a certified Fitness Instructor through AFAA, and has been in the dance and fitness/health industry for over 30 years.
Jill Trainor
Formally an elementary school teacher for sixteen years, Jill decided to take her yoga to a deeper level and become a certified yoga teacher. In 2007, she completed a 200-hour traditional hatha yoga teacher training with Lori Moore, ERYT. She’s attended several workshops with such well respected teachers as Seane Corn, Rolf Gates, Janet Stone, and Mark Stephens.
Jill’s been married for over 20 years, has two children, and lives in El Dorado Hills. Her hobbies include yoga, cooking, running and socializing with friends.
Christie Vallance
Christie completed the 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification with Lori Moore in 2006 and has since continued teaching, attending workshops and developing as a teacher and practitioner. Her teaching draws from many different styles to develop classes that provide a supportive environment to all students. Having experienced a stress-related illness, she incorporates practices that help prevent tension buildup by releasing stress. One of these practices is Yoga Nidra, a deeply restful guided meditation. She is also studying Vipassana meditation through Sacramento Insight Meditation. She leads students through an insightful yoga practice that integrates awareness of breath, body and spirit with flowing movements that are graceful, invigorating and, at times, challenging.
Christie has a wonderful marriage and a delightful booger cat. She likes hiking, bird watching, gardening and travel, especially to the ocean! She is an elementary school teacher of special needs students.
Carl Warsowe
Carl Warsowe is a pediatrician who has practiced in Sacramento for over 35 years. He was first captivated by yoga in 1973 after reading Iyengar’s classic, Light on Yoga. Since then, he has been on a course of self-study to deepen his understanding of yoga. Whether he is gardening, kayaking, biking, or even trekking in Nepal, Carl has integrated yoga into his active lifestyle. Alternatively, he practices meditation and also enjoys the gentle leisure of “bed yoga” — his own prescription for starting the day.
Carl completed Lori Moore’s 200-hour yoga teacher training course in 2008 and enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for yoga with others.
Kristine Clark
Kristine has been on a yoga journey since her mother died in 1998. For the past 10 years, she has practiced many styles of yoga including Bikram, Hatha, Power vinyasa, Kundalini, Ashtanga, Yin and Restorative. Her primary yoga teacher training was Yoga Fit, 2002 and Zuda Yoga 2008. Her teaching style has had many influences from many teachers around the world, workshops, Thailand yoga retreat, Harbins Hot springs and love conconscious church, the yogi McCauley family, friends (sacramento yogis),Canada and most recently Ammachi’s retreat which renewed her purpose to teach.
She has a small but close family. She and her husband Andy have a business with Andy’s parents and Kristine’s sister. She has no children leaving her with plenty opportunity to enjoy this beatiful planet and commune with the people. She and her family have a home in Victoria BC, Canada where she spends time when she can. She loves to learn, talk, music, movement, good nutrition, people, stillness, kindness, love, joy and contentment.
Michi Abday
Michi is the former owner of Shanti Yoga Studio (2006-2009)and has been practicing yoga since 1995. Michi has had the privilege of practicing under many outstanding teachers including some workshops with Doug Swenson & Sri Dharma Mitta. Her love of the practice shines through her teaching style.
Michi enjoys traveling, reading, spending time with friends and playing water volleyball! She has traveled to many parts of the world but would like to visit Australia, New Zealand & Greece. She likes it hot!
Carrie Meyer
Carrie’s yoga is a personal distillation of yoga traditions/forms (including classical Ashtanga, Iyengar-style, and Vinyasa), somatics, and creative intuitions. She completed her first two yoga teacher trainings in 1999, began teaching in 2001, and acquired RYT certification with the establishment of the Yoga Alliance. Her teaching is informed by her life’s journey (including a nearly seven-year stint of residing and traveling in mostly Eastern countries in the 90s), education (including a master’s degree integrating Eastern psychology with somatics and holistic health), and healing arts work. Along with her hypnotherapy/energetic healing practice, she gives talks and workshops on practical themes of consciousness and healing.
Beyond her work and connections with dear ones, Carrie values silence and solitude, travel and wandering–especially in foreign lands–human stories and the way they are artfully honored in Playback Theatre, and the natural/animal world.
Rebekah Lake
A Registered Yoga Teacher and childbirth educator, Rebekah Lake combines her background in Ashtanga yoga with a deep understanding of prenatal psychology, pregnancy and birth. Since 2005, Rebekah has helped hundreds of expecting women navigate the spiritual and emotional journey towards motherhood through the wisdom of yoga. Rebekah offers an integrative approach to birth preparation inspired by yogic philosophy, the latest research in pre/perinatal psychology, the Halprin Life/Art process, Hypnobirthing and Birthing from Within. In 2003, she completed her initial yoga teacher training at Free Spirit Studio with Shannon Wells and draws from the Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Kundalini traditions. She is grateful to all the teachers who have influenced her teaching and guided her studies, including Seane Corn, Rodney Yee, Gurmukh Khasla and Lori Moore. Rebekah has taught yoga (both traditional and prenatal) through two pregnancies and has an extensive knowledge of therapeutic uses of yoga during pregnancy.
Rebekah has birthed two sons and profoundly respects birthing for what it is: bringing forth another soul into the human experience.
Evelyn Harlin
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Biffy Cotter
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