Hayley Saraswatī

Saraswatī embodies the essence of the creative Mother, balancing loving softness with a graceful strength.  Her powerful presence inspires and empowers others to step into their full potential, through vibrant authenticity and the awakening to the expansive joy of the heart.  Her work brings together the teachings of yoga, non-dualism and earth wisdom, infused with a deep reverence for life.

Guiding people from all over the world to devote time to personal transformation at The Yoga Forest, the Conscious Living Retreat she founded in 2009, Saraswatī wholeheartedly offers herself through the path of devotion; offering kirtan, ceremonies, workshops, retreats and trainings with yoga, breath work, sound healing, singing circles, dance, satsang & sharing circles. Her dedication to creating and holding a safe space allows the veils to fall away, inspiring spontaneous expression and the authentic embodiment of the Truth - all is Love.
 
Weaving together her passion for yoga, nature and the elements, her view of sustainable green living and mindfulness practice fuse into a work of deep green yoga. She loves to be in the forest with her baby Elijah Rumi, contemplating Oneness within nature while dreaming and designing landscapes of harmonious interaction, offering visions of an alternative global community for the future generations. 

Creating music and magic with her beloved partner, Jayā Saraswatī released their first album "Wave of the Heart" in 2016, a blend of mantra, heart songs and medicine music. Combining their passions of Sound and transformational work, Jayā Saraswatī are now offering 100hr Sound Ceremony Training certifications for continuing education in Sound Healing, Bhakti, Nada and Mantra Yoga each year at The Yoga Forest.
 

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CJ Ananda 

Co-Founder of Pura Vidya and Present Moment Retreat, and ERYT 500 certified, CJ Ananda is a renowned teacher of yoga, dance and meditation. She has combined her joy of these self-healing therapies with her experience as a wellness leader and healing practitioner to create international retreats and trainings.

Ananda facilitates 200 hour and 300 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, Shamanic Cleanses and Transformational Retreats giving each person the heartfelt attention and direct facilitation that cultivates ecstatic, healing and magical experiences. As a teacher, she sees each of her classes as an opportunity to hold sacred ceremonial space.

Integrating her teachings and passions, Ananda has developed a system of intentional-based healing that draws on the philosophy that we are all a part of a collective life force that is driving us towards greater consciousness. By exploring our gifts and expanding our relationship with higher Self, we come into alignment with our inner purpose of Awakening. Through our collaborative efforts and unified intentions, we magnify the richness of this life's experience. 

Ananda and her husband, Coby created Pura Vidya as a way to invite individuals to explore the fusion of the two mystical traditions of Yoga and Shamanism and to step into their Wisdom of Self (Vidya). Yoga (union with the Divine) and Shamanism (interaction with the spirit world) are both practices designed to grant us access to the infinite wisdom we carry within ourselves. 

She believes in the Hopi saying: “We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for.”  Based on this belief, she trusts that we are each here to expand into the greatness of who we are and who we came here to be. She believes that as we more deeply connect to our inner essence, our Spirit Guides and our callings, we connect to the wholeness of All That Is. And it is from this place of truth, that we can serve all beings from our highest capacity. She is inspired to inspire... and to continue this journey moment to moment, breath to breath.  

Ananda currently travels between Peru, Guatemala and Troncones, Mexico, the home of Present Moment Retreat, where she holds sacred space for individuals and groups as they journey toward Self Realization and Spiritual Oneness. AHO!

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Jiya Julia Randall

“Spirit of the wind, lifting my wings
Spirit of the river, running through my veins
Spirit of the fire, warming my hands
Spirit of the trees, guarding this land."
Earth Song by Jiya Julia Randall

Jiya Julia Randall is one of the founders of international yoga school and retreats organization Kula Collective and a guide for empowered and conscious living.

Jiya is a deeply connected leader who roots her teaching in the healing energy of nature.  Her teaching invites students to explore their own, unique unfolding, through profound awareness and trust in the wisdom of the Self.  Through her studies with teachers and shamans across the world, Julia has developed a powerful sense of energetic connection and a strong set of philosophical and intuitive teachings, which she shares through creative hatha and yin yoga, sacred fire and medicine ceremonies, kirtan and healing therapies.  Jiya is also a talented musician and sound healer, who seeks out native chants and medicine songs from around the world to complement her work.

Jiya is YA-certified at the ERYT-500 level and has facilitated both intensive and module-format teacher trainings at RYT-200 and RYT-300 levels for several years, through multiple schools.  Following her degree in Physics at Imperial College, London, Julia worked as an Energy Consultant and part time copywriter and editor in London, UK, before moving to Central America in 2009 to pursue a life centered on yoga and holistic health.  British by birth, Jiya is now based in Bali and teaches in Thailand, Australia, Mexico, Greece, USA, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Peru.

Julia's powerful connection to nature, passion for music, writing and creative expression, aptitude for the natural healing arts and scientific background have given her a thoroughly holistic understanding of yoga and its philosophy.  Her colorful experience of the world comes through in her unique metaphors, powerful visual meditations and shamanic journeys.  Her passion for sound is felt as she shares medicine songs in savasana, heals with sound tools in the deepest poses, and enlivens hearts through vibrant Kirtan circles.

Her compassionate teaching style invites students to explore their own experience and understand the process of healing from a personal, unique standpoint, calling on many rich and varied techniques to bring the entire Being back into balance.  In all her offerings, alongside yoga, Julia specializes in holistic health, bringing in a range of practices including energy healing; shiatzu, massage and aromatherapy; sound healing; shamanic healing, fire and cacao ceremony; pre- and post-natal care; nutrition and herbalism; and personal coaching. 

Alongside trainings, Julia holds space at her own international workshops, ceremonies and transformational retreats through her project CreateSpace, which focuses on guiding participants to find their own sacred creative expression and unique essence, whether in yoga teaching or in other forms such as art, music or writing.  Jiya is a DONA-certified doula (birthing assistant) and offers private coaching for holistic wellness, yoga teaching and personal career/life planning (please contact Jiya directly for more information). Away from her teaching life she is also a writer and singer/songwriter and is currently creating an album and a novel based on her own spiritual journey.

A strong element of Julia's intention is to empower her students to understand healing as a personal creative process, intertwined with self-development and opportunity. The pursuit of wellness is ultimately the work of finding harmony and balance with all the components of What Is.  Yoga not only develops bodily awareness but also reaches into the mental and deeply into the energetic, helping people to delve inside and explore their own, unique unfolding. 

"Yoga is so much about awareness – from the pressure of your baby toes on the ground, to the last few molecules of air leaving your nostrils, to the sensation of openness as the deepest emotions release. Extending this type of awareness to the world around me has given me an intimate relationship with my surroundings, which I seek to share as I step along my path as seeker and guide of holistic health. When learning to teach yoga, awareness of energetic space and the subtleties of healing are essential to offering a class with depth, and this forms the center of my intention in all my offerings." 

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Coby Hadas

While traveling abroad during University, Coby met a Peruvian healer who liberated him from the material realm. “Now that you have entered the Spiritual world”, she told him, “you’ll never have to concern yourself with money or materials, they will manifest effortlessly. Your new path is a spiritual one wrought with its own challenges.”

Coby took this belief to heart, starting a spiritual journey that took him several times around the globe. He spent many years in Latin America reconnecting with the Earth, a connection often severed in modern suburbia.

He sailed the Caribbean, learning just how deeply one can relax. He led groups of teenagers through dozens of countries and across five different continents. He spent much time in India where he lived 'Baba Life', renouncing material comforts and exploring the boundaries of meditation.

But between each chapter of his story, he would always return to his Shamanic teacher in Peru for study and guidance. Coby’s deep rooted interest in Shamanism found its perfect complement when he married Yogini, CJ Ananda. Their combined passion is to find harmony in the combination of these two ancient healing traditions. 

Together, Coby and Ananda founded Pura Vidya, whose mission is two fold... to make the ancient traditions of Yoga and Shamanism better understood and more accessible to the West. and to teach cleansing techniques in order to quiet the mind and deepen meditation, for by quieting the mind we will live in harmony with our soul's purpose. www.puravidya.com

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Jessi Luna

Since a young age, Jessi has studied dance and creative movement. Since her first RYT200 Teacher Training in 2008, Jessi has led retreats and workshops throughout the States, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Bali, and Costa Rica. She completed her RYT500 Certification in 2012 and now leads teacher trainings in places she most enjoys to share. 

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Zachary Townesmith

ZACHARY TOWNESMITH IS A DREAMER. HIS MOM SAYS SHE DOESN’T KNOW ANYONE WITH A BIGGER HEART. HIS WIFE SOMETIMES HAS TO SOLAR HIS LUNAR (THINKING). HE BRINGS HUMILITY AND HUMOR TO HIS FACILITATION AND COACHING. IN CAPOEIRA HE LEARNS HOW TO GET OUT OF THE WAY GRACEFULLY. PLAYING FRENCH HORN HE MARKED THE SILENCES PATIENTLY. AS THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE ON THE SOCCER FIELD, HE TOOK ALL THE BLAME AND SHARED ALL THE CREDIT.HIS PHOTOGRAPHS EMPHASIZE THE VALUE OF LUNAR PERSPECTIVES IN SHARING NEWS WAYS TO SEE.FATHERHOOD HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING A FLEXIBLE FOCUS HE BELIEVES WE CAN SAVE THE WORLD IF WE CAN GET BETTER AT CREATING AND CO-CREATING. BETTER SOLUTIONS FOR BETTER LIVES - TOGETHER.       

Zachary inspires participation and thoughtful consensus in a wide array of groups. He is dedicated to developing intercultural relations and facilitating innovative solutions for regenerative well-being. 

His Cum Laude B.A. from Harvard College led him to explore issues of privilege and work for justice from his hometown of Philadelphia to the Guatemala City garbage dump. This work has taken him throughout the Americas engaging diverse stakeholders in strategic planning through the development of creative and critical thinking in fields such as education, public health, business, creative industries, and entrepreneurship. 

His 500hr Yoga Teacher training instills a diversity and depth to his facilitation. He embodies these ancient practices in ways that are socially relevant and culturally appropriate

He believes that interpersonal relationships and creativity are the keys to regenerative enterprise, and works in settings ranging from corporate board rooms to dirt-floored rural schools.  His multi-cultural and multi-lingual fluency are valuable assets as groups develop and maintain creative environments of respect and trust. Watch his TedX talks here (Spanish) and here (English).

Zach brings a deep love of learning and leads the evaluation process of the Kula Collective YTT curricula. In order to evaluate students’ learning and to support their integration he adapted the Flow Design process to fit in to all Kula teacher training certifications. This ensures that all graduates have honed their personal Vision and designed a 90-day plan to begin to integrate their experiences into the rest of their lives. 

He hopes to design something with you soon. Co-creation will save the world!

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Randi Schiffman

Randi is the founder of SuryaFlow: The Art of Sacred Movement and Co-Founder of Kula Collective. She turned to yoga for healing and its therapeutic benefits. The practice quickly evolved into a lifestyle that she honors, respects and is passionate about sharing.  She sees conscious embodied movement as a powerful medicine that helps connect to ourselves in new ways leaving us feeling strong, empowered and free. Randi is playful, yet grounded in discipline.

Randi’s open heart, affectionate manner and infectious laugh create an instant environment of friendship and authenticity. A true pollinator of people, her direct communication, sense of humor and energizing, activating manner allow for deep work to be done with a sense of playful acceptance for what is.

Randi ERYT 500 has taught over 50 yoga teacher trainings since 2010. Her expertise is in sharing Holistic Yoga, a well rounded practice including meditation, pranayama, mudra, bandha, mantra, theme weaving and intelligent sequencing. A certified Thai Massage Therapist, she is especially known for her firm and intuitive based hands on assists.  She facilitates with a strong energy and passion for the practice which supports her compassionate, graceful and empathic nature. She has an innate ability to take in knowledge, experience it, and share wisdom in an authentic way.

Cheralee Jones

Cher is a woman of the Earth, deeply connected to all of the elements. In addition to her devotion to the teachings and wisdom of her yogic lineage, Cher regards witnessing the rhythms of nature as a vital part of her practice. Cher is an artist and musician and weaves her artistry into all aspects of life.

Cher found her way to the healing power of yoga after having undergone several severe physical injuries during her adolescence, her permanent spinal injury being the worst. She found that precise alignment in asana combined with genuine inner inquiry greatly supported her healing process and restoration of her body structure. With time and devotion to her practice, she discovered a deeper wholeness, presence, and aliveness in life overall. 

"Presence connects us with our breath; the breath anchors us into presence. I believe all of life is a sacred ceremony, every moment and every breath. The lineage teachings I carry come from Tirumalai Krishnamacarya. My teachers studied extensively with T.K.V. Desikachar, B.K.S. Iyengar, and Sri Pathabi Jois, 3 of Krishnamacarya's students who created 3 very different yogic systems that spread throughout the world. The transmission I bring forth is a fusion of these 3 systems (Yini, Iyengar, and Ashtanga Yoga), infused with the feminine wisdom of my womb and our Earth Mother. I share yoga as a sustainable self-healing practice. If we allow it to, this practice and way of life will help us dissolve blockages and re-align with our true nature; Bliss. From this space, the clarity of why we came here to Earth at this time in these particular bodies can naturally arise.” – Cher Joy

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Krystalyn Norton

Krystalyn ERYT 500 has been a coach and transformational facilitator for over 8 years, she’s developed the subtle art of listening in deep ways to draw out people’s strengths and help identify their insecurities so they can be risen above. Through observation and tactful feedback she guides people to discover what they thought they were looking for outside, but is truly found inside of themselves.

Krystalyn continues consciously asking questions that lead to better questions to dig into the roots of the matter at hand. These open ended questions, and her ability to hold a clean container, creates a safe space for self-reflective clarity. 

With a life time of artistry behind her, krystalyn brings art and creativity to the spaces she holds, be it experiential learning or body art tattoos, she embodies and expresses beauty and art in a multitude of ways.

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Gaiatri Good

Gaiatri is a healer, a creator and a guide devoted to the expansion of consciousness. Inspired by her studies of the Eastern Yogic philosophies, awakened by her studies of the Qabalah and enlivened by the Shamanic practices of her teachers in Peru.

Gaiatri is a passionate teacher, a channel of wisdom that seeds deep understanding, trust and enthusiasm. The holistic nature with which she approaches life imbibes her students with a full spectrum of teachings and skills. Gaiatri lives the philosophy of yoga both in her self practice as well as off the mat. 

Just as she allows Asana to ground her spirit into her body through deep meditation guided by prana, Gaiatri also brings the unconditional love and union found in deep presence into each breath of her life. Viewing every gifted moment as an opportunity to deepen her connection with universal consciousness through ritual, ceremony, music, dancing, prayer and laughter.
 
Gaiatri is ERYT 500 certified, has a honours degree in Psychology, is a talented Musician, a Reiki master, Breath work practitioner, Energy healer, Sound Healer, Curandera holding ceremonies with various shamanic master plants, Channel for the Angelic realms, Shamanic Astrologer and Initiate into the Hermetic Qabalah.

A facilitator for the Kula as well as for various Transformational Retreats involving Plant Medicine and Sound, it is Gaiatri’s greatest excitement to offer her gifts in service for the awakening of the whole.
 
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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Emily Ray Henderson

Emily Ray Henderson loves magic, sparkles, cacao, dancing and connecting with nature and the ancient cultures of the world. She has a lightness of heart that is contagious and works gently but deeply with people through their transformation.

Emily weaves counselling, Reiki energy healing, massage, breath work, sacred ceremony and yoga together through a compassionate and intuitive approach to help people integrate mind, body, spirit to empower, make change, create balance and find joy and passion in life.

As a Wellness Practitioner and Yoga Teacher, she developed her offerings to the world while growing within herself. This led her on the path of guiding Workshops, International Transformational Retreats, Yoga Teacher Trainings with The Kula Collective and Facilitator Trainings with Alchemy of Breath. “This path has helped me so much that I want to share it with others.”

Emily believes Yoga is everything. A well aligned intentional asana practice is important for connecting with our bodies, our breath and our spirit. We do our Yoga & Pranayama… and Meditation unfolds. A great beauty of Yoga is suspending time and space, being present and accepting with compassion all that is. On and off the mat into the world, Emily is passionate about teaching this technology of awakening.

There is so much beauty in the study of ourselves.

Learn more about Emily here: www.emilyrayhenderson.com

Connect with her on Instagram: @emilyrayhenderson

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Stevie Goggans

Stevie, E-RYT 500hr is a lover of sunshine, music, joyful expression, exploring the world, and sharing in yoga/union.

She has been teaching yoga around the world for 6 years, leading teacher trainings in her hometown and all over the globe with Kula Collective. She knows she is divinely guided and this soul work of helping others to peel back the veils, uncover their truth, and stand in their own light is her part of her Dharma. Stevie shares from a place of relatability, authenticity, silliness and joy. She believes we are here to enjoy our precious lives and help others to do the same.

Yoga has been life changing for Stevie in the realest sense. After struggling for many years, she finally found peace in her own body and mind and heart through the practice of Yoga Asana and other yogic practices such as meditation and mantra. She has learned the meaning of Grace which appears every time she pushes through a veil and remembers her True Self, which is Love. Yoga helped her find connection, love and truth in her own heart. Her passion now is sharing these gifts of yoga asana, meditation, ceremony, creativity, dance, joy, laughter, etc.. with anyone and everyone! She is deeply honored to get to walk this path and do this work and remembers that we are all “just walking each other home”- Ram Dass.

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Tosha Kemper

Stillness. Faith. Gentleness. Kindness. Compassion. Joy. Forgiveness. Comfort. Vulnerability. Honesty. Courage. And love. Now we’re talking about power.

Through laughter and tears, we shall truly live this human experience.

 Stef Palmer

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi

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