Owner
Kundalini Yoga, Pre-Natal, Post-Natal, Kids Yoga, Baby & Me Groups, Post-Partum
Doula
Jennifer is more than a decade into her journey toward health, alternative healing,
and spiritual awakening, introduced to the yogi way by Goldenbridge Yoga’s world-renowned
Gurmukh Khalsa. A Kundalini Yoga Instructor trained in the Khalsa Way, an in-demand
post-partum doula providing compassionate, empowering service to new parents throughout
the Southland, and a CARE-certified Raindrop and Vita Flex Technique therapist (using
Young Living’s therapeutic grade essential oils) Jennifer is a true healer, offering
love, acceptance, motivation, and grace to all she encounters. She owns and operates
The Yogi Tree with her husband, Todd Jensen.
Jennifer Kelly
Mat Pilates, Children’s Yoga,
Dancing Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Light Leaders Founder
Trained at Los Angeles’ world-renowned Goldenbridge Yoga, Crystal brings a calming
manner and compassionate touch to all of her classes – whether it is Kundalini
Yoga, Mat Pilates, Nia Yoga, or Children’s Yoga – believing that a regular
practice enhances concentration and self-control, improving health and enhancing relationships.
With a sincere love of children and many years of experience working with kids, Crystal’s
brilliant children’s yoga classes encourage students from 3 – 12 to expand,
explore and express their unique physical, emotional, and mental gifts. Her adult classes
are similarly nourishing and nurturing, designed to challenge and elevate her students.
Crystal D’Angora
Kundalini
Yoga – English/Spanish Kundalini Yoga became a part of Sussy Castilla’s
life quite by surprise, the sacred science deeply shifting her perspective and the course
of her spiritual journey. Trained at the world-renowned Goldenbridge Yoga in Los Angeles,
Sussy brings strength, practicality, love, and enthusiasm to every class she teaches.
Born in Nicaragua and raised in Costa Rica, Sussy is fluent in Spanish and one of the
Valley’s only bilingual Kundalini Yoga instructors.
Sussy Castilla
Restorative
Yoga, Hatha Yoga – English/Spanish
Certified in 2004, but practicing since the 1980s, Rosemary serves her students an uplifting,
inspired regiment of healing poses and breath work, her goal being for every cell to
have a happy face. A professional bodybuilder since 1975, Rosemary believes that balance
is key for health, and truly understands yoga’s healing and restorative aspects;
it was Iyengar yoga that helped her recover from a serious back injury many years ago.
Nurturing and fun, Rosemary’s classes are Yogi Tree favorites, perfect for beginning
and advanced students alike.
Rosemary Douglas
Hatha Flow Yoga As a Mime Artist for over 30 years, Mitchel studied
many movement forms: Corporeal Mime, Russian Clown, Dance, Tai Chi, Aikido, Reiki and,
of course, Hatha Yoga. Yoga has been a part of his physical regimen for two decades
- but the real journey began in 2005, after an injury during a performance. At the time,
Evans was practicing the vigorous, athletic Astanga Yoga series. After his fall, not
only was he unable to practice the Astanga series, he was regularly awakened from sleep
by searing pain in his hip. For a year, Mitchel practiced only gentle, restorative poses,
slowly healing. During that time, he came to grips with chronic pain, the emotional
aspects of injury, and the mind’s resistance to recovery. Today, he has returned
to a full Vinyasa Yoga Practice with a deeper understanding of the poses, the breath,
and the power of a regular Yoga Practice upon the body and the Mind. He hopes to share
that with his students. He says, “Yoga is a superior way to increase our awareness
and resolve the illness and imbalance within us. I want to impart what my first Yoga
teacher, the late Billy Porter, gave to me: the joy and the freedom, that a Yoga Practice
can bring to your life.”
Mitchel Evans
Hypnosis
Jennifer is the founder of Finding Your Power Hypnotherapy and My Imagination Series
for pediatric hypnosis. She is also the co-author of In the Mud: A Guide for Everyday
Parenting. Jennifer says: “I have always been a big believer in the Mind/Body
connection. Through Hypnotherapy you can change your limiting beliefs that hold you
back from your true potential. You can have or possess anything you truly believe you
deserve. You are the creator of your future."
Jennifer Jayne, C.Ht.
Qi Gong Lehua beams to share the healing art of movement. Her BFA in Dance Choreography
along with Yoga and Pilates all have sculpted her teachings over the years. Lehua, through
Qigong, conveys to revel in the tranquil clarity, where the art of just being in the
moment through the movement resides. She passes on the technique of one's own energy
being used to heal so that stress and negativity transform into a rejuvenated, calming
bliss.
Lehua
Visualization for Manifestation Jean Merrit is a Certified Holistic Life Coach who has
been successfully helping people walk their life’s path for over 20 years. In
addition, she is a Certified Reconnective Healing Practitioner and a successful businesswoman
whose recognition is acknowledged in the Marquis Publications of Who's Who in America,
Who's Who in the World and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America. Jean brings a tremendous
sense of intuition, empathy, and love to all she does.
Jean Merritt
Hatha Flow,
Vinyasa Flow
Born and raised in Montana, trained in modern dance, Syann discovered yoga several years
ago after a serious knee injury. “When I was done with that first class,”
she says, “something had begun to glow inside of me.” From there, Syann
embarked on a dedicated practice, graduating from the YogaWorks 200-hour teacher training
program. Her classes flow powerfully, with an eye for alignment, and a deep respect
for stillness and breath. “I want my students to feel relaxed and rejuvenated
after my class,” she says.
Syann Motl
Yoga Tune
Up® Flow
Karrie has been an avid practitioner and devotee of the art and science of yoga since
her first class 10 years ago. Her certification includes 200 hours of Hatha and Vinyasa
training and 140 hours of Yoga Tune Up ® training. Her classes are approached with
a wonderfully freeing sense of play and endeavor to return body and breath back to their
joyful, natural state. Her movement experience includes: Butoh, Laban Technique, 5 Rhythm
Wave, Temple Dance, Budokon, Pilates, Hatha Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga and Yoga
Tune Up. She is ever grateful to her teachers and mentors: Doranne Crable, Jill Miller,
Maura Barclay, Amara Pagano, Misty Tripoli and Alex Dawson.
