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Shawn Green

Shawn is a California based Ashtanga teacher and owner of Om Shala Yoga studio.  He is a long time student and current assistant to senior teacher David Garrigues and is honored to have worked with hundreds of students across three continents.

Shawn Green

Shawn is a California based Ashtanga teacher and owner of Om Shala Yoga studio.  He is a long time student and current assistant to senior teacher David Garrigues and is honored to have worked with hundreds of students across three continents.  Shawns goal is to promote inclusive Ashtanga, raise the standards of the student and promote safe and sustainable practice.  Shawn believes the discipline and philosophy are one and the same and that how a person approaches the simplest actions on the mat can echo out into ones greatest wishes and highest aspirations for their life.  His teachings are playfully earnest and he encourages students to explore yoga technology with a respect for the living tradition.

Peggy Profant

I first discovered yoga in 1979 at the tender age of 15. When my life veered off into low self esteem. It is my aim to clarify a deeper and compassionate connection to self, purpose, joy and inner sovereignty through the ancient practice of yoga combined with modern science. 

Peggy Profant

I first discovered yoga in 1979 at the tender age of 15. Nothing really made sense to my hormonally charged adolescent self, but yoga felt real.

When my life veered off into low self esteem, drugs and alcohol, yoga guided me to a path where happiness actually seemed attainable. WIth a deep thirst to learn more I dreamt of going to India. By the time I was 30, I found myself in that crazy and beautiful land and I adopted the Ashtanga Vinyasa system of BNS Iyengar into my daily practice. Later my body resonated more with Anusara yoga, its therapeutic alignment and its philosophical teachings of Kashmir Shaivism.

After teaching for almost 25 years, I decided to earn a certificate in Yoga Therapy in an 800 hour program with Sarahjoy Marsh, a teacher I have always loved and admired. I am now accredited with the International Association of Yoga Therapists. The approach I take with yoga therapy is to bring the healing aspects of yoga to all the layers of your being, your physical, emotional, energetic and mental so that you can access your innate wisdom and joy. I bring in the ancient philosophy of yoga combined with modern science and psychology to clarify a deeper and compassionate connection to self, purpose, joy and inner sovereignty.

My meditation path started in a college class and I realized it was starting to change my life by infusing an enduring state of presence and calm I hadn’t found before. I found Vipassana meditation in Thailand in 1994 which took my practice to another level. More recently I began to study with Paul Muller-Ortega and have been delighted with the practice of Neelakantha meditation, more aligned with the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism that I resonate with.

C-IAYT Yoga Therapist

Certified Life Coach: Coach Training Alliance-Yoga2Life

Yoga Alliance RYT 500, YACEP

Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher in 2006

Founded World Family Yoga, retreats for families in 2006

Founded Om Shala Yoga in 2008

Shemaia Skywater

Shemaia Skywater is a yogini with more Ethan 3 decade of yoga practice and teaching experience. She has been a student of Anusara Yoga since 2001. As well, she has spent 25 years exploring music as a healing force and regularly hosts sound healings here at the studio!

Shemaia Skywater

Shemaia Skywater is a yogini with more than 3 decades of yoga practice and teaching experience.  She has been a student of Anusara Yoga since 2001 and completed the Inner Freedom Yoga Immersion and Training in 2008, as well as the Inner Freedom Yoga Level 2 and Yoga Therapy training.  She also attended hundreds of hours with other top Anusara instructors, including the founder.

She also has spent 25 years exploring music as a healing force and sampling the healing music and movement of many ancient traditions, and two decades learning, exploring, practicing, researching, receiving training in sound healing modalities and therapeutics through sound.

She is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound healing events producer, body worker, and aromatherapy student. She loves breathing ocean air, swimming in rivers, tango and fusion partner dance, cooking Ayurvedic yumminess and jamming with friends. She especially loves the practices of the bhakti tradition: building altars and leading kirtans, which she does regularly.

Skip Sumbera

After years of chasing healing and trying to fix myself, I discovered that true transformation comes from acceptance and meeting life directly, with presence, honesty, and courage. Now I guide others inward to integrate the deeper wisdom of their experience and discover the truth of who they are. 

Skip Sumbera

Hi, I’m Skip. I spent years trying to fix myself and ease my suffering, chasing the next tool or modality that I hoped would finally change the way I felt inside. But no matter what I tried, the lasting peace, fulfillment, and sense of wholeness I longed for always seemed to elude me.

Everything changed when I stopped chasing healing and resisting what was here, and began meeting life directly, with presence and honesty.

That shift started a process of deep transformation, one that didn't come from effort or control, but from fully allowing what’s here in the moment, releasing what no longer served me and discovering the truth of who I am. 

Now, I guide others on that path. I offer a grounded, heart-centered space to explore your inner world, build emotional resilience, and integrate the deeper wisdom of your own experience

If you're ready to go beyond self-improvement and discover what’s already whole within you, I’d love to support your journey.

  

A Martens

Hi, I'm A (they/them)! My Hatha-based classes are appropriate for students healing from injuries, beginners, or long-time students looking to be re-inspired by the roots of their practice. I use use lots of props to modify poses and make them work for YOUR body. 

A Martens

Hi, I'm A (they/them)! My Hatha-based classes are appropriate for students healing from injuries, beginners, or long-time students looking to be re-inspired by the roots of their practice. Because I come from an Iyengar background, we use lots of props to modify poses and make them work for YOUR body. 

I empower my fellow LGBTQ+ community to take up space, and I’m passionate about recontextualizing yoga so that modern practitioners have a better understanding of its roots. I encourage people to look at yoga as not only a practice of individual healing, but a practical philosophy for liberating all of humanity. Ultimately, I believe when we take better care of ourselves we are taking better care of the planet.

Jillian Poree

It has taken years for me to realize yoga is a gift to be given and shared. I received my RYT 200 right here in Humboldt with the inspiring Jason Calsyn & amazing Yatri Sol by my side every step of the way with such compassionate, loving kindness.

Jillian Poree

Our oceans, our forests contain a mystical depth, mother nature’s pulse dances inside us all, allow yourself the freedom to hear it’s call. I began dance education at age 2 as movement is the fluid of my soul. I then fell in love with yoga as a kid practicing with my mom for fun. In my 20s I dove deeper into practice making yoga a regular part of my life. It’s been in my 30s that I’ve realized I need yoga; body & mind to survive.

I leaned into yoga as a major part of healing my severe digestive issues. I found Ayurveda, Vegan nutrition and have calmed the raging river of my health to a patient flow. Yoga has become fundamental in my life. It grounds unease, soothes my overactive mind, penetrates connectedness with self and allows me to function from a place of gratitude. I’ve also felt these great benefits through regular meditation. In practice I find nourishment that I can’t get anywhere else. It has to come from within.

It has taken years for me to realize yoga is a gift to be given and shared. I received my RYT 200 right here in Humboldt with the inspiring Jason Calsyn & amazing Yatri Sol by my side every step of the way with such compassionate, loving kindness. Open the flood gates, discover the river beneath the river. I’d love to share this gift with you through yoga.

~ be well, Jillian

Crystal Rose

I’ve been teaching yoga with the intention of creating a safe, inclusive space where students of all levels and ages can explore their truth and deepen their connection to mind, body, spirit, and community.

Crystal Rose

My yoga journey inspired me to pursue a deeper understanding of the body, leading me to complete both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Kinesiology. For me, physical movement is a vessel of emotional expression and healing. Since 2022, I’ve been teaching yoga with the intention of creating a safe, inclusive space where students of all levels and ages can explore their truth and deepen their connection to mind, body, spirit, and community.

Emily Cooper-Hertel

Emily offers vinyasa classes that support alignment, build strength, and foster mental clarity. She teaches yoga with the intention of integrating breath and movement with greater seasonal, philosophical, and cultural connection.

Emily Cooper-Hertel

Emily Cooper-Hertel found yoga with curiosity for the depth of inner peace and strength she sensed from others she knew who practiced. She explored various forms of vinyasa starting in 2012, yet her foundations in a strong yoga practice were set with Ashtanga and Hatha yoga during her formative 20’s while briefly living in Portland, Oregon. She found much needed refuge in the magic of intentional breath with movement. Over the years, her relationship with yoga continually deepens as yogic philosophy is increasingly woven into her practice both on and off the mat. Emily completed the Tosha Yoga Teacher Training with Suzanne Dunning in 2025, whose teachings are inspired by the T.K.V. Desikachar lineage. 

As an ecologist by trade, her work ultimately aims to support an ecosystem’s capacity for self renewal. She sees many parallels between that and the work of yoga, as yoga indeed fosters our own capacity for self renewal. Moreover, since recently becoming a new mother, she has found strength, healing, and grounding with reverence through yoga as an integral component of daily life. Emily is grateful for the opportunity to share the beauty of yoga with you!

Sasha Miksis

Sasha’s exuberant love for yoga shines through in every class she leads. With roots in Ashtanga and Baptiste Yoga, her classes are fiery yet grounding.  She began her yoga journey in 2004 and in 2012 became an E-RYT certified Yoga Alliance instructor.

Sasha Miksis

Sasha’s exuberant love for yoga shines through in every class she leads. With roots in Ashtanga and Baptiste Yoga, her classes are fiery yet grounding.  She began her yoga journey in 2004 and in 2012 became an E-RYT certified Yoga Alliance instructor. Sasha holds a B.A. in Human Development and a Master’s in Counseling Psychology, specializing in both somatic mind/body therapy and trauma-informed care; she is currently accruing hours towards her Marriage and Family Therapist license. Sasha is the founder and CEO of OMBODLT: Yoga Fest Humboldt, a local organization built to grow community; the festival is on year 5 and is rooted in “breaking down the barriers of separateness   in the local community.” Sasha, most recently, completed a 40-hour training with Hala Khouri in Trauma-Informed Yoga (Somatic Experiencing) and uses this approach when teaching incarcerated youth and other groups of this nature. Sasha is a birth doula and utilizes this training to support her prenatal yoga classes and works in private practice as a specialist in perinatal mental health. 

Her hope in life is to improve the lives of those open and willing to roll out the mat and discover the magic of the practice and what’s within. Yoga can be utilized as a tool to not only calm the body and mind, but also to alleviate symptoms of illness, both in the physical and beyond. Sasha finds her work in yoga and psychotherapy to be that of a guide through the process of healing. 
Her love for the practice and for those she has the pleasure of sharing it with is what energizes her teaching. If you love a lively and high-spirited practice that will bring you deeper into a grounded sense of self, you will love this class! Expect to breathe and flow through intentional sequencing and high energetic movement, all backed by upbeat and luminous playlists carefully mixed to awaken the power of what’s within. Her classes are appropriate for all practitioners who enjoy a physical challenge that leaves you feeling whole and alive!  

Tara Fulgenzi

Yoga and meditation has been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. 

In 2014 I completed a 200hr YTT at  Shambhava Yoga Konalani in Hawaii.  Since then I have also completed a 300hr Advanced Teacher Training at Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja MX.

Tara Fulgenzi

    I am originally from Oahu Hawaii.  In 99' II moved to California to attend University and received a Masters in Botany at Humboldt State in 2009..  After my immersion in the sciences I have been traveling the world, but still consider Northern California and Hawaii home.  Yoga and meditation has been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. 
    I grew up going to yoga classes with my dad, and have had the practice and it's teachings a part of me ever since.  Yoga as I was taught is the opening of the heart through the opening of the body.  In 2014 I completed a 200hr YTT at  Shambhava Yoga Konalani in Hawaii.  Since then I have also completed a 300hr Advanced Teacher Training at Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja MX.  My interests in ways to move the body and open the heart and mind are multifaceted.  I also enjoy the upbeat fusion of Buti Yoga and am Advanced Buti Certified.  In addition to having a strong asana practice, I believe we all have the ability to be the best version of ourselves, as such I am a Certified Life Coach.  I am registered with Yoga Alliance and you can find me on Instagram @yogamanasol.

Laura Johnson

Laura is passionate about yoga as a radical, embodied practice of collective liberation, and she is delighted to reconnect with her Om Shala roots and offer a monthly community rest practice! 

Laura Johnson

Laura (she/her/they) is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with advanced training from Samantha Akers of TheraYoga Method and certification in the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method, Embodied Activism from The Embody Lab, Yoga Nidrā with Kaya Mindlin, and Accessible Pranayama and Meditation with Jivana Heyman of the Accessible Yoga School. A yoga practitioner for more than a decade, Laura has offered gentle yin and restorative classes, workshops, and private sessions in Humboldt County since she completed her first teacher training at Om Shala in 2018. For the last five years she has been cultivating her private practice, A Restful Space, and developing online courses such as Yoga for Ecological Grief, now offered through the Wisdom School at Embodied Philosophy. Laura is passionate about yoga as a radical, embodied practice of collective liberation, and she is delighted to reconnect with her Om Shala roots and offer this monthly community rest practice! Learn more about Laura at www.arestfulspace.com or find her on Instagram @arestfulspace.

Serena Malkani

Serena Malkani, M.A., is a voice ritualist, world music recording artist, and Ayurvedic advisor whose work explores the voice as a pathway to vitality, connection and authentic expression.

Serena Malkani

Serena Malkani, M.A., is a voice ritualist, world music recording artist, and Ayurvedic advisor whose work explores the voice as a pathway to vitality, connection and authentic expression.

Integrating influences from jazz, raga, mindfulness, somatic practices, and voice science, she guides people in cultivating a deeper relationship with themselves through sound, breath, and resonance. Through voice-centered workshops, Serena invites participants to reconnect with the wisdom, creativity, and innate power of their own voices.

Azaria Mohr

Yoga found me during a transformative time and became my safe haven. My intention is to create a space where students feel safe to explore, grow, and discover gratitude for who they are. Together, we support one another on the journey of self-discovery.

Azaria Mohr

Yoga found me at a very transformational time in my life, and soon became my safe haven. It was on my mat where I felt most special-finding a new sense of gratitude for every facet of myself.
My intentions with every class I teach is to cultivate a space where my student feel safe enough to grow curious about themselves, and eventually find that same gratitude for the unique individual they are.

I look at this practice as a beautiful reminder of the specialness that exists in each and every one of us. As we move together I hope we can learn from each other and support one another on this exploration of self.

Emi Canterbury

Emi creates safe spaces for women to build confidence, self-trust, and community. With 12+ years in movement, yoga, and meditation, she brings a passion for mindfulness, nutrition, and self-expression to her work, believing that meaningful change begins within.

Emi Canterbury

Emi is a leader and facilitator of safe spaces for women to grow confidence, self-trust, and community. She has spent over 12 years in studios - first as a ballerina and yogi, then as a leader of group meditation and intentional movement. Beyond facilitating spaces for women her passions include nutrition, self-expression, and mindfulness. Emi believes we were put on this earth to help one another, and by starting from within our reach can be infinite. 

You can follow her journey on Instagram @easeful.woman for more information.

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