Instructors
Paula Brown is the owner of Yoga Space and a Registered Yoga Teacher with The Yoga Alliance. She has been teaching yoga since 1999 and is taking her first Iyengar assesment this summer. Her biggest inspiration comes from Aadil Palkhivala and from her three children, who keep her young and playful. She studies regularly with Bryan Legere in Ventura and her intention is to share yoga in an uplifting, non-competitive class which will inspire each individual.

Kathleen Rush is a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor. She began her studies in Iyengar yoga in 1994 while living in Nepal and traveled to Pune, India in 2002 to study yoga with the Iyengars. She travels regularly to study at the Iyengar Institute in Los Angeles, where she completed a three-year teacher-training program in 2004. Her love of yoga is based on it balancing the physical, mental, and emotional bodies. She holds a degree in mathematics and advanced degrees in psychology and physics. Her greatest aspiration is for all to find joy and happiness in their life.

Eric Létourneaux started studying Iyengar Yoga in 2001 at the University of Michigan while he was still a graduate student. After a year, he attended classes directly at the Ann Arbor School of Yoga with Laurie Blakeney. Yoga practice quickly occupied the major part of his regular training along with Pilates because it provided within three months physical, psychological and health benefits that no other exercise had given. Now Eric wants to share his passion for yoga and his experience to help others also discover all the daily benefits of regular yoga practice.
Eric is originally from France and has been living in the US since 1995.  He has Master’s degrees in English, French/Socio-Psychology and Landscape Architecture. He moved to Bakersfield to become a Project Manager in Landscape Construction/Landscape Architect. As a landscape architect, he hopes to eventually develop a specialty in sustainable development consulting.
Eric’s favorite activities are hiking, cooking, reading, learning about anything, playing cards, eating around a table with friends and traveling to foreign countries.      

Shanan Harrell has been studying Iyengar yoga since 1996 and teaching since 1998. She has studied with many world class teachers as well as traveling to Pune, India in 2004 to study with the Iyengar family. After several years as a nomadic gypsy yogi, she has now settled in Tehachapi where she founded the Tehachapi Yoga Tribe. Shanan feels yoga is an intelligent pathway to vibrant health and supreme inner peace. Her enthusiasm for the practice instills a great sense of fun and adventure in her teaching.