Paula Brown is a Registered Yoga Teacher with The Yoga Alliance and has been teaching and practicing yoga since 1999. She discovered this ancient art to be more than just exercise, and opened Yoga Space in 2006 to share her passion and love of the health enhancing affects of yoga with the community she grew up in. She teaches alignment based yoga based on the teachings of BKS Iyengar. Paula travels regularly to Ventura, CA to study under Bryan Legere, and has been inspired and experienced the life changing affects of yoga through the guidance of Aadil Palkhivala. She has passed the first half of the assessment to become a Certified Iyengar Teacher and expects to complete the second half in 2009. Her classes include meditation, philosophy, and pranayama. She teaches to inspire each individual to feel and be their best.
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. Yoga provided physical, psychological and health benefits that no other exercise had given. Now Eric wants to share his passion for yoga 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. As a landscape architect, he hopes to eventually develop a specialty in sustainable development consulting.
Jill Napier has been practicing yoga regularly since 2007. She is in the teacher training program at Yoga Space and has attended workshops led by Marla Apt and Bryan Legere. Jill practices yoga because it makes her feel happy, strong, peaceful and youthful! She has also experienced
some of the wonderful health benefits including reduced blood pressure
and stress relief. Jill is a wife, mother of two boys and an elementary
music specialist. She enjoys playing piano, board games, traveling and
spending time with her family. Jill hopes to help other achieve the
benefits of regular yoga practice!
Kelly Mee who just recently moved to Bakersfield from Yosemite National Park, has been practicing yoga since 2006. She is in the teacher training program at Yoga Space and has attended workshops led by Marla Apt, Randy Just, and Bryan Legere. She also works the front desk at Yoga Space, checking in students and answering questions. Kelly loves to rock climb, mountain bike, read, and cook.
Staci Mickler is a first-time mom. Her daughter, Sierra, was born in late March, 2008. Staci began practicing yoga many years ago during graduate school, sampling different styles with different teachers as she moved around the country. She began studying Iyengar yoga with Paula when she moved to Bakersfield two years ago and continued practicing throughout her entire pregnancy. Staci and Sierra now practice yoga together and want to help other moms and babies learn some basic yoga techniques that they can enjoy together.