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.
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.
Christine Cruz --Boone (or CCB) is a Bakersfield native who began practicing yoga during graduate school in 2005. After a severe bout of crippling sciatic pain her physician recommended she try yoga. Over the last 5 years with regular practice she has yet to suffer any reoccurring pain. Chris holds a Masters degree in Communication Studies and loves her day job teaching public speaking. When she is not teaching speech or practicing yoga Chris enjoys jogging, playing video games & watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.