Janani English, PhD, RMT, has over 30 years of experience is various teaching and therapeutic capacities in the fields of: craniosacral and spinal therapy, massage therapy, yoga therapy, athletic training, physical therapy, stress reduction and relaxation, biomechanics, exercise science, osteopathic manipulative therapy, and ayurvedic therapies. She has been practicing and teaching hatha and pranayama yogas for over 20 years and received initiation from her Master Teacher Shri Anandi Ma into the lineage of Kundalini Maha Yoga in 1991. Janani is a registered massage therapist, medical manual therapist, and received private training and teaching certification in India from Yogacharya Kishoranandaji Sanchalit. She is a member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and the International Massage Association.

Linda Graham has intensively studied movement, restorative body mechanics, and martial arts since 1998, and started teaching in 2005.  Her studies have included Chinese Internal Martial Arts, including Nei Gung, Tai Chi, and Ba Gua, as well as Indonesian silat and Philipino eskrima.  Linda began studying Somatic Education in the tradition of Thomas Hanna in 2005, and used Hanna’s “Myth of Aging” exercises to completely recover from a debilitating back injury in 2006.  Linda also has a private bodywork practice and is a certified practitioner of Zen Bodytherapy® and Zen Triggerpoint Anatomy®.  Linda considers regular meditation to be the center and core of all of her internal practices.

Andreea Ichim, M.A., is a bodyworker in private practice who has had much experience in both movement education and therapeutic care.  She has been continuously involved in the movement arts since a young age and has since studied a variety of martial arts, yoga, dance, and tai chi.  Correct movement is a core aspect of her bodywork practice as she emphasizes the empowerment and participation of the individual in their own treatment.  She has successfully worked with numerous conditions including chronic tension, repetitive stress syndrome, post-operative recovery, scoliosis, and more. 

Radhika Miles, LMFT., has been practicing hatha, pranayama, and meditation yogas for 20 years. She has been teaching yoga in various health clubs throughout the East Bay since 1995. She received initiation from her Master Teacher Shri Anandi Ma into the lineage of Kundalini Maha Yoga in 1991. Radhika’s life-long interest in how mind, body, spirit and daily meditation practice work together to balance a person in any situation is reflected in her work as a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in working with borderline teens and young adults.

Ellen Balis, Ed.D., a psychotherapist for over 30 years and a licensed psychologist for 20 years, has been practicing meditation, pranayama, chanting and hatha yogas with Shri Anandi Ma for the past 20 years. In addition, Ellen’s practice of hatha yoga has been greatly influenced by Patricia Walden. Ellen’s style of psychotherapy reflects the knowledge she experiences in her yoga practices.