Discovery Yoga Staff


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OUR STAFF

Deva Parnell, E-RYT, founder and director of Discovery Yoga, is a certified professional level Kripalu Yoga teacher. She has been a yoga instructor and teacher-trainer since the 1970's and has trained more than 2000 yoga teachers. A Kripalu Center resident and senior program teacher (1983-1995), she developed many of Kripalu's core yoga programs and has been instrumental in the development of Kripalu Yoga and Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training. As Sadhana Acharya, she coordinated daily yoga practice and yoga education for the 350-member resident staff. Deva has produced a variety of audio yoga experiences for home practice, published yoga teacher training manuals, and has written articles on yoga for national publications. After leaving her position as director, coordinator and curriculum developer of Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training, she began training teachers through Discovery Yoga. Her 200-hour program is recognized by Kripalu Center as a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training program. She has also developed a 500-hour program which includes a faculty of world-class teachers. Deva's detailed, intuitive teaching style reflects the depth of her personal practice and her many years of study and training in a variety of yoga traditions, both in the U.S. and in India.

"Deva is so refreshing in her genuineness. She says it like it is and keeps the outlook based in reality...
An amazing teacher! She can get me into my body like nobody else." -Catie Dean, Kripalu Yoga Teacher

Christopher Baxter, registered architect (RA), registered yoga teacher (RYT) and author of "Kripalu Hatha Yoga", has been a practitioner of yoga since 1971. He was a founding member of the Kripalu Center 1978-1998. Instrumental in the development of Kripalu Yoga and the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Certification Training process, for seven years he was also founding director of the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association, helping to grow it from 110 members to over 1200 teachers in 30 countries. In 1998 he developed AtmaYoga - an anatomically safe, intuitive practice that awakens and strengthens the Core Self. A student of Buddhism since 1999, he has studied both in the Hinayana and Mahayana traditions and is an active practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism in the Karma Kagyu tradition. He currently teaches classes, seminars, and 500-hour Teacher Certification Training programs from his base at the Discovery Yoga Center in St Augustine, Florida. Christopher can be reached by email at atmayoga@bellsouth.net or by phone at 904-687-8482.

Eryn Boudreau, RYT, is a physical therapist with over 20 years experience working with a variety of patients including children with cerebral palsy and downs syndrome, adults with chronic pain, and stroke patients. She is trained in craniosacral therapy, myofacial release, lower extremity biomechanics, and neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) of children. Eryn is certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, and has trained with master teacher Deva Parnell, Stephanie Keach in vinyasa flow, and Christopher Baxter in AtmaYoga. She is able to utilize her manual physical therapy skills and experience with yoga practices to compassionately guide students and patients on an individual holistic path towards improved health and well-being. Eryn enjoys teaching yoga to all levels of students from athletes to students with specific neuromuscular difficulties. In addition to teaching group classes, she works with students individually.

Anita Sanci, RYT500, is a certified professional level Kripalu Yoga and Kripalu Danskinetics Teacher. She is a former professional dancer, gymnist and choreographer with a lifetime of teaching and performing experience. Anita has studied extensively in New York City with world-class master teachers, and managed her own dance academy. Her specialties include children's gymnastics & yoga, and partner work which includes partner yoga, acrobatic adagio and pas de deux. Her strong dance background is reflected in her yoga classes. Anita is a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training staff at Discovery Yoga, and facilitator of the Discovery Yoga Teachers' Alliance. She is currently in the process of forming a yoga dance company.

Suzanne Tonkinson, a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, comes from a background as a physical fitness and aerobics instructor. A life-long student of yoga with an ever-increasing appreciation for the balance and wholeness of the practice, she embraces yoga as a gift that she feels passionate about sharing with others. Believing that our greatest teacher lies within, Suzanne's intention is to provide an atmosphere of self-acceptance and affirmation to open a path for self-discovery.

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Hugh White, a yoga practitioner for over 15 years, is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher specializing in yoga for men and gentle yoga for people with limited flexibility. He is developing series of yoga classes combining yogic concepts with 12-step philosophy.

Rita Pendergast, a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, came to yoga out of the joy of movement. She has been practicing yoga since 1999. Finding yoga to be an exceptional system for self-improvement, Rita's intention is to help others attain the many benefits yoga offers through a consistent personal practice. She continues to study all aspects of yoga through various teachers and styles.

Arla Larson has been a student and practitioner of yoga for over 15 years. She began her formal yoga training and study with Deva Parnell at Discovery Yoga, and has recently completed her 500 hour Kripalu Teacher Certification. She is also a certified Yin Yoga teacher and a certified Tai Chi teacher. Learning and studying with many authentic yoga teachers and masters, Arla is passionate about sharing a blending of these various forms of movement into a fluid, yet meditative mind, body experience.

Peggy Bliss, a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, avid Iyengar Yoga practitioner and occupational therapist, has been studying and practicing yoga for over 14 years. Rooted in her solid Iyengar practice, she has studied with many intermediate and senior teachers and continues to diversify her practice and teaching with various styles of yoga. Peggy brings a lighthearted, unpretentious approach to classes, and enjoys sharing her deep understanding of postures along the transformative journey of yoga.

Didier Razon has been interested in yoga and the mystical side of life since his teenage years growing up in Casablanca, Morocco, where he practised the yoga asanas he learned on his own from books. In the early 1980s, after meeting Gurumayi Chidvilasananda in India, he spent the next ten years living in her ashrams in India and France, and in the United States where he studied with John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga. Didier is an Anusara affiliated teacher, certified in Sivananda, Sri Mahesh, and Siddha Yoga Hatha Yoga traditions. Didier's years of ashram life and his keen interest in the mystical and multifaceted field of yoga, renders his yoga comprehensive and unique. He is the founder of "Two Suns Rising Yoga".

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