School Yoga Institute

From a very young age, Mindi was singing, dancing, and playing various instruments. As a soulful yoga teacher, Mindi has an uncanny ability to weave her musical gifts of singing and drumming in her yoga classes and enjoys finding new ways to inspire students on their own path of transformation. Listening to the transformational calling of her heart and her special connection to the land, Mindi decided to pursue both her 200-hour and 500-hour teacher training at the Mystical Yoga Farm. Over the course of several years, Mindi has accumulated nearly 1000 hours of training.

Krystalyn, ERYT 300hr, holds two life coaching certifications based on sattvic and esoteric principles. She has passionately lived and thoroughly investigated postural alignment, body mechanics, yoga therapeutics, and internal martial arts for over a decade. In a search to uncover her own body’s unwinding process. The roots of her journey began with a search for more holistic solutions to the suffering of physical and mental pain that you all seem to experience at some point in your life.

Jeanine was introduced to the healing benefits of yoga in 2006 & decided to become a teacher in 2013. She studied with School Yoga Institute in Savusavu, Fiji for her 200hr teacher training where she fell in love with both traveling and teaching. Jeanine completed her 500hr advanced professional teacher training at Prana Yoga Center in La Jolla, CA. She's also a Certified Integrative Life Coach and is passionate about Embodied Cognition, Trauma Informed yoga, yoga for anxiety and depression, and yoga for teens.

Zach is a Bay Area-based teacher who leads dynamic and mindful yoga classes. He combines challenging physical postures with eastern wisdom, philosophical lessons, stories of healing, and tips for self-growth, leaving students not just with newfound freedom in their bodies but a renewed perspective on life. He is a certified yoga teacher, Thai massage bodyworker, and sex educator, and he has an MA in East-West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Zach completed his 200-hour and 500-hour yoga teacher training at the School Yoga Institute.

Blessed to be raised vegetarian by her amazing Bhakti yogini mama who encouraged her to truly be her adventurous self, Tessa was exposed to yoga at a very young age, poring over a Swami Vishnudevananda book on her parent’s bookshelf. Infinitely intrigued by the asanas and strange kriyas, she copied Padmasana, full Lotus position and to this day it’s probably so easy because she did it constantly.

Flavia was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland, where she lives at the moment. Her love for other cultures, traveling, languages, and movement brought her all around the world. After a year abroad in Scotland in 2014, she decided to take her interest in movement and the body a step further and completed a Pilates instructor course in Bern, Switzerland, while finishing her Bachelor’s degree in English literature and art history at the University of Zurich.

April is a Trauma-Informed yoga teacher, ceremony facilitator, astrologer, and Holy Fire Reiki healer. April takes the spiritual name Jyothi, meaning "divine light". Her mission is to bring unconditional love into all aspects of her life. Her passion arises from her own unique and infinite connection to the "source" which guides her to support beings from all walks of life in illuminating darkness and to rediscover the divine joy, purpose, and lightness of being.

Vanessa is a yoga teacher, cacao lover, and adventurist. She's been practicing yoga for the past 12 years after her father introduced her to his Kundalini classes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In October 2012, she decided to become a yoga teacher and enrolled in an RYT 200 Yoga Alliance course with Anamaya in Costa Rica, under the supervision of Paula Tursi from Reflections Yoga in New York City. Her love of the sun and surfing which stems from her student days in San Diego and living in Bali prompted her to organize her first retreat through her company, Desert Rose Yoga, in Portugal (2019).

Brooke is a Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher, a Transformational Group Facilitator, and an Integrative Health & Well-Being Coach. She completed her first 200-hour yoga teacher training with School Yoga Institute in Bali in 2017 and completed her 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Yoga Psychology with Ashley Turner. Over the years, she has invested in many hours of trauma-informed trainings, including yoga for addiction, anxiety, depression, and disordered eating. She is currently enrolled in a year long graduate level program with Dr. Gabor Mate.

Katie’s style of teaching is dynamic, breath-focused and comprehensive. She integrates and incorporates her love for sacred ceremony, Yoga philosophy, anatomy and alignment, singing, Kirtan, mantra chanting and freedom of expression into her teachings, practices, private sessions, workshops and retreats. For Katie, Yoga is her Spiritual Practice that goes way beyond the physical.

Bri has been living in Guatemala at Lake Atitlan for 6 years. She was born and raised in Australia, but once she stepped foot on this sacred land in Guatemala, it changed her life forever. She has completed all of her yoga trainings at one of our sacred locations, The Mystical Yoga Farm. She is certified 200 hr and Prenatal YTT with School Yoga Institute, and 500hr with Diamond Heart Yoga.

Sunshine Ray was raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Botetourt, Virginia. A place that fueled his passion for nature, music, and adventure. He has continued to explore this world. Finding the natural beauty that Mother Earth has to offer and playing the songs he carries with him along the way. As he has traveled over the past 2 1/2 years he has taught yoga on 5 continents, in many countries, and has continuously grown as a student of yoga.

Xyloh completed their 200hr yoga teacher training with SYI in 2019 and has worked at various retreat centers in South and Central America. They strive to live authentically with an openness for learning and self-development. Their service pup “Potato” accompanies them on every adventure! As a trauma-informed yogic counselor, Xyloh aims to invite individuals back home to themselves physically, psychologically, and spiritually. Yoga serves as a method for regulation and finding connection in places of disconnect.

Alina is a devoted yogini, musician, and artist who blends creativity, devotion, and authenticity in her teachings. With over 500 hours of study across the U.S., Europe, and India, she leads vinyasa, yin, and expressive movement classes infused with mantra and mindfulness.