Amanda Giacomini has over 15 years of study and practice of the yogic arts, and is the co-founder of Yoga Toes Studio in Point Reyes, California. Amanda offers a Vinyasa Flow practice that is creative, playful, and nurturing. Her gentle and intelligent adjustments make her classes and workshops accessible to everyone, regardless of age and physical ability. Her primary influences are from the Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Anusara, and Siddha yoga traditions.

Amanda believes in yoga as a path of personal responsibility, transformation, and empowerment. She encourages students to use the tools of yoga to create the highest vision for themselves, and that through their commitment and practice a world of peace and beauty is possible. As one student recently commented, “Class with Amanda is like one long prayer.”

Amanda is also an artist and has illustrated an award winning series of children’s books about her dog, Mo. When she is not in Pt. Reyes, she tours nationally and internationally with her husband, yoga hip hop artist MC Yogi. Amanda co-creates the visuals for the MC Yogi live shows and together they lead workshops that combine yoga with myths, mantras, music and art. For more information visit: mcyogi.com, amandagiacomini.com

MC Yogi grew up painting graffiti & listening to hip hop music. At age fourteen, inspired by artists like the Beastie Boys & Run DMC he began writing his own raps and free styling for friends at house parties. MC Yogi spent most of his high school years at a group home for at-risk youth. During those turbulent years, Hip Hop culture provided both a soundtrack and a creative outlet. Then at age eighteen, he discovered yoga. On a whim, he joined his father for a meditation intensive with a famous spiritual teacher from India. Deeply moved by this powerful experience, he devoted himself to learning everything he could about the ancient discipline. He continues to study the physical forms of yoga, as well as meditation, philosophy, and devotional chanting. MC Yogi’s Debut Album, Elephant Power, combines his loves of yoga and hip hop music and features guest performances by kirtan masters Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, and Bhagavan Das.

MC Yogi helped make history when he released his video ” Vote for Hope” in support of Barack Obama. Through an incredible grassroots network, the video reached over a million people in less than three weeks leading up to election day.

MC Yogi’s Elephant Power has been in the top 20 World Music albums on iTunes since it’s release in Sept. 2008. MC Yogi tours nationally and internationally with his music and continues to teach at Yoga Toes Studio, in Point Reyes Station California, which he co-founded with his wife Amanda in 2001.

For more information visit www.mcyogi.com

Maile Sivert discovered yoga in 1996. Immediately, she resonated with practice and could feel there was something special, something indefinable to it. She continues to explore and experience this sensation in her yoga practice today.

She considers Richard Freeman, whom she met while living in Colorado in 1998, to be her primary teacher. She continues to study with him annually and has completed three advanced teacher trainings with him. Impassioned by Indian culture, she has traveled to India multiple times, and in 2000 she spent three months studying with BNS Iyengar in Mysore, southern India.

Maile teaches yoga in an exploratory way, encouraging the cultivation of intuition as a guide. While rooted in the tradition of Astanga, her practice has been nourished by many styles and teachers. She is inspired by the connection between breath and movement and teaches precision in alignment. Balancing tradition with creativity, her vinyasa classes are an active, yet nurturing synthesis of flowing postures, breath awareness and yogic philosophy. She also enjoys teaching yoga foundations and therapeutic classes.

For more about Maile please visit http://www.mailesivert.com/

Debbie Daly is passionate about sharing the healing benefits of yoga, relaxation, and mindfulness. She teaches a mix of yoga styles emphasizing gentle movement, stillness, and intuitive awareness. Since she began practicing over 15 years ago, she has enjoyed studying with a great variety of teachers and disciplines. She has been teaching for 12 years and is currently engaged in advanced studies with Paul and Suzee Grilley focusing on anatomy, chakra/meridian theory and yoga philosophy.

While living in Arizona, Debbie ran her own studio for 8 years. Tucson Yoga was founded in 2003 out of her vision for a community yoga center to serve low-income people in urban Tucson. Under her leadership the studio has grown to serve over 20,000 students each year, and has inspired others to open low-cost yoga studios nationwide. Debbie moved to Point Reyes Station in 2009 and began working with Amanda and Nicholas at Yoga Toes soon afterward.

More info about Debbie at www.DebbieDaly.com.

Katie Jay discovered yoga twenty years ago as a young actress. Every morning her improvisation class began with five sun salutations to warm up the body and focus the mind. Little did she know that this simple practice would become the foundation of her life’s work and passion.

She was personally trained and certified by Cyndi Lee, founder and director of the prestigious OM Yoga Center in New York City. It was here at OM that Katie was first introduced to Buddhist meditation. She was trained as a teacher to apply Buddhist principles to the practice of yoga. Katie has since fully embraced the Buddhist path and attempts to apply it to every aspect of her daily life including teaching. Katie was also inspired by her training with Shiva Rea to create dynamic flowing sequences that encourage exploration and self expression. Katie is as passionate about teaching as she as about the practice of yoga. Her classes are dynamic and joyful, mindful and precise, with careful attention to alignment. Katie wholeheartedly encourages her students to embrace the process of waking up to the experience of life.

Cindy Davis, MA Humanistic/Transpersonal Psychology, BA Dance, is a dancer, artist, writer, and teacher. Her sensitive and compassionate nature honors embodied practices of movement and stillness as sacred pathways for personal and collective healing and transformation. Cindy teaches private and small group Authentic Movement sessions, a movement meditation practice with roots in Jungian Psychology & Dance/Movement therapy. Her teachings are also influenced by studies and performance with post-modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin and the Life/Art Process, as well as other somatic practices such as Continuum Movement, Body-Mind Centering, meditation, guided visualization, and yoga. She has taught at Sonoma State University, JFK University, Holy Names University, and at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment. At Yoga Toes she offers Restorative Yoga, bringing together her love of gentle, supported poses with body awareness and mindfulness meditation as an offering for deep peace, rest, relaxation, and renewal.