Teachers
Meet the YogaSource teachers — a energetic and talented community of teachers each of whom has experienced first hand the transformative power of Yoga. All our teachers are highly-trained, kind and skillful and offer their very best in every class they teach. We are very honored to work with this incredible team.
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Wendelin ScottWendelin is co-director of YogaSouce and has been teaching Yoga for twelve years. Her instruction emphasizes understanding and experiencing the relationship between physical alignment and spiritual unfoldment. She is a devoted student of Advaita Vedanta and has studied with her teacher Shubhraji for over ten years. She holds a Masters in Eastern Classics and Sanskrit from St. John’s College. |
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Amy SpurlockAmy is co-director of Yogasource. Amy Spurlock began studying Yoga Asana in 1995 in both the Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga systems. Amy’s teaching style is influenced by her primary teachers, Tias Little and Aadil Palkivala. She teaches students the structural alignment in order to increase the movement of energy and prana through the physical body. Her classes are energizing with an inward focus. |
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Chrissie BednarekChrissie began practicing yoga in 1996 when her father brought her to her first yoga class. Since then she has practiced with teachers from the Iyengar tradition and Anusara style. She is a Registered Nurse and began teaching yoga in 2008. The body’s complex and astonishing anatomy and physiologic processes inspire her. She believes fully that the body has an unlimited capacity for healing and wellness when provided wit… |
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Olga BoggioOlga Boggio, native of Russia, was introduced to yoga in 1997 in Santa Fe. Tias Little, her first yoga teacher, let her taste the unique combination of dynamic practice with poetry of movement, breath and images so characteristic of Tias Little’s teaching. In 2000, Olga met Dona Holleman, one of the first students of Mr. Iyengar, at her yoga studio in Italy, Lago di Garda. The precision and clarity of the Iyengar method… |
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Jenise BrownAs a young girl, Jenise was first introduced to yoga and the importance of the breath by her grandmother. Years later, in 1995, Jenise began studying with a senior Iyengar teacher in Michigan. Then in 1999 she received her first teacher certification from the Sivananda Yoga Vendanta Centre and has been teaching ever since. After moving to Santa Fe to study bodywork, Jenise met Tias Little and felt deeply inspired to study w… |
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Matt HuishMatt comes to us from Portland, Oregon where in 2001, he co-founded the Yoga Shala of Portland. In 2003, he founded the Yoga Shala’s advanced studies and teacher training program. Matt was director and teacher of this unique program for five years. Matt’s extensive training has included study with Dona Holleman, Ramanand Patel, Richard Schactel and Aadil Pahlkivala. He completed teacher training with Richard Schactel… |
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Ja Soon KimJa Soon is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and has been teaching at YogaSource since 2002. Her in-depth knowledge of Yoga Asanas and philosophy, skillful observation and wisdom from her own practice are the foundations for her inspired teaching. Ja Soon’s teaching is based on clear instruction, sound alignment, beauty in balance, inner and outer strength and elegance of movement to address the whole person, mind… |
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Surya LittleSurya Little has been a devoted student and teacher of yoga, macrobiotic healing and the healing arts for over 20 years. Her first yoga training was in Ashtanga Yoga in NYC with Eddie Stern in 1990-1992. She lived in Nepal 1993-1998 years and traveled to South India Mysore to study Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with K. Pattabhi Jois. Surya began her studies in Iyengar Yoga with Karin Stephan and furthered her studies under the gu… |
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Tias LittleTias has lived in Santa Fe since 1990. He founded Yogasource along with his wife Surya in 2000 and passed on the directorship to Wendelin Scott and Amy Spurlock in 2007. Tias continues to teach Sunday mornings at Yogasource when in Santa Fe. Tias is trained in Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga and his perspective clearly reflects the Buddha’s teachings. Tias has been a student of Dzogchen practice of Tibetan Buddhism since … |
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Shawn PaulazzoShawn has been teaching yoga since 2000. Her teaching of asana has been influenced by her studies with John Friend, Erich Schiffmann, Tias Little and Aadil Palkhivala. She is currently studying the Yoga Sutra’s of Patanjali in the Vedic tradition under the wisdom guidance of Sonia Nelson as well as working on her certification of yoga therapeutics through the school of Integrative Yoga Therapy. Shawn’s classes hold an in… |
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Ginna SloaneGinna has practiced yoga since 1996, following a lifetime of dance. She has studied extensively with Tias Little, Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley, blending essential aspects of Iyengar and Ashtanga traditions. In recent years Ginna has come to fully embrace the path of Iyengar Yoga, in order to share the strengthening and opening of body, blossoming of spirit and calming of mind she has experienced through dedicated pract… |
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Linda SpackmanLinda Spackman began teaching at Yoga Source when the studio opened in 2000. Her classes include general asana, prenatal/post partum, yoga sutra philosophy and chanting. With close attention to precise alignment and the use of props, Linda strives to impart her joy and underlying reverence for all aspects of yoga. Her classes are upbeat, lively, and embracing. Along with prenatal and postpartum, she specializes in yoga f… |
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Cynthia Worby-NeroM.S.W, M.P.H. Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher at Junior Intermediate Level I Cynthia started on the path of Yoga in 1990. Cynthia founded Bedford Yoga in Bedford, NY in 1992 and directed the studio until relocating to Santa Fe in February 2011. Mary Dunn was her primary teacher and inspiration for many years. Now Cynthia studies with Lois Steinberg and Patricia Walden. She has studied with the Iyengars in Pune, India. Cyn… |
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Patti ZolnickPatti Zolnick was introduced to yoga in 1998 and quickly realized that yoga can combine exercise, strength, spirituality, devotion and presence. Since then, she has not looked back! She began her training with OM yoga in 2002. Given her interest in alignment and the anusara tradition, she completed a 500-hour certification at Golden Heart Yoga in Annapolis, MD with Jenny Otto earning anusara inspired status. Over the cou… |
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