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. Wendelin has been teaching Yoga for twelve years and is currently pursuing Iyengar certification. She is a devoted student of Advaita Vedanta and has studied with her Vedanta teacher Shubhraji for over ten years. She holds a Masters in Eastern Classics and Sanskrit from St. John’s College. Her instruction emphasizes understanding and experiencing the relationship between physica… |
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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 began teaching in 2008 and is currently studying to be a Registered Nurse. 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 wellne… |
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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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Tim ButlerBeginning in 2000, Tim has trained in both the Ashtanga vinyasa and Iyengar sytems of yoga. A licensed Massage Therapist, as well as, a dedicated student of yoga philosophy and chanting, his classes focus on the student having their own deep experience. |
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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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Nicolle JensenI began studying yoga in 2004. Ever since my first class, I have had a great appreciation for the deep inner peace, steadiness, and openness that yogasana brings. Under the guidance of Tias and Surya Little, Sean Tebor, Wendelin Scott, Amy Spurlock, and Sonia Nelson I have deepened my practice through study of yoga alignment, philosophy, and chanting. I find great joy in passing on the knowledge and insights I have gathe… |
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Timo JimenezTimo Jimenez recently relocated to Santa Fe from North County San Diego, where he was co-directing the development of the "Yoga Curriculum" with owner and founder Mary Neal, at The Yoga Body School of Yoga in Oceanside California. Previous to that he directed his own School, Yogapada for 12 years in Portland Oregon. After 15 years of working in the kitchen as an accomplished executive chef in NY, San Francisco and souther… |
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Ja Soon KimJa Soon is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and has been teaching at YogaSource since 2002. Her teaching layers the knowledge of classical yoga poses from the Iyengar method with the wisdom from her own practice. Her classes bring clarity of alignment, balance, strength, and flexibility of the body and deep inward reflection to address the total person, mind, body and emotions. She believes that yoga empowers by givi… |
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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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Ginna SloaneGinna has studied extensively with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley since 2001, including two Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings. She has practiced yoga since 1996, following a lifetime of dance. She studied in depth with Tias Little, Aadil Palkhivala and other fine teachers. Ginna embraces the path of Hatha Yoga through the Yin style of long held postures, and a Vinyasa/Yang style of moving with the breath blending essential aspects … |
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Linda SpackmanLinda Spackman is an Iyengar Certified Yoga Instructor and has been a devoted practitioner of this method since 1984. Linda has taught general and prenatal/postpartum classes at Yoga Source since the studio opened in 2000. She teaches precise alignment principles with the use of props, while at the same time imparting her infectious joy and underlying reverence for yoga. Her classes are upbeat, lively, and embracing. Lin… |
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Ted TaylorTed is a Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher, licensed in Prajna Yoga (Tias Little), Sivananda, and Phoenix Rising styles of Yoga. He has studied Thai Yoga Therapy, and received extensive training in Zen, Esoteric Buddhism, and martial arts during his 15 years living in Japan. |
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