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Robin Rothenberg healed her own chronic low back pain with yoga. She went on to become a celebrated Viniyoga teacher and Certified Yoga Therapist, teaching locally, nationally and internationally. Currently, she is the director of the Pacific Institute of Yoga Therapy and The Yoga Barn and sits on the advisory board of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

Robin has been teaching yoga teachers for the last ten years and most recently developed a training to teach yoga teachers how to adapt their classes appropriately for their students with low back pain. Her work in the field of yoga therapy has been written about in the New York Times, Seattle Times, Yoga Journal, Fit Yoga and Natural Health. Robin resides with her husband, two dogs and two cats in Fall City, Washington.

Janelle Aberle discovered yoga as a means to recover from and stave off injury in activities such as skiing, hiking, climbing, running, cycling and martial arts. What she has found through studies with Robin and personal practice is a way of living that holistically integrates the physical, mental and spiritual realms of human "beingness". For her, the greatest freedom yoga has enabled is the awareness to recognize and let go of physical, mental and emotional patterns that do not serve toward optimal health and well being.

Janelle has trained with Robin for more than 15 years – most intensively in the last 5 – 2003 Advanced Studies and 2007 Teacher Training.

Franca Baroni is an intuitive trained in a variety of disciplines designed to assist you to tap more deeply into your innate ability to create a balanced emotional, mental, physical and spiritual life. In the first part of her professional life, Franca's dedication to justice and peace motivated her to obtain several degrees in law including a master and doctorate in public international law.

After a sudden spiritual awakening, she shifted her focus towards her inner world and became deeply involved with a process of inner exploration. Franca is a Registered Hypnotherapist, Pleiadian Lightwork Practitioner, Reiki Master, and Family Mediator and is passionate about acting. Franca offers meditation classes and circles, private healing sessions and channeled messages.

Taran Collis is a registered Yoga Alliance Instructor trained in the Yoga Works method including Vini Yoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar. She currently teaches classes at the Seattle Opera, Bria and The Yoga Barn. Taran is commited to a wholistic approach to Yoga in the Western world, merging all aspects of life, micro and macrocosmic, within her classes. Her passions include cross-cultural communication and optimum nutritional health and healing for people and the societies in which they live.

Carla Orellana / Aleili entered into the yoga journey in 1970, in the gentle, loving style taught by Indra Devi. Carla then studied with many prominent Iyengar teachers and has completed her viniyoga training with Gary Kraftsow. Yoga has been a mainstay in Carla's life, and continues to grow richer in understanding and reverence. She demonstrates authentic concern for the growth of each individual student. Carla, AKA "Aleili" (Ah-Lay-Lee, meaning a place of inspiration), is also a Middle Eastern Dance performer and instructor. Belly dancing is an ancient, empowering, physical and emotional discipline which beneficially affects many levels of today's modern woman. It's a total workout, the perfect complement to yoga -- and it's WAY FUN!

Roy DeLeon , certified viniyoga teacher since 1998, teaches with reverence and love to the Divine Heart within each of his students. The sequences flow smoothly with the breath, stretching and strengthening the body, focusing the mind and opening the heart to this moment, while addressing your specific needs. The physical postures prepare you for meditations on healing, love and peace for all. Roy is a trained spiritual director, and an Oblate of St. Benedict with St. Placid Priory in Lacey, Washington. You may contact him at blessedmovements@yahoo.com .

Catherine de Marin is a BodyMind massage practitioner specializing in women's health. She's trained in bodymind healing practices including BodyMind Counseling, Hypnotherapy, Breathwork, Prenatal Massage and Thai Yoga Therapeutic Massage and the Lebed Method of Dance and Movement Therapy for Breast Cancer Survivors. She recognizes the healing element in all these practices is compassionate presence with one's self and others.

Catherine had a profound experience of compassionate presence upon joining her prenatal massage clients in their yoga practice. She embraced yoga as powerful instrument of personal growth and healing and recognized its unique potential to support a woman through her journey through pregnancy, labor and childbirth. She began studying with Robin in 1999 and completed The Yoga Barn Viniyoga Teacher Training Program in May 2003. She completed Colette Crawford's Prenatal Yoga Teacher training in December 2003 and the Seattle Midwifery School's Labor Support Course for Doulas in September 2004. Catherine also studied with Gary Kraftsow, Founder of The American Viniyoga Institute and Nischala Joy Devi, co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program and collaborator for the yoga portion of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease.

Catherine co-developed and implemented a yoga therapy program for women hospitalized in the University of Washington Medical Center Antepartum Unit due to high risk complications in pregnancy. She is currently interning to become a Integrative Yoga Therapist.

Catherine brings her compassionate presence and her desire to realize unity and connection to the classes she offers.

Joanmarie Eggert 's passion for yoga began with her first class and continues to deepen every day. Drawing inspiration from nature and science (her other two passions), she combines various yoga techniques; asana, pranayama, visualization, and meditation, to make each class uniquely enriching. Joanmarie completed her 500 hour teacher certification with Robin Rothenberg in the viniyoga style, and is a Relax and Renew© trainer certified by Judith Hanson Lasater. Her intention in teaching is to make yoga accessible to everyone, and she looks forward to sharing and growing with her students.

Anita Feng has served as the past Abbot and Head Dharma Teacher of Dharma Sound Zen Center in Seattle. She has practiced Zen in the lineage of Zen Master Seung Sahn for the past twenty-five years, and brings many years of teaching and lecturing experience to her workshops. Drawing from her life experience as a mother and artist, she offers an engaging, committed and intuitive approach to Zen training. Beginning in January, 2004, Anita will be starting up Tiger Mountain Zen at the Yoga Barn in Issaquah. Learn more about Tiger Mountain Zen by clicking here to visit her Web site. Anita lives in Issaquah with her husband and children, where she works as a potter and writer.

Sara Harris began practicing yoga in 1999 and has since studied in both the Iyengar and Viniyoga traditions. A graduate of Simon's Rock College of Bard in western Massachusetts, Sara focused primarily on eastern philosophy while pursuing her B.A. After completing the Yoga Barn's Advanced Studies program in August 2006, she is continuing her studies with Robin in the 2006-2007 Teacher Training Program. Having witnessed firsthand the positive influence yoga can bring to growing bodies and minds, Sara is looking forward to sharing the wisdom of these teachings with her students.

Lynn Hughes, D.O., RYO is a registered yoga teacher and psychiatrist with the Evergreen system. She completed the Advanced Studies Program in 2003 and the teacher training program with Robin in 2005. Lynn came to yoga looking for proven and practical teachings to guide her work in combining the best of Eastern and Western approaches to health. What she found was much more. As a doctor she found that many patients understood what they needed to do to help themselves heal and grow, but the ability to make real changes in their lives was difficult.

Lynn reflects, "The actual practice of yoga bridges that gap between knowing and doing. Yoga accepts you where you are and invites you to discover what riches can be uncovered when the body, mind, and spirit are explored together. Every class is an opportunity to actually experience what acceptance and change feel like. Experiencing the yoga adventure as a student and with students is a constant source of joy. Yoga is a science leading to practices that invite us to live life more fully and authentically."

Lynn teaches in the collaborative program with Overlake Hospital Senior Healthcare and loves to teach a wide variety of classes. Her passion is bringing opportunities to students to explore the deeper teachings in a series called YogaMind, various workshops, and Sutra studies.

Amy Jarvis was first exposed to yoga in 1994, in a small town college classroom whilst looking for that “something” to deepen her body, mind and heart. Not knowing exactly what it was and when it would appear, she continued her journey of study and faith. In 2005, with a career in full swing “it happened”… her heart spoke and she knew it was time, having found the lessons of the Yoga Sutra’s under her mentor, Robin Rothenberg. Amy will complete her certification in July 2007, but professes that she will be a lifetime student and is humbled to teach and share in lives of others.

Kris Jensen first discovered yoga in 1991 as an Iyengar student in Texas and became a certified teacher in 2000 through The Yoga Barn's teacher training program. After 30 years of studying ballet, she was captivated by yoga's philosophy of treating the body with respect. Her compassionate and enthusiastic nature helps her students to feel comfortable in her classes regardless of their abilities. Her spirit encourages a feeling of community as she hopes to share her yoga experience and inspire others to continue on the lifelong journey of Yoga.

Jill Massengill, D.C. is a chiropractor and brings a keen understanding and awareness of body balance to her teaching. She has a varied teaching background including health care, skiing, horseback riding and mothering. The physical, emotional and energetic balancing benefits of her personal practice have inspired her to teach others. Jill has completed The Yoga Barn Teacher Training program with Robin.

Diane McNulty is a dedicated student and practioner of yoga. For her yoga connects the mind, body and spirit with a deep awareness of the Self. Diane is a registered Yoga Alliance instructor. She completed her teacher training through the Yoga Barn in 2000 and received her prenatal certification through the Seattle Holistice Center in 2001. Diane is currently teaching basic and prenatal yoga classes at The Yoga Barn.

Saša Mlakar-Guerrero is a passionate mover, bodyworker, healer, dancer and teacher inspired by the possibilities within ourselves to change and heal. She facilitates people in finding an empowering relationship with their bodies which enables them to express deeper, subtle parts of their being. She received her BA in Dance from Cornish College and is a certified SOMA Practitioner, Gyrotonic trainer and Movement educator. Her other studies include Biosomatics, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Skinner release and 5 Rhythms. In her work she beautifully blends her knowledge with her intuition to facilitate individuals and groups in their process of transformation.

Camille Myers spent over 20 years in the corporate world, most recently working in the mental healthcare field. She has practiced yoga since 1993 and began teaching in 2006 when she experienced a deepening in her yoga practice after a shoulder injury. Camille has a passion for helping others discover their own path of healing by offering a safe space to explore the connection between body, breath and spirit. Camille completed the Yoga Barn Advanced Studies program in August 2006 and will complete her 500 hour Viniyoga certification in July 2007. Recently, Camille traveled to India where she immersed herself into India’s ancient history and traditions. She realized that in our modern society many people tend to send their energy outward to achieve, where with yoga we do just the opposite by consciously pulling that energy inward to experience a deep inner peace.

Lulu Peelle began practicing yoga in 1996 as just one more way to exercise her body , but discovered, early on, its multi-dimensional benefits. In her exploration of yoga she has studied various forms including Vinyasa flow & Iyengar, amongst others, but has found her home in Viniyoga.

Her journey has evolved into one of transformation on every level, and through it she’s discovered her true spiritual path. "Yoga provides me with all the tools that I need for truly living my life." Her passion and purpose is to share her knowledge and experience in the process of helping others to heal.

She completed her Viniyoga teacher training with Robin Rothenberg in 2002, and received her Yoga Therapist certification through the American Viniyoga Institute in May 2006. She has also participated in yoga therapy trainings through Integrative Yoga Therapy.

Danae Willson : As a young woman, Danae began with an appreciation and love of movement, studying Hatha Yoga, massage therapy, dance and Tai Chi. Today, after many years in a successful career as a college professor and administrator in the world of three-dimensional product design, she is pleased to return to her roots. As she says, "… returning to my core, to who I am and to how I wish to be in the world."… She is studying Viniyoga with Robin and finds within the Yoga Barn community the opportunity to knit together her deep interest in exploring spirituality, the mind and body with her profound love of teaching and heartful commitment to serve others.

"The thing that stands out in my mind when I think of the classes at The Yoga Barn is the personalization and caring for each and every student thru the instructors. They make you feel comfortable and give you the confidence to challenge yourself. I look forward to the social aspect of our 'Yoga family'."

-Koree