Amira K

I'm a Wellness Coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner, and Sound Healer. I teach holistic approaches to health and wellness, including Ayurveda, yoga, qigong, sound healing, meditation, spiritual healing and contemplative practices.

Howie Shareff founded You Call This Yoga in 2007 as an organization to share yoga that was adaptable for people with physical ailments. As a 52-year-old practicing dentist and recreational athlete, he was managing his own severe arthritis for many years with gentle yoga – using the practice to prepare and recover from surgery. Through these positive experiences, he found that the practice of yoga to enhance healing and comfort could be accessible to anybody willing to breathe, focus and move mindfully. Howie’s goal for the organization was to serve the community in an effort to improve social, emotional and physical health. He believed that yoga should be accessible for all people, delivered by skilled, passionate and professionally supported teachers. In 2010, Howie succeeded, with help from the NC Center for Nonprofits, in having You Call This Yoga recognized by the IRS as a 501c3 non-profit organization. He has grown in the role as Executive Director with advice from the Small Business Center at Wake Tech, the Board of Directors of You Call This Yoga, and many coaches in our region. Howie enjoys engaging prospective yoga teachers, host partners, team members for YCTY, sponsors and students. He welcomes your contact to learn more about your interests. You can find him regularly playing disc golf to stay active and laughing at Raleigh’s Cedar Hills Park.

Edward Francis Pio is a resident of Pacific Grove, California. He is the founder and Executive Director of the International Mind Body Institute. Mr. Pio has fifty-six years' experience teaching medical hypnosis, medical self-hypnosis, light, and deep meditation, the Theta Brain Wave Technique, and Yoga Nidra Deep Meditation to professionals, business organizations, and private groups. Over sixty thousand students have taken his webinars, live or home study courses worldwide -- including 760 men in Soledad Prison, located in Central California. Mr. Pio has lectured and taught extensively on cruise ships and to select groups in Canada, Mexico, China, and Russia.

Liz graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology in May of 2000. She has worked in the Fitness industry as a Personal Trainer and a TRX group instructor.Following a running injury in 2003, Liz began Pilates and discovered how valuable it was to her then 24-year-old body. She completed the full STOTT Pilates certification in 2005 and launched the first MIDTOWN Pilates program. She worked eight years as a manager and instructor before leaving a large club setting for a studio and focusing only on her Pilates education and training. When Liz is not teaching in the studio she enjoys running, volunteering at her children’s school, baking and training her new Labrador puppy Piper Jane.

"Dagmar Spremberg is a 500 hr E-RYT and the founder of Montezuma Yoga in Costa Rica. While growing up in Germany all she could envision for herself was a life in the sunshine and under the palm trees. After 20 years of soul searching and many detours that let her explore city life in Los Angeles and New York, she found her dream life by the beach in the lush & tropical nature of Costa Rica.Through her own experience she learned and believes that everybody can live their dreams and that our work is to become clear and open to receive the gifts we all deserve. In her yoga classes she emphasizes softening and deepening of the breath as the key to unlocking your potential and your intuition that will lead you to live an authentic life. When we find the gifts in our yoga practice we can make better, clear decisions from our inner wisdom and aren’t no longer afraid to share our truth. Dagmar leads international retreats, teaches Yoga online and is very popular on Youtube with her jungle yoga videos. Her five week yoga mentorship SPARK YOUR LIFE has helped many women to re-connect to their self practice and find the courage to create changes to live a fulfilled life. ""When I started yoga 20 years ago, my goal was to touch my toes. But I soon realised that it was more about touching my heart, and to find the trust and freedom to live an authentic life. My journey was learning to create space and to value and set boundaries through practices of yoga, self-care, and stillness. I believe in the power of sharing with like-minded people – together, we can empower each other to live our lives fully."" "

Rob Heffernan is Program Director of the Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants. He is an independent researcher and activist who has participated in the vegetalismo, Santo Daime and other syncretic traditions since 2000. He has been active in organizing and legal efforts for the Santo Daime, ayahuasca and the broader psychedelic community since 2005. He’s also a certified Shamanic Breathwork facilitator, a certified Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner (sound healing) and a long-term Buddhist Dharma practitioner. Rob has a deep commitment to integrating and building connections between Buddhist Dharma, sacred medicine work and the eco-climate/social justice crisis.

Jeff discovered yoga in 1986 in his hometown of Gunnison, CO. "I remember walking out of my first class feeling as if I had taken my first full breath! I fell in love with the physical and spiritual intelligence of yoga." In addition to his rich childhood as the son of a Veterinarian, Jeff has a long and diverse yoga background that informed the creation of Avita Yoga®. He appreciates the reflective power of yoga as a moving mediation—an element that naturally finds its way into his classes. Jeff has found that yoga can heal almost anything with a reflective, self-forgiving approach. Jeff holds two 200-hour teacher certifications and a 300-hour certification and has logged over 7,000 teaching hours in his lifetime. He also heads up Yoga Loft's 200-hour Avita Yoga® Teacher Training program. As a trained Rolfer, he weaves structurally integrative elements into his classes that have practical "off the mat" applications in life. Jeff has been a student of A Course In Miracles since 1990. One of its principle messages, identifying the obstacles to peace and resolving them, provided important insights into understanding yoga's spiritual aspect and creating the Avita method. Jeff is a teacher. He has a way of reducing the complex to simple, understandable terms. He works with people of all ages to relieve chronic pain and bring more peace to life.

Andrea Beaman is a Natural Foods Chef, health educator, thyroid expert, holistic health coach and herbalist, dedicated to alternative healing, and sustainable eating and living. Andrea was a featured contestant on Bravo's Top Chef. She is a regularly featured expert on CBS News, and hosted the Award Nominated, Fed UP! A cooking show that educates viewers how to cook for, and cure, bodily ailments.

In 2012, after years of working as an attorney and caring for her parents, Debbie started a new life on the west coast and a new path as an intuitive. That year, when she had a reading with Linda Howe, she knew that she had found an important teacher. The following year, she completed her Certified Teacher Training. In 2019 Debbie became an Elite Certified Teacher.

I help women and men of all shapes, sizes and ages move better, while building strength and confidence to live a life that they love through the use of the Pilates method focusing on the coordination of mind, body and spirit.

Made in Brazil with Mexican ingredients, Rosa Santana, Level 3 Iyengar Yoga and International Association of Yoga Therapists Certified. She has been studying, teaching, and propagating the therapeutic art of Iyengar Yoga since 1995. She was drawn to the mental and physical discipline after suffering three accidental falls, one of which fractured her tailbone. Since healing her back, neck and sciatica pains, she has introduced yoga to thousands of students who had never experienced this healing art and science. She used yoga therapy on herself when dealing with Covid and Long Term Covid.