As a fitness expert for the past 20 years, Tony Horton has established himself among the elite in the world of personal fitness training. From Hollywood celebrities and recording artists such as Tom Petty, Shirley MacLaine, Bruce Springsteen, Sean Connery, Annie Lenox, and Ewan McGregor, to the average person looking to lead a healthier lifestyle, Tony’s conditioning skills and motivational abilities are consistently in high demand. His expertise includes circuit, cross, and interval training; weight and resistance training; cardiovascular training; post-rehabilitation; advanced stretching; kickboxing, and yoga. Tony shares his fitness expertise and charming personality in Beachbody’s P90X®, Power 90® programs, and in fitness camps nationwide.

Check out his blog at: http://tonyhorton.blogspot.com/; and his dvds at: www.beachbody.com

James Bailey, LAc, MATCM, MPH, Dipl Ayu
James is a third generation physician and health educator who has been living yoga and ayurveda for 20 years with his wife, yoga teacher Shiva Rea. He practices Oriental Medicine, acupuncture, Ayurveda and Yoga Tantra, aiding patients via acupuncture, clinical Ayurvedic techniques of Pancha Karma detoxification, Chinese and ayurvedic medical herbology, nutrition, marma therapies, pranayama, and meditation. His training includes 5 years (4000+ hours) of formal clinical studies in Oriental Medicine (Yo San University) and training in Ayurveda under such luminary teachers as Dr. Vaijayanti Apte (Dipl Ayu from the Ayurveda Institute of America), Dr. Subash Ranade, Dr. Avinash Lele, Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Robert Svoboda, and many Ayurvedic doctors and therapists in Kerala, south India where he spends time teaching and studying while on retreat each year. James teaches Ayurveda and Yoga Tantra meditation workshops worldwide. He is a contributing editor and former columnist for Yoga Journal, Light on Ayurveda, LA Yoga magazine and other wellness magazines. He served as an active Board member of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM), and is founder of Sevanti Oriental Medicine and Ayurveda in Santa Monica, CA.

Visit James online: www.sevanti.com 

Beth Filla, MSW, E-RYT, Co-Founder YogaWood

Beth met yoga at a gym in 1997. The classes were intense, and required a different kind of focus than anything she had previously encountered. Over the years, dabbling in different styles and types of yoga, Beth has come to recognize the effects of consciously quieting the mind and intentionally facing the physical challenges of yoga practice. The effects have included moving beyond the boundaries of what she thought was possible on her yoga mat and in the rest of her life. Having worked as a social worker with various community based programs in Philadelphia and as a high school English teacher right here in Collingswood, Beth has always been most inspired by helping people work toward finding their greatest potential. Since completing her Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training with Corina Benner and Jill Manning at Wake Up Yoga in Philadelphia and her Pilates Mat certification with Sylvia Byrd-Leitner at Pilates Core Center she has been encouraging her students to see the power of placing their intentions and the wonder of each breath.

Visit Beth online: www.yogawood.com

Shan, as she is known to her students and friends, is the founder and muse of om time. She is an activist, an eternal optimist, and a lover of the flow of grace within everyone. She is truly here to be part of the collective flow that is “changing the world one downward dog at a time.”

Shannon founded and teaches Anjali Restorative Yoga, a deeply restful and healing yoga practice. The practitioner is guided through meditations and thoughtful visualizations, while the body is held and supported by bolsters, pillows, and blankets. By resting deeply, the body engages its natural ability to heal and reset. The effect is profoundly nurturing, thoughtful, and balancing.

Shannon has been a dedicated assistant to Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective since 2005. She teaches and mentors Prana Vinyasa Flow, an energetic, creative full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga. This style was founded and cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana (the universal source of breath, life energy and conscious intelligence) as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, and Bhakti.

As proof of yoga’s healing power, Shannon believes in and practices all that she teaches. Her smile, her laughter, and her enthusiasm for living is happily contagious. Her courage and compassion breathe energy, as well as being an inspiration for potential to all her students. Shannon began yoga in 1993. A traumatic illness led her in a search to regain her health and uplift her spirits.

Many different teachers and styles have influenced her over the past decade: Shiva Rea, John Friend, Judith Lasater, Dr. Douglas Brooks, Sianna Sherman, Amy Ippoliti, Jaime Allison and Cindy Lusk. Shannon has been featured in Alternative Health Magazine and Yoga International. She presents for Yoga Journal Conferences and leads weekly classes in Boulder and Denver, as well as workshops, intensives, teacher trainings and retreats nationally and internationally. For more information or direct inquiries, please email, shannon@omtime.com. www.omtime.com

Chrissy is a senior teacher and teacher trainer at Yoga Works in New York. Her combination of intelligent sequencing with a breath- centered practice encourages her students to explore their own personal edge with consciousness and purpose. Known for her sense of humor and her light-hearted approach, Chrissy’s classes reveal how yoga can infuse the everyday. Her teaching style blends precision and alignment with the teachings of Krishnamacharya, guiding the practice inward towards the divine. Chrissy worked on Wall Street as an equities sales trader before making her part-time passion for teaching yoga a full-time career in 2004. A writer, singer, self-proclaimed domestic Goddess and gastronome, she strives to find yoga in all aspects of her life and invites her students to do the same!

www.yogachrissy.com

I am so grateful for this life, and for the ability to facilitate this beautiful life-force (Luca) into the world. I am very grateful to be getting a little more time these days as well, (while Luca naps) to work on edit and upload interviews. Thank you awesome listeners for hangin’ around, contributing through PayPal, and for sending me all of your encouragement and feedback. I am deeply grateful for you. I send all of you Love and Energy to all the wonderful things you’ve birthed this year. My intention is to have a new interview a month, with all the interviews from 2007 uploaded by the end of the year. Send me an email with new yogi and yoginis you’d love to hear!

Happiest Holidays, to you, the Peeps. Power to the Peaceful! Love and Namaste.

John Evans is the director of Islington Yoga and has been practising yoga for 35 years and teaching for 25 years. He has been studying with Shandor Remete since 1995 and teaches Shadow Yoga. John completed an English degree at Oxford University and went on to study the Yoga Sutras intensively at the Anchorhold Monastery in Sussex for five years. He lived in Japan for 12 years where he studied Martial arts and holds a 6th dan black belt in Batto-do, Japanese swordsmanship. He is the Head Teacher of Fudokan Japanese sword school in London .

Visit John online at: www.islingtonyoga.com

Or in London: Islington Yoga is located at 357 City Rd EC1V 1LR
Tel: 020 7704 6796 email: info@islingtonyoga.com

Tilak’s love and fascination with yoga has led him to study with many teachers throughout the U.S. and India, but most importantly it continues to take him to his mat everyday.

His unique teaching style is creative, passionate, and is influenced most by his work with Yoga Master Sri Swami Satchidananda, and renowned teachers, Erich Schiffmann, Angela Farmer, and Victor van Kooten. He holds degrees in Religious Studies, Literature & Religion, and has studied Sanskrit at the American Sanskrit Institute and the University of Virginia.

In 2005 he released his first DVD, Yoga: Altar of the Heart, and is the author of The Online Sanskrit Pronunciation Guide.

Websites:

www.tilakpyle.com

www.ihanuman.com

Typing with one hand, while holding your 2 week old is the best….no, I won’t turn this into a baby blog! We did want to share with you our awesome news! Erik and I welcomed, Luca, our first baby, on July 18, 2007. He was 6lbs 13 ounces, and in great health. We are so grateful for all the love and support, from our friends, family and listeners. Thank you! Lara will be taking 1 month off from podcasting, to help Luca grow, learn what he needs, be present for him, nurse, and hopefully eat and sleep in-between! Please listen to all of our past interviews in the meantime, you always hear something new, with each new listen. And, as always, practice, and enjoy!

Erika is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Instructor Trainer (E-R.Y.T. 500), and a certified advanced practitioner through the White Lotus Foundation. She currently teaches Ashtanga-based vinyasa yoga classes at YogaWorks Costa Mesa and online at www.beinyoga.com. She leads international and local retreats, and holds teacher trainings through Cloud Nine Yoga Studio & School.

Cloud Nine Yoga, offers Basic and Advanced Yoga Teacher Certifications, approved by Yoga Alliance at both the 200 and 500 levels. Erika also teaches Thai Yoga Massage, Core Sequencing Bodywork, and Prenatal Yoga.  Erika is a Reiki Master-Teacher, and is trained in the Yaki and Lakota ways of holding ceremony - specifically sweat lodge. She teaches at YogaWorks Costa Mesa, and is on the cover of YogaTimes this month.

Visit her online at: www.cloudnineyoga.com, and www.beinyoga.com.