Max Thomas was born and raised in the Oklahoma heartland-- studied yoga in India with BKS Iyengar, and back home with many of America’s top teachers. He’s taught thousands of students at every level -- from raw beginners to professional athletes, working with Oscar and Emmy winners, doctors, chiropractors, lawyers, housewives, AIDs patients and at UCLA, schizophrenic teenagers. After serving as Director of the esteemed Center for Yoga in Los Angeles, he taught weekly classes in his home studios, Yoga the Sport, and Living Yoga, Topanga. Max leads retreats, workshops and teachers-training courses throughout California. He is a certified massage and deep tissue therapist, and stars in the nationally acclaimed children’s video, E-I-E-I Yoga.”

Liz Mediavilla, designer/mother/tantrika, has been practicing yoga for 30 years and teaching for the past 25. She has received advanced teaching certifications from White Lotus Foundation, and from numerous prominent teachers including Shiva Rea, Erich Schiffman and Judith Hansen-Lasater.
Liz’s considers the practice of flow yoga a way to cultivate grace in everyday living and teaching a way to share a practice that has transformed her life. She believes we are spiritual beings trying to figure out how to live in these human bodies and yoga is the perfect owner’s manual. Her flow classes are readily adaptable to all levels. (You can see her artwear at www.lunarose.com).

Ellie Smith received her teacher’s training from the highly respected
Shandor Remete and from Peter Sterios, practitioner, teacher and contributing editor to Yoga Journal. Ellie has been practicing Hatha Yoga in the Iyengar tradition for 20 years and teaching for ten years. With simple explanations of poses and a gentle supportive approach, Ellie designs classes to meet the needs and abilities of her students. In Ellie’s classes, the coordination of breath and movement is emphasized.