Inland Yoga

Martena Wilson - Owner/Founder/India Outreach

Martena was born into a yoga family and started yoga in 1983 at the age of 9. She began Iyengar Yoga at the Yoga Room in Piedmont, CA and studied with Richard Rosen, until she was 21. Her early twenties were spent researching addiction and homelessness in the San Fransisco Bay Area. From 1999-2002 she studied at the UC Riverside Extension Centers' Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Program with Peggy Cleve, and Marla Apt. She studied Ashtanga Yoga w/ David Swenson, Scott Miller and Briefly w / Pattabhi Jois. She has been trained in Iyengar, Ashtanga, and is a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor registered with Yoga Alliance and International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA). She co-founded Inland Yoga w / Scott Miller in 2001, and is the Director of the Inland College Of Yoga. Her classes include breath work, chanting, asana and on Kundalini Friday nights, DANCING!! Her thing is self-expression and experiencing your "Sat Nam!" (True Self) through yoga practice, but without taking yourself too seriously.

Jessa Tarbert, Studio Director

Jessa had been studying and practicing yoga for several years, she has been teaching yoga full time since 2005. She has certifications and training hours in Vinyasa/Ashtanga flow, Yin yoga, Viniyoga, and Iyengar styles. She continues o learn about a wide array of Yoga practices and methodologies for her own growth. Jessa teaches through Inland College of Yoga, a program that certifies Yoga Teachers at a 200hr level for Hatha Yoga. Experienced teaching Yoga for the following classes: Pre/Post Natal yoga, Private/Semi Private, small group (corporate), special events (yoga parties), senior chair yoga, and youth development practices.

Her classes have a focus on the breath, linkage of breath with movement and encouragement of working at a personal level. She believes yoga practice (yoga poses, breath work and meditation) allows for personal transformation to happen on all levels. The positive benefits of her practice have inspired her to become a teacher. Her mission is to help others awaken to the benefits of yoga so they may feel good, have more balance in life, reduce stress, create strength and increase flexibility. She is E-RYT certified with over one thousand hours of teaching experience.

Florence Stewart

Florence happily discovered yoga in 2005 when she and her daughter started taking belly dance lessons at Inland Yoga. She quickly gave up belly dancing to delve into the practice of yoga. The first style of yoga she learned was Ashtanga. After encountering other styles offered at the studio, Florence began the practice of Iyengar-style and Vinyasa Flow yoga. Although she likes to experience different styles of yoga, her main interest at this time is Vinyasa Flow. She loves the spontaneity of the practice and the connection of the breath to the movement. With a background in dance, martial arts, marathon running, and a lifelong interest in health and nutrition, Florence enjoys the integration of physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and even social disciplines that yoga offers.

Barbara Chadderton

I have been practicing yoga for just over three years. I came to yoga for the exercise and physical healing that I expected to get. My body was thoroughly out of balance as the result of a car accident eleven years ago. My entire right side was injured and broken and because of that my left side worked very hard to compensate for that. What I found in practicing yoga is so much more than physical. Yes, my physical body is balancing out from my asana practice, but my mental and emotional being has been greatly enhanced by my practice! Bonus! I have completed Inland Yoga's 200 hour teacher training and am awaiting certification from Yoga Alliance and I have recently attended a 38 hour teacher training with Erich Schiffman to open my lines of energy and validate my creativity as a teacher. I love yoga and hope that in some small way, I may make a difference in people's lives as a teacher. Sat Nam.

Julie Wright

Julie Wright has been happily teaching yoga since 1998. Her background includes training from three traditional styles of hatha yoga: Iyengar, Ashtanga and Viniyoga. Her classes weave together a blend of inspirational stories, relaxing meditations, practical information, precise alignment, adjustments and integration of body, mind and spirit. Julie's inspirational, knowledgeable teaching style will keep you at ease as you receive personal attention and safe instruction to guide you on your path to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being.

John

John moved to Southern California from Washington State and took his first yoga classes with Lisa Ko in 2001. In 2002 he began taking ashtanga classes with Scott Miller at Inland Yoga. Ashtanga along with meditation and yin yoga make up his daily practice. John started teacher-training classes at Inland Yoga in 2002. He has studied restorative yoga with G.L. Gray and has been teaching since 2003. John is thankful for the deep sense of community at Inland Yoga.

Emily Johnson Kronland

Emily took her first yoga class in 1996, and finally committed to a regular practice in 2001. Her background in modern dance and ballet has allowed her to feel right at home with Vinyasa/Flow Yoga, which links together movement and breath in a meditative practice much like choreography. She also has experience with Bikram, Anusara, and Power Yoga; and actively practices Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Yin. She became a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level with Yoga Alliance in 2005. Emily has studied with more than ten significant teachers in six states over ten years and draws on this diverse background to create a unique and challenging class experience. Having relocated to Riverside in early 2007, Emily is very thankful to have found an inviting environment in which to grow her practice and give back to the community at Inland Yoga. Namaste!

Darcy Weis

Darcy Weis began practicing yoga in 1996 while living in San Francisco. Prior to yoga she was dedicated to physical fitness but felt she was missing the deep connection that yoga has on the mind, body and spirit. She was first introduced to yoga and practiced with Tony Sanchez who developed the Yoga Challenge System, an effort to simplify the 84 classic asanas making them accessible to everyone. In 2000, Darcy began practicing Bikram and enjoyed the benefits of the heat in terms of flexibility and cleansing. After becoming pregnant with her first child, she knew that her practice would have to change. At this time she discovered Iyangar, which helped guide and support her through the nine months of physical changes.

In 2004, Darcy moved back to her hometown of Riverside and immediately continued her dedicated practice with Inland Yoga Centers where she was introduced to Scott Miller and the Ashtanga series.In 2007, Darcy graduated from Inland Yoga's Teacher Training program and received her 200 hour certification, and became a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. Currently, Darcy is teaching Mommy and Me where she enjoys sharing the joys of both yoga and motherhood with her moms/students. Her style is Hatha with an influence of the various styles she has practiced over the years.

Vijay Amar-India

Vijay Amar, born in 1956, has been practising Yoga for 35 years. He was trained in different styles of Yoga with various teachers.The fruit of many years of study in different schools of Yoga and his personally devised system of Universal Hatha Yoga have depth, relaxation and self-healing. This style of Yoga utilises physical postures (asanas), breathwork (pranayama) and meditation techniques to liberate the vital energy of the body and mind. Vijay's wealth of experience and expertise make him a natural choice for Yoga teaching and offer assurance of the highest standards of safety and teaching.

Alex O'Malley - India Outreach

Aerin Alex O'Malley has a gift for creating a safe space for students to discover limits and expand beyond them. Her classes are challenging and fun (be ready to sweat) and open to all levels. Holding a firm belief that the benefits of Yoga are far more than physical, Alex helps each practitioner tap into their natural abilities and shows you how to take those benefits Òoff the matÓ and into your daily lives.

Having embraced Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with a history in each level of food service (management, catering, and waiting tables) as well as experience as an accountant, Alex has used yoga as a tool to sustain her physical and mental well being. Alex began her practice in 2001 and completed her first level training curriculum at the prestigious It's Yoga Studio in San Francisco, CA.

She extended her Hatha training at the PVA Ayervedic Hospital in Kannur, India. In 2006 Alex received certification to teach the secondary series of Ashtanga and was honored in 2007 to teach with her teacher, Vijay Amar Sen.