Nayaswami Devaki
Nayaswami Devaki is a minister, teacher and long-time member of Ananda.
A member of the Yoga Alliance, Devaki has taught yoga and meditation at Ananda’s Expanding Light; for the Ananda church and Ananda’s East-West bookshops in Seattle and in Mountain View, California. She is currently a minister and yoga instructor with Ananda Sacramento. She also teaches “yoga and the chakras” and restorative yoga.
Gurudeepa (Jean) Corry
Gurudeepa (Jean) Corry has been practicing yoga for six years and teaching since receiving her 200 RYT in 2015. Jean was attracted to yoga because of the deep mind, body, and spiritual connection and strives to share this uplifting experience with her students. Jean teaches Hatha Yoga which allows students to hold their poses longer in order to gain a greater connection with their bodies.
Jean is a Yoga Alliance 200 RYT, a certified Ananda Yoga teacher, and an Ayurvedic Health Educator. She teaches at Ananda, at a local gym, and at a pain clinic. In each she strives to present rounded classes that target all areas of the body to release tensions and stress, and to raise Kundalini energy to connect with the universe, God.
She strives to make her classes accessible to all students, gentle enough for new students and for those with physical limitations but also thorough for the more advanced students.
Nalini (Beata) Tyminski
Beata Tyminski is certified Ananda Yoga instructor, RYT200. Her love for yoga started after experiencing the gentle style of Ananda Yoga.
She truly believes in Yoga principles, and endeavors to live by them in her everyday life. In her class she focuses on incorporating breath to relax the body, to calm the mind, and to bring each individual deeply inward.
Besides Yoga she loves taking walks, being in nature and spending time with friends.
Nayaswami Chandi
Nayaswami Chandi graduated from the Ananda Institute for Living Yoga in Bothell, Washington in 1997 and again 2015. In Seattle, she developed a successful Ananda Yoga for Children program – teaching yoga in summer camps, yoga studios and outdoor events from 2007-2019.
Through her long practice of meditation and yoga, Chandi brings a aura of inner peace and upliftment to her classes which creates a supportive environment for the upliftment of consciousness in all her students.
In relocating to Ananda Sacramento, Chandi brings with her a warm and expansive teaching style that allows her students to relax and deeply experience a state of integration in body, mind, and spirit. She is currently teaching weekly yoga classes, guided meditations, and vegan cooking classes.
Astara (Brenda) Gustin Ph.D
Blending the art and science of yoga and meditation to raise awareness that health and wellness are created from within. Enjoy entering the deep vibration of transcending peace and expansion into your radiant light as you practice yoga (union) with Astara.
Brenda Astara Gustin is a certified Ananda Yoga and Meditation Instructor with many years of teaching experience. She enjoys integrating the art and science of yoga through the many teachings brought forth through Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Sri Yukteswar, Swami Kriyananda and Patanjali. Astara teaches at the Ananda Temple and has modified her classes to also fit within corporate and government environments to bring peace and focus to every day lives.
Testimonials
During Brenda’s yoga classes, I feel the sweet gentleness of her energy. But afterwards, I find that the deep message of her teachings stay with me – I remember words or phrases that are helpful at just the right moment. My body feels not just relaxed, but invigorated and energized. I’m always surprised to find there is so much power in that sweet energy. — PM, Sacramento
Thank you for giving so much of your talent and heart to bring healing and hope to our patients. — Kathleen, Manager Mercy Women’s Center and Mercy Perinatal Recovery Network (Mercy PRN)
Lan Gluckman
Lan has been teaching yoga at the Ananda Center since 2005. Her students love her gentle and welcoming teaching style. She is a skillful guide into the stress-relieving yoga postures accessible for people of all ages.
Lan also has a special gift of understanding older bodies (young spirits) and can take an older students new to yoga to a comfortable and rewarding depth in their practice.
Theodora Wilner
Theodora Wilner, MA, RYT, HC has been practicing Yoga since the 70’s and has been teaching Yoga for over 17 years. She received her Yoga Teacher Training through Ananda from Maria McSweeney in 1998.
An Ivy League graduate, Theodora devoted her early career to the management of non-profits. She has directed programs and projects in Wellness, Home Health, Child Abuse and Drug Abuse Prevention.
“I took Yoga classes for stress relief from my demanding jobs,” says Theodora. “That’s probably why my Yoga teaching emphasizes the gentle, calming, meditative side of Yoga.”
Theodora is both a Yoga teacher and a Certified Health Coach. In both these professions, it is Theodora’s goal to awaken people to the light of their true nature.
Yoko Macahilas
I have been teaching yoga at a local hospital since 2006 to patients and employees as my service. Though it may not be the most spiritual nor ideal environment for practicing yoga with occasional loud overhead speaker announcing “code blue in room so and so”, it has been a source of great joy for me to share Ananda Yoga there. People come in just to get some stretch or to relax a little, but they walk out having learned more about the true nature of who they are, their own divinity within, power of breath, inner joy, and other esoteric yogic truths.
I see the transformative power of Ananda Yoga in each student and I feel it within myself too. Practicing yoga with others in a group generates greater shared energy so we all may benefit in body, mind, and soul. That’s what keeps me going. I’m excited to teach at Ananda to be a part of its yoga community. I’m a certified Ananda Yoga Teacher, a certified Ananda Meditation 1 Teacher and a licensed physical therapist since 1988 as well as co-owner of the Radiant Health Center where I practice holistic healing.
Testimonials
I have discovered new balance, strength and joy in being in my own body through Yoko’s yoga class! — SC, Rancho Cordova
Yoko’s Yoga class was inspiring, helpful, and rewarding. I’ve been practicing yoga for many years now, yet have recently run into trouble with arm and shoulder pain that inhibited my ability to practice as I had in the past. Yoko’s medical background, her in depth knowledge of anatomy combined with her spiritual awareness of the astral spine, her 1:1 attention to the postures had a profound influence on all of us! I have never had a yoga teacher with Yoko’s profound physiological/spiritual mix and what a difference this makes! I highly recommend Yoko’s classes, and I hope to attend more of them. — KR, Newcastle, CA
Nayaswami Jayanti
Jayanti is a long-time disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda having met Swami Kriyananda in 1969 and studied Yogananda’s teachings under his guidance for 41 years. She has learned to apply Yogananda’s teaching in all aspects of life. A Registered Nurse by profession, she has been teaching and sharing with people over the past 30 years.
Testimonials
“I have had the great blessing of Jayanti’s friendship and mentoring since first coming on the path almost 30 years ago. I can always count on her wisdom when I need insight and guidance about a problem. I hold her in the highest esteem.” — LH, Fair Oaks
