INNER FREEDOM YOGA: We are a team of yoga teachers dedicated to helping people achieve inner happiness, peace and optimal health through the transformational practices of Anusara Yoga, Buddhist and tantric yoga philosophy, meditation, and Hanna Somatic Education. We offer weekly classes, weekend and week-long retreats, workshops and trainings.
Robyn Smith is the owner and founder of Inner Freedom Yoga. She is ecstatic to be a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor
and is proud to have been certified by Forrest Yoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy, and Hanna
Somatic Education. Her dynamic and enthusiastic teaching style
is especially influenced by Anusara yoga, her practice
of Vipassana meditation and study of Buddhist and Tantric Yoga philosophy.
Robyn has been studying yoga since 1988 and teaching since 1994. She has completed several workshops, 3 teacher trainings and 2
therapeutics trainings with John Friend and hundreds of hours
of workshops and trainings with top Anusara and Iyengar Yoga Instructors. Robyn infuses her teaching with precise attention to alignment,
a joyful spirit, and support for her students in opening to discover
the grace that lies within.
Robyn teaches weekly public Anusara yoga classes, workshops, and Teacher Trainings in Arcata, Calif. and offers workshops and retreats in the surrounding areas. She has been helping people with chronic muscular and joint pain through Somatics workshops and a private practice in Somatics and Yoga Therapy since 1998. Robyn is in awe of the power of meditation, Anusara yoga and Somatics. She loves facilitating peoples' rediscovery of the experience of inner freedom through the wisdom of these three transformational traditions. She is especially grateful to John Friend for the tremendous gift of Anusara yoga and to Sarahjoy Marsh, Hanneli Francis and Desiree Rumbaugh for endless inspiration and support. ---------------------------------  ABOUT PATRICK:
Patrick Harestad is an affiliated Anusara Instructor. He began his love affair with Yoga at age 17, studying Swami Satchidananda's Integral Yoga for two years, including retreats with Swamiji. Since then he has studied many forms of body/mind disciplines, including nine years of Aikido, five years of Jiu Jiutsu, and a life-long passion for surfing. For the last seven years he has had a daily practice, which has included meditation, Ashtanga Yoga and Anusara Yoga styles. He has taught Yoga and Martial Arts both in the U. S. and Brazil, where he spent two years living in a Buddhist Retreat Center. ............................................................
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