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Nasim Nourian is a certified Healing Emphasis Yoga Therapy Instructor with 500 hour Master Teacher Training and 300 hr Yoga Alliance approved teacher training program. She has completed her studies on Relaxation Response with the Benson-Henry Institute of Mind-Body Medicine at the Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital and has studied with Paulie Zink, the Yin Yoga Master in the West and Sarah Powers founder of Insight Yoga. Nasim has developed a program titled “Transformation Awakening Yoga” as a functional way of observing stillness and grace to heighten awareness and personal growth. She is also the founder of G.E.M.S. method to practice mindfulness and gratitude using a simple four-step process. Nasim is also certified as Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor from Dr. David Frawely’s American Institute of Vedic Studies. In her spare time, she loves to create art and hike with her dogs.

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A serious injury led Aaron Goldberg to study the art of Yang and Chen style Tai Chi with Master Jin Hung Lee. After many more years of trying to heal his body of chronic pain he began studying Yoga. Within eight months the pain that had plagued him for sixteen years was gone. Aaron is a co-owner of Inner Vision Yoga. He teaches each class in a flowing style that encourages students to move past old limitations with discipline and compassion.

Jeff Martens has been teaching yoga and holistic principles principles since 1989. His understanding flows from diverse sources including a Psychology and MFA degree, a deep love of sacred stories, and a three year study of the world’s sacred texts. His classes combine timeless wisdom, internal adjustment, practical philosophy and inspiring affirmation in a dynamic flow unifying the teachings of Classical and Tantra Yoga.
Jeff teaches alignment in asana as a way to free ourselves of false identifications with past events while releasing old self-concepts and has found that yoga therapy and true healing involves much more than just the physical body.  He has learned from multiple teachers and traditions as well as from past chronic illness.  He is the Founder of the Fear to Clear process for personal transformation and is also a writer who has published, among other things, ‘The Guru Question’ in How We Live Our Yoga and ‘Yoga for Men’ in Yoga in America.

Jeff is a Certified Yoga Therapist, the Director of the 200 hour yoga teacher training program and Co-Director of the HEY (Healing Emphasis Yoga)™  Yoga Therapy Master Teacher Training, co-founder of the Yoga-Vision Yoga Conference, founder of the Student Yoga Program at Arizona State University and co-owner of Inner Vision Yoga in Arizona.

Donna DiNunzio Martens (500 E-RYT) teaches Therapeutic Yoga informed by the classical yoga tradition to work entire kinetic chains, create healthy spinal alignment and core stability.  She utilizes ancient yoga techniques for mindfulness, meditation and spirituality to create an embodied healing experience.  Her teachings re-establish a vibrantly enlightened mind-body awareness and connectivity.  Her love of evidence-based strategies in Stress Reduction, Functional Anatomy and Therapeutic Interventions breathes life back into emotional integration and physical strength.   She is CoDirector and Co-Founder of the Healing Emphasis Yoga Institute and Healing Emphasis Yoga Therapy.

Cindi Ketterer, RYT 200, has enjoyed practicing yoga for ten years. Yoga brings a new depth to exercise by cultivating an inner awareness. She finds that the tools of breath, mudras and meditation help her continue to grow. Cindi is in the final stretch of her 500 hour certification with coursework that focuses on targeted strengthening and healing techniques that are incorporated into her classes. Her personal practice leans into the heat with emphasis on alignment because the adjustments parallel behavior shifts that benefit her in life off the mat. Cindi is always excited to encourage others on their journey and to join in the process of discovering the magic within.