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Josh Rothman is a master-level (500 hour) certified yoga instructor. He earned both his 200 hour and master-level certifications from Inner Vision Yoga.  Sports related injuries from many years of playing competitive soccer led him to the practice of yoga; he has been teaching yoga since 2005. His love of asana is the experience of how healing it is for mind and body. Josh gears classes towards the healing of past (and prevention of future) injuries, along with an exploration of the connections between the physical, the psychological and the spiritual. Josh also participates in yoga teacher training programs as an instructor. Additionally, he hosts workshops on yoga for athletes, arm balances and inversions,  as well as all-levels yoga flow workshops set to popular music themes,  and also hosts yoga retreats.  Having a diverse background in the liberal arts, Josh has completed post-graduate work in justice studies, political philosophy and religious studies. As a jnana yogi, he is drawn to any intellectual pursuit that sheds light upon the true self.

Off the mat his passions are science fiction/fantasy literature, playing and watching sports, and playing musical instruments.

Amanda Mitchell has been studying yoga since 2006, when she began a physical practice because she wanted to be able to touch her feet to her head in a backbend (that’s what yoga’s all about, after all). She completed her 200-hour RYT training through IVY in 2009. As a high school teacher and PhD candidate, she is passionate about spreading love and light through learning.

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.

Between the stimulus and the response there is a pause and within that pause lies our power, freedom and peace. ~ Viktor Frankl (Author of Man’s Search for Meaning).

Long a favorite quote of Brigitte Yancy’s and one that she says profoundly describes yoga in daily life. “Whether it is an asana practice on the mat away from the stimuli of the busy world around us, a simple break in the day to stop wherever we might be to take several attentive breathes and open our senses to our surroundings, or the easy stillness and deep silence that can be found in the pause after an exhale during meditation … through each of these ‘pauses’, we are able to truly practice yoga and move into mindful responses and a sense of ease no matter what life may be offering us.”

A yoga and meditation practitioner since 2002 and a teacher since 2008, Brigitte connected with yoga through a deep and intuitive need to slow down and find space to step back from a demanding job with a hectic travel schedule. Her journey in both practicing and teaching yoga is one of continued learning and always remembering what an honor it is to be able to share yoga and meditation with others.

Each of her yoga classes at Inner Vision is a unique sequence of movement and flow for practitioners of all levels and is designed help students connect with and explore their bodies and breath, so as to move in ways that are healthier and more intuitive for their unique body. Each practice is journey which offers new challenges and an exploration of doing poses in new ways or trying new poses in ways that are best suited for each individual student. Each class is also complemented with a dynamic and artful blend of subtle background music to stir the senses and help students find and better move to their own, fluid rhythm. Each class is an opportunity to move into the pause, away from stimulus, to gain clarity and insight, for the subsequent, post asana class response.

Brigitte is a true believer that yoga can be adapted for any body and she teaches adapted and chair yoga in Scottsdale to students with MS and other movement disorders and Yoga for Parkinson’s for the Muhammed Ali Parkinson’s Center. She also teaches meditation including Meditation for Beginners and Mindfulness and Metta (Loving Kindness) Meditation practices.

When not on the mat or meditation cushion, Brigitte can be found hiking and playing outdoors or spending time with her two amazing daughters, Nikki and Brandi or with her rescue pups, Piper and Charlie. (But really … who rescued who?)

As well as being one of our yoga teachers, Brigitte is also our Teacher Manager and Web/Online Marketing Manager. 

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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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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 philosphy and inspiring affirmation in a dynamic flow unifying the teachings of Classical and Tantra Yoga. He teaches alignment in asana as a way to free ourselves of false identifications with past events while releasing old self-concepts.  Jeff is 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.  He is also a teacher trainer directing 200 hour and the HEY (Healing Emphasis Yoga)™  Yoga Therapy 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 Chandler, Arizona. Check out his DVDs 

Through her teaching, she strives to help her students achieve their goals through hard work, dedication, and self-discovery. She takes a fundamental approach to all her classes, believing that everything starts with alignment and proper technique.