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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.

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.

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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. 

Cristina de Isasi started practicing yoga in 1995, captivated by its playful exploration of body movement and the peace she felt at the end of class. She uses an eclectic blend of styles, seeing them all as parts of a system that can help strengthen us and harmonize our lives. She has been teaching yoga since 2010, shortly after she was first certified by Inner Vision Yoga, where she later completed her 500-hour master-level certification. Her gentle encouragement and meditative style attempt to help people explore movement, focus, balance, strength and stillness, emphasizing that each person owns his or her practice, each of our bodies is unique, and each day is different. Cristina also holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Rutgers University, and a master's degree in Spanish from Arizona State University.

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.

Grant Ifflander was guided to his first yoga class in June 2014, immediately signed up for unlimited classes and a year later was enrolled in the 200 hour Teacher Training Program at Inner Vision Yoga here in Chandler. He believes the inner guide that has illuminated such a clear path for him is available to us all, and that all we must do is answer the knock at the door and have the courage to step through. Grant has found the practice of yoga to be one such way of honoring this call, learning to trust it, and developing the internal reserve of strength necessary to step into and authentically embody our truth. His only wish to share this tapped well of love within him amongst everyone he comes in contact with so that all together we realize and embrace our ever expansive nature. Nothing is off limits to Grant in this exploration of our highest potential, as we unveil the curtains of our human nature and open ourselves to something much, much bigger than ourselves. Yoga can be translated to mean ‘union’. What do we choose to unite with? Come practice with Grant and let’s find out together.

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.

Meredyth Johnson is a 500-hour Certified Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist who discovered yoga in 1999 when she was suffering from insomnia and grief. Yoga helped her to slow down, breathe, and open her heart. In 2002, she began teaching after completing her 200-hour certification at SWIHA. After becoming ill, Meredyth began to see yoga and meditation as tools for healing. She completed her Healing Emphasis Yoga Therapy Certification in 2013 at Inner Vision Yoga.

Meredyth is passionate about helping people find peace, balance and healing through yoga. She believes that healing arises from a deep self-awareness of how our perceptions, beliefs and habits impact our body, mind and spirit. She encourages her students to be in the present moment by bringing awareness to their breath, thoughts, and movements. She invites you to mix things up on your mat, stretch yourself a new way, connect your breath to your movement, put your attention on something uplifting, find the balance between effort and surrender, and then find stillness and feel how these changes heal you.