Mindful Yoga Studio

Hilda, Dharma name Shraddha, founded Mindful Yoga Studio in 2012 to offer a safer space for students to explore, heal and transform their bodies and their lives. She guides students in a rhythm that allows them to move in harmony with their breath and stay open to the moment. She has a 500-hour Healing Emphasis Yoga certificate and is trained in Yoga for Cancer Survivors. Other trainings: Svastha Yoga Therapy Training, 100-hour Mindfulness Yoga teacher training; 120-hour Yin Yoga teacher training; Relax and Renew Restorative teacher training. Shraddha has been teaching since 2005 and more than 3,000 hours of teaching experience. She was born in Sonora, Mexico, and has lived most of her life in Tucson. She is bilingual and has a Bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona and a Master’s degree in Organizational Management. Shraddha is a Certified CranioSacral Therapist and offers craniosacral sessions at Mindful Yoga.

Pam Ronstadt, E-RYT 200, 500, YACEP, began studying yoga at the suggestion of her doctor and
began to immediately see the benefits of a regular yoga practice to her overall health and well-being.
The desire to share the benefits of yoga and meditation with others led Pam into taking her 200-hour
Yoga teacher training and growth intensive in 2009 and she began to share the practice as a teacher in
May of 2010. She completed her 300-hour teacher training in 2016. Pam brings a compassionate approach and, as a bookworm at heart, she also is constantly in study about the history, foundations and teachings of yoga, which she passes on to her students. For her, Yoga is more than just an asana practice but a way in which to live her life.

Michael, whose Dharma name is Junjo, is a native Tucsonan who has practiced Hatha Yoga and meditation since 2005. He leads mindfulness meditation and studies under Frank Jude Boccio, Dharma name Poep Sa, the author of Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind. He also has studied under David H. Wagner, the developer of Living Meditation. Michael uses meditation to bring equanimity to his daily life, and he delivers to students in his meditation classes a message of self-respect and calm. He subscribes to Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn’s philosophy that attention to the breath is of constant importance, because, “You’re probably breathing right now.”

Tracy has always been interested in health and wellness. Yoga has been part of this emphasis for most of her adult life, however, it took losing her mother in 2004 to teach her the true meaning of Yoga. She went to her mat to find solace, energy, and inner strength. As the practice started to take root, she felt a longing to explore the practices on a deeper level and attended a 200 hour Personal Growth/Hatha Yoga Teacher Training and was certified in 2007. She looks forward to continue the study of all-that-is Yoga, whether that be on the mat or away.

Jen is a graduate of the inaugural Mindful Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training Program. A public school educator, Jen is passionate about teaching, learning and honoring the teacher and the learner in every person. She loves taking the lessons of yoga and meditation off the mat and into everyday life.

Nadia began practicing Mindful Yoga in 2003 when waiting to enroll in a massage therapy program at Providence Institute in Tucson. A certified massage therapist (Chinese Qi Gong focus), aesthetician, Reiki healer and artist, Nadia has been teaching in various disciplines for many years. Nadia is a graduate of the 7 Centers Yoga Arts Hatha Yoga Teacher Training and a Yoga Alliance RYT-200 certified teacher. She brings her depth of body awareness and anatomy to Hatha Yoga classes and integrates pranayama, philosophy, anatomy and energy practices with asana.