ABOUT YANDARA

Teacher Faculty

  • Allison Eaton, E-RYT 500, YACEP®, Reiki Master Teacher

    Allison is an international teacher of yoga, Reiki and meditation. To date, she has trained over 2000 yogis to become empowered and inspired yoga teachers. Allison’s teaching style springs intuitively from the heart, supported by extensive background training in Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Yin Yoga, Tantra and Chakra Yoga Therapy. In addition to teaching Hatha Yoga with precision alignment, Allison focuses on yogic practices that deepen the connection to our healing life force (prana)...

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  • Amber Young, E-RYT 500

    For Amber, yoga is a way of life rather than a practice. As well as being a devoted yogini on all levels, Amber is an inspired surfer. She has learned to surf the waves of the ocean as well as the waves of life as yoga teacher, a householder, a loving mother to her daughter Coral. Amber's first yoga teacher was her mother, Mercy Ananda, a long time yogini and kirtan musician and part of the Yandara faculty. Amber describes her mother as "one of the most inspiring women she has ever known."

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  • Anne Dinsmore, E-RYT 500, YACEP®

    Anne teaches from a great depth of understanding and inquisitiveness of the human experience and endeavors to assist her students to recognize their own inner beauty and greatness using yoga and yoga philosophy as a modality to access the dimensions of the Self.

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  • Christopher Perkins, E-RYT 500, YACEP®

    Christopher is the co-founder of Yandara and has over 20 years of meditation and yoga practice. Christopher has the gift to bring his students through fun and challenging flow sequences while cultivating the shared awareness that is Yoga. His style is dynamic and intuitive, mixing creative movement with a powerful asana practice. His passion for yoga philosophy and yoga psychology is a part of his daily life and weaves naturally into his teachings...

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  • Craig Perkins, E-RYT 5000

    Craig is registered with Yoga Alliance with over 45 years and 15,000 hours of yoga teaching and yoga teacher training. In 1968 Craig trained under Yogi Ananda Bhavanani (a follower of Swami Sivananda) in Vancouver, Canada, and became a certified Sivananda-style yoga instructor. At this same time, he began his 30-year meditation study with both Sant Kirpal Singh, and later with his successor Sant Darshan Singh, he also studied, and became initiated in, Tibetan Buddhism, and furthered his Hatha Yoga studies...

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  • Kari Schein, E-RYT 500, Katonah Yoga® teacher

    Kari Schein is a Katonah Yoga® teacher, sound artist, and longtime educator who brings over thirty years of study and experience to her teaching. Rooted in the geometry and theory of Katonah Yoga®, her classes blend breath, structure, seasonal awareness, and therapeutic sound to support stability, imagination, and nervous-system ease. With a gentle, heart-centered presence, Kari offers fresh perspectives in her morning flows, helping students experience both body and mind in new ways. At Yandara, she feels honored to support meaningful transformation within a caring community.

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  • Mercy Ananda, E-RYT 500, YACEP®

    Mercy has been teaching with Yandara for over 15 years, sharing her deep devotion to yoga, sound, and sacred music with generations of students. A dedicated yogini, certified sound healer, and accomplished musician, Mercy is deeply passionate about the transformative power of sound healing. She serves as the Lead Trainer for Yandara’s Sound Bath Program, as well as the Yoga Nidra Program and the Bhakti Yoga Program, guiding students into embodied states of presence, rest, and devotional connection.

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  • Nicolina Sandstedt, E-RYT 500, Webmaster, Administrator

    Nicolina Daya Nam is trained in Traditional Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative and Kundalini Yoga. Her inspiring presence and teaching style is authentic, refined, and infused with grace. Through a transformative combination of asana, breath, meditation and chanting, she guides you to develop a peaceful and intuitive mind; leaving you uplifted and inspired. “To me the ancient teachings of Yoga are an invitation to be deeply curious. It is a practice of moving through any stagnation, so that awareness can permeate our entire being.”

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  • Sarasvati Young, E-RYT 500

    Sarasvati Young has been a beloved teacher and lead trainer with Yandara since 2009, offering yoga from a place of deep presence, joy, and devotion. With an open heart and an open mind, she invites students into an embodied exploration of yoga that is both grounded and uplifting.

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  • Yandara Administrator: Jon Perkins

    Jon brings a unique business perspective to Yandara. He has shaped the operational side of Yandara to make our YTT accessible to many students from the past, present and into the future. Focusing his talents into the yoga industry is important to him because it brings so much benefit to world around us.

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