Yandara Yoga Teaching Staff

Allison Eaton is the lead teacher for all 21 day trainings.

Shane Perkins is the lead teacher for all 16 day trainings.

Craig Perkins teaches at all trainings.

Shane Perkins E-RYT 200

Having over one thousand hours of formal teaching, Shane holds an E-RYT registry with Yoga Alliance. Shane has 20 years of meditation and yoga practice. His teaching style is Iyengar based Hatha yoga.

Shane was raised at SKMC Meditation Center in Bowling Green, Virginia. He received initiation to a formal meditation practice at age 10, and studied and traveled with Sant Darshan Singh for several months during this time.

His studies include an Anusara yoga  intensive with Hanneli Francis, six months of Kundalini yoga practice in Vancouver, Canada, a four-day yoga intensive with Baba Hari Das of the Mount Madonna Center, a week intensive with Desakachar in Toronto, and four 200- hour teacher trainings at Yandara Yoga Institute, including ones taught by Iyengar teachers Kevin Durkin and Victor Oppenheimer. Shane also spent two years as an apprentice, training in wilderness meditation and Chi gong (Ancient Chinese yoga). This training included numerous solo retreats ranging in length from two to twenty-eight days.

Shane recently spent 6 months in India and Nepal where he attended teachings and went on retreats, undertaking deep and extensive practice in Vipassana, and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

Shane is also a proficient musician and singer which is an enhancement to kirtan sessions.

* With deep space and tender joy, my best wishes are with you.*

Allison Eaton, E-RYT 200

Allison's love for yoga began at age 16. She has settled into a way of both practicing and teaching intuitively from the heart. Allison is currently registered with the Yoga Alliance at the E-RYT (experienced yoga teacher) status. Her background studies are in vinyasa flow yoga, yoga therapeutics, movement meditation, Tai Chi and Qi Gong. Allison completed her teaching certifications through Yoga Fit (vinyasa flow), Corrin Adams (hatha yoga), Shiva Rea (vinyasa flow), Peter Sterios ("Principles of Gravity & Grace"), Kevin Durkin (Certified Iyengar Teacher and Yoga Therapist) and Victor Oppenheimer (Senior Iyengar Teacher). Allison leads yoga teacher trainings year-round, where she is known to connect to the needs of the individual student and to empower the teacher within.

Recent Student Testimonial:

What can I say, WOW! Allison absolutely exemplified the combination of Yogini, Leader, Professional, Spiritual Guide and Consummate Teacher. Her poise, presence, and undeniably uplifted energy were such a significant catalyst for my personal growth as both a teacher and as a human being. I cannot say enough regarding the clarity of integrity, the generosity of spirit and the unconditional love that filled our classroom each and every day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Namaste,
Tom Morisette, owner of Present Moment Conscious Living Retreat, recently honored as one of the "Top 10 Yoga Retreats Worldwide.”
 

Craig Perkins E-RYT 500

Craig is registered with Yoga Alliance with over 5000 hours of yoga practice and teaching.

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 with Yogi Shaym Acharia.

After several years of teaching classes in Vancouver, Craig began teaching for Coquitlam Adult Education, by then he was also running his own yoga school, The Yoga Center.

In 1972 Craig started a "live-in" yoga school in Miami, Florida, and two years later he moved to Sawan Kirpal Meditation Center in Virginia, where he lived for 20 years with his wife, and two sons. He also lived with his family at a Sivananda Yoga Center in Washington, D.C. for one year in 1980.

Craig has made five trips to India, studying meditation at Sawan Ashram, Delhi, and Deradhun. For 5 years he was studying Chinese yoga, T'ai Chi and Qi gong with a master/student of Robert Smith, and he also taught yoga at a yoga retreat in Baja, Mexico, for 5 years.

Craig is involved with yoga psychology and deep ecology. He has studied Sivananda, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Yoga Flow style. He has also compiled the booklet, "An Introduction to Yoga Life", based on 30 years of yoga experience.

Craig is the director of Yandara Yoga Institute, and will be teaching at all trainings.

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