Yandara Yoga Teacher Training Faculty

Shane-Christopher Perkins E-RYT 200

Christopher has been facilitating Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2003 and has over 20 years of meditation and yoga practice. His teaching style is dynamic and intuitive, mixing creative movement with a powerful asana practice. Christopher has the gift to bring his students through fun and challenging flow sequences while cultivating the shared awareness that is Yoga. His passion for yoga philosophy and yoga psychology is a part of his daily life and weaves naturally into his teachings. Christopher's presence inspires those around him to enter their hearts and connect to their truest potential.

Christopher was raised SKMC Meditation Center in Bowling Green, Virginia. He requested initiation to a meditation practice at age 4, and while he led a "normal" childhood, he studied with Sant Darshan Singh until age 16. In his early twenties, after attending VCU for fine arts, Christopher spent two years as an apprentice of John P. Milton, training in Sacred Passage (wilderness meditation) and QiGong. This time of deep transformation included several solo wilderness retreats, ranging from 2 to 28 days. In 2005 Christopher spent 6 months in India and Nepal, where he attended teachings and went on retreats, undertaking extensive practice in Vipassana Meditation and Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. Christopher founded the Yandara Yoga Institute with his father Craig Perkins in 2003. Since that time he has been facilitating Yoga Teacher Trainings, and continues to inspire and grow with each person he meets.

Christopher has studied with many inspired yogi's across the world, including a 500 hr training with Dharma Mittra, as well as trainings with Daniel Odier - Kashmirian Tantra, Shiva Rea - Vinyasa Flow, Hanneli Francis - Anusara, Baba Hari Das of the Mount Madonna Center, T.K.V. Desikachar - Yoga Therapy, and senior Iyengar teachers Kevin Durkin, Victor Oppenheimer and Gloria Goldberg. Christopher is also an inspired musician and singer, with a lot of love for kirtan.

"Who you are is already a gift. Let's celebrate it!" ~ Christopher Perkins

 

Allison Eaton, E-RYT 200

Allison is an international teacher of yoga, Reiki and meditation. To date, she has trained over 800 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). These practices include asana (postures), pranayama (breath awareness exercises), meditation, mantra, bandha and mudra (universal energy seals), Qigong and Tai Chi. 

Allison's meditation background includes Vipassana and Mindfulness Meditation, Movement Meditation, Surat Shabd Yoga (Meditation of Light and Sound), Light Body and Chakra Meditation.  Allison bows in gratitude to her teachers Shiva Rea, (Vinyasa Flow), Peter Sterios (Gravity and Grace), Chuck Miller (Sama Ashtanga Yoga), Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj (Surat Shabd Yoga), Dr. Robert K. Hall (Vipassana and Dharma Teacher) Kevin Durkin (Senior Iyengar Teacher and Yoga Therapist), Victor Oppenheimer (Senior Iyengar Teacher), Corrin Adams (Hatha Yoga) and Sandy Call of Yoga Fit (Hatha Yoga). 

Allison is known to draw the authentic Self out of her students, empowering them to practice and teach from intuitive guidance, connected to the heart. Allison is the author of the Yandara Yoga Asana Manual and is featured in the meditation CD, Sat Nam. As a Reiki Master and Intuitive Healing Arts Practitioner, she also offers Reiki Sessions and Reiki Certification trainings at Yandara.

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 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 with Yogi Shaym Acharia.

After several years of teaching classes in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, 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 12 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 also has written the book "Yandara, Teaching Yoga from the Intuitive Heart".(Available soon)

Craig is the director of Yandara Yoga Institute, and will be teaching at all 26 day trainings and the 16 day trainings in June.  and in Bali August and September.

 

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