Catherine Munro
Catherine Munro began practicing yoga in 1989 while living
in New York City. She spent several years exploring many
different yoga traditions leading to years of study in the
Iyengar yoga tradition with many of its master teachers such
as Faiq Biria, Manuso Manus, Ramanand Patel,
Aadil Palkivala, Joan White,
Kevin Gardner, Lisa Walford, Paul Cabanis, Marla Apt and
Kofi Busia. She has also studied with renounwed teachers
such as Judith Lasater, Donna Farhi, Dona Holleman and
Rodney Yee. Catherine was introduced to the Anusara
tradition through workshops with John Friend and Viniyoga
with Gary Kraftsow.
In recent years she has been practicing
Ashtanga yoga as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, under the
guidance of Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty. In the Ashtanga
tradition Catherine has also studied with Richard Freeman
and the guru of Ashtanga, Pattabhi Jois.
Catherine
took the Yoga Works Teacher Training with the program
originators Maty Ezraty & Lisa Walford and went on to assist
the program several times with Maty, Lisa and Chuck Miller.
She taught her first YW Training in 2003 in Orange County
with James Brown and has enjoyed each subsequent training
more than the last. Catherine was a teacher at Yoga Works In
Los Angeles for several years before returning to her native
Vancouver, B.C. where she now resides with her husband and
son Ian.
The practice of yoga has helped Catherine
transition through some of life’s challenges with strength
and introspection. She is deeply grateful to her teachers
for the passion and inspiration they instilled in her for
both practice and teaching.
Jennie Honda
Jennie began practicing yoga on a
cold, Chicago day in January of 2001 and quickly warmed up
to the centuries old tradition. Her style draws from the
Yoga Works training – a blend of Iyengar, Ashtanga and
Viniyoga principles. She emphasizes safe alignment, clear
instruction and a mix between movement and held poses. Her
approach to yoga has also been influenced by her teachers
over the years, her love for being active (running, roller
blading, hiking, kayaking, snow-shoeing...) and her work as
an aide in a physical therapy clinic.
Focusing the mind, aligning the body and tuning in to the
connection between breath and movement are key components of
her teaching. As in her personal practice, shes encourage
students to explore their own edges and cobwebbed corners.
Through this exploration, each individual can come to
understand what they need to find greater balance on and off
the mat. In class, she provides variations and modifications
to encourage students to honor their individual needs.
Whether you are looking to challenge or pamper yourself, you
can do so in her classes with guidance and your personal
awareness.
As preparation to become a teacher trainer, Jennie assisted
YogaWorks trainings under the tutelage of Catherine Munro.
As an assistant and now as a co-teacher of the YogaWorks
teacher trainings, she is reminded of the opportunity to
learn and transform in practice, teaching and her own life.
As teachers, we have the privilege of sharing our
understanding and our passion for yoga with our students.
Each student and teacher brings their own “flavor” to the
training, providing a wellspring of knowledge, experience
and love for yoga from which we all can draw. Jennies feels
very fortunate that she is able to share in this process.
Irene
Alexander
Irene Alexander has been studying yoga since 1998, and
teaching yoga in Seattle since 2004. She completed her
teacher training at Pacific Yoga and has continued her
training in the Anusara tradition with Denise Benitez,
drawing inspiration as well from Donna Farhi, Shannon
McCall, Buddhist meditation and modern dance. Along the
way, she has been continually blessed and inspired by the
ways she has seen yoga transform lives and bodies, including
her own. In August, she will complete massage school, and
she brings her knowledge of anatomy and a deep fascination
with movement into her teaching. Her classes offer students
a chance to come into their bodies, play, explore, and
experience themselves in a new way, while building strength
and grace.
