Our Instructors

Meet the Team

  • Beth Toomey

    Owner & Yoga Instructor teaching teen classes including Hatha, Vinyassa and yin/restorative yoga. She integrates music and harmony, and balance and flow. She feels that if you challenge yourself just beyond your limits, your dreams are within your reach, that much more attainable. She likes to share her learnings with teens and young adults as an alternative way to deal with the pressure of being a young person in this challenging society. Beth also teaches chair yoga for the City of San Rafael.

  • Erika Belanger

    Alignment Based Vinyasa Instructor and Yin/Restorative teacher- Erika’s classes uses breath and alignment to bring you somewhere new each time. Through mind-body connection, she encourages you to find a little extra self-love. Her Yin/Restorative classes lead you into the deep muscle tissue stretching and leave you feeling restored and rejuvenated. She frequently offers Therapy Ball workshops for deep self-massage therapy.

  • Karen Kukula

    Iyengar Yoga Instructor – Karen is known for precise and detailed instruction. Her classes are designed so that all students feel comfortable moving into any posture. She brings years of Iyengar Yoga training, Zen meditation and yoga sutra study to create a unique, engaging experience. Karen has been teaching in Marin for over 30 years.

  • Muriel Murphy

    Functional Hatha Yoga and Fitness Bands Instructor – Muriel is passionate about teaching the how and why of functional movement and Hatha Yoga, Self Awakening Yoga, Therapeutics and Yoga Nidra. Her classes are taught in a lighthearted, soulful style with clarity, strength and spirit. These practices leave you feeling strengthened, relaxed and nurtured by the intelligence of our own body’s wisdom as it merges through the exploration of yoga. She holds an E-RYT 500 Yoga Educator with 17 years experience.

  • Sarah Steen

    Mindful Movement Yoga Instructor -

  • Susan Quigley

    Mindful Flow Instructor - Susan has practiced yoga for over 25 years and taught for over 10. A 500 hour registered teacher, she has been mentored by traditional senior level Ashtanga and Iyengar as well as Yin teachers and she draws from the wisdom of all of these traditions, as well as that of mindfulness teachers. She leads playful classes that incorporate mindful movement, alignment principles, soulful music and poetry and moments for quiet reflection. Also trained as a psychotherapist, she incorporates the principles of mindfulness and self care that she has shared with clients over her 30 years of practice.

  • Suraya Keating

    Gentle Yoga & Meditation Instructor - Suraya Susana Keating, RYT, has been teaching yoga since 2004, and practicing yoga for over 25 years. Suraya’s classes are heart-centered and eclectic, emphasize deep listening to the body and breath as key sources of healing and well-being, and draw from her studies in Anusura, Bhakti Nova Yoga School, and other yoga schools. As an ongoing student of the 8 branches of yoga, Buddhism, Shamanism and other mystical teachings, Suraya weaves into each class a core theme or inquiry that aims to gently open doors of exploration, self-love and wisdom for the practitioner. www.suraya.org

  • Adriana Cerundolo

    Adriana leads our amazing Sound Baths frequently. She believes we are all aspects of the divine, and when we embody this truth we heal ourselves and the world. Sound, breath, movement, and ceremony are timeless technologies for cultivating relationship with the sacred, and tuning ourselves to our purest essence. strengthened and nurtured by the intelligence of our own body’s wisdom as it merges through the exploration of yoga.

  • Clara Gray

    Functional Strength Training and Hatha Yoga Instructor – Clara loves to embrace Yoga as therapy for the mind and body, integrating mindfulness into her practice and teachings, while offering Yoga as a tool to help balance life’s daily challenges. Her classes are strengthening and challenging yet fun and witty. You will leave with a new sense of awareness.