Meet Yoga Instructor Bhavani Maki
Director of Yoga Hanalei
International Yoga teacher, Bhavani Maki is the director and founder of Yoga Hanalei in 1997 and Ashtanga Yoga Kauai in 1995, is an Experienced Yoga Alliance teacher at the 500 hour level, a musician and Yogini. A practitioner of the Ashtanga Yoga System for more than 17 years, she has been teaching the Ashtanga system for more than 12 years. Coming from a multicultural background and having traveled extensively, Bhavani interweaves the insights she has gathered into a holistic exploration of the microcosmic and macrocosmic self. Bhavani specializes in the Patanjalim Yoga Sutras, Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Psychology and Yoga Therapy, and she offers unique insights into discovering greater joy and freedom within one's self.
Bhavani has made six trips to Mysore, South India to study with Sri K Pattabhi Jois, as well as having the rare experience of hosting him twice on her home island of Kaua'i.
She received her teacher training and authorization from Astanga Yoga Masters Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, South India; Baba Hari Das of Hardwar, North India, and the Mount Madonna Center.
Bhavani Maki offers yoga classes in a supportive and encouraging environment at Yoga Hanalei on Kaua'i, Hawaii. Sharing her love of yoga, she inspires you to explore your full potential through yoga in a light hearted, exacting and compassionate way.
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Meet Yoga Instructor Tara Mala
Tara began practicing yoga in 1996 after more than 15 years experience in dance and fitness. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona.
Her foundation with yoga's healing practices led her to study many styles with
internationally acclaimed teachers such as:
•Astanga Yoga with Sri K. Pattabhi
•Jois, Anusara Yoga with John Friend
•Iyengar Yoga with Patricia Sullivan
She has also studied with Tim Miller, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Johnny Kest and many others.
Tara's unique, invigorating and powerful Hatha Flow classes incorporate her extensive studies with yoga masters and philosophers from all over the world.
She hopes to encourage you -- her yoga students -- to integrate your breath and bodies with your mind and spirit in order to create a harmonious balance in your life. Tara wants each of you to be open to love, light and grace.
"Your experience becomes your mission: awaken that power within yourself so that all people may understand their own divine glory within." --author unknown
Meet Yoga Instructor Thomas Michael Stallings
Before arriving on Kaua`i, Tom Stallings was the Director of the Yoga College of India in San Francisco. Yoga Hanalei is pleased to have him managing the Bikram Yoga school at our studio in Hanalei, Hawaii. Tom received his certification as a yoga instructor in 1997. Since that time, he has taught more than 2,000 yoga classes, through the Yoga of College of India, in such diverse locations as Sydney, Australia and Cocoa Beach, Florida.
When Tom is not in the yoga studio at Yoga Hanalei -- and the surf is up on Kauai -- you can find him catching those big waves around the island.
Yoga Hanalei
P.O. Box 990
Hanalei, HI 96714
(808) 826-YOGA
