Our Instructors
MONICA KELLI
Monica has been practicing yoga for 12 years. Monica is registered with Yoga Alliance as an experienced yoga teacher at the 200 hour level. When not teaching yoga, Monica is involved in early childhood education working as a teacher. Monica's teaching style focuses on the whole person integrating the body, mind and spirit.
RACHEL LESHAW
Rachel Leshaw has been practicing yoga for 10 years. She became a
certified teacher of Ashtanga Yoga in 2003. Her teaching borrows from the
traditions of Anusara, Iyengar, and Viniyoga. Rachel's students have
included high schoolers opting for yoga as their gym class, a motley crew of adults in cooperative housing, and her mother.
Rachel currently lives in Encinitas, where her friends used yoga lingo to explain how to "pop
up" on a surfboard. She enjoys dancing, playing with dogs, and fresh
whipped cream.
ANITA MALONEY
I am newly relocated from the East coast. I am a Massachusetts native and most recently was living in Rhode Island. I walked into the Yoga Maya studio within two weeks of having relocated and felt as though I had come home. I have been involved with yoga since 2001 on the heels of a life threatening illness. It is yoga that brought me back to health. I am also a cancer survivor prior to the illness in 2001 and overcame a fatal accident in 2004. The best way to summarize yoga is to say it has truly been a “Life Saver” for me. I received my 200 Hour RYT in 2005 following an intensive study with Tom Gillette in 2005 in Providence, RI. I have also been studying with Baron Baptiste extensively having completed Level I and Level II trainings and am in the process of my full certification as a Baptiste instructor. I have assisted in the Baptiste yoga studios on the east coast for the past year. I have undergone further training with Alyssa Sullivan at Synergy Power in Rhode Island and have had the honor to learn from Richard Freeman, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rhea, Bryan Kest and Sean Corne. I look forward to sharing the incredible gifts that yoga has brought to me in my life. Yoga has brought incredible strength, joy, freedom and peace to my very soul. I look forward to continually learning about and sharing yoga throughout my life.
REVATI BERTHELET
Revati has been a Yoga Teacher and Physical Therapist for 28 years. She has taught numerous workshops for Restorative yoga, low back and upper body therapeutics and “Joy for Posture”. She is a certified RELAX/RENEW TRAINER by Judith Lasater, author of the book Relax and Renew and has assisted Judith in a recent San Diego three-day workshop.
NAOMI CALL
Naomi is a wellness tutor, life guide and certified yoga teacher. She has worked in the healing arts for over twenty-five years and is author of Yoga in Bed. Naomi's passions in life include being with nature, mothering, creating meals and nourishing people, photography, teaching and sharing the journey and delight of discovering our true essence.
ALANA PEJOUAN