Sofiah Thom~ Founder, Yoga and Dance Teacher

As a dancer, somatic guide and ritual performer, this modern day yogini / temple dancer creates environments for transformation, self-discovery and pure bliss.   By simply being in Sofiah's presence one feels her grace, strength and palpable sensuality as she invites you to get out of your head and into your body.  For it is through your body that you come to access the innate power and creativity that lies within you, while providing the space for your life force to move freely through you and beyond.

As a daughter of healers, and an interdisciplinary artist with a degree in Dance Therapy from Naropa University, studies at the Tamalpa Institute in Expressive Healing Arts, and myriad trainings in bodywork, yoga and dance, Sofiah's deep understanding of the body and somatics shines through her work.  Sofiah fuses dance, yoga, breath work, expressive healing arts and Tantric Buddhism into her Healing Arts and has appeared at International events including the Bali Spirit Festival, Bhakti Fest, Lightning in a Bottle, and Subud World Congresses around the World for for over a decade.

As well as traveling internationally to spread her light, Sofiah lives and works on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica where she and her husband founded Bamboo YogaPlay in 2007 as a Sanctuary for Living Artfully.

For a more extensive bio and background visit: Sofiah Thom's Bio page

Heidi Michelle ~ Yoga Teacher

Heidi Michelle has been in the teaching in the transformational growth arena for nearly 20 years. Birthed in the California sunshine, her journey took her through the professional dance world as a teacher and performer, into personal growth and empowerment facilitation, personal coaching, visual arts and finally finding a deeper home in the sacred teachings of partner and individual Yoga. With an intuitive nature, she invites provocative questioning of the paradigms governing our life choices. How is it that you REALLY want to live? If you dumped your internal rules, what would you do with this one precious life you've been given? Where are the places in which you deny your wildest expression? Can we dare to live in audacious intimacy with ourselves and others?

Heidi teaches, lives, dances, plays well with others, loves madly, and beholds beauty in the Denver/Boulder, Colorado area in the summertime and can be found roaming the jungles and coastlines of Costa Rica most winters.

Xuba Evaristo - Integrative & Intuitive Wholistic Healing Arts

Combining the best of over a dozen modalities studied over the past two decades, each treatment is a unique and deeply therapeutic experience.

With a bachelors degree in Pre-Med studies, a Wholistic Bodywork Diploma from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and 2 year apprenticeship with a wholistic chiropractor, my work is based on a firm foundation in the western allopathic sciences.  Combined with experience in yoga and meditation, raw foods and fasting, and esoteric spiritual studies, my work is also well able to go beyond the ordinary realms of consciousness and experience.

Drawing especially from the Cranial Sacral, Myofascial, Medical and Oriental Bodywork schools, I have the skills and experience to provide you with whatever sort of experience you desire.  Injuries, surgeries, illnesses, stress, meltdowns, ruts, whatever!  My work is my passion, my spiritual discipline, and the culmination of lifetimes of study and preparation.  It is my pleasure and honor to provide my service to you :-)

Leah McKellop

Born to the rocky hills and trees of Connecticut, Leah spent the first years of her life nurtured by forest of a sleepy town. Family lore says she has been dancing and stretching since the womb. Though, her yoga practice truly took off as she came crashing down during a pole vault competition, resulting in a few years worth of injuries to be healed by a dedicated yoga practice. By the time her ankle and shoulder were strong again, Leah had transplanted to New York City. With so many new people and that electric city air to drink in, a Yoga practice became central to keeping her toes firmly rooted to the ground. She carved out a sanctuary in the city, completing a 200-hr RYT and later 500-hr RYT training with Atmananda Yoga Sequence (www.atmananda.com). She also mentored under, Sabina Stahl of The Yoga Sequence (www.theyogasequence.com) and is completing a second 500-hr RYT training .  After teaching group and private classes full time, she became the Studio Manager at Atmananda Yoga Sequence and begin assisting the Atmananda Certification Program Right off of Union Square in Manhattan, the studio provided a beautiful growing experience as a hub for teachers and students from around the world. Her mentors there still infuse their way into her teaching today, which includes modalities of Pranayama (breathwork), Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Thai Yoga Massage, Yoga Therapy, Restorative Yoga and Shamanism. While in New York she studied Applied Psychology at New York University, concentrating in Creative Arts Therapies, which has also weaved its way into her approach.

Here in Costa Rica, charged by that same forest air of her roots, Leah invites her students to reconnect to nature around them. Her nurturing classes have an enfaces on alignment, both in the body and spirit, providing students the confidence they need to keep flying forward, transforming and dancing through life's waves.

Sae Bluff

Sae came into dance at the age of 15, competing avidly in the Latin ballroom realm around the Northeast of the United States. She has recieved first place in the Bronze, Silver, and Gold levels and currently competies at the Pre-champion level. Throughout the years she has also trained in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, and Standard Ballroom.

Sae discovered hooping in 2010 as a form of meditative dance and expression and has been hooked ever since! In 2011 she worked as a hoopdance performer for the Electronic Dance Music Community based in Northampton, Massachusetts. That spring she was featured as a performer for the Sisters on the Runway fashion show-fundraiser to raise awareness about domestic violence. The following summer she volunteered teaching hoopdance classes at the CVIS bilingual school in Nayarit, Mexico and during this time she ventured into the world of fire-hooping. Most recently, she was featured hoopdancing in the Talleres de movimiento contemporary dance show in Monteverde, Costa Rica in March of 2012. This show was put on by Danza Universitaria, the first professional contemporary dance company in the country. Sae looks forward to exploring and expanding my adventures in hooping and dancing wherever my travels may take her.