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Andy Selters

Andy Selters is a former international alpine climber and guide who settled in the Owens Valley in 1990. He’s practiced T’ai-chi chuan since the early 1980s, when he learned the traditional Yang style long-form from Grand Master T.Y. Pang.

Andy Selters

Andy works to transmit the movements and philosophy that Mr. Pang taught—with the emphasis on peaceful dynamics and building “aliveness”–but he translates in his own, more verbal style. Studios and groups started inviting Andy to teach some 15 years ago, and in that time he has helped many students enhance their mobility, stability, strength, and general mind-and-body awareness and well-being.

He has continued his education, including certification in the fitness techniques ChiRunning and ChiWalking, but the essentially infinite depth of the Yang style T’ai-chi chuan remains his primary teaching. He’s developed an intuitive feel for what students are ready to learn, and he always looks forward to introducing new people to the dual principles of ease and effectiveness for everyday living.

Melanie Otto

Melanie Otto grew up in the beautiful mountains and valley of Bishop, CA. In 2003 she was officially introduces to yin yoga with Pattie Milliron and fell in love with it as a living, multi dimensional practice.

Melanie Otto

In Oakland she met her second teacher, Cynthia Denise in a prenatal yoga class that introduced the fluidity that intuition that a truly creative and intelligent practice requires. After returning to Bishop with her husband to raise their 4 kids she was blessed to find Prana vinyasa and her teacher Kelly Doyle. Kelly Doyle introduced and lit the fire to deeper philosophies of yoga such as nourishing and opening the heart ALL WAYS, as well as letting the breath guid her from moment to moment.

In 2015 she received her 200hr teaching certificate with Kelly Doyle in Prana Vinyasa. Using this wholistic flow Developed by Shiva Rae, Melanie continues her studies in the universe of yoga as a physical, intellectual, emotional practice to bring strength, balance, peace, and joy to her heart, mind and body and to share the same with others.

Naomi Hart

Naomi Hart Johnson is a teacher who committed to working with others to develop a deeper relationship with yoga.

Naomi Hart

With her RYT200 from YogaWorks, Naomi places great importance on alignment, care, strength and connecting with the practice of yoga on a level that goes beyond the physical and that students can take off the mat and into their lives.
Special interests include pre-natal yoga, working with young people and working with climbers and outdoor athletes to nurture a healthy yoga practice to help you inhabit your body with an open heart and mind and improve mental focus.

Lauren Robinson

Lauren Robinson, Sierra Shanti Owner and Instructor, Wellness Retreat Leader & Gut Health Expert is dedicated to healing the mind, body and soul through creative movement and natural health solutions.

Lauren Robinson

Having completed her 200-hour Prana Vinyasa® Yoga certification in Raleigh, NC she transitioned to the west coast and currently resides in Bishop, CA and continues her studies under Shiva Rea, the founder of Prana Vinyasa Yoga.

Lauren manages her own small business, Led by Love Lauren, in which she hosts local and international wellness retreats annually, offers virtual Gut Cleanses, as well as works one-on-one with individuals to invite natural health solutions into daily rhythm for full vitality.

 

“I was introduced to yoga during a particularly challenging time in my life and was in need of deep healing. I fell in love with Prana Vinyasa® because it was unlike any yoga class I had ever been to. In Prana Vinyasa®, the breath is intelligently sequenced with each movement, creating a truly transformational mind AND body experience. In the most positive way imaginable, yoga radically shifted my mental and physical health. I know in my heart that I’m meant to share this powerful practice with others.”

Tiffany Vandehoven

Tiffany is a teacher to her core. She’s been practicing yoga for 20 years (since her teens) and also fell in love with classroom teaching in her 20’s.


Tiffany Vandehoven

She decided to combine her two life passions by becoming a yoga teacher and completed Kelley Doyle’s 100 hour Prana Vinyasa Teacher Training through Samudra School of Yoga in 2014.  Since then, Tiffany has been living yoga and teaching yoga on the East Side, enjoying guiding others in their own mindful embodiment journey. She has found that a dedicated yoga practice leads her on her own personal path to healing, strength, contentment and peace. Off the mat, Tiffany is a proud wife, and mother to three.

Her classes are active, vibrant and full of challenge and joy!

Valerie Hart

Valerie fell in love with yoga while studying at Heartwood Wellness Center in Northern California in 1999. She has obtained multiple certificates including Hatha Yoga at Aura Wellness Center in 2005, Prana Vinyasa Flow & Elemental Vinyasa at Samudra School of Living Yoga in 2015 & 2016.

Valerie Hart

Valerie started her teaching in 2012, bringing into her classrooms the deep love she has for these practices. She loves the form of movement meditation and enjoys sharing all the benefits that leaves her students with a calm mind and a happy body.

She moved to Mammoth lakes in 1976 and then moved to Owens Valley in 2003 where she lives with her two dogs, a cat and nine chickens! She loves the Eastern Sierras and how they offer her all the actives that she enjoys doing including Skiing, snowboarding, biking, paddle boarding, kayaking, hiking, gardening and playing her ukulele.

Julie Faber

Julie was introduced to the creative Prana Vinyasa ™ flow yoga~ through Kelley Doyle over 15 years ago. Life is a beautiful journey and this journey has been a part of healing, maintaining and growing.

Julie Faber

Diving into yoga has helped her reconnect and it is now a part of her class rasa to unwind tension through movement and breath. Come sweat and challenge your strength, balance, and flexibility with Julie’s  positive energy and embodied sequences.

You will be given options in each pose so that you feel challenged, yet successful. You will feel space from a natural flow from pose to pose, with a focus on breath and balance, front to back and left to right.  A great class for climbers, mountain bikers, skiers, and runners.

                                                                              Certifications:
                     200 Hour Prana Vinyasa Teacher Training (Samudra School of Living Yoga)
                                      Yoga Alliance, Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200)

Diana

I have been practicing yoga for over 20 years and fell in love with the Anusara philosophy and style in Las Vegas in the early 2000’s.

Diana

I completed my 200-hour Anusara teacher training with Keric Morinaga in Los Angeles in 2017 and have been teaching ever since.  As a school psychologist and rock climber, I enjoy incorporating my yoga practice into my life and work for the well-being of myself and the community in the beautiful Owens Valley.

 

Chelsea Griffin

Chelsea began her yoga practice more than 15 years ago, during which time she explored several styles of yoga including pranayama and meditation.

Chelsea Griffin

She studied human anatomy and physiology in college and she completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Jason Crandell. Today, Chelsea teaches vinyasa yoga that is heavily influenced by Iyengar yoga and her formal education. She offers simple yet powerful yoga flows that are approachable and enlightening. Chelsea will teach her students how to develop strength and flexibility within their bodies by communicating precise technique. She also emphasizes using the breath to endure in light of difficulty. Her ultimate goal is for her students to take what they learn about their body while on the mat into their daily lives so they may feel and move better.

Laurel Fiddler

Laurel's classes integrate breath with movement, while cultivating softness and options for modifications. It is important to her that yoga feels accessible to all bodies, ages, and experience levels. 

Laurel Fiddler


Laurel first came to yoga in an elementary school enrichment class and has been practicing ever since. Yoga has been integral to keeping her body healthy, nervous system nourished, and mental health balanced. Excited to share yoga's benefits with others, Laurel completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Laughing River Yoga in Burlington, Vermont in 2018. Her teachers, Sofi Dillof and Emily Garrett, taught an emphasis on Vinyasa flow and alignment, which continue to direct Laurel's teaching style.

Laurel's classes integrate breath with movement, while cultivating softness and options for modifications. It is important to her that yoga feels accessible to all bodies, ages, and experience levels. She hopes to embody this openness in her classes. 

After growing up in the Eastern Sierra, Laurel is thrilled to be back after many years away. She is grateful for the opportunity to join the Sierra Shanti community and continue to explore and share her yoga practice with others. Laurel is in graduate school to be a mental health counselor and hopes to someday integrate yoga into her therapy practice. 

Amanda

Amanda Dolphin was born and raised in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, and studied Eastern religions at Montclair State University.

Amanda

She moved to Lone Pine 20 years ago in order to deepen her spiritual practice in the shadow of the mighty Sierras. She has been a student of Chloe Goodchild, founder of the Naked Voice School of Sound healing, as well as studied with both Krishna Das and Deva Premal. Her passion is in facilitating group musical experiences where people can come and express their own unique song in a compassionate loving environment.  She leads drum circles kirtans and soundbaths as a way to share these valuable practices with her community.

Angela Foley

For Angela, yoga is a permeating practice: a way of life, a tool to connect with self, a place to breathe, play, and explore.

Angela Foley

While she will always consider herself first a student of yoga, she has over 400 hours in RYT training and apprenticed in the traditional method of teaching yoga in a Mysore room. Since moving to Bishop, she continues her studies with internationally recognized senior teacher David Garrigues. Her mission is to carry forward the tradition and gifts of the Ashtanga Vinyasa method in an authentic and accessible spirit.

David

A musician and graduate of UC Berkeley’s Anthropology program, David has always been keenly interested in world cultures, human potential, and spiritual traditions.

David

A musician and graduate of UC Berkeley’s Anthropology program, David has always been keenly interested in world cultures, human potential, and spiritual traditions. In 1995, he traveled to Haridwar, India to work at the Sri Ram orphanage and study classical yoga with Baba Hari Dass–the first yoga teacher of Ram Dass. David (Ramesh) eventually became a certified yoga instructor through the Sivananda Yoga Organization, and has taught in many ashrams and studios in California and India. David is a lifelong yoga student and continues to practice and be amazed by the many forms of yogic science; he especially loves sharing Vedic chanting and devotional music (kirtan), because the pure, powerful vibrations offer healing and a sense of natural oneness with all life.   

Jen Fitzwater

Jen Fitzwater was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jen found her way to yoga during her junior year at Saint Lawrence University in upstate New York. During an incredibly tumultuous year, she joined a class at the school’s rec center.

Jen Fitzwater

Jen Fitzwater was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jen found her way to yoga during her junior year at Saint Lawrence University in upstate New York. During an incredibly tumultuous year, she joined a class at the school’s rec center. She was instantly drawn into the practice and very quickly found herself seeking out more yoga at the local studio, finding a sense of grounding that she sorely needed in that time. She was soon leading classes for SLU’s on-campus yoga club and apprenticing with her teacher Sarah, helping with kids’ yoga classes. 

Jen knew she wanted to go deeper into her personal practice and learn how to guide and facilitate for others with a teacher training. In the summer following graduation, she took a six-week intensive 200 hour YTT at her new home studio, It’s Yoga Cincinnati (an Ashtanga based studio) in 2012. Jen secured her first teaching position at a new studio in Cincinnati during her practical exam and has taught on and off ever since. Jen has taught in several studios in Cincinnati, multiple music and arts festivals around the Midwest, at community centers in Utah, at a permaculture and natural building workshop in Lunahuaná, Peru, and she is so excited to now be joining the community here at Sierra Shanti in Bishop. 

In her own time, Jen is an avid hiker, novice trail runner, canyoneer, aspiring climber, and multi-disciplinary artist. She also teaches English as a second language and spends a lot of time listening to and playing music. Jen’s classes are meant to be fun and a bit challenging with a warmth and calming energy as the arc of the practice comes through to savasana. She can’t wait to meet you all!

Miranda Perrone

Miranda has been a student of Hatha Yoga and Zen Buddhism for over twenty years. With a passion for traditional yoga, her teaching integrates real-life experience with philosophy and modern neuroscience to continually evolve in service of rooted resilience. 

Miranda Perrone

Teacher Bio

Miranda has been a student of Hatha Yoga and Zen Buddhism for over twenty years. With a passion for traditional yoga, her teaching integrates real-life experience with philosophy and modern neuroscience to continually evolve in service of rooted resilience. Each group session is sequenced with intention to prepare the body for each ?sana, pr???y?ma, and meditation practice. Miranda seeks to create spaces that support and honor all beings, which is an ongoing listening and learning process.

Miranda has trained in hatha, trauma-informed, and yin yoga (E-RYT 500 hour) as well as Ayurveda and yoga therapy. She practices in the Engaged Buddhist lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh as well as in the Insight Meditation tradition of Spirit Rock. As a longtime outdoor educator, herbalist, and adventurer, being embedded in the natural world nourishes and informs her: Miranda focuses on bringing the elements into her classes to support a sense of belonging and interconnection that inspire teacher and student alike to take the insights carried through many generations off the mat and into the world. 

Miranda remains a constant student to her many teachers, whose wisdom she is humbled and delighted to pass on; she continues in-depth studies with Raquel Bueno, Indu Arora, and Djuna Devereaux, and her primary Dharma teachers are Nikki Mirghafori, Frank Ostazeki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the living, breathing world. 

Becky Holmes

Becky, a dietitian and yoga instructor since 2014 and 2012, is deeply passionate about mindful awareness and community well-being. Her teaching style is inspired by over 500 hours of training in yoga and meditation, including over 300 hours in therapeutically focused and alignment-based teaching

Becky Holmes

Becky, a dietitian and yoga instructor since 2014 and 2012, is deeply passionate about mindful awareness and community well-being. Her teaching style is inspired by over 500 hours of training in yoga and meditation, including over 300 hours in therapeutically focused and alignment-based teaching. This coincides with ten-plus years of experience teaching a variety of populations with many different levels of ability. She also enjoys weaving in strength-based concepts from training in pilates. 

Initially intimidated by group movement classes, her ultimate goal is to make yoga accessible for EVERYONE by aspiring to remove barriers and create safe, non-judgemental, and comfy spaces for practice and play.  She firmly believes that we're all on this journey together and finds it deeply rewarding to witness the beautiful things that unfold when we take good care of and support one another! 

Training: 
300 RYT Prana Vinyasa, Evolve Movement, Raleigh, NC
500 RYT Therapeutically Enhanced Yoga, Asheville Yoga Center Asheville, NC
Pilates Mat I, II, III Balanced Body, Fusion Pilates, Asheville, NC  

Additional training:
Meditation, Power of Awareness with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach
Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga with Douglas Keller, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Yoga for Life with Gary Kraftsow, M.A, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
Yoga, Psychology, and Trauma with Janelle Railey, MA, LPC, RYT

Nina Adarkar

Nina Adarkar

Nina (200 YTT) is the oldest of three sisters and grew in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently living in Bishop for the summer working as a Field Assistant with the Inyo County Water Department. Practicing yoga has helped her find gratitude for her breath and body, observe her mind, and become more present both on and off the mat. Nina is trained in Hatha, Vinyasa, pranayama, and meditation, and mostly practices Hatha and Yin in her day to day life. She is grateful to embrace the opportunity of teaching at Sierra Shanti.

Carly Wagner

Carly began practicing yoga as a teen and has continued to deepen her practice ever since. Her classes create a warm, grounding space where students of all levels can unwind, restore, and move with intention.

Carly Wagner

Carly began practicing yoga when her mother first introduced her to the practice as a teen, and it has been a meaningful part of her life ever since. Guided by her teacher and mentor Lauren Robinson, she completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Sierra Shanti Studio in Bishop through the Led by Love Flow Hatha Vinyasa Style, where she deepened her understanding of yoga as both a physical and spiritual practice. Living in the Eastern Sierra for the past two years, Carly draws inspiration from the mountains, hiking, and skiing, as well as her work as an artist.

Her classes are gentle and grounding, focusing on mindful movement, breath, and connection. Carly aims to create a welcoming space where students of all levels can unwind, reconnect, and move with intention. She hopes the skills and awareness developed on the mat carry into everyday life, helping students feel more balanced, present, and connected to themselves.

Katie Mayo

Katie first came to yoga for mobility in 2016, but stayed for the deeper connection it offered to body, breath, and self. Over time, her practice evolved into a deeper study of the mind-body relationship and somatic awareness.

Katie Mayo

Katie completed her Ashtanga & Hatha teacher training in Rishikesh, where she immersed herself in the birthplace of yoga, studying traditional philosophy, meditation, and breathwork. She remains a devoted student of the practice and is grateful for the opportunity to share what she’s learned with others.
Katie’s teaching blends the strength, rhythm, and breath-centered discipline of Ashtanga with the mindful presence and steadiness of Hatha, while weaving in somatic principles that invite students to move with awareness, notice sensation, and explore the powerful connection between physical movement and internal experience.
Her classes aim to cultivate strength, mobility, groundedness, and balance, helping students feel more spacious in body, steadier in mind, and more connected to themselves, both on and off the mat.

Rotating Instructors

Siobhan Kenney

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