Teachers

The Yoga Studio – San Jose CA

Teachers are the heart and soul of each Yoga Studio. Our teachers are the reason people fall in love with us!

Pik-Chu

Pik Chu Wong has over 25 years of experience teaching yoga. She is a Yoga Alliance certified instructor through Yoga Educational Seminars (YES) by the founder, Joyce Anue and has been certified as an Unnata Aerial Yoga instructor by the founder, Michelle Dortignac. With her 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, she truly understands the affect job stress and long hours of sitting in front of the computer have on the body. Pik Chu has a therapeutic approach to her teaching along with an emphasis on body alignment and strength. Her classes help bring about the union of the body, mind and spirit. Pik Chu is honored to be an Ambassador for Lululemon, Manduka and Art of Yoga Project.

Pik-Chu

Alice

Alice came to us with years of professional experience from high tech.  Her desire to teach has always been strong, and it was through discovering the Ashtanga Primary Series that she found the right subject to teach.  She has learned that patience, foundational work, and consistency are vital to a sustainable practice.  She loves the challenge of Ashtanga, and the creative freedom of Vinyasa.  These two styles greatly inspire the way she teaches. She believes the practice is the teacher, and the teacher is the facilitator. In her class, Alice aims to help her students move forward with their practice while informing, exploring and trying new things with kind intelligence.  Her style is authentic, fun, strength and ease.  

Alice

Briant

Briant took her first yoga class after a friend suggested she try it to relive stress and anxiety. By her second class, she knew her life had changed forever. Not only had her mind quieted for the first time, she experienced healing benefits in every aspect of her life. In 2010, she completed the 200-hour teacher training, specializing in both power and therapeutic yoga. She discovered aerial yoga a few years later and again fell in love. She is amazed by the way the hammock challenges and assists students in the practice, and the power the prop has to release the body in ways traditional asana cannot. She recently completed the TYS™ Aerial Yoga Teacher Training with Pik Chu Wong. Briant’s mission is to convey the message that “yoga can change your life.”

Briant

Amber

Amber first experienced yoga 20 years ago in her local gym, and when she walked out feeling simultaneously energized, tired, and blissed-out, she knew that yoga was going to be her thing. Since that time, she has practiced many different kinds of yoga in many different places, but it was only recently that she had the opportunity to become a teacher Vinyasa Flow and TYS™ Aerial Yoga. Amber trained as a scientist and did basic cancer research for 10 years. She holds a PhD in molecular biology, which is no doubt the underlayment of her quest to understand the science of yoga as well as the art. What motivates her most of all is bringing that amazing, blissed-out yoga feeling to her friends and fellow yogis.

Amber

Louis

Louis’ love for Yoga came from his love for someone, that someone who is now his wife.  His Yoga beginning was as innocent and as simple as sharing an activity that his “girl” loved.  As he started practicing Yoga his appreciation and love for the art grew, and soon he found himself attending weekly Ashtanga classes.  The regular practice of Yoga brought about transformation in his body, the Yoga flow was mesmerizing and yet challenging, and the stress from the daily grind began to ease with each deep inhale and exhale.  He believes that Yoga should be fun and full of surprises, challenging and yet empowering, energizing but grounding, and the best part of all … you surrender to the practice and feel completely ok with it.

Louis