Yoga and Wellness Teachers at Sagrada Wellness
Nicole Currie
I am passionate about helping people lead more balanced lives through holistic movement and wellness. I love teaching various styles of yoga, mindfulness meditation, Pilates to help with stability, barre fitness, dance, and kids’ movement classes. I bring years of experience from being a professional dancer, NFL cheerleader, retreat leader, and credentialed elementary school dance teacher.
After my beautiful mom passed away from cancer, I wanted to be of service to others dealing with the stresses of daily life. I see how hard people work, how many obligations they have, and how many responsibilities they navigate. My purpose is to gently remind others that it's okay to take time out of their full lives to rest, relax, rejuvenate, indulge in slowing down, play, and allow their bodies to heal. You deserve it!
Qualifications:
MFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
California Credential in Dance Education K-12
500-hour Yoga Works, Yoga Certification
White Lotus Foundation, Yoga Certification
STOTT Pilates and Total Barre, Full Certification
Leslie St.John
Leslie St. John is a self-expression muse, helping people get “unstuck.” Using the modalities of yoga, Qoya, and writing, she helps people unshackle creativity, feel their bodies as allies, and cultivate more self-intimacy. She is the creator of Prose and Poses and offers yoga and writing retreats (Upcoming retreats at Sagrada and the Mayan Riviera). She holds an MFA in poetry from Purdue University and is the author of Beauty Like a Rope. Her writing is published in Elephant Journal, Teach. Yoga, Yoga Revolutionaries, Apersus Quarterly, Oxford American, Rebelle Society, and Verse Daily. She teaches Literature at Cal Poly. A 500-hour RYT, she has studied with Tias Little, Noah Maze, and Rocky Heron. Her classes have been described as “Sweaty and Spiritual.” Be prepared to move. Deepen your connection to your true self. You can find her writing at a café, hunting vintage shops, or hiking with her beagle Lucy in the hills of San Luis Obispo.
Eva Inglizian L.Ac.
Eva Inglizian L.Ac. is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in the State of California and has her acupuncture practice at Sagrada Wellness. Eva leads Sagrada's Qi Gong classes. Her passion is in empowering individuals to feel their sense of harmony and vitality. Eva’s clients come to her for health maintenance and preventive care, empowering them as unique individuals rather than a disease process. Eva's intuitive understanding of healthy living can be seen in her treatment offerings. Eva has been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine for over a decade. Born into a family of healers ranging from her Father, an Emergency Room physician and psychologist to her Mother a nurse, Eva has healing in her blood.
Tony Khalife
Singer, songwriter and recording artist Tony Khalife, brings the gift of transcendence through music. He weaves a seamless flow in which the drone and ragas of Indian music and the resonance of devotional Sufi dances meet Western harmonies. Tony is a Vedic scholar who has studied the life and songs of Indian saints and ancient rituals in Sanskrit, served seven years as a ceremonial guide at the Wishwa Shanti Ashram in Oakland, California, and spent one year in India on pilgrimage singing and chanting from Haridwar to Pandharapur. Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Tony has lived in California for 30 years. To learn more about Tony, visit tonykhalife.com
Victoria Kromhout
Victoria walks this earth to Nourish its inhabitants with love, food, well-being, and joy. Her chosen vehicle for delivering all that is yoga, Ayurveda, cooking, and celebration. Her drive to Nourish and Care centers around her family. She strives to foster a feeling of safety and fun that allows open communication, creative expression, and community. With three active children, jobs, careers, and passions for various pursuits, life can be very hectic. Providing good food, a loving environment, and a home for her family is what Victoria lives for. Nourish by Victoria is an extension of that desire to provide warmth, care, and love to her community and everyone she comes into contact with. Through the ancient healing system of Ayurveda and her devotion to the practice of yoga, Victoria seeks to help her clients to find their own healing path.
Victoria began her training when she was 23 years old after injuring her back working on the Fire Department. Her initial focus was on Kripalu and Iyengar yoga. She completed her 200-hour RYT with YogaWorks at the Yoga Center in San Luis Obispo with Malachi Melville and Greville Henwood in 2010.
She continued her 300-hour training with Master Ayurveda teacher James Bailey, founder of Sevanti Institute, and Peter Sterios of Levity Yoga in 2016. Victoria is currently completing another 400 hours of training in Ayurvedic Medicine with the Sevanti Institute and preparing to take the National Ayurveda Medical Association (NAMA) exam to become a Certified Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor.
Meg Whitney
As a Somatic Movement and Meditation Teacher with over a decade of experience, while many shift their focus away from soulful movement and toward fitness-based offerings, Megan Whitney is traveling the other direction; back to a place of remembrance, longevity, discovery and self-inquiry. In her 12 years of teaching, she’s led thousands of practitioners and trained over 150 teachers. She has kept Thia’s (her original teacher’s) spirit alive, through a wisdom that lives on through her. And she’s developed a language surrounding her own knowledge, complete with a playful, nurturing essence.
Megan is here to support you in the practice of getting to know who you are; to shine a light on the judgment and fear that gets in the way of embodying your true self. And she strives to embody her own truth, intuition and authenticity, as a way of giving you permission to do the same. Whether it’s providing an experience to access your soul, or ignite your soul, or celebrate your soul… Megan is here for it all.
Jahara Sara Seitz
Jahara Sara Seitz, OTR/L, E-RYT is committed to helping others move through the world with a greater sense of joy, levity, and authenticity. As an occupational therapist, movement artist, and yoga educator Jahara is devoted to forever growing in her understanding of the body, the art of embodiment, and what it means to live a radiant and reverent life. With a natural grace and intuitive approach, she is a facilitator, therapist, mentor, and teacher who is spiritually oriented, capable of seamlessly unifying principles of alignment with a philosophy that embodies a celebration of the heart.
Experience, Certifications, & Training Highlights: E-RYT 200: Karuna Center for Yoga & Healing Arts; 12+ years of teaching yoga and movement arts; 100 hour Anusara Yoga Immersion: Yoga Sanctuary; Masters of Occupational Therapy: Bay Path University; John F Barnes Myofascial Release 1 Training; John F Barnes Myofascial Mobilization Training; Lori Zeltwanger Myofascial Connections Training.
Sera Melini
Sera Melini (500h E-RYT & Āyurvedic Physician) has been a lifetime student and accomplished teacher of Yoga and Āyurveda - beginning her studies at the age of 14.
She has been blessed with teachers who have searched classically for the patterns of the Universe and Spirit. Her studies and experiences in the realms of Yoga, Mantra, and Āyurveda all serve to assist in increasing her depth, sensitivity, and simplicity in ways she lives and practices. Her primary source training has allowed her to be a dynamic teacher and facilitator of the modern age. Her goal is to contextualize things often taught in broad strokes so you can go deep instead of only wide. Her intention is to allow the teachings coming through her so as to catalyze the potency and wisdom already within you. This is the meaning of Yogavāhi. It is a substance that brings out the inherent power of whatever it is paired with.
She is passionate about providing you with the foundational teachings that all of these years of study and collecting, so that you can walk away feeling like you know how to make decisions, how to apply Yoga and Āyurveda to your specific life in a way that is truly supportive, nourishing, and effective.
Some of her teachers include, Andrey Lappa of Universal Yoga, Kula Yoga Project, Sankalpah College of Yoga (Yoga), Parvathy Baul, Sadhvi Abha Saraswatiji and Raghunath Cappo (Mantra), Vaidya Kashyapa Fischer, Dr. Vasant Lad, Vaidya Ravi of Poonthottam Ayurvedasram, the California College of Ayurveda, Dr. Claudia Welsh, Dr. Cate Stillman (Ayurveda), Antonia Ruppel, Vladimir Yatsenko (Sanskrit). Her teachers of touch include those at Sunshine School (Chiang Mai, Thailand) and Ohm (Omsala Chiang Mai, Thailand) for the wisdom of Thai Massage and Chi Nei Tsang.
To learn more, visit : www.yogavahi.com
Sarah Bell
Sarah Bell is an experienced yoga teacher (25 years) and a lover of spring in all its bounty. She welcomes students of all levels of yoga practice. Her style is slow, steady, clear and accessible. Her classes are infused with the light-hearted humor that makes serious inquiry a joyful endeavor.
Sarah’s first teacher training course was with Erich Schiffmann in 1994 at Yoga Works in Santa Monica, CA. She apprenticed with Erich at Yoga Works and continued her studies with Maty Ezraty, and Chuck Miller and the tremendous faculty at the school. After several years of teaching yoga classes, Sarah began assisting numerous Yoga Works teacher trainings. She began facilitating them herself in 2005. She moved to New York City in 2006, and continued studying, teaching, and training teachers for Yoga Works.
In 2015, Sarah completed a two year Iyengar Yoga teacher training taught by James Murphy in New York City. She assisted James’ Level One class at the Iyengar Institute before moving to western Colorado in 2018.
Sarah continues to facilitate 200 hour and 300 hour Yoga Works courses throughout the country, leads workshops and retreats internationally, and teach classes and mentor newer teachers in programs in Fruita, CO and online.
You can find her at www.sarahbellyoga.com.