PHILIP CHRISTODOULOU

Philip Christodoulou has been a Jnana-Yogi for many years, well versed in the Yoga Darshana. His primary influences are Jimmy Barkan for whom he teaches asana as well as philosophy and history of yoga for teacher training certification. He currently teaches The Barkan Method’s Hot Yoga and Hot Vinyasa classes. Other celebrated local influences of his style’s syncretism include: Lisa Goodwin, Patricia Chorne-Wolk, and Yogi Nasser. Originally from South Africa with a background in the liberal arts, linguistics and law, he is an environmental artist who approaches yoga with exacting precision and reverence. He calls his eclectic style “Anuttara Janma” meaning Yoga of the Highest Birth.

LAURA SWANEY

Laura Swaney has been practicing Yoga for several years.  She is a graduate of Jimmy Barkan’s Level I Hot Yoga Teacher Training Program. She is also Level II Vinyasa Flow certified under Barkan and Sport Yoga certified with the National Endurance Sports Trainers Association.  She has assisted and demonstrated at workshops across the country.  Laura has led prenatal/postnatal yoga workshops, couple’s yoga workshops, yoga for children and has a full teaching schedule at the Barkan Method Hot Yoga School in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. In addition, Laura teaches several clients privately, has worked with some of the finest NFL players and coaches to date. Also participating on a volunteer level, Laura founded and teaches the yoga program at a local church.

KELLY GREEN

Kelly Green is certified in both The Barkan Method’s Hot Yoga and Hot Vinyasa Levels. Born with birth defects in her knees, Kelly brings her compassion and her warrioresque attitude to injured students, and helps keep all students motivated and challenged. Dedicating her life to yoga because of the life transformation it has brought her, Kelly is sure to keep you inspired.

LISA GOODWIN

Lisa Goodwin has been teaching yoga in South Florida for over ten years, and has helped certify over 300 students to be Yoga instructors. Currently, Lisa teaches the Warm Yoga class at our studio Monday-Thursday and on Saturday mornings at 10:45. Along with Private yoga sessions, Lisa continues to teach workshops worldwide. Together, Lisa’s spiritual guidance and her knowledge of the proper alignment in each of the standing postures will encourage practitioners to experience the essence of Hatha yoga—on and off their mats.

DOMINGO SANZ

Domingo Sanz is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2001.  Immediately following his arrival in the States, Domingo was introduced to Jimmy Barkan’s Hot Yoga. Despite his lack of familiarity of the English language and his knowledge of yoga, Domingo actively sought to make yoga his life. After practicing 5-days a week, for several months, He received Jimmy Barkan’s Hot Yoga Certification in 2003. After three years of instructing the “Yoga to Sacred Music class at Barkan’s studio, Domingo rapidly became fluent in the English language. Prior to yoga, he went through everyday life on “auto-pilot”. He says that yoga has changed his thought patterns; Yoga has created peace within the mind as well as the body.

PAIGE HELD

Paige has known Jimmy Barkan since sixteen years of age. Surprisingly, as a young girl, Paige developed serious back issues—a twisted psoas. Initially, she took the medical route to alleviate her pain, but it wasn’t until after 6 months of practicing Jimmy Barkan’s Hot Yoga classes that Paige’s discomfort came to an end. Subsequently, Paige was hooked on yoga; she became interested in the mechanics of the body, which led her to Barkan’s Hot Yoga Teacher Training in 2001. Paige says, “It’s been a gift to teach yoga. Yoga eliminates confrontation in both the mind and the body. All it takes is 90 minutes in the yoga room and the willingness to let the magic happen.”

JIM BORSELLINO

Jim has been practicing and teaching yoga in South Florida for nearly 20 years. Certified by Bikram Choudhury in 1995, Jim served as the Director of Bikram's Yoga College of India in San Francisco from 1996 to 1998, and then returned to Florida and worked as a principal instructor at Bikram's Yoga College of India in Boca Raton. Jim is also a student of and instructor for nationally renowned Yoga teacher Jimmy Barkan, and is a senior teacher at Jimmy's world famous teacher training. Since 1987, Jim is a practitioner of the ancient meditation technique Kriya yoga, as taught by one of the preeminent spiritual figures of the twentieth century, Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship (www.yogananda-srf.org). Jim combines a light-hearted approach with an enthusiasm for sharing the exhilarating and truly life transforming benefits of regular yoga practice.

MELANIE CAMP

In 2003 Melanie became a certified Yoga Instructor and completed Level II and Level III teacher training of the Barkan Method. She is an associate trainer for Yoga Kids International completing Phase I in Italy in August 2004 and teaching at Fisher Island Day School and Yoga Connection as well as Yoga Center of Coral Springs. Melanie is currently writing a book of yoga tips featuring her original oil paintings.  She has taught yoga while traveling to SE Asia as part of the CARE International delegation following the Tsunami of 2004. She participated in the 2005 Caribbean 1500 sailboat rally and taught yoga while on board and at beaches in the British Virgin Islands and down island as far as Guadeloupe. She has attended yoga retreats in Costa Rica, Brazil, Santorini, North Carolina and Montana. In 2006 she taught yoga on a private island in Fiji as a guest instructor at Treasure Island Resort and she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and practiced yoga with her crew while ascending. Currently Melanie is the Yoga component on Yoga & Sail Yacht Charters in the Virgin Islands this winter. Melanie Trunkey Camp is a consultant to authors and President of her publishing company, Trunkey Publishing, Inc. Current and past book projects include The Barkan Method Hot Yoga, Yoga for Jocks, Amsterdam Journals, Boating 101, Childrens Books on Eating Healthy, Artful Yoga, and Oh!To Joy.