Damien McVey (E-RYT 200) has been a practitioner of yoga for well over 15 years with training and certification from Yoga Works and Yoga Den. She has been teaching since 2004 and has achieved the title of a E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher) through Yoga Alliance with over 1,000 hours of teaching experience. Damien has trained with some of the biggest names in the yoga community, but continues to believe it's best to be a student first. As an instructor and student of Ashtanga and Hatha yoga, Damien believes that combining respect and dedication for the yoga practice with laughter, levity and fun are the keys to not only a successful practice, but to a happy and healthy life. In addition to teaching, Damien works diligently every year to be one of the largest individual supporters for the local Corona Breast Cancer Walk and firmly believes in giving back to the community. If you ask Damien her thoughts on yoga, she will say, "It's impossible to explain the impact that yoga has had on my life, but it's been so great that I believe it must be shared. It's too good not to be!" I relish the thought of sharing my love of the practice with my students. If I can introduce them to even the tiniest of joys that I've found, then I'm a happy person, and if I can make them stronger, not only physically, but emotionally and mentally as well, while they smile and laugh the whole time.... then I've done my job. It's an honor to be a part of the yoga community and part of my students' lives.

Lisa Salners (E-RYT 500) took her first yoga class shortly after the birth of her daughter in 2000 and was immediately hooked. Having never considered herself particularly athletic, she was drawn to the accessibility of the postures, as well as the flowing grace of linking breath to movement. Lisa has been teaching since 2004, having completed her first 200-hour training at Yoga Works with Julie Kleinman, Maty Ezraty, Chuck Miller, and Lisa Walford, and her 500-hour training with Doug Moss at Green Tara Yoga. She enjoys expanding her practice and teaching methods, and has since taken numerous workshops and intensives with such extraordinarily inspirational teachers as Manju Jois, Alan Finger, Shiva Rea, David Life and Sharon Gannon, Dharma Mittra, Ganga White, and Tim Miller. Lisa has also taught teacher trainings and mentored new teachers. She recently completed an 8-week Everyday Ayurveda course with Marisa Laursen of the California College of Ayurveda. Lisa has lived in Corona since 2003 with her amazing children Michael and Rachel and her incredibly supportive and loving husband Mark, who has been instrumental in the realization of her dream to open a simple yoga space to share the practice with her community. Lisa strongly believes that yoga is the key to a deeply transformational practice that has amazing potential for strengthening and healing body, mind, and spirit.

Julie Williams(E-RYT 200) was introduced to yoga in 1998 and, even as a “non-exerciser,” was instantly addicted. She’s amazed at how transformational it can be and thoroughly enjoys how physically and mentally demanding some styles can be. It’s a very satisfying way to start off the day or weekend. After practicing with many teachers, Julie took her first training in 2003 and began teaching. She is grateful for the great energy and humor that students bring with them to their practice and loves being there for ‘light-bulb’ moments. Julie completed a 1st Series Ashtanga training with David Swenson and has also completed a 200 Hour training with Yoga Works.

Purvi Ulrey (E-RYT 200) took her first yoga class in 2007 and was instantly drawn to this form of fitness and wellness. Feeling like going to the gym or working out with a personal trainer was a chore, Purvi found that yoga was inviting. Each class was different. She discovered yoga can challenge the body and bring calmness to the mind. As a high school Biology teacher and mother of two young children these rewards were very appealing! Purvi took her first training in 2007 to enhance her personal practice. Compelled by the desire to share the gift of yoga with others she completed her first professional 200-hour teacher training in 2008. Purvi has a passion for teaching. She doesn’t take herself too seriously and enjoys bringing a little humor to each class.

JoDeane Pulver (RYT 200) started taking yoga classes in 2005 and fell in love with the practice. She has had three teachers who have influenced her life and for that she is truly grateful (Damien, Lisa and Julie). JoDeane completed her first yoga training in 2008 and has been teaching Beginning Vinyasa Flow classes in Chino and Corona since 2009. JoDeane particularly relishes the interplay of balance and flexibility in her practice and teaching, and has recently discovered a love for Yin Yoga and Tai Chi.

Catherine Szilagyi (RYT 200) grew up familiar with yoga, thanks to dabbling with home videos and books on yoga poses. However, after taking her first "official" yoga class in 2007 at her University's Recreation Center, she was hooked on the inner peace and calm yoga brought to her then chaotic life. Practicing on and off since then, she found her way to a more consistent and challenging practice thanks to the guidance of Lisa Salners and Damien McVey at Just Yoga. Her practice blossomed from there as she delved deeper, discovering new reasons to fall in love with yoga over and over again. Since then, inspired to give back the many gifts yoga has given her and in order to deepen her own practice, Catherine signed up for the teacher training and is a 2011 graduate of Just Yoga's first Yoga Alliance 200-Hour Teacher Training class. Catherine believes yoga is the answer to just about everything! She has experienced the transformative powers of yoga first hand; it's focus on uniting the mind, body, and spirit has changed her life. She feels yoga should be approached with a sense of fun, insight, curiosity, humor, and a gentle determination to work hard and be present in every moment. Only in yoga has Catherine found that you get back exactly that which you put in, and that there is always more to discover.