Dorian

Practicing yoga for 43 years, Dorian is the owner of Power Yoga Hawaii and one of the most experienced yoga instructors on Oahu. He has traveled to India three times and is starting to understand in meditation when desires or restless thoughts enter his mind, it is Maya trying to distract him from the supreme. His favorite pose is Mayurasana because it cleanses the gut like the peacock destroying the poisonous snake.

Joji

Several years ago, a car accident caused a downward trajectory in Joji's life. His doctor recommended he stand on his head for 30-60 seconds everyday to heal himself through selfcare. Thus, his yoga journey began. Joji never thought he would evolve in his practice to find the stillness inside of himself or to share his practice with others. Teaching yoga is very rewarding to him now, as he gets to see the potential growth in students to challenge, empower, and be themselves in class, which can have a mirror effect to reflect their individual practice off the mat and thrive in all aspects of life. His accident has blessed him with the silver lining of being inspired to give back his experiences and the knowledge he has gained through his yogic path. Joji's favorite yoga poses are arm balances and inversions.

Katharine

Katharine Harts fell in love with the hammock after many years of teaching dance and low flying trapeze. She holds an MFA in Dance and owned an aerial studio in the SF Bay area for 9 years before moving to Hawaii in 2019. Her passion is to combine her years of dance training into choreography in the air. Katharine is certified in Antigravity, AlReal Yoga and Aerial Hammock Dance from The Aerial Studio in Ventura, California. Ms. Harts teaches over 6 classes a week including Conditioning at Queen Emma Ballet, Melt Method, Level 2 and 3 Aerial Yoga at Power Yoga Hawaii, and aerial arts for children/teens through her business soullovesthebody.com.

Laura

Laura is a mover and shaker. She has been connected to movement all her life through from the Midwest all the way to our island paradise. She gained the nickname “the yoga coach” for her enthusiastic yoga classes in LA and along the professional beach volleyball circuit. As a life-long student, Laura worked and trained amongst several master teachers and key thinkers in the yoga industry in LA and racked up over 2,000 hours of training under their tutelage. As an Experienced Registered Yoga teacher (E-RYT 500) Laura has learned and adapted her teaching style to help people become more aware and appreciative of their own innate capacity to move. Laura’s special love of biomechanics, deep anatomy, functional fitness, and adaptation have made her yoga classes and trainings an inspiring blend of passion and humility.

Daniel

Des formerly competed professionally as a Muay Thai fighter. He regularly traveled to Southeast Asia to hone his craft and compete on the largest stages in Thailand. He utilized yoga, breathing, and meditation to bring balance and flexibility into his rigid and rigorous routine of life. After intermittently practicing, Des began to realize the profound effects daily yoga practice had on reducing symptoms of PTSD, insomnia, and anxiety. Yoga tremendously helps him in his recovery from a TBI that happened as a result of a parachuting accident. After the passing of his mother, Des turned deeper into his meditation practice and journeyed on a pilgrimage to Nepal where he spent months in the Himalayan mountains to better understand grief, death, and life. He earned his 500 hour yoga teacher training certificate in rural Kathmandu and his 100-hour meditation training in the city where the Gautama Buddha was born, Lumbini. Des carries a wealth of wisdom gained through worldly experiences in over one hundred countries. Which he shares in his intentional teaching along with his connection to source. Des loves yoga because it introduces an opportunity for humans to become more resilient, wholesome, accountable, and mindful while navigating through their path of life.

Alexandria

Alexandria is a Honolulu local with a passion for movement. As a 200H RYT with her 300H in progress, she loves to learn more about the mind-body connection, and the practices that ground us. Her bubbly personality and passion shines through in any project in the studio, outdoors, or when making connections with everyone she meets. After over four years in the elementary classroom as a general education and Hawaiian studies teacher, she is looking to grow into the world of body work.

Jenny

Jenny has been a practitioner of Yoga for over 20 years. She received her 200-hr Yoga Teaching certification at Power Yoga Hawaii in 2015 and has taught more than 5000 hours since. Her teaching can be described as creative, powerful and intelligently aligned. Hawai’i has called her back home and she is thrilled to share her love and passion for Yoga with her PYH Ohana.

Adriaan

Adriaan is a certified Jivamukti Yoga & Hatha Yoga Teacher. In 2014, he started his yoga journey attending Jivamukti yoga classes in Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Munich, and Hamburg, and in 2017 he went on a spiritual journey to India & Nepal hiking through the Himalayas to find self realization. In 2018, he became certified in Hatha Yoga at Govhardan Eco Village in India and started teaching Hatha & Vinyasa Yoga classes in Germany & Spain. He continued learning Harmonium & Sanskrit chanting, Yoga Vedas philosophy, Kriya Yoga, various meditation techniques, and completed his Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Training in 2024 and moved to Hawaii to begin teaching on the island. Adriaan is also a professional tattoo artist & illustrator, musician, surfer, & Shamanic sound healing practitioner.

Sammi

Sammi was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and returned home after graduating from college in Pennsylvania in 2015. She found her passion for yoga and began developing her practice in 2016, and completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2017. Sammi is a practicing and licensed attorney in the State of Hawaii since 2020, and has continued to teach yoga throughout her legal education and career.
Sammi’s classes combine creative sequencing with the spirit of playfulness to create heat, build strength, and help deepen your practice. With over five years of yoga teaching experience, Sammi is dedicated to creating a safe, accepting and lively space for students of all backgrounds and levels, that allows for personal growth, body and breath awareness, and self connection.

Robin

Robin Shepard is a yoga teacher, writer, and world traveler. She makes her home in Honolulu after 14 years living aboard in China and Vietnam. A life long learner, she has honed her floor-based teaching style with a strong emphasis on functional movement, natural breath mechanics, and sensation/perception. She received her foundational training in Hatha yoga for wellness and her advanced training in, among other things, the FluidUs method of integrative yoga and movement. Robin received her aerial training with world-renowned artist and AIReal Yoga founder Carmen Curtis. She fuses AIReal Yoga's focus on safety and innovation with her own floor-based yoga discoveries. Robin enjoys making aerial yoga fun and accessible for people of all experience levels, especially those completely new to the practice. In addition to AIReal Yoga, Robin is a certified E-RYT200/RYT500, Children's Yoga Teacher, and Continuing Education Provider through Yoga Alliance.

Geo

Geo's yoga journey started back in 2015 when he graduated college. He had an elective class that he needed to take in order to graduate and chose yoga. In 2016, he received his certification on Oahu then started promoting himself and traveling the world as an international yoga teacher. He took the opportunity to teach around the U.S., Mexico, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. Geo eventually wants to open up a retreat center - a holistic center that brings people from all over the world to teach their practices and learn from one another. His favorite pose is Shavasana because it's the most difficult pose for some and challenges people to really close their minds and silence their inner thoughts. "It's a moment when we can truly observe what is going on within us and take couple of minutes to self-reflect."

Lee-Ann

Lee-Ann is one of Power Yoga Hawaii's Aerial Yoga instructors. Her favorite thing to do in Aerial Yoga is planks. Moving through a plank series strengthens and works the entire body. It's also great for improving circulation, cardiovascular health, and developing focus. A year or two into teaching yoga, a friend of hers introduced her to aerial yoga. One class and she was hooked. She loved the range of motion and support that the aerial hammock offered and was amazed at the way it could make certain poses easier or harder depending on what you wanted from your practice. When Carmen Curtis, the founder of Aerial Yoga, came to town and offered her Aerial Yoga teacher training, Lee-Ann immediately signed up. She's been feeling the love in the air ever since.

Tom

Tom teaches a sweat-dripping Flex & Flow class at Power Yoga Hawaii. His favorite pose is Uttanasana because he loves the way it stretches his lower back and lower legs. His yoga journey began 12 years ago because his hips and hamstrings were so tight due to bodybuilding. Once he felt the benefits of regular practice, he never turned back.

Jay

Jay is originally from San Diego California, and received his 200-hr certification after moving to Oahu in 2022. He's been consistently teaching power vinyasa for the last two years, and recently began teaching Yoga Sculpt earlier this year. He is familiar and comfortable teaching with weights and proper form. Although his background is primarily in business, Jay is always finding ways to expand his knowledge and practice such as currently being enrolled in a 300-hr yoga certification.

Paul

Paul started his physical practice of yoga in August of 2014. He then began learning acro yoga in 2015 at Power Yoga Hawaii classes and jams around the island. He has also attended multiple acro yoga international immersions and workshops through the west coast in order to hone his skills. Paul went through his teacher training in March of 2018 and started teaching our acro yoga class shortly thereafter.

Yuka

Yuka was born and raised in Fukushima, Japan. Her first yoga class was in Hawaiin in 2013. Since then, Yuka has been practicing many different genres of yoga. In 2018, she earned her 200RYT with Coco Zhang and completed a teacher training course on Thai Yoga Massage. She is a licensed Hammock Yoga (Aerial Yoga) instructor and available for private lessons for anyone who is new to their journey and may not be comfortable going to a yoga studio for their first time. Yuka wants to share her knowledge and experience with people from around the world.

Marcus

A student first, teacher second. Marcus started practicing back in 2006. He received his first 200-hour certification in 2014 in Vinyasa yoga. And then in 2017, he went to India for an intensive 300-hour yoga therapy program. Marcus believes that the journey continues, nothing is finished, and there are many more lessons to learn.

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