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meet
the Team
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yoko
Originally from Tokyo, Japan. She has been teaching yoga since 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has been conducting teachers trainings since 2013. Yoko underwent a Mysore apprenticeship with Cathy Louise Broda of Purple Yoga Hawaii, as well as a primary and a secondary Ashtanga Teacher Training with Manju Jois, and a third series Ashtanga Teacher Training with Nancy Gilgoff. She also has completed a pregnancy yoga apprenticeship and a teacher training, and a kids yoga teacher training. She conducts online teacher trainings in Japanese throughout the year, otherwise teaches Ashtanga classes. Yoko has gone through many life changes since she started practicing yoga, and she is continuing to develop an understanding of who she really is. Yoko affirms that her practice has evolved primarily due to the process of deep self-reflection and actively changing patterns rooted in fear, anger and insecurity.
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.
Unika
Unika is a certified fitness professional with a degree in kinesiology and a passion for helping others move better, feel stronger, and live more mindfully. With certifications in Yoga, classical and modern Pilates (mat, reformer, and HIIT-based), personal training, and stretch/flexibility coaching, Unika offers a well-rounded, science-informed approach to movement. Her passion lies in teaching Power Vinyasa in a heated room, blending functional strength, mobility, and mindful practice. Her classes support balance, body awareness, and sustainable results—on and off the mat.
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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.
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