Tune into you! Love How You Move
ALOHA! Welcome to our studio located in the heart of Hanalei. We offer a wide variety of yoga and fitness classes that meet the unique needs of EVERYbody. Our Flex, Barre, and Yoga Sculpt classes train the body for peak performance. Our infrared heated and non-heated yoga classes will calm the mind and rewire your nervous system. Try Kundalini or Sound Bowl Meditation to awaken and balance your energetic body. Come take a moment out of your day to drop into the rhythm of a class that is breathing together, moving in harmony, and deeply connected. Much Love & Aloha!
Meet our Teachers
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Asheeliyah Insha
Asheeliyah is an artist, dancer, jokester, healer, and teacher born and raised in the red rock valley of Moab Utah. Licensed in Massage Therapy, Energy Work and Yoga Instruction, Asheeliyah has countless hours of experience working with people in ways that address more than just the physical. As an empath, she feels the collective condition […]
Classes and Bio
Denise Walther
Denise has been a practicing Chiropractor for over twenty years. Her area of expertise has been in the area of spinal alignment and wellness. She believes that the combination of Yoga and Chiropractic is perfect blending in treating the whole person and helping discover movement and motion in the orchestration of healing. Denise received her […]
Classes and Bio
Francine Bartlett
Francine and Louise are the founders and owners of Black Coral. Francine’s background comes from 20+ years in Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine, and Holistic Wellness. Her specialty is guiding the transition from the clinical one-on-one experience into the studio setting to offer more comprehensive care through active recovery, injury prevention, and fitness/athletic training classes. Francine […]
Classes and Bio
Jess Chirico
Jess practices and shares yoga as a modality of self healing and embodied inquiry. More than a series of physical postures, she believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform the inner and outer workings of one’s life. Her classes link slow movements with soft breathing, and combine longer holds with the use of […]
Classes and Bio
Kristin Venema
Kristin began exploring Yoga in 2004 during college at the University of San Francisco. She was initially attracted to the practice as it lent itself to her natural inclination towards physicality and movement and acted as a release from the fast paced and high stress environment she had become accustomed to. As she delved deeper […]
Classes and Bio
Lauren DuBois
Lauren’s yoga classes are creative, breath focused, alignment based, and fun. She infuses her classes with strength building, core engagement, stable flexibility, and playful inspiration. Lauren’s classes are designed for people from all walks of life and any level of practice. She believes that we can heal ourselves from chronic pain and create harmony in […]
Classes and Bio
Leti Elzaurdia
Leticia Elzaurdia, or you may know her as @sweaty_leti, has been “teaching” fun fitness classes since preschool, leading her eager peers in a Jane Fonda-inspired “workout.” Leti teaches FLEX and FLEXpress weekly at Black Coral. A San Francisco Academy of Ballet kid, Leti loves dance as a fun outlet and believes ballet, in essence, is […]
Classes and Bio
Louise Sanseau
Louise and Francine are the owners of Black Coral. In addition, Louise owns a yoga a studio in Jackson Hole, WY: Inversion Yoga, established in 2010. Louise works to create sustainable, heart-felt businesses. She seeks to connect people to themselves and to one another in a healthy, positive, and kind community. Louise believes that people […]
Classes and Bio
Marvin Nunez
Marvin’s classes cultivate a deep level of inquiry, commitment, and passion within his students. He teaches hot yoga with direct experience for the power of the practice to transform lives. His warm and kind approach coupled with discipline and structure, creates a safe container for his students to explore inwards. His love and respect for […]
Classes and Bio
Melissa Hamai
Melissa is an outpatient orthopedic Physical Therapist with 20 years of experience. Seeing a need to increase patient accessibility to both preventative care and progressive maintenance outside the standard course of PT, she pursued her yoga training to be able to better serve this need. In the class setting Melissa is able to incorporate her […]
Classes and Bio
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart began her yoga career in 2005 at the Colony Resort in Haena, HI. Her island vibe and bubbly personality is infused into all the experiences she facilitates. Trained in a wide variety of yoga styles including: children & family yoga, partner yoga, hatha yoga, Buti yoga and more Rebecca mixes it up and […]
Classes and Bio
Shelby Kushma
Shelby Kushma is an International Yoga Teacher & Energy Healer. Shelby has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Shelby’s yoga education and training started at the Integral Yoga Institute of NYC. Her passion for teaching led her around the world, teaching and hosting wellness retreats in Kauai, Utah, […]
Classes and Bio
Jen Bartz
Jen is 500 RYT +, a dedicated student and teacher of the life of Yoga. She believes that what we practice on our mats directly translates into a modality of living-of living the most fulfilling and awesome life we can. Jen found yoga at the age of 16 and throughout her life it has been […]
Classes and Bio
Ixel Madrigal
Ixel trained with Bikram Choudry, the founder of the 26&2 series, in Los Angeles CA in 2012. Upon graduation she began teaching at his headquarters in LA, & continued to download more knowledge from some of the older master teachers such as Emmy Cleaves, Rajashree Choudry, & Jim Kallet. Within the last 7 years, she […]
Classes and Bio
Tamara Braun
TAMARA BRAUN: Aerial Yoga Tamara grew up learning yoga from her 6’2” grandfather at the age of 3 he amazed her and she began trying to emulate his postures, which has proven to be her life long challenge, but the channels had been opened. The age of 4 brought ballet, oh the of discipline and […]
Classes and Bio
Diane Krieger
Diane is a 700 hour ‘certified’ Yoga instructor based in Vinyasa & Iyengar practices and has studied Yin Yoga w/ the renowned Sarah Powers in CA and in Thailand, as well as Paul Grilley’s course ‘Yin Yoga: the Functional Approach’. Diane’s certifications are with Eric Schiffman, the Rodney Yee Yoga lineage, Bavani Maki, Josh Shrei […]
Classes and Bio
Jho Goodwin
On the Path….. Jhoane’s life changed after receiving the gift of yoga, under the tutelage of Bhavani Maki . Now teaching the physical practice of yoga for many years, Jhoane found her real passion in yoga was sharing “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” a journey of self – discovery, finding out who we really are, […]
Classes and Bio
Cara Hanson
Cara is lover of mindful movement, mantra, and pranayama meditation. Cara is happy to share the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Trained to teach Hatha/Vinyasa and then Kundalini in Austin, Texas, Cara has enjoyed teaching since 2012. Sat Nam.
Classes and Bio
Courtney Babbidge
Courtney Babbidge (@ohmfit.kauai) has been leading community in group exercise classes since 2008. She became inspired to become a professional coach after her years in high school as team captain and fitness enthusiast for her cheerleading, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. Her degree is in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy from University of Southern Maine […]
Classes and Bio
Rachel Holmes
“We each have unique soul gifts waiting to be discovered, awoken, and shared with the world. Once we clear trauma from our past, present, and future lives, nothing holds us back from finding peace, discovering our desires and gifts, knowing how we are connected, and contribute to the whole, and fully realizing ourselves.” – Rachel […]
Classes and Bio
Asheeliyah Insha
Asheeliyah is an artist, dancer, jokester, healer, and teacher born and raised in the red rock valley of Moab Utah. Licensed in Massage Therapy, Energy Work and Yoga Instruction, Asheeliyah has countless hours of experience working with people in ways that address more than just the physical. As an empath, she feels the collective condition […]
Classes and Bio
Denise Walther
Denise has been a practicing Chiropractor for over twenty years. Her area of expertise has been in the area of spinal alignment and wellness. She believes that the combination of Yoga and Chiropractic is perfect blending in treating the whole person and helping discover movement and motion in the orchestration of healing. Denise received her […]
Classes and Bio
Francine Bartlett
Francine and Louise are the founders and owners of Black Coral. Francine’s background comes from 20+ years in Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine, and Holistic Wellness. Her specialty is guiding the transition from the clinical one-on-one experience into the studio setting to offer more comprehensive care through active recovery, injury prevention, and fitness/athletic training classes. Francine […]
Classes and Bio
Jess Chirico
Jess practices and shares yoga as a modality of self healing and embodied inquiry. More than a series of physical postures, she believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform the inner and outer workings of one’s life. Her classes link slow movements with soft breathing, and combine longer holds with the use of […]
Classes and Bio
Kristin Venema
Kristin began exploring Yoga in 2004 during college at the University of San Francisco. She was initially attracted to the practice as it lent itself to her natural inclination towards physicality and movement and acted as a release from the fast paced and high stress environment she had become accustomed to. As she delved deeper […]
Classes and Bio
Lauren DuBois
Lauren’s yoga classes are creative, breath focused, alignment based, and fun. She infuses her classes with strength building, core engagement, stable flexibility, and playful inspiration. Lauren’s classes are designed for people from all walks of life and any level of practice. She believes that we can heal ourselves from chronic pain and create harmony in […]
Classes and Bio
Leti Elzaurdia
Leticia Elzaurdia, or you may know her as @sweaty_leti, has been “teaching” fun fitness classes since preschool, leading her eager peers in a Jane Fonda-inspired “workout.” Leti teaches FLEX and FLEXpress weekly at Black Coral. A San Francisco Academy of Ballet kid, Leti loves dance as a fun outlet and believes ballet, in essence, is […]
Classes and Bio
Louise Sanseau
Louise and Francine are the owners of Black Coral. In addition, Louise owns a yoga a studio in Jackson Hole, WY: Inversion Yoga, established in 2010. Louise works to create sustainable, heart-felt businesses. She seeks to connect people to themselves and to one another in a healthy, positive, and kind community. Louise believes that people […]
Classes and Bio
Marvin Nunez
Marvin’s classes cultivate a deep level of inquiry, commitment, and passion within his students. He teaches hot yoga with direct experience for the power of the practice to transform lives. His warm and kind approach coupled with discipline and structure, creates a safe container for his students to explore inwards. His love and respect for […]
Classes and Bio
Melissa Hamai
Melissa is an outpatient orthopedic Physical Therapist with 20 years of experience. Seeing a need to increase patient accessibility to both preventative care and progressive maintenance outside the standard course of PT, she pursued her yoga training to be able to better serve this need. In the class setting Melissa is able to incorporate her […]
Classes and Bio
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart began her yoga career in 2005 at the Colony Resort in Haena, HI. Her island vibe and bubbly personality is infused into all the experiences she facilitates. Trained in a wide variety of yoga styles including: children & family yoga, partner yoga, hatha yoga, Buti yoga and more Rebecca mixes it up and […]
Classes and Bio
Shelby Kushma
Shelby Kushma is an International Yoga Teacher & Energy Healer. Shelby has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Shelby’s yoga education and training started at the Integral Yoga Institute of NYC. Her passion for teaching led her around the world, teaching and hosting wellness retreats in Kauai, Utah, […]
Classes and Bio
Jen Bartz
Jen is 500 RYT +, a dedicated student and teacher of the life of Yoga. She believes that what we practice on our mats directly translates into a modality of living-of living the most fulfilling and awesome life we can. Jen found yoga at the age of 16 and throughout her life it has been […]
Classes and Bio
Ixel Madrigal
Ixel trained with Bikram Choudry, the founder of the 26&2 series, in Los Angeles CA in 2012. Upon graduation she began teaching at his headquarters in LA, & continued to download more knowledge from some of the older master teachers such as Emmy Cleaves, Rajashree Choudry, & Jim Kallet. Within the last 7 years, she […]
Classes and Bio
Tamara Braun
TAMARA BRAUN: Aerial Yoga Tamara grew up learning yoga from her 6’2” grandfather at the age of 3 he amazed her and she began trying to emulate his postures, which has proven to be her life long challenge, but the channels had been opened. The age of 4 brought ballet, oh the of discipline and […]
Classes and Bio
Diane Krieger
Diane is a 700 hour ‘certified’ Yoga instructor based in Vinyasa & Iyengar practices and has studied Yin Yoga w/ the renowned Sarah Powers in CA and in Thailand, as well as Paul Grilley’s course ‘Yin Yoga: the Functional Approach’. Diane’s certifications are with Eric Schiffman, the Rodney Yee Yoga lineage, Bavani Maki, Josh Shrei […]
Classes and Bio
Jho Goodwin
On the Path….. Jhoane’s life changed after receiving the gift of yoga, under the tutelage of Bhavani Maki . Now teaching the physical practice of yoga for many years, Jhoane found her real passion in yoga was sharing “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” a journey of self – discovery, finding out who we really are, […]
Classes and Bio
Cara Hanson
Cara is lover of mindful movement, mantra, and pranayama meditation. Cara is happy to share the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Trained to teach Hatha/Vinyasa and then Kundalini in Austin, Texas, Cara has enjoyed teaching since 2012. Sat Nam.
Classes and Bio
Courtney Babbidge
Courtney Babbidge (@ohmfit.kauai) has been leading community in group exercise classes since 2008. She became inspired to become a professional coach after her years in high school as team captain and fitness enthusiast for her cheerleading, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. Her degree is in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy from University of Southern Maine […]
Classes and Bio
Rachel Holmes
“We each have unique soul gifts waiting to be discovered, awoken, and shared with the world. Once we clear trauma from our past, present, and future lives, nothing holds us back from finding peace, discovering our desires and gifts, knowing how we are connected, and contribute to the whole, and fully realizing ourselves.” – Rachel […]
Classes and Bio
Asheeliyah Insha
Asheeliyah is an artist, dancer, jokester, healer, and teacher born and raised in the red rock valley of Moab Utah. Licensed in Massage Therapy, Energy Work and Yoga Instruction, Asheeliyah has countless hours of experience working with people in ways that address more than just the physical. As an empath, she feels the collective condition […]
Classes and Bio
Denise Walther
Denise has been a practicing Chiropractor for over twenty years. Her area of expertise has been in the area of spinal alignment and wellness. She believes that the combination of Yoga and Chiropractic is perfect blending in treating the whole person and helping discover movement and motion in the orchestration of healing. Denise received her […]
Classes and Bio
Francine Bartlett
Francine and Louise are the founders and owners of Black Coral. Francine’s background comes from 20+ years in Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine, and Holistic Wellness. Her specialty is guiding the transition from the clinical one-on-one experience into the studio setting to offer more comprehensive care through active recovery, injury prevention, and fitness/athletic training classes. Francine […]
Classes and Bio
Jess Chirico
Jess practices and shares yoga as a modality of self healing and embodied inquiry. More than a series of physical postures, she believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform the inner and outer workings of one’s life. Her classes link slow movements with soft breathing, and combine longer holds with the use of […]
Classes and Bio
Kristin Venema
Kristin began exploring Yoga in 2004 during college at the University of San Francisco. She was initially attracted to the practice as it lent itself to her natural inclination towards physicality and movement and acted as a release from the fast paced and high stress environment she had become accustomed to. As she delved deeper […]
Classes and Bio
Lauren DuBois
Lauren’s yoga classes are creative, breath focused, alignment based, and fun. She infuses her classes with strength building, core engagement, stable flexibility, and playful inspiration. Lauren’s classes are designed for people from all walks of life and any level of practice. She believes that we can heal ourselves from chronic pain and create harmony in […]
Classes and Bio
Leti Elzaurdia
Leticia Elzaurdia, or you may know her as @sweaty_leti, has been “teaching” fun fitness classes since preschool, leading her eager peers in a Jane Fonda-inspired “workout.” Leti teaches FLEX and FLEXpress weekly at Black Coral. A San Francisco Academy of Ballet kid, Leti loves dance as a fun outlet and believes ballet, in essence, is […]
Classes and Bio
Louise Sanseau
Louise and Francine are the owners of Black Coral. In addition, Louise owns a yoga a studio in Jackson Hole, WY: Inversion Yoga, established in 2010. Louise works to create sustainable, heart-felt businesses. She seeks to connect people to themselves and to one another in a healthy, positive, and kind community. Louise believes that people […]
Classes and Bio
Marvin Nunez
Marvin’s classes cultivate a deep level of inquiry, commitment, and passion within his students. He teaches hot yoga with direct experience for the power of the practice to transform lives. His warm and kind approach coupled with discipline and structure, creates a safe container for his students to explore inwards. His love and respect for […]
Classes and Bio
Melissa Hamai
Melissa is an outpatient orthopedic Physical Therapist with 20 years of experience. Seeing a need to increase patient accessibility to both preventative care and progressive maintenance outside the standard course of PT, she pursued her yoga training to be able to better serve this need. In the class setting Melissa is able to incorporate her […]
Classes and Bio
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart began her yoga career in 2005 at the Colony Resort in Haena, HI. Her island vibe and bubbly personality is infused into all the experiences she facilitates. Trained in a wide variety of yoga styles including: children & family yoga, partner yoga, hatha yoga, Buti yoga and more Rebecca mixes it up and […]
Classes and Bio
Shelby Kushma
Shelby Kushma is an International Yoga Teacher & Energy Healer. Shelby has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Shelby’s yoga education and training started at the Integral Yoga Institute of NYC. Her passion for teaching led her around the world, teaching and hosting wellness retreats in Kauai, Utah, […]
Classes and Bio
Jen Bartz
Jen is 500 RYT +, a dedicated student and teacher of the life of Yoga. She believes that what we practice on our mats directly translates into a modality of living-of living the most fulfilling and awesome life we can. Jen found yoga at the age of 16 and throughout her life it has been […]
Classes and Bio
Ixel Madrigal
Ixel trained with Bikram Choudry, the founder of the 26&2 series, in Los Angeles CA in 2012. Upon graduation she began teaching at his headquarters in LA, & continued to download more knowledge from some of the older master teachers such as Emmy Cleaves, Rajashree Choudry, & Jim Kallet. Within the last 7 years, she […]
Classes and Bio
Tamara Braun
TAMARA BRAUN: Aerial Yoga Tamara grew up learning yoga from her 6’2” grandfather at the age of 3 he amazed her and she began trying to emulate his postures, which has proven to be her life long challenge, but the channels had been opened. The age of 4 brought ballet, oh the of discipline and […]
Classes and Bio
Diane Krieger
Diane is a 700 hour ‘certified’ Yoga instructor based in Vinyasa & Iyengar practices and has studied Yin Yoga w/ the renowned Sarah Powers in CA and in Thailand, as well as Paul Grilley’s course ‘Yin Yoga: the Functional Approach’. Diane’s certifications are with Eric Schiffman, the Rodney Yee Yoga lineage, Bavani Maki, Josh Shrei […]
Classes and Bio
Jho Goodwin
On the Path….. Jhoane’s life changed after receiving the gift of yoga, under the tutelage of Bhavani Maki . Now teaching the physical practice of yoga for many years, Jhoane found her real passion in yoga was sharing “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” a journey of self – discovery, finding out who we really are, […]
Classes and Bio
Cara Hanson
Cara is lover of mindful movement, mantra, and pranayama meditation. Cara is happy to share the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Trained to teach Hatha/Vinyasa and then Kundalini in Austin, Texas, Cara has enjoyed teaching since 2012. Sat Nam.
Classes and Bio
Courtney Babbidge
Courtney Babbidge (@ohmfit.kauai) has been leading community in group exercise classes since 2008. She became inspired to become a professional coach after her years in high school as team captain and fitness enthusiast for her cheerleading, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. Her degree is in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy from University of Southern Maine […]
Classes and Bio
Rachel Holmes
“We each have unique soul gifts waiting to be discovered, awoken, and shared with the world. Once we clear trauma from our past, present, and future lives, nothing holds us back from finding peace, discovering our desires and gifts, knowing how we are connected, and contribute to the whole, and fully realizing ourselves.” – Rachel […]
Classes and Bio
Asheeliyah Insha
Asheeliyah is an artist, dancer, jokester, healer, and teacher born and raised in the red rock valley of Moab Utah. Licensed in Massage Therapy, Energy Work and Yoga Instruction, Asheeliyah has countless hours of experience working with people in ways that address more than just the physical. As an empath, she feels the collective condition […]
Classes and Bio
Denise Walther
Denise has been a practicing Chiropractor for over twenty years. Her area of expertise has been in the area of spinal alignment and wellness. She believes that the combination of Yoga and Chiropractic is perfect blending in treating the whole person and helping discover movement and motion in the orchestration of healing. Denise received her […]
Classes and Bio
Francine Bartlett
Francine and Louise are the founders and owners of Black Coral. Francine’s background comes from 20+ years in Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine, and Holistic Wellness. Her specialty is guiding the transition from the clinical one-on-one experience into the studio setting to offer more comprehensive care through active recovery, injury prevention, and fitness/athletic training classes. Francine […]
Classes and Bio
Jess Chirico
Jess practices and shares yoga as a modality of self healing and embodied inquiry. More than a series of physical postures, she believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform the inner and outer workings of one’s life. Her classes link slow movements with soft breathing, and combine longer holds with the use of […]
Classes and Bio
Kristin Venema
Kristin began exploring Yoga in 2004 during college at the University of San Francisco. She was initially attracted to the practice as it lent itself to her natural inclination towards physicality and movement and acted as a release from the fast paced and high stress environment she had become accustomed to. As she delved deeper […]
Classes and Bio
Lauren DuBois
Lauren’s yoga classes are creative, breath focused, alignment based, and fun. She infuses her classes with strength building, core engagement, stable flexibility, and playful inspiration. Lauren’s classes are designed for people from all walks of life and any level of practice. She believes that we can heal ourselves from chronic pain and create harmony in […]
Classes and Bio
Leti Elzaurdia
Leticia Elzaurdia, or you may know her as @sweaty_leti, has been “teaching” fun fitness classes since preschool, leading her eager peers in a Jane Fonda-inspired “workout.” Leti teaches FLEX and FLEXpress weekly at Black Coral. A San Francisco Academy of Ballet kid, Leti loves dance as a fun outlet and believes ballet, in essence, is […]
Classes and Bio
Louise Sanseau
Louise and Francine are the owners of Black Coral. In addition, Louise owns a yoga a studio in Jackson Hole, WY: Inversion Yoga, established in 2010. Louise works to create sustainable, heart-felt businesses. She seeks to connect people to themselves and to one another in a healthy, positive, and kind community. Louise believes that people […]
Classes and Bio
Marvin Nunez
Marvin’s classes cultivate a deep level of inquiry, commitment, and passion within his students. He teaches hot yoga with direct experience for the power of the practice to transform lives. His warm and kind approach coupled with discipline and structure, creates a safe container for his students to explore inwards. His love and respect for […]
Classes and Bio
Melissa Hamai
Melissa is an outpatient orthopedic Physical Therapist with 20 years of experience. Seeing a need to increase patient accessibility to both preventative care and progressive maintenance outside the standard course of PT, she pursued her yoga training to be able to better serve this need. In the class setting Melissa is able to incorporate her […]
Classes and Bio
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart began her yoga career in 2005 at the Colony Resort in Haena, HI. Her island vibe and bubbly personality is infused into all the experiences she facilitates. Trained in a wide variety of yoga styles including: children & family yoga, partner yoga, hatha yoga, Buti yoga and more Rebecca mixes it up and […]
Classes and Bio
Shelby Kushma
Shelby Kushma is an International Yoga Teacher & Energy Healer. Shelby has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Shelby’s yoga education and training started at the Integral Yoga Institute of NYC. Her passion for teaching led her around the world, teaching and hosting wellness retreats in Kauai, Utah, […]
Classes and Bio
Jen Bartz
Jen is 500 RYT +, a dedicated student and teacher of the life of Yoga. She believes that what we practice on our mats directly translates into a modality of living-of living the most fulfilling and awesome life we can. Jen found yoga at the age of 16 and throughout her life it has been […]
Classes and Bio
Ixel Madrigal
Ixel trained with Bikram Choudry, the founder of the 26&2 series, in Los Angeles CA in 2012. Upon graduation she began teaching at his headquarters in LA, & continued to download more knowledge from some of the older master teachers such as Emmy Cleaves, Rajashree Choudry, & Jim Kallet. Within the last 7 years, she […]
Classes and Bio
Tamara Braun
TAMARA BRAUN: Aerial Yoga Tamara grew up learning yoga from her 6’2” grandfather at the age of 3 he amazed her and she began trying to emulate his postures, which has proven to be her life long challenge, but the channels had been opened. The age of 4 brought ballet, oh the of discipline and […]
Classes and Bio
Diane Krieger
Diane is a 700 hour ‘certified’ Yoga instructor based in Vinyasa & Iyengar practices and has studied Yin Yoga w/ the renowned Sarah Powers in CA and in Thailand, as well as Paul Grilley’s course ‘Yin Yoga: the Functional Approach’. Diane’s certifications are with Eric Schiffman, the Rodney Yee Yoga lineage, Bavani Maki, Josh Shrei […]
Classes and Bio
Jho Goodwin
On the Path….. Jhoane’s life changed after receiving the gift of yoga, under the tutelage of Bhavani Maki . Now teaching the physical practice of yoga for many years, Jhoane found her real passion in yoga was sharing “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” a journey of self – discovery, finding out who we really are, […]
Classes and Bio
Cara Hanson
Cara is lover of mindful movement, mantra, and pranayama meditation. Cara is happy to share the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Trained to teach Hatha/Vinyasa and then Kundalini in Austin, Texas, Cara has enjoyed teaching since 2012. Sat Nam.
Classes and Bio
Courtney Babbidge
Courtney Babbidge (@ohmfit.kauai) has been leading community in group exercise classes since 2008. She became inspired to become a professional coach after her years in high school as team captain and fitness enthusiast for her cheerleading, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. Her degree is in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy from University of Southern Maine […]
Classes and Bio
Rachel Holmes
“We each have unique soul gifts waiting to be discovered, awoken, and shared with the world. Once we clear trauma from our past, present, and future lives, nothing holds us back from finding peace, discovering our desires and gifts, knowing how we are connected, and contribute to the whole, and fully realizing ourselves.” – Rachel […]
Classes and Bio
Asheeliyah Insha
Asheeliyah is an artist, dancer, jokester, healer, and teacher born and raised in the red rock valley of Moab Utah. Licensed in Massage Therapy, Energy Work and Yoga Instruction, Asheeliyah has countless hours of experience working with people in ways that address more than just the physical. As an empath, she feels the collective condition […]
Classes and Bio
Denise Walther
Denise has been a practicing Chiropractor for over twenty years. Her area of expertise has been in the area of spinal alignment and wellness. She believes that the combination of Yoga and Chiropractic is perfect blending in treating the whole person and helping discover movement and motion in the orchestration of healing. Denise received her […]
Classes and Bio
Francine Bartlett
Francine and Louise are the founders and owners of Black Coral. Francine’s background comes from 20+ years in Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine, and Holistic Wellness. Her specialty is guiding the transition from the clinical one-on-one experience into the studio setting to offer more comprehensive care through active recovery, injury prevention, and fitness/athletic training classes. Francine […]
Classes and Bio
Jess Chirico
Jess practices and shares yoga as a modality of self healing and embodied inquiry. More than a series of physical postures, she believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform the inner and outer workings of one’s life. Her classes link slow movements with soft breathing, and combine longer holds with the use of […]
Classes and Bio
Kristin Venema
Kristin began exploring Yoga in 2004 during college at the University of San Francisco. She was initially attracted to the practice as it lent itself to her natural inclination towards physicality and movement and acted as a release from the fast paced and high stress environment she had become accustomed to. As she delved deeper […]
Classes and Bio
Lauren DuBois
Lauren’s yoga classes are creative, breath focused, alignment based, and fun. She infuses her classes with strength building, core engagement, stable flexibility, and playful inspiration. Lauren’s classes are designed for people from all walks of life and any level of practice. She believes that we can heal ourselves from chronic pain and create harmony in […]
Classes and Bio
Leti Elzaurdia
Leticia Elzaurdia, or you may know her as @sweaty_leti, has been “teaching” fun fitness classes since preschool, leading her eager peers in a Jane Fonda-inspired “workout.” Leti teaches FLEX and FLEXpress weekly at Black Coral. A San Francisco Academy of Ballet kid, Leti loves dance as a fun outlet and believes ballet, in essence, is […]
Classes and Bio
Louise Sanseau
Louise and Francine are the owners of Black Coral. In addition, Louise owns a yoga a studio in Jackson Hole, WY: Inversion Yoga, established in 2010. Louise works to create sustainable, heart-felt businesses. She seeks to connect people to themselves and to one another in a healthy, positive, and kind community. Louise believes that people […]
Classes and Bio
Marvin Nunez
Marvin’s classes cultivate a deep level of inquiry, commitment, and passion within his students. He teaches hot yoga with direct experience for the power of the practice to transform lives. His warm and kind approach coupled with discipline and structure, creates a safe container for his students to explore inwards. His love and respect for […]
Classes and Bio
Melissa Hamai
Melissa is an outpatient orthopedic Physical Therapist with 20 years of experience. Seeing a need to increase patient accessibility to both preventative care and progressive maintenance outside the standard course of PT, she pursued her yoga training to be able to better serve this need. In the class setting Melissa is able to incorporate her […]
Classes and Bio
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart began her yoga career in 2005 at the Colony Resort in Haena, HI. Her island vibe and bubbly personality is infused into all the experiences she facilitates. Trained in a wide variety of yoga styles including: children & family yoga, partner yoga, hatha yoga, Buti yoga and more Rebecca mixes it up and […]
Classes and Bio
Shelby Kushma
Shelby Kushma is an International Yoga Teacher & Energy Healer. Shelby has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Shelby’s yoga education and training started at the Integral Yoga Institute of NYC. Her passion for teaching led her around the world, teaching and hosting wellness retreats in Kauai, Utah, […]
Classes and Bio
Jen Bartz
Jen is 500 RYT +, a dedicated student and teacher of the life of Yoga. She believes that what we practice on our mats directly translates into a modality of living-of living the most fulfilling and awesome life we can. Jen found yoga at the age of 16 and throughout her life it has been […]
Classes and Bio
Ixel Madrigal
Ixel trained with Bikram Choudry, the founder of the 26&2 series, in Los Angeles CA in 2012. Upon graduation she began teaching at his headquarters in LA, & continued to download more knowledge from some of the older master teachers such as Emmy Cleaves, Rajashree Choudry, & Jim Kallet. Within the last 7 years, she […]
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Tamara Braun
TAMARA BRAUN: Aerial Yoga Tamara grew up learning yoga from her 6’2” grandfather at the age of 3 he amazed her and she began trying to emulate his postures, which has proven to be her life long challenge, but the channels had been opened. The age of 4 brought ballet, oh the of discipline and […]
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Diane Krieger
Diane is a 700 hour ‘certified’ Yoga instructor based in Vinyasa & Iyengar practices and has studied Yin Yoga w/ the renowned Sarah Powers in CA and in Thailand, as well as Paul Grilley’s course ‘Yin Yoga: the Functional Approach’. Diane’s certifications are with Eric Schiffman, the Rodney Yee Yoga lineage, Bavani Maki, Josh Shrei […]
Classes and Bio
Jho Goodwin
On the Path….. Jhoane’s life changed after receiving the gift of yoga, under the tutelage of Bhavani Maki . Now teaching the physical practice of yoga for many years, Jhoane found her real passion in yoga was sharing “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” a journey of self – discovery, finding out who we really are, […]
Classes and Bio
Cara Hanson
Cara is lover of mindful movement, mantra, and pranayama meditation. Cara is happy to share the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Trained to teach Hatha/Vinyasa and then Kundalini in Austin, Texas, Cara has enjoyed teaching since 2012. Sat Nam.
Classes and Bio
Courtney Babbidge
Courtney Babbidge (@ohmfit.kauai) has been leading community in group exercise classes since 2008. She became inspired to become a professional coach after her years in high school as team captain and fitness enthusiast for her cheerleading, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. Her degree is in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy from University of Southern Maine […]
Classes and Bio
Rachel Holmes
“We each have unique soul gifts waiting to be discovered, awoken, and shared with the world. Once we clear trauma from our past, present, and future lives, nothing holds us back from finding peace, discovering our desires and gifts, knowing how we are connected, and contribute to the whole, and fully realizing ourselves.” – Rachel […]
Classes and Bio
Asheeliyah Insha
Asheeliyah is an artist, dancer, jokester, healer, and teacher born and raised in the red rock valley of Moab Utah. Licensed in Massage Therapy, Energy Work and Yoga Instruction, Asheeliyah has countless hours of experience working with people in ways that address more than just the physical. As an empath, she feels the collective condition […]
Classes and Bio
Denise Walther
Denise has been a practicing Chiropractor for over twenty years. Her area of expertise has been in the area of spinal alignment and wellness. She believes that the combination of Yoga and Chiropractic is perfect blending in treating the whole person and helping discover movement and motion in the orchestration of healing. Denise received her […]
Classes and Bio
Francine Bartlett
Francine and Louise are the founders and owners of Black Coral. Francine’s background comes from 20+ years in Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine, and Holistic Wellness. Her specialty is guiding the transition from the clinical one-on-one experience into the studio setting to offer more comprehensive care through active recovery, injury prevention, and fitness/athletic training classes. Francine […]
Classes and Bio
Jess Chirico
Jess practices and shares yoga as a modality of self healing and embodied inquiry. More than a series of physical postures, she believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform the inner and outer workings of one’s life. Her classes link slow movements with soft breathing, and combine longer holds with the use of […]
Classes and Bio
Kristin Venema
Kristin began exploring Yoga in 2004 during college at the University of San Francisco. She was initially attracted to the practice as it lent itself to her natural inclination towards physicality and movement and acted as a release from the fast paced and high stress environment she had become accustomed to. As she delved deeper […]
Classes and Bio
Lauren DuBois
Lauren’s yoga classes are creative, breath focused, alignment based, and fun. She infuses her classes with strength building, core engagement, stable flexibility, and playful inspiration. Lauren’s classes are designed for people from all walks of life and any level of practice. She believes that we can heal ourselves from chronic pain and create harmony in […]
Classes and Bio
Leti Elzaurdia
Leticia Elzaurdia, or you may know her as @sweaty_leti, has been “teaching” fun fitness classes since preschool, leading her eager peers in a Jane Fonda-inspired “workout.” Leti teaches FLEX and FLEXpress weekly at Black Coral. A San Francisco Academy of Ballet kid, Leti loves dance as a fun outlet and believes ballet, in essence, is […]
Classes and Bio
Louise Sanseau
Louise and Francine are the owners of Black Coral. In addition, Louise owns a yoga a studio in Jackson Hole, WY: Inversion Yoga, established in 2010. Louise works to create sustainable, heart-felt businesses. She seeks to connect people to themselves and to one another in a healthy, positive, and kind community. Louise believes that people […]
Classes and Bio
Marvin Nunez
Marvin’s classes cultivate a deep level of inquiry, commitment, and passion within his students. He teaches hot yoga with direct experience for the power of the practice to transform lives. His warm and kind approach coupled with discipline and structure, creates a safe container for his students to explore inwards. His love and respect for […]
Classes and Bio
Melissa Hamai
Melissa is an outpatient orthopedic Physical Therapist with 20 years of experience. Seeing a need to increase patient accessibility to both preventative care and progressive maintenance outside the standard course of PT, she pursued her yoga training to be able to better serve this need. In the class setting Melissa is able to incorporate her […]
Classes and Bio
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart began her yoga career in 2005 at the Colony Resort in Haena, HI. Her island vibe and bubbly personality is infused into all the experiences she facilitates. Trained in a wide variety of yoga styles including: children & family yoga, partner yoga, hatha yoga, Buti yoga and more Rebecca mixes it up and […]
Classes and Bio
Shelby Kushma
Shelby Kushma is an International Yoga Teacher & Energy Healer. Shelby has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Shelby’s yoga education and training started at the Integral Yoga Institute of NYC. Her passion for teaching led her around the world, teaching and hosting wellness retreats in Kauai, Utah, […]
Classes and Bio
Jen Bartz
Jen is 500 RYT +, a dedicated student and teacher of the life of Yoga. She believes that what we practice on our mats directly translates into a modality of living-of living the most fulfilling and awesome life we can. Jen found yoga at the age of 16 and throughout her life it has been […]
Classes and Bio
Ixel Madrigal
Ixel trained with Bikram Choudry, the founder of the 26&2 series, in Los Angeles CA in 2012. Upon graduation she began teaching at his headquarters in LA, & continued to download more knowledge from some of the older master teachers such as Emmy Cleaves, Rajashree Choudry, & Jim Kallet. Within the last 7 years, she […]
Classes and Bio
Tamara Braun
TAMARA BRAUN: Aerial Yoga Tamara grew up learning yoga from her 6’2” grandfather at the age of 3 he amazed her and she began trying to emulate his postures, which has proven to be her life long challenge, but the channels had been opened. The age of 4 brought ballet, oh the of discipline and […]
Classes and Bio
Diane Krieger
Diane is a 700 hour ‘certified’ Yoga instructor based in Vinyasa & Iyengar practices and has studied Yin Yoga w/ the renowned Sarah Powers in CA and in Thailand, as well as Paul Grilley’s course ‘Yin Yoga: the Functional Approach’. Diane’s certifications are with Eric Schiffman, the Rodney Yee Yoga lineage, Bavani Maki, Josh Shrei […]
Classes and Bio
Jho Goodwin
On the Path….. Jhoane’s life changed after receiving the gift of yoga, under the tutelage of Bhavani Maki . Now teaching the physical practice of yoga for many years, Jhoane found her real passion in yoga was sharing “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” a journey of self – discovery, finding out who we really are, […]
Classes and Bio
Cara Hanson
Cara is lover of mindful movement, mantra, and pranayama meditation. Cara is happy to share the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Trained to teach Hatha/Vinyasa and then Kundalini in Austin, Texas, Cara has enjoyed teaching since 2012. Sat Nam.
Classes and Bio
Courtney Babbidge
Courtney Babbidge (@ohmfit.kauai) has been leading community in group exercise classes since 2008. She became inspired to become a professional coach after her years in high school as team captain and fitness enthusiast for her cheerleading, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. Her degree is in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy from University of Southern Maine […]
Classes and Bio
Rachel Holmes
“We each have unique soul gifts waiting to be discovered, awoken, and shared with the world. Once we clear trauma from our past, present, and future lives, nothing holds us back from finding peace, discovering our desires and gifts, knowing how we are connected, and contribute to the whole, and fully realizing ourselves.” – Rachel […]
Classes and Bio
Asheeliyah Insha
Asheeliyah is an artist, dancer, jokester, healer, and teacher born and raised in the red rock valley of Moab Utah. Licensed in Massage Therapy, Energy Work and Yoga Instruction, Asheeliyah has countless hours of experience working with people in ways that address more than just the physical. As an empath, she feels the collective condition […]
Classes and Bio
Denise Walther
Denise has been a practicing Chiropractor for over twenty years. Her area of expertise has been in the area of spinal alignment and wellness. She believes that the combination of Yoga and Chiropractic is perfect blending in treating the whole person and helping discover movement and motion in the orchestration of healing. Denise received her […]
Classes and Bio
Francine Bartlett
Francine and Louise are the founders and owners of Black Coral. Francine’s background comes from 20+ years in Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine, and Holistic Wellness. Her specialty is guiding the transition from the clinical one-on-one experience into the studio setting to offer more comprehensive care through active recovery, injury prevention, and fitness/athletic training classes. Francine […]
Classes and Bio
Jess Chirico
Jess practices and shares yoga as a modality of self healing and embodied inquiry. More than a series of physical postures, she believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform the inner and outer workings of one’s life. Her classes link slow movements with soft breathing, and combine longer holds with the use of […]
Classes and Bio
Kristin Venema
Kristin began exploring Yoga in 2004 during college at the University of San Francisco. She was initially attracted to the practice as it lent itself to her natural inclination towards physicality and movement and acted as a release from the fast paced and high stress environment she had become accustomed to. As she delved deeper […]
Classes and Bio
Lauren DuBois
Lauren’s yoga classes are creative, breath focused, alignment based, and fun. She infuses her classes with strength building, core engagement, stable flexibility, and playful inspiration. Lauren’s classes are designed for people from all walks of life and any level of practice. She believes that we can heal ourselves from chronic pain and create harmony in […]
Classes and Bio
Leti Elzaurdia
Leticia Elzaurdia, or you may know her as @sweaty_leti, has been “teaching” fun fitness classes since preschool, leading her eager peers in a Jane Fonda-inspired “workout.” Leti teaches FLEX and FLEXpress weekly at Black Coral. A San Francisco Academy of Ballet kid, Leti loves dance as a fun outlet and believes ballet, in essence, is […]
Classes and Bio
Louise Sanseau
Louise and Francine are the owners of Black Coral. In addition, Louise owns a yoga a studio in Jackson Hole, WY: Inversion Yoga, established in 2010. Louise works to create sustainable, heart-felt businesses. She seeks to connect people to themselves and to one another in a healthy, positive, and kind community. Louise believes that people […]
Classes and Bio
Marvin Nunez
Marvin’s classes cultivate a deep level of inquiry, commitment, and passion within his students. He teaches hot yoga with direct experience for the power of the practice to transform lives. His warm and kind approach coupled with discipline and structure, creates a safe container for his students to explore inwards. His love and respect for […]
Classes and Bio
Melissa Hamai
Melissa is an outpatient orthopedic Physical Therapist with 20 years of experience. Seeing a need to increase patient accessibility to both preventative care and progressive maintenance outside the standard course of PT, she pursued her yoga training to be able to better serve this need. In the class setting Melissa is able to incorporate her […]
Classes and Bio
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart began her yoga career in 2005 at the Colony Resort in Haena, HI. Her island vibe and bubbly personality is infused into all the experiences she facilitates. Trained in a wide variety of yoga styles including: children & family yoga, partner yoga, hatha yoga, Buti yoga and more Rebecca mixes it up and […]
Classes and Bio
Shelby Kushma
Shelby Kushma is an International Yoga Teacher & Energy Healer. Shelby has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Shelby’s yoga education and training started at the Integral Yoga Institute of NYC. Her passion for teaching led her around the world, teaching and hosting wellness retreats in Kauai, Utah, […]
Classes and Bio
Jen Bartz
Jen is 500 RYT +, a dedicated student and teacher of the life of Yoga. She believes that what we practice on our mats directly translates into a modality of living-of living the most fulfilling and awesome life we can. Jen found yoga at the age of 16 and throughout her life it has been […]
Classes and Bio
Ixel Madrigal
Ixel trained with Bikram Choudry, the founder of the 26&2 series, in Los Angeles CA in 2012. Upon graduation she began teaching at his headquarters in LA, & continued to download more knowledge from some of the older master teachers such as Emmy Cleaves, Rajashree Choudry, & Jim Kallet. Within the last 7 years, she […]
Classes and Bio
Tamara Braun
TAMARA BRAUN: Aerial Yoga Tamara grew up learning yoga from her 6’2” grandfather at the age of 3 he amazed her and she began trying to emulate his postures, which has proven to be her life long challenge, but the channels had been opened. The age of 4 brought ballet, oh the of discipline and […]
Classes and Bio
Diane Krieger
Diane is a 700 hour ‘certified’ Yoga instructor based in Vinyasa & Iyengar practices and has studied Yin Yoga w/ the renowned Sarah Powers in CA and in Thailand, as well as Paul Grilley’s course ‘Yin Yoga: the Functional Approach’. Diane’s certifications are with Eric Schiffman, the Rodney Yee Yoga lineage, Bavani Maki, Josh Shrei […]
Classes and Bio
Jho Goodwin
On the Path….. Jhoane’s life changed after receiving the gift of yoga, under the tutelage of Bhavani Maki . Now teaching the physical practice of yoga for many years, Jhoane found her real passion in yoga was sharing “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” a journey of self – discovery, finding out who we really are, […]
Classes and Bio
Cara Hanson
Cara is lover of mindful movement, mantra, and pranayama meditation. Cara is happy to share the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Trained to teach Hatha/Vinyasa and then Kundalini in Austin, Texas, Cara has enjoyed teaching since 2012. Sat Nam.
Classes and Bio
Courtney Babbidge
Courtney Babbidge (@ohmfit.kauai) has been leading community in group exercise classes since 2008. She became inspired to become a professional coach after her years in high school as team captain and fitness enthusiast for her cheerleading, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. Her degree is in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy from University of Southern Maine […]
Classes and Bio
Rachel Holmes
“We each have unique soul gifts waiting to be discovered, awoken, and shared with the world. Once we clear trauma from our past, present, and future lives, nothing holds us back from finding peace, discovering our desires and gifts, knowing how we are connected, and contribute to the whole, and fully realizing ourselves.” – Rachel […]
Classes and Bio
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posted 10/23/2019
Mahalo for welcoming Black Coral to your community! We are honored to kick off our studio’s class schedule with such an incredible team of instructors and continue to build a variety of movement classes that is valued by all interests and levels. Please stay tuned as we further develop our fitness classes and train a […]