Our Teachers
Scott Winslow
Yoga has been a beautiful transformational journey. Through my practice I have gained tools to observe myself more honestly and have formed improved discipline to let go of old thought patterns, habits and emotions that no longer serve my connection to the greatest good.
I was called to serve my community with the founding of YogaBody studios during the summer of 2011. Today, I enjoy teaching weekly classes to an evolving community of amazing human beings from all walks of life. Yoga has taught me that community is no doubt our greatest currency and I stand humbled by the wealth that surrounds me. Please join me in class soon and let's gratefully celebrate our prosperity together.
Sandra Winslow
My yoga journey began in 2011. Upon taking my first yoga class I knew I would be a lifelong yogi. I immediately enrolled in teacher training and received my certification a few months after my first class! I quit my job as an HR Director and began a fast track journey into full-time yogi, teaching several classes a day. It was a very scary transition but my practice allowed me to recognize my fears, overcome them, and empowered me to follow my heart. Yoga has given me the tools to begin unpeeling the layers of subconscious thoughts that do not serve me so that I may embrace life more fully with an abundance of love, compassion, and joy. When we deepen our breath and quiet our mind, we can accept and love ourselves just as we are. The people I cross paths with on a daily basis are the reason I'm on this journey. To be able to share my passion with beautiful souls every day is a dream come true. I am beyond blessed to be a part of this community and I look forward to sharing space with you. Love and blessings!
Mod Plank
After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Economics, I spun my wheels in corporate America until I rather sanely decided to trade my cubicle for a yoga mat. I took my first yoga teacher training in the Anusara style in 2008, and I’ve been teaching ever since. Along my journey, I’ve become a Certified AIReal YogaTM Instructor and a performance acrobat. I like to think that my classes are playful yet still focused on alignment, proper body mechanics, and making deeper connections, as well as lots of handstand-y postures and cheesy jokes.
I’m a performer at heart and cirque is my passion. I’ve had the opportunity to perform at many venues across southern California, as well as on reality television. If you want to catch me on the small screen, I can be found on Season 2 of truTV’s “Fake Off,” performing alongside members of Astra Dance Theatre while wearing very big hair and gobs of makeup.
I consider yoga to be a central element of my wellbeing. I’ve used my practice to help piece myself back together after a moderate lumbar injury and, in a separate incident, a serious neck fracture. I find yoga to be a multifaceted package of awesome, and I love the opportunity to share the practice’s many benefits with my students, and quite frankly, anyone willing to give me an ear.
When I’m not teaching yoga or performing circus arts on stage, I’m working on my urban farmstead. Together with my husband (acro and life partner), I grow my own veggies, raise livestock, preserves foods, brew kombucha, sew, and make almost every meal mostly from scratch. I am the proud mama of two turkeys, too many chickens to count, 3 pygmy goats, and two very spoiled cats. I may have left college with a mundane bachelor’s degree, but Berkeley, known for its books and Birkenstocks, definitely planted a seed. It just took a few years and a whole lot of yoga to help me discover my inner granola-eating-greens-sprouting-animal-rescuing-organics-promoting-asana-practicing-tree-hugging-hippie.
Lalique Gangcuangco
Devoted to the Greater Good, I center my practices around holistic wellness and helping others meet their full, pure potential. Halfway through my last year of high school in 2009, I took my first yoga class. Without a doubt, yoga united my mind, body, and spirit creating the strongest of unions. After about 5 years of practice, progress, and growing passion, I delved even deeper into my journey and completed my 200 hour vinyasa yoga teacher training mid-2014.
Cultivating mindfulness through movement, quieting the mind, and freeing the spirit through my teachings are my passions. I teach an array of yoga forms—from gentle, feel-good flows and slow-paced, beginner flows to fiery, power vinyasa and yin style, restorative yoga—to amazing human Beings of all walks of life. My heart warms at the thought of sharing space and creating magic with you!
Love, Light + Wealth in Health,
Lalique
Audrey Rey Espinosa
I was drawn to my first yoga class in my early 20's looking for relief for my achy body from a physically demanding job. Suffering from tendinitis, back and joint pains, all the poses didn't come easy to my stiff body! It took me a long time to just touch my toes and I'm still find it a challenge to balance on one foot let alone both my hands!
Stress is the leading factor keeping me on the mat, so much it inspired me to become certified RYT-200 in 2013. Since then I've taken a number of intensive workshops with Ana Forrest, Yoga Medicine, Annie Carpenter, and Prenatal Yoga with Ma yoga. In my free time you will find me in the garden with my succulents and cacti! Or traveling with my husband!
Expect my class to be vinyasa flow based, sweaty, stretchy and hands on! Every class is sequenced to create an atmosphere of stillness in movement. Where strength, stamina and flexibility gracefully meet. My mission is to help my students find that mind body connection through proper alignment, breath work, and hopefully a smile or giggle here and there!
Yoga is not only breathing through difficult poses but what you learn about yourself in these moments on your mat. What goes through your mind. The conversation with yourself. Sometimes positive, sometimes negative. This is when your practice begins! This is how release and progress happens, when you find patience with your body and stillness in your mind. That is yoga to me!
Francesca Saputo
In 2010, during a stressful period in my life, I decided to try yoga. After attending my first class I was hooked! Yoga became an essential part of my life. This practice instantaneously gave me a level of calmness I never thought was possible. Over time I found myself getting more involved in the yoga community, not only by attending classes, but by making a complete lifestyle change. Yoga has given me the tools to become a healthier individual, physically, spiritually and mentally.
In May of 2015, I completed my 200-hour teacher training with Cloud Nine Yoga and received my certification in Prenatal Yoga with Jennifer More. I discovered an ability to listen to my body and spirit with an open heart. It’s helped me to become more aware of my breath on my mat but most importantly off of my mat, in the real world, where it matters most. Yoga instilled a peacefulness in me that compelled me to pass it on to others. Although yoga has been in my life for 5 years I feel this journey has only just begun.
Yoga and I began our relationship in 2009 when I attended a Bikram yoga class in Covina. I fell in love with the familiarity of the poses as if I had been doing them all my life or in a dream somewhere. Soon afterward, I dove into more forms such as vinyasa and yin yoga which made me realize the endlessness of possibilities that can be explored throughout a lifetime. I received my 200 hour teacher training in 2012 with YogaWorks in Tarzana and then my 300 hour training in 2014 with Cloud Nine Yoga right here at YogaBody Studios.
My weekly Restorative class on Sundays which offers me as well as my students a chance to truly relax and get back in touch with our true nature of ease. My goal as an instructor is to lead my students into that deeper connection with themselves that only a strong relationship with yoga can provide.
I walked into my first yoga class thinking it would be a cinch. That impression quickly went down the drain, and I got a big slap of humble across the face--my 10 years as an athlete notwithstanding. 4 years and a teacher training later, my practice continues to teach me humility, and so much more. It has helped me find the quiet in an otherwise very noisy world, and has helped me find peace across oceans (quite literally, having moved here from the Philippines a little over 3 years ago).
As a teacher, my foremost intention is to create a safe space--a shared space of expression (without judgment), release (of emotions, of stress, of hamstrings), opening (of minds, of hearts, of tight hips), challenge (but not competition), and community. And maybe we'll break a sweat along the way.
Looking forward to sharing space with you!
I truly and deeply love this practice. I started yoga while in college in 2013 with no idea how much it would help, heal, and transform me for the better. I was pursuing a degree in environmental biology, deeply moved by the environmental crisis that we’re in as a species, and certain that nothing else was worth dedicating my entire career to.
Yoga helped me to understand myself, the world, and my purpose in it with so much more clarity and peace. From experiencing my own transformational journey with yoga, and as a result embodying more of my potential to positively impact others and the environment, I understand that as yoga heals individuals it heals the collective, a little piece of the planet as well (a very immediate and tangible way to aid in the environmental crisis).
I felt called to share yoga with others by becoming an instructor. I went through my teacher training with Yogabody in 2016, just as I was finishing my degree. Here I am now, teaching yoga as my main occupation, and it feels more like a dream than work. It is a great honor to lead others and share such a meaningful practice together.
Annie is a certified yoga teacher, energy healer, known for her heart opening and challenging classes. Annie teaches with an emphasis on alignment, breath and encourages her students to go beyond a pose and observe what a pose is trying to reveal. Through the ability to listen and tune into our internal guidance system, is where healing and transformation can take place.
Her intension as a teacher is to create a scared space for her students to go within, to elevate their frequency and let of go of resistance that keeps them from living freely, fearlessly and consciously. Through awareness of our thoughts, we can re-organize our mindset, pivot our energy and create a more positive state of well being, anytime we choose. The peace we seek, begins within. She looks forward to seeing you on your mat!
I started practicing yoga back in 2008 to help address tightness and chronic low back pain that were part of my life as a college basketball player. I’ve been utilizing yoga for pain management since the start, but my relationship with yoga has extended far beyond physical pain management, and far beyond what I would have expected.
After finding YogaBody as a student I decided it felt right to dive into my teacher training right here. My relationship with YogaBody continues as I now practice, learn, teach, and grow with this community.
When teaching I like to provide cues that let students know where we are going, but also how they can get there. I give options and encourage students to find the versions of each pose that feel best in their unique bodies. My cueing style pairs with a slower style flow in vinyasa classes and finding comfort in your body during gentle and restorative practices. Join me at the studio or visit me online at TowneYoga.com.
My yoga journey started in 2012 when I had just moved to a new city. I entered a strange new place with no friends, no job, and in a slump that I couldn't seem to pull myself out of. I had heard of yoga but never took a class. Someone had told me about a donation based yoga class. I remember my first class with such prominence. It was the first time I was moving my body in such a way that built awareness. It was refreshing to find this awareness I never knew I had access to but was there all along. The instructor gave me life lessons and uplifting quotes that I remember to this day. I felt at peace in that moment and I knew that yoga would hold a special place in my heart.
After practicing for 5 years I finally took the plunge on taking my first 200hr RYS teacher training at Yogabody Studios. I went with the intention to just learn more about yoga but ended up instructing as soon as I finished my course. After 2 years of instructing I decided to take another 200hr RYS teacher training at the Govardhan School of Yoga in India.
Throughout my instructing I have made some of the most beautiful connections and friendships that I will cherish for a lifetime. Yoga allowed me to connect with my higher self so that I may build a stronger connection with others. I have found healing through yoga many times and in many different aspects. My goal is to spread this wellness and to guide individuals on how to become their very own healers.
Growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Jeny Rae was a teen punk rocker turned teen mom at age 19. Desperately seeking relief, in 2003, she stumbled into her first Yoga class at a gym as a stressed-out single mom. She fell in love with the practice of Yoga and never turned back. Now, she integrates the hard and soft edges of life experience into a loving and authentic presence that supports her students in cultivating their fullest potential.
Jeny Rae, 200 E-RYT, weaves together the styles she has been trained in (Hatha, Vinyasa, and Amrit Yoga) with philosophy, breath work, mantra, meditation, and attunement practices. She teaches more than just a series of postures, she guides a journey through the self to uncover truth, empowerment, and inner peace.
Recognizing we are all both student and teacher, she creates a judgement-free zone of inclusivity and accessibility. Her intention is to simply hold up a mirror and help you polish it to reveal the gold:
your dharma, creativity, intuition, strength and courage to own it.
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