Victor, NOURISH's most experienced yoga teacher and co-owner, has been teaching yoga in Santa Cruz for more than 14 years. Influenced by Hatha, Iyengar, and Vinyasa styles of yoga, Victor believes that "yoga is not about attempting to fit people into particular models of practice, but creating space for people to discover themselves."

He has worked with thousands of students and is adept at introducing yoga beginners to the fundamentals of a healthy yoga practice and helping more experienced students advance their yoga techniques. Victor has also assisted athletes, pregnant women, new mothers, surfers, dancers, and other individuals in Santa Cruz looking to support health and wellness.

Victor is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT 500) with Yoga Alliance and is also a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. He lives with his wife and co-owner, Jocelyn Dubin, and their daughter in Santa Cruz.

For the past twelve years Treea has been teaching yoga to a diverse population of students, ranging in age from six weeks to ninety one. She has delighted in sharing yoga with babies, children, pregnant women, new moms, and the elderly, along with the general population of yoga enthusiasts in Santa Cruz.

Her style is a blend of classical Ashtanga, Iyengar, Yoga Therapy, Anusara Yoga, and of course, her own insights gleaned from eighteen years of personal yoga practice. Treea encourages students to "find their own peaceful center through the breath, and then to align the physical body, mind, and emotional heart with that center, thus building and sustaining the practice from the inside out." She emphasizes alignment and muscular actions which heal and prevent injury, along with a positive, playful attitude on the mat, which in turn brings more joy, contentment, and service off the mat.

Treea completed her yoga teacher training through the Integrative Yoga Therapy, Mt. Madonna Center, 108 hour anusara yoga immersion with Sianna Sherman, anusara prenatal yoga teacher training with Jessica Jennings and Erich Schiffman. In addition to teaching at Nourish, Treea currently offers yoga classes in Santa Cruz for pregnant women and moms with new babies at the Pacific Cultural Center.

She lives with her husband and their two daughters in Ben Lomond, where she enjoys yoga, family, building good soil, and preparing to grow lots of food and green her home and life with the principles of permaculture.

Roxanne has been with NOURISH since it opened and has been teaching yoga in Santa Cruz for three years. She teaches the Hatha style of yoga, focusing on the breath and being present, "Yoga is not just on the mat or in the class, it's a way of living. Being fully present in each moment and being gentle with yourself and others. It's about thinking less and feeling more."

Roxanne has a background in gymnastics, both competing and as an instructor, for nearly 10 years. Roxanne calls on this knowledge of the body and movement in her classes, providing a calming and measured experience where she encourages students to be aware of how the body and mind feel, tuning inward and listening and seeing from the inside.

In 2007 she completed an intensive year-long yoga apprenticeship with Victor Dubin, becoming a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200) with Yoga Alliance. Originally from Hawaii, Roxanne lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and daughter. Besides teaching and practicing yoga, she loves designing and sewing yoga mat bags.

Valerie began teaching in 2001, and has been a devoted student of yoga for over 15 years. She offers an invigorating and challenging practice with the emphasis on yoga as an opportunity for personal awakening and transformation. Her classes are thoughtfully designed, and encourage an individualized exploration of yoga postures with breath awareness as the primary focus.

"My hope is to encourage curiosity," says Valerie. "I feel my purpose as a yoga teacher is to offer a structure through which students can become attentive to their own personal and unique experience in their own personal and unique bodies. Then they become their own teachers."

Before teaching yoga in Santa Cruz, Valerie has lived and studied yoga in India, San Francisco and Southern California. She is an expert in prenatal yoga and an advocate of natural childbirth. Valerie's most influential teachers include Pulak Ranjan Shukla, Max Strom, Colette Crawford, and Paul Grilley. She holds advanced certification from the Interdisciplinary Yoga Institute in Costa Rica, and has also trained with Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty at Yoga Works in Santa Monica. Valerie is Yoga Alliance Registered at the 500 hour level (RYT500). She currently lives and teaches in Santa Cruz, CA with her husband and two young daughters.

Kevin started teaching yoga in 2007. Evolving out of a love for skating and surfing, Kevin is drawn to the balance and grounding that yoga can bring to life. Influenced by the Vinyasa Flow style of yoga, his classes provide both an energetic exploration of the body and a calming of the mind. Recently moved to California, Kevin feels "blessed to have the opportunity to share the sacred gift of yoga with the Santa Cruz community."

Kevin's experience in using yoga to aid and improve sporting performance has seen him work alongside pro surfers and skateboarders; helping then build core strength and develop balance and flexibility.

Kevin completed his yoga teacher training on the east coast, training with Jhon T at the Atamananda Center in Manhattan, NY. He lives in Capitola and when not surfing or studying Chinese medicine at Five Branches University, Kevin writes and records music.