GABRIELLE BLACHLEY - Lead Instructor

• E-RYT 500+ with yoga training certifications and continuing education degrees from India, Guatemala, Chicago, and San Diego.

• Lead facilitator of over 20 yoga teacher trainings, continuing education programs, and yoga mentorship in San Diego, California.

• Gabrielle has been teaching yoga full-time for 20+ years and owned her own donation-based yoga school - devoted to and passion-filled about her yogic path.

• My Dharma: "Metamorphosis:" Dharma + Transformational Life Coach, "Healing Through Stillness:" Restorative Yoga Program Creator, Circle + Rising: Women's Monthly Gatherings, Reiki Healer, Sound Healing, Hands-On Intuitive Adjustment Workshop, Workshop Creator and Facilitator, International Retreats.

  Gabrielle’s belief is that yoga is limitless in its potential to transform and heal our lives. Her approach to teaching is holistic, intuitive, playful, and therapeutic, She encourages her students to turn inward to the constant fluctuations and transformations taking place with each breath, recognizing that each time you step onto the space of your mat, you can begin again.

  Gabrielle was born and raised in Chicago, where she was trained to be a professional ballerina, blessed to have her mother as her mentor for many years. It was this experience that set the stage for her affinity and passion for physical expression and artistry of movement.

  Her lifelong dream and dedication to becoming a ballerina was intercepted by an unfortunate injury. But, it was through this humbling life experience that she found yoga, which would forever change and heal her life, and her relationship to her physical body and mind.

  After receiving a BA in Fine Arts and Communications from Loyola University of Chicago, Gabrielle’s free spirit led her to many faraway places like Hawaii, Europe, India, and Morocco, where she lived, studied, and trained for a number of years exploring the vast world of yoga and the healing arts. It was on this journey, she heard the calling and first realized she might just be...a teacher, like her Mother (something she denied for years)?!?!

  These life experiences and a series of life-altering events challenged, humbled, and encouraged her to spread her wings and begin her own donation-based yoga school, Monarch Yoga Shala, in Chicago, IL. Founding a donation-based yoga school, was a dream, and through this dream, Gabrielle realized her potential to help and transform people's lives was endless. It was also during this time in her life, as a young mother and business owner that again life challenged her physically, and after a traumatic spine injury, was faced with the reality and challenge of rebuilding her relationship with her body. This new reality as well as several other injuries over time would give her priceless insight and influence her to pursue a different path as a teacher, one which forced her to fully focus on the importance of biomechanics and alignment. After doing a few online trainings with Sadie Nardidni and working at Catalyst Physical Therapy and Wellness as Yoga Director, her style of yoga is more "anatomy-enhanced," with attention to intuitive alignment.

  Being raised by a strong-willed, free-spirited artist and force of nature, Gabrielle always envisioned doing something for women's empowerment. Circle + Rising is a women’s healing circle and collaboration of women empowering women which began as a dharma project that turned into a monthly gathering at yoga studios in San Diego.

  After a few decades of traveling and teaching from studio to studio, gaining invaluable life and professional experience, Gabrielle's butterfly soul found a yoga home at Trilogy Sanctuary in La Jolla. Gabrielle is the director of Yoga Teacher Trainings, lead instructor, workshop facilitator, founder and co-lead of Circle + Rising, and creator and lead facilitator of "Healing Through Stillness," a Restorative Yoga Training.

  Gabrielle's dharma has revealed itself as being a "space holder" and spiritual guide: one who holds safe, sacred space for individual exploration, transformation, and deep healing. We all find ourselves in life moments where what we are doing, is no longer working... this is our chance to take a sacred pause, "to begin again" and realize the limitless potential of every breath and every life moment!
  
  Gabrielle Blachley Website

Caroline Chiesa

• RYT 500: 200YTT at Trilogy Sanctuary, 300YTT at the Soul of Yoga

• Certified Aerial Yoga Teacher - AYTT Lead at Trilogy Sanctuary

• Studiying Yoga Therapy (I-AYT) at the Soul of Yoga

• Ayurvedic Health Counselor (600hr) with Mas Vidal and Dancing Shiva

Caroline Chiesa is an E-RYT 500, YACEP, Aerial Yoga teacher, and Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Sound Healer and Yoga Therapist-In-Training. Caroline is known for having a unique blend of interests as it relates to yoga. Above all else, she values the importance of honoring the practice as it was originally intended: to transcend the human experience and to become one with the Divine.

Caroline has a deep reverence for the knowledge that has been passed down for millennia through the Vedas. Her Ayurvedic studies have taken her all the way to India to study at Dr D. Y. Patil University in Pune, Maharashtra, an invaluable experience which has given her a deep love and appreciation for all of the wisdom traditions derived from Mother India. In the finishing stages of an comprehensive 1000-Hour specialized Yoga Therapy training program, Caroline has done extensive training in classical application of pranayama, mudras, asana, meditation, kriyas, Ayurvedic lifestyle modifications, marma point therapy and just about everything else that might fall under the umbrella of a Hatha Yoga practice.

Caroline is trained in Vinyasa, Hatha, Restorative Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Yin, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Nidra, and Yoga for Mood Management & Trauma. She is honored and humbled to have the opportunity to hold space for students.

Caroline LinkTree

Laura Rose

Based in San Diego, CA, Sita Rose is an expressive performer skilled at crafting melodic medicine derived from the heart. She draws from her experience as a board-certified music therapist, devotional singer, tantra and yoga practitioner to elevate consciousness and promote peace.

She offers one-on-one sessions, online group vocal coaching workshops, and performs live music for yoga classes. Her gypsy spirit has led her to study the ancient healing qualities of music throughout India, South America, and Jamaica. She is co-founder of Seed & Song and is passionate about fostering communities that empower individuals to live freely.

Laura Rose: Vocal Sanctuary Website

Josh Blatter

Josh is a yoga and meditation teacher, mindfulness educator, content creator and facilitator who shares his passion for the intersectionality of western science and eastern tradition. For the past 15 years, he has combined his understanding of the human body, biomechanics and the nervous system in concert with the ancient tradition of yoga to support individuals in tapping into a greater sense of balance and ease. Contributing to and enhancing Josh’s unique approach, he has attained multiple certificates in yoga therapy and mindfulness meditation and has studied extensively at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai, India.  Josh holds a certification as a Corrective Exercise Specialist with the National Association of Sports Medicine and has clinical experience working with doctors, chiropractors and naturopaths.  Josh is a dedicated student of Vedic chant and the healing applications of sound.  In his time teaching yoga, with over 12,000 community classes under his belt, Josh has honed a keen eye for understanding how to support individuals best by meeting them where they are at.

He is recognized as an expert in the San Diego yoga community.  And while he loves nerding out on the philosophy of yoga, what he loves even more is the real-life application of these ancient teachings.

Josh is inspired by people who humbly go against the grain, the resiliency of nature and the unexpected opportunities in life.

Josh Blatter Website

Kristi Kuttner

Kristi is a Yoga teacher 200 hour E-RYT, 500 hour RYT, YACEP, Reiki master teacher and spiritual mentor. She specializes in Yin yoga and completed additional training in Yinki® yoga which combines yin yoga, Reiki and sound healing. She was trained under the top healers at the Tranquility School of Integrative Healing in Encinitas, California. Kristi is currently a lead assistant on her mentor Brett Larkin’s highly successful Uplifted Yoga trainings and online programs.

Yin yoga and Reiki have profoundly changed Kristi’s life by creating a sense of peace, well-being and self-connection. Many of her students agree, their lives are changed after trainings and sessions. Kristi teaches weekly group sessions at Sojourn Healing collective and Trilogy Sanctuary. Her classes will leave you feeling inspired, nurtured and full of life.

Kristi Kuttner Website

Kelli Martin

Born and Raised in Southern California Kelli Martin has a close connection with nature. She believes that “We as humans are connected to the environment and all that surrounds us. What we think, do and say has a direct effect on the world”. This very belief has guided Kelli along the path of her Dharma, sharing Love and Light with others in the community. Kelli feels humbled and incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to do so.

Kelli is a Yoga Teacher RYT-200, Reiki Master Teacher and a Certified Integrative Healer. In addition she is also trained in Aerial Yoga as well as a Certified Yinki® Teacher. Kelli attended The Olivier School of Integrative Healing where she not only embarked on her own path of healing, but also received training in spiritual healing for others. Kelli enjoys helping people step into their power by showing them how to see themselves as the love and beauty that they truly are. As a Reiki Master Teacher, Kelli holds Reiki Trainings throughout the year. She believes that “We are all healers with the ability to heal others and ourselves” and feels honored in sharing this gift.

Kelli Martin Website

Joe Caldera

Joe Caldera has had spiritual and psychic experiences since he was a young child. These ranged from receiving messages to experiencing visions of people and events before they happen. At first, Joe assumed this was something everyone could do easily since it came so naturally to him from an early age. While it is true that everyone is born capable of these spiritual gifts and abilities, many do not allow that part of themselves to open. 

At age nineteen Joe started having clear, specific visions about future events. At first, he would experience this only a day or two in advance in dream states - they would always unfold exactly how he envisioned. After years of suppressing the curiosity sparked by these experiences, the journey to pursue his true purpose in this realm finally began.

This spiritual journey involved many avenues from yoga to Zen meditation, religious studies to metaphysics, and various healing modalities, all of which are incorporated into Joe’s practice today. After this self-exploration, he worked with a teacher in Florida who helped him more fully develop these gifts and has been involved with The Berkeley Psychic Institute on various levels. Now, Joe is a well-known San Diego spiritual healer providing spiritual readings, healing and counseling services in his La Jolla serene office nestled on the rooftop of Trilogy. 

Joe Caldera Spiritual Services

Leila Dora

Leila’s interest in yoga sparked at a very young age with early memories of being intrigued by her mum standing on her head. Her curiosity for all aspects of yoga, physical and spiritual was kindled by the images of Hindu Gods and Goddesses displayed around her home as a child and she started practicing with her mum in her early teens, which further fueled the passion for this practice.

In 2010, Leila spent three months in India to delve deeper into this curiosity. During her time in India, she studied and trained to be a yoga instructor and was brought back to the roots of yoga; how it is actually a way of life, not just movements on a mat. Leila says “I feel that in the West we have come far away from the true meaning of Yoga. It has become just another way of getting fit and getting the body into shape. While finding harmony in the physical body is important in Yoga, creating it in the mind and spirit holds perhaps the greatest benefit. I am so grateful to have the opportunity of sharing the experience of yoga with others.” 

Leila has been teaching yoga since 2010 and aerial yoga since 2012.

Leila Aerial Offerings 

JOHN BECK

John is a Yoga teacher that teaches a practice through smiles and laughs. Started in 2012 as a teacher in Vinyasa and later studied in India to Receive his 500 hour in Hatha which is his favorite style other than Yin which he did an extension to learn and teach more. He found yoga in 2006 and later it helped him through practice and through AA to find sobriety.

He teaches from his heart only to help others find the teacher within themselves! He loves the yoga sutras and philosophy so expect some yoga philosophy jokes in his class.

John Beck Website

Maggie Walker

Maggie was born on Earth Day April 22nd, 1980 in the Midwestern United States.

She is a true Taurus: reliable, practical, ambitious and fiercely loyal. She is a mom of two, beautiful children.

Maggie is an experienced Yoga Teacher (teaching for more than 12 years) with a passion for helping people feel educated, empowered and confident through conception and throughout pregnancy / postpartum / birth and well into parenthood.

Maggie works with people / families in the comfort of their own homes, at yoga studios, chiropractic offices, birth centers, and in hospitals. She is a certified, trained and experienced in Natural Fertility,  Prenatal  and Postnatal Yoga, Birth Doula services and Childbirth Education with a speciality in Pelvic Health. Maggie has studied and worked in the midwestern United States, southern California, the island of Maui, Hawaii and the currently living and working in the Netherlands (Rotterdam & surrounding areas). 

Maggie Walker Website