Yoga Instructors

Shambhava Yoga Teacher Training Instructors

Yogini Hendrickson

Yogini received her Yoga Therapist Certification in 2016. She has her Master’s in Physical Therapy (1999) and became a certified Shambhava Yoga Teacher in 2006. She enriches all Eldorado trainings with her strong anatomy background.  As an E-RYT 500 level teacher, she currently leads yoga training Levels 1-3 as well as her passion, Yoga for Healing. In her free time, Yogini enjoys family time, hiking, and baking decadent desserts!

Mokshana Zauber

Mokshana, an E-RYT 500 level teacher, has been practicing yoga since 1998, teaching since 2003, and training Shambhava yoga teachers since 2005. She has received all of her yoga and meditation training from Shambhava Yoga. She has taught in a variety of settings and enjoys working with all ages and abilities. Mokshana’s classes tend to focus on creatively strengthening and stabilizing the body, breath, and mind through alignment and awareness, but she is also delighted to teach restorative classes!

Acharya Dayalan Hendrickson

Dayalan lives at Eldorado Mountain Yoga Ashram with his wife and daughter, and is a certified hatha yoga and meditation teacher. He teaches meditation and philosophy for hatha yoga teacher trainings.  He is also a counselor for our yoga kids’ camp, and Sunday family program.  Dayalan enjoys working outside, taking care of the animal herd at Eldorado, and spending time with his family.

Rajani Shaw

Rajani is an RYT 500 level teacher and has been practicing yoga since 2006. She began teaching at Shoshoni Yoga Retreat in 2011, and especially enjoys instructing kids yoga classes in the Eldorado Mountain Yoga Kids’ Camp and mom and tots’ yoga. Rajani has a passion for Ayurveda and playing outdoors, and loves teaching all levels and ages of students, bringing breath awareness and meditation to vinyasa style classes.

Jatila Hayes

Jatila began practicing and teaching yoga while serving at one of our sister centers, Shoshoni Yoga Ashram. Drawn to the benefits hatha yoga can bring to one’s meditation practice, he strives to combine movement with a deep inner focus. Jatila’s classes are all-levels with an emphasis on foundation, activation, and inner exploration.

Priya Whitmer

Priya has been teaching yoga since 1998. Her classes combine a focus on both the “inner” and the “outer” experience of asana practice. Each class includes breathwork, hatha yoga poses and guided relaxation. Students’ individual needs are taken into account in each class.

Shanti Pitschka

Shanti began practicing yoga at age 16 after a suggestion from her physical therapist. Dealing with pain from scoliosis, Shanti decided to try it and has been in love with the healing benefits of yoga ever since. She dabbled in many different types of yoga throughout the years before discovering, and receiving multiple certifications through, the Shambhava School of Yoga. Shanti’s classes are multi-level, slow flow vinyasa yoga; focusing on building strength, flexibility and inner peace.

Tayler Kellim

Tayler has been a yoga practitioner for years but recently took the plunge and completed her teacher training here at Eldorado Mountain Yoga Ashram. While Tayler’s studies of Hatha Yoga continue she hopes to spread her passion for yoga and mediation to others in the classroom!

Carissa Pausma

Currently working to complete her 500hr RYT at the Eldorado Mountain Yoga Ashram, Carissa appreciates the alignment and personal awareness yoga requires. In her classes she enjoys combining creative flow with essential oils, restorative cool downs & long savasanas. Outside of yoga, she loves breakfast & the great outdoors!