Gurmukh Khalsa
For the past 54 years, Gurmukh has been blessed to serve as a Teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Gurmukh and her husband Gurushabd travel the world over… teaching, serving, healing, and helping wherever needed. When they are not out on the road, they are living in Taos, New Mexico, USA; Tulum, México; and Rishikesh, India. They are enjoying life with their beloved daughter Wah and grandson Sai Nakin Rose who often travel and teach together with them in Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in India and the Khalsa Way Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training globally.
Gurmukh loves to share the Teachings through Teacher Trainings to create more Kundalini Yoga Teachers. She loves to join community together in whatever country she is in through fundraisers to support children, indigenous families and communities, and orphanages throughout the world. This is what makes her heart the happiest.
We keep teaching and healing to help humanity have tools to bring them into a consciousness with a foundation to be healthy, happy, and whole. We will find you somewhere soon. We will chant, pray, dance, and share food in laughter and light. We will know and live the most important reason to be alive: to love and to be loved.
Olivia Herman
Olivia is a licensed massage therapist specializing in fascial manipulation and fascial stretching. With nearly 20 years of experience, she has helped countless clients restore
balance, ease discomfort, and move more freely in their bodies. Her teaching style is energetic, engaging, and empathetic - creating a supportive learning environment where
students feel confident and inspired. To learn more about Olivia, visit her website https://www.ceemeform.com/
Find her on insta @lifeform26
Kari Malen
Kari loves to create opportunities for induvidual self-growth and community connection. She is a Structural Integration Practitioner and Yoga & Fitness Instructor, Teacher of Teachers, EYRT- 500. Kari creates events and helps support efforts to expand opportunities for amazing instructors to do what they do best; and to create events for the community to grow through wellness experiences and find great instructors. She coordinates the Festival schedule and runs the Taos Yoga Co-op. To learn more about Kari visit www.karimalen.com
Find her insta @taosyogacoop
Alana Lee
Alana Lee is the founder of Chakra Breathing® has over 25 years of experience teaching yoga, movement, meditation, and breathwork. Drawing from decades of study in yoga, neuroscience, somatics, and trauma-aware practices, she guides powerful breathing experiences that support nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and personal transformation.
Known for her grounded presence and intuitive teaching style, Alana creates safe, heart-centered spaces where people can reconnect with their bodies, release stored stress and emotion, and awaken greater clarity, vitality, and purpose. She also leads Chakra Breathing® Facilitator Trainings, empowering others to share the transformative power of breath within their own communities. To learn more about Alana visit her website www.chakrabreathing.org.
Find Alana on insta @yogalanalee or @playgroundofpotential
Johanna DeBiase
Johanna DeBiase is a writer, Nature Therapy Guide and yoga instructor who lives off the grid near Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of the novella Mama & the Hungry Hole (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2015) and the poetry chapbook Gestation (Finishing Line Press, 2020). She has an MFA in Creative Writing and has been teaching writing for over two decades. In 2021, she became certified as a Nature Therapy Guide with the Association of Forest and Nature Therapy Guides and has been leading people on meditative forest walks, also known as forest bathing, ever since. She loves to combine her passion for writing and nature to create unique experiences she calls, ReWild Your Words. To learn more about Johanna, visit her website www.johannadebiase.com
Find her on insta @johannadebiase
Maryse Lapierre
Originally from Québec, Canada, Maryse is a singer-songwriter accordionist in a local band based in Albuquerque, NM. She moved to Northern NM in 2001 and got “enchanted”!
She has training in Mindfulness Meditation with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield -Theravada tradition- and she interweaves other traditions in her practice. She’s been on many silent retreats, and also lucid dreaming retreats and creative writing retreats. For over seven years she’s facilitated a weekly voice exploration / toning class using some of her favorite somatic practices. She’s now circling back to this practice adding elements of mindfulness silent meditation. Maryse is a practicing LMT and loves energy work, dream yoga, being in nature, and teaching family music classes to preschoolers. Her passion is to help each other through community work, harnessing the power of neuroplasticity to rewire our systems using modalities that encourage lasting altered traits in addition to altered states. When she’s not busy singing or teaching she likes to organize French immersion wellness retreats and comes up with outdoors, cultural and gastronomy adventures for her French students!To learn more about Maryse visit her website www.bebelalamusic.com.
Nadine Lollino
Nadine Lollino has been in somatic studies essentially her whole life. Studying music, dance and theater from an early age, she was inspired to see things from a creative perspective. Studying movement therapy in college opened up many ideas and Nadine followed the path into massage therapy, yoga, art making and teaching to help integrate the body/mind connection. While dancing for small modern companies in Chicago over the years she also kept stoking her own creative fire creating costumes, dances and video making for performance. All the while, teaching Pilates, yoga and working as a massage therapist. Nadine’s education in bodywork has been primarily focused on neuromuscular and myofascial techniques, excelling in pain reduction and injury prevention. She teaches a weekly 3Bodies Creative Movement class at the Taos Center for the Arts and is a TRE Provider sharing both in group and individual instruction. To learn more about Nadine visit her website www.movementlab.dance
Find her on insta @nadinelollino
Jennifer Joy
Jennifer Joy is a certified Sound and Vibrational Therapy practitioner and yoga teacher devoted to creating spaces of deep rest, restoration, and connection. She is the founder of La Luz de Seco, a studio in Arroyo Seco where she offers Sound and Vibrational Therapy and Private Sound Baths in the presence of Taos Mountain. Jennifer also teaches yoga at Aurafitness in Taos, weaving sound, movement, breath, and stillness into experiences that support the nervous system and open the heart. Her work is an invitation to come home to the body, quiet the mind, and remember our connection to the earth, to one another, and to all things. To learn more about Jennifer visit her website www.laluzdeseco.com.
Find her on insta @laluzdeseco
Ru Chao
Ru Chao is a trauma-informed breathwork facilitator who guides clients on a journey of self-discovery, release and liberation. Her compassionate, intuitive approach helps individuals safely relax into their bodies, using intentional and ancient breath patterns to deepen their state of consciousness. She creates a nurturing space for transformation, supporting the mind-body connection, through breath while guiding with cues, song and music.
April Rameé
April Rameé, also known as Antler Alchemy, is a remarkable individual dedicated to harnessing the power of nature for healing and transformation. She is an esteemed Clinical Herbalist, affectionately called the “Herbal Warrior of the Light.”
April’s profound knowledge of botanical medicine and its therapeutic potential has earned her widespread recognition. Her expertise extends beyond traditional herbalism, as she is a graduate of multiple herbal programs and traveled the world to learn from elders, the land, and water.
Delving into the mystical and spiritual aspects of plant medicine, she utilizes these skills in her Certification as a Psychedelic Integration Coach, skillfully supporting individuals in navigating the complexities of plant medicine experiences and integrating their profound insights into daily life.
With deep reverence for nature and a passion for guiding others toward holistic wellness, Antler Alchemy embodies the harmony between the natural world and human flourishing through her Psychedelic Herbalism Method.
Jvala Moonfire
Jvala Moonfire lived over 14 years in India absorbed in the ancient yogic path of consciousness evolution through sound. Immersed in the practices of mantra, breath, meditation and the study of Sanskrit Jvala lived and studied with her guruji in the ancient city Varanasi along the banks of the sacred Ganges River and in remote caves high in the Himalayas. Returning to the west in 2012, She continued her studies in sacred sound, training, and becoming a certified Sound Healer with international renowned Tom Kenyon and the Globe Institute of Sound & Consciousness.
Jvala Moonfire offers Crystal Bowl Sound Baths for individuals, private groups, and community events. She is passionate about sharing the transformational power of sound to affect consciousness and invoke healing, as she guides people into deeply regenerative meditative states through activated mantra, toning, and the powerful vibrations of the crystal singing bowls
Bonnie Golden
Bonnie Golden is the founder and Program Director of Age Up Well Taos, a nonprofit dedicated to helping older adults stay healthy, independent, and connected through fitness, wellness education, and community. With more than 35 years of experience in health and wellness, Bonnie has worked in fitness, long-term care, and community health since 1988. She is passionate about helping people improve their strength, balance, functional mobility, and quality of life.
Bonnie believes that movement is one of the most powerful forms of medicine and that everyone deserves the opportunity to age with strength, confidence, purpose, and joy. Her classes are known for being welcoming, encouraging, and adaptable to participants of all abilities. To learn more about Bonnie visit her website www.ageupwelltaos.net.
Find her on insta @ageupwelltaos
Kristin Olson
Kristin Olson is a licensed mental health counselor and a passionate advocate for health and wellness. With a master's degree in Art Therapy from Southwestern College, she dedicates her life to serving others and promoting holistic healing. Currently she works at Community Against Violence, where she supports individuals in overcoming trauma and finding resilience.
Alana & Matt
Alana has been teaching AcroYoga, partner acrobatics, and movement practices for over 20 years, while she and Matt have been sharing their passion for AcroYoga together for the past 8 years.
Alana brings a diverse background in gymnastics, dance, yoga, and partner acrobatic performance, while Matt's foundation in martial arts and contact improvisation offers a unique perspective on balance, communication, trust, and movement. Together they blend strength, playfulness, creativity, and mindful connection to create a welcoming learning environment for students of all levels.
Whether you're stepping into AcroYoga for the first time or refining advanced skills, Alana and Matt offer clear instruction, supportive spotting, and years of experience to help students build confidence, deepen partnerships, and most importantly—have fun.
James Stake
James is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, an energy worker and astrologer with a distant background in neuroscience and western medicine. He is dedicated to cultivating wellbeing and easing suffering through compassion, acceptance and the transformative power of energy work. James works with individuals, couples and families, and teaches classes in energy work and astrology. He is also a long-time spiritual seeker, having been truly graced with extraordinary teachers in the Zen and Advaita traditions. Learn more about James at www.jamesistake.com
