Shasta Yoga teachers offer a purposeful and sustainable mind-body practice. Inspired by the natural human capacity to awaken, we are here to help you deepen within your practice and connect to something greater…
Our Teachers
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Amy Cooper Founder & Director, E-RYT-500, C-IAYT
Amy is dedicated to the unfolding inquiry of what it is to be on a yogic path; cultivating embodied awareness, mental and physical resilience as well as greater balance and freedom in being in the world. Her teaching weaves a creative, invigorating yet calming, centering yet spacious exploration of yoga postures, embodied breathing and presence.
With Iyengar Yoga as her practice and teaching foundation for over 40 years, Amy has offered one-on-one therapeutic yoga sessions since 1986. She holds a Yoga Therapy Certification with the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Amy also facilitates the weekly Mount Shasta Meditation Sangha that meets on Thursday nights at the studio.
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Jade Webb RYT-500
At the heart of Jade’s yoga offerings is her curiosity about the spiritual experience of being human, and how through the body we can both tell and transform the stories about our life, and about life in general.
Her holistic approach draws from and hopes to integrate: the self-awareness and energy-balancing tools of Kripalu Yoga, the postural alignment principles of Iyengar Yoga, the deep nurturing of Restorative Yoga, and the non-dual philosophies of the East and West.Her personal meditation and yoga practices inform her classes from a place of direct experience. Jade is also a Massage Therapist and Yoga Therapist and has been enjoying working with people from all walks of life, in various parts of the world, for over 20 years.
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Jan Cowan
Jan has been practicing yoga since 1970, and teaching since 1992 throughout Shasta and Siskiyou Counties, including Shasta College, College of the Siskiyous, Shasta Yoga, and others. Jan has done teacher training at the Berkeley Yoga Center and at Amy's Shasta Yoga 200-hour teacher training in 2009.
"For me, yoga has become a way of life, a way of staying more centered and balanced throughout all the changes that life brings. When teaching a class, I especially love to see the faces of people as they leave feeling that revitalization and centeredness".
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—Mark Whitwell on the Teacher-Student Relationship
“In the entire great tradition of human wisdom the universal method is the mutual affection between two real people, the teacher-student relationship. This is not a relationship of authority over another, it is not a parent child relationship. It is one of utter mutuality. The teacher is no more than a friend and no less than friend. In this friendship real bhakti arises, not manufactured feelings for an authority or public persona, trying to get somewhere, trying to get something that seems absent most of the time. The teacher has no interest but to empower the student, to give the tools that allows the student to stand in his or her own power. When this happens true devotion, very real life long gratitude arises between two people who are obviously standing in the same garden! the same reality.”