"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are headed home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things."
- Mary Oliver
- Mary Oliver
THE TEAM
Biff is surrounded by a passionate and dedicated team.
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Prema Mayi, has been practicing bhakti yoga for 38 years. At a young age she entered a bhakti yoga ashram. Learning the arts of sacred music…kirtan, dance, mantra meditation, puja ceremony, and the sacred texts of the vedas, she immerse her self in a devotional way of life. She traveled to India for many years and walked in pilgrimage with her spiritual master Bhaktivedanta Narayan M. deepening in her practice under his guidance. Discovering the healing and purifying power of this practice, she has dedicated herself to share these gifts with the world, traveling extensively, accompanied by her sons.
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Anne-Gaëlle is leading yin and vinyasa yoga classes in Paris in several studios, companies and at la Salpetrière Hospital.
After 7 years in web and advertising company, she decided to create her own company and to lead yoga classes. She was practicing since 2008 and could see the changes it could bring to people around her. Passionate by the yoga philosophy, she is also fascinated by the human body and the human mind and their capacity to connect to create balance, fluidity and strength. She is practicing yin yoga with Biff since 2012 and learning/teaching with him ever since. www.agyoga.fr |
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Marta Mezzino's journey has taken her deeply into the practices of Yoga and healing. Her path is centered on her belief in the importance of connecting to the Earth and to the essence of life.
Marta has trained in Hatha yoga through the School Yoga Institute and has trained and taught Yin Yoga with Biff Mithoefer. After studying history and anthropology at university in Italy she travelled extensively in Asia and South America. During her travels she met and trained with teachers from many different traditional cultures who have guided her in her healing path. Through her deep interest in Nature and the elements she has incorporated ancient ayurvedic and indigenous principles in her teaching and practice. Her teaching weaves sound vibration and yoga asana, and through drumming and voice, Marta invites us to return to a place deep within ourselves. |
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Cécile Roubaud
After many years studying the body through dancing, Cécile started her Yoga journey with Hatha Yoga in 2002 in Paris. As she discovered Ashtanga Yoga, a few years later in Mexico, she got passionate about it, which led her to cross the world to learn more about it. Since 2009 she is as well exploring the benefits of Yin Yoga that she discovered in Canada with Bernie Clark. Cécile is 500 -RYT certified and offers continuing education and teacher trainings of Yin Yoga around the world. Her sources of inspiration are mainly: Biff Mithoefer, Bernie Clark, Paul and Suzee Grilley, Shiva Rea, and Geshe Michael Roach. Cécile is passionate about passing on her knowledge gained from studying with wordly renowned yoga masters. She is dedicated to her students, helping them discover their own great potential and power. http://www.ashtanga-yoga-annecy.com/wp/ |
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Betty Papadopoulou
I teach many different kinds of Yoga, Chi Kong, Thai Yoga Massage and Meditation. My teachings is a combination of the knowledge and the experiences of my life, integrating aspects of contemporary dance, chi kong, and the wisdom of the native traditions. For four years I cooperated with the N.G.O. “Child Care Foundation” in Uganda. For me yoga is the best way to live a mindful life, to experience every moment in a sacred manner and as a celebration. |
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Jennifer Ciarimboli
First introduced to yoga in 1999, Jennifer began her teaching journey in 2007. Since then she has been teaching full time, logged over 800 hours of study, and has led local and regional workshops, retreats & trainings. She is on staff as the Co-Director/Founder of Twin Cities Yoga Collective and founded Balance yoga studio in 2008. She has been most influenced by her teachers, Rusty Wells, Biff Mithoefer and Sarah Powers and has been assisting Biff at his Yin Yoga trainings at the Omega Institute and Yogaville since 2012. Deeply transformed by Yin Yoga and Buddhism, Jennifer has spent the last four years integrating the practice and insight of Yin Yoga with the devotional elements of the Bhakti teachings. Jennifer’s group classes are unique and intelligently designed so students are able to cultivate a deep understanding of their individual needs through breath and both passive and active movement (asana) to increase strength and vitality throughout the entire system. Jennifer continues her work and studies with Biff Mithoefer. She is committed to sharing her deep love of yoga through karma work with under served populations. Lover of the earth, hot tea, velvety wine and all things blue, Jennifer stays busy enjoying a full life with her husband, four children, three dogs, two cats and ten chickens. www.jenniferciarimboliyoga.com |
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Eric Archer is a lover of nature and art in all forms, and practices this love through music, meditation, yoga, cooking, teaching, and poetry. Eric’s work as a musician, a chef-nutritionist, and a mindfulness instructor allows him to share his passions while also continuing his own studies by way of serving others and building community. Through a fusion of the mind-, body-, and spiritual-arts, Eric attempts to blend his artistic sides with his scientific lens to present a truly holistic approach to health and vitality.
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Amy Trefry is the founder of Full Element Living, a health and wellness company that focuses on providing a unique and tailored approach to health services, ranging from Nutrition and Fitness Programming, to Life Coaching and Personal Chef options. She is passionate about all things food and is an avid gardener, and cook and writes a weekly food blog of her kitchen adventures. Amy's work in yoga started in 2007 and she has been teaching, facilitating retreats and coordinating workshops internationally since. She was first introduced to Yin Yoga following an injury and found an increasing draw to the message of acceptance and stillness that it brought to her life. Taking her first Yin Teacher Training with Biff in 2015 she has been working with him and his team of instructors since and is honoured to be able to continue to learn and study under them.
http://www.fullelementliving.com_ |
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Kristen Volpone is a heart consciousness activist. She is a believer in using the heart as a lens to see life through. She promotes self study and expression of human emotion as a way to liberate the heart’s voice. Her journey has taken her into deep self study through Yoga and Art. Kristen is passionate about spreading Yin in a very Yang world. She believes in Yin Yoga as a practice of the Heart’s journey. Her Yin Yoga classes aim to remind people of Mindfulness, self love, and the quiet power within.
Kristen completed her Hatha/ Vinyasa training with Sonic Yoga in New York. She has studied Kirtan with Bhakti Data Lasi at the Bhakti Center, where she deepened her devotion to heart consciousness. She has studied Yin Yoga with Biff Mithoefer, and has assisted his Yin Yoga Trainings. Kristen is grateful to be a part of the Yin path and to spread its magic! www.yinwithkris10.com |
