Teacher Bios

Amy Caldwell

Amy (E-RYT 500) has dedicated herself to the practice, study and teaching of yoga since discovering its joys and benefits in 1997 while backpacking throughout Asia, Australia, and parts of Europe. She trained in the disciplines of Ashtanga (Tim Miller, BNS Iyengar), Sivananda (Swami Sivanand, India), Iyengar (Roger Cole, Jo Zukovich, Aman Keays) and Anusara (Diana Beardsley) combining elements of these styles into a dynamic and inspiring alignment-based flow. She and her loving husband Michael have studied Vipassana meditation and incorporate its teachings of awareness into Yoga One and life with their two children. Amy has twice been featured on the cover of Yoga Journal including their 30th anniversary issue, as well as appearing inside for the "Home Practice" section. She collaborated with 3D4Medical in creating iYoga Premium for iPad and iPhone which reached the number one spot for best-selling health and fitness applications worldwide on Apple store with over 15,000 downloads in the first month. In 2014, she co-taught a class for City of Hope on the outfield of Padres' Petco Park which raised over $80,000 to fight and treat cancer as well as leading the first ever yoga class on the USS Midway in conjunction with the Downtown Partnership and Scripps Health.

Michael Caldwell

Michael has been practicing yoga and incorporating its philosophy into his life since 1997. He has studied with Swami Sivanand, Roger Cole (Iyengar), Diana Beardsley (Anusara), as well as with his wife Amy, and continues to practice a blend of Sivananda, Ashtanga and Iyengar techniques along with Vipassana meditation. Michael's kind and gentle manner is well suited to leading students of all levels. A writer, he has published numerous articles on yoga, meditation and well-being.

Karen Beers

In 1997, Karen began practicing yoga and instantly recognized the numerous healing benefits yoga has to offer. She earned her RYT 200 Yoga Alliance certification through Elka Yoga, specializing in Hatha and Vinyasa. Being a lifelong learner, she has studied with world-renowned instructors, including Jason Crandell, Kia Miller, Shiva Rea, and many others. She creates a safe, non-competitive space for her students to dive beneath the surface of their daily lives to find deeper meaning and inspiration. Her classes offer creative sequences with intentional themes, emphasizing the importance of proper alignment, pranayama breathing techniques, mindfulness, and meditation. Modification and advanced options are made available for new students and experienced yogis so that all can reach their potential. She is honored to teach yoga, helping to bring balance, awareness, health, and happiness into other's lives.

Hannah Rae Block

Hannah received her 200-hour Yoga Alliance teaching certification through Happy-U Namaste and now shares the healing she experienced through yoga with her students. She recently finished her 500 hour massage therapy license and integrates massage and healing touch into her classes. When teaching she hopes for her students to find balance mentally, physically, and spiritually providing them with a practice that they can embody in their daily lives off the mat.

Nam Chanterrwyn

Nam is an E-RYT 500 & E-RYT 200 teacher registered with Yoga Alliance and has been featured on Yoga International. As a student of yoga and functional movement modalities, his yoga classes are grounded in strength, anatomical detail and mindfulness.

Nam offers detailed verbal cues and expert hands on adjustments/assists to help his students find a fuller experience in their yoga practice. He emphasizes breath and proper alignment in each of his classes. Whether in one of Nam's restorative or vinyasa classes, students can expect to explore their strengthens, work on their focus and learn to find balance on and off the mat.

As a YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider) educator, Nam also enjoys helping students as well as other teachers further their study and understanding of yoga and movement.

Lauren Christie

Lauren first came to yoga as a teenager seeking balance from the rigors of classical ballet training. Over the last eleven years, she has returned again and again to cultivate inner stability, develop greater self-awareness, and shift her perspective on the world.

Lauren completed her 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training at Flow Yoga Center in Washington, DC, and completed an additional 20-hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Training with Kyra Haglund, LCSW, SEP, E-RYT. She also holds a BA in Public Communication, French, and Dance from American University.

Lauren aims to lead a spacious, fluid, organic practice with focus on breath-initiated movement, safe alignment, and purposeful sequencing. In many ways, she incorporates embodied wisdom from her work as a dancer and movement artist. Lauren hopes students leave class feeling steady, at ease, and confident in their own power and grace.

Sarah Clark

Sarahʼs classes emphasize clarity of alignment, a steady connection to the breath, and a mindful investigation of what qualities we are truly cultivating in our practice. Sarah challenges herself to weave in as many aspects of all that is yoga into her presentation of the Asanas (poses) and Pranayama (breath work) by connecting to her own meditation practices and contemplation of Yogic philosophy. She aspires to help Yogis develop the whole of their being, with an eye toward practices such as non-reaction, compassion, and contentment.

Originally from New York City, Sarah has been happily teaching since 2007. She also danced professionally for modern company Laurie de Vito & Dancers for six years. Sarah is passionately committed to deepening her knowledge of yoga; she has been certified in Relax and Renew© Restorative Yoga through Judith Lasater & in addition, has pursued continuing education for teachers regarding Pranayama (J. Miller & C. Lee), Prenatal Adjustments (B. Conant), Yoga Sutras (C. Clark) and more.

Missy DiDonato

Missy began practicing yoga in 1997 by following along to a VHS tape in her living room. As her body awareness improved and she noticed how calm she felt, she started to practice yoga consistently by taking classes at a local studio. In 2010, Missy completed a 200-hour Teacher Training at UCSD and jumped into giving classes, eager to share her passion and knowledge with others. In 2012, she continued her education at Yoga One, completing another 200-hour Teacher Training. She recently became RYT 500 after completing Yoga One's 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training. As a teacher, Missy is warm and friendly. She grounds students in an ongoing awareness of breath while guiding them through poses with clear directions, modelling, and hands-on adjustments. Gently spiritual in her approach, she provides a physical workout that students of all levels can easily modify. She is also our OM (Office Manager), come say hi to her in the nook or one of her classes!

Hannah Faulkner

Hannah creates balanced, fun, intellectual, refreshing yoga sequences that take you on far away imaginary journeys while also teaching deeper yoga philosophy and wellness concepts. With 4 years of experience as a flight attendant, and many more adventures preceding, Hannah's curiosity and adventurous spirit have soaked in elements from worldwide cultures while growing in her spirituality. She has been an active Yoga One Member for the past 5 years and she completed her 200-Hour Teacher Training here. Hannah has taught kids yoga and art classes and workshops. She enjoys inspiring her students through a full body experience of movement with breath, muscle strength and flexibility, alignment and foundation, sharing instructions and stories, playing world music, aromatherapy, and creating symbolic poses that represent visual art.

Heather Fenwick

Heather Fenwick began practicing yoga in 2002 after migrating to San Diego from the East Coast. She completed her first teacher training nearly 10 years ago (Yoga Works, 2005). Heather has regularly expanded her knowledge since then by attending Vinyasa Flow, Anusara, and various yoga trainings. She is also a student of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and a massage therapist.
Heather has traveled solo though India and Thailand, diving into the roots of yoga, massage and meditation traditions, and now leads annual retreats to these regions.

Her classes range from peaceful and relaxing (shanti shanti) to energetic, sweat-inducing vinyasa flows. She infuses her passion for yoga in each posture, giving gentle and encouraging cues with particular emphasis on the breath, playfulness, and enjoyment of the present moment.

Amy Freeman

Amy found her personal yoga practice in 1995 and deepened her study with Swami Satchidanada at Yogaville Ashram, VA. Teaching yoga has been her passion since 2001. Amy's vinyasa classes blend physical alignment and core strength in a fluid rhythm. She emphasizes breath awareness and conscious intention to promote ease and stability in each pose. Amy’s goal is to help her students find and maintain a peaceful mind and body.

Teacher In Training

Yoga One Teacher Training Graduates. Join these certified teachers on their journey of yoga teaching. Tuesdays at 9am with Ben, Irene, Layla & Michael. Thursdays at 9am with Ben, Layla & Irene. Fridays at 9:30am with Ginny & Dawn. Teachers are on a rotating schedule.

Niina Lobbestael

Niina Lobbestael was born and raised in Canada and has enjoyed living in San Diego since 2008.

She was initially drawn to yoga for fitness but, quickly fell in love with the transformative peace of mind, clarity or thoughts and overall feeling of wellbeing that the practice of yoga and meditation brought to her life.

Niina feels grateful to be part of the Yoga One community in supporting students on a path to wellness, self-care, and connection.

Niina is also a register dietitian, and loves cooking nourishing meals with friends. Niina loves spending time in nature, taking photos, traveling and gardening.

Lori Miller

Lori began her yoga journey in 2001 after the birth of her first child. Yoga has helped her learn presence, patience, allowance, how to breathe, to listen to her body, self-love and much more. In 2008 Lori trained with Christopher Harrison and received her Antigravity Aerial Yoga teaching certificate. To deepen her traditional yoga practice, she trained at Centered City Yoga with Dana Baptiste and received her 500-hour yoga teacher certification in 2009. After an amazing year abroad, they relocated to San Diego. Lori began taking classes at Yoga One and loves her new yoga family. She enrolled in the Yoga One teacher training program with Amy Caldwell and Diana Beardsley and received a 200-hour yoga teacher certificate in March, 2014. Outside of the yoga studio you can find her teaching nearly everything else she loves, Antigravity aerial yoga, barre fitness classes and music and movement for preschoolers. Lori has a wonderful husband and two amazing kids, and for her it has been the most rewarding experience learning and growing together with them.

Zaquia Salinas

Ten years ago, Zaquia began her relationship with yoga and it has been a catalyst component of her life as a dancer and human being. Through yoga she has developed a sense of awareness and compassion for herself as a person unlike any other practice in her life.
Zaquia's love of movement led her to develop a passion for the flow of power vinyasa. She completed her 200-hour teacher training through CorePower Yoga in 2012 and has been teaching all over San Diego since. She loves learning and has continued to be a diligent student. Zaquia enjoys learning alongside her students while they share the experience of practice together. Her mission is to engage others in a relationship with movement and inspire a deeper sense of confidence in their physical experience as human beings.

Jeffrey Wolpert

A former competitive martial artist, Jeffrey was introduced to Yoga in high school by his step-mom and first teacher Beth. In a modest, donation based studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Jeffrey discovered true stillness, peace, and joy as he learned how to calm his inner mind chatter while also discovering the capabilities of his physical body. He practiced at various studios throughout NYC including Jivamukti, Bikram, and YogaWorks.

After college, Jeffrey was on the path to become a Social Worker, but felt in his heart that he could better serve others through the mind, body, soul connection of Yoga. He completed his 500hr teacher training through YogaWorks in 2015 under his mentors Chrissy Carter and Sarah Ezrin, and has been teaching students of all levels, ages, and backgrounds since. Having dealt with his fair share of injuries from past sports, Jeffrey emphasizes in his classes proper alignment through grounded, thoughtful sequences.

As a new resident to San Diego he is thrilled to join the Yoga One family, and continue to share his passion for this practice with others. Through humor, unconditional presence, and motivation he strives for his students to leave class feeling empowered, inspired, and excited for more Yoga in their lives.

9:00 AM	FREE- Flow- Levels 1 & 2	Teacher
12:00 PM	Vinyasa Flow - Level 2	Amy
1:30 PM	50 Minute Lunchtime Flow	Amy
4:30 PM	Classic Yoga - Level 2	Missy
6:00 PM	Flow- Level 2	Michael
7:30 PM	Yin & Restorative Yoga	Hannah Rae