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Tara Matthews, L.Ac, ERYT 500 holds a Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and a love of healing practices ranging from nutrition to energy medicine to yoga. During her undergraduate and graduate work, she worked as a yoga teacher, energy work practitioner and personal fitness trainer in Montecito, CA and opened a health food store while studying for her state medical boards, fine tuning her exploration of both the esoteric and physical world, an artform that she still integrates, today.

Tara is also an active, accredited KRI Kundalini Yoga Level 2 Yoga Teacher enrolled in Level 3 also trained in Hatha and Gong Healing practices, Certified IMW Wisdom Practitioner, and licensed and full time Acupuncturist and Chinese Medical Practitioner. She brings a rich meditation and yoga lineage anchored in almost 20 years of Practice. As the co-founder and spaceholder of Soul Body Ojai, she aspires to inspire others to create a sustained weaving of practical awareness that comes with a daily practice of meditation, yoga, prayer technology and self-care through seasonal cycles. As a wife and mother, she understands the challenges and reward healing in the real world can bring, and she utilizes her gifts to help others see the beauty, meaningfulness, and articulated wholeness present as their life experience.

Tara sees patients, teaches yoga and workshops, facilitates Mystic Circles and Journeys around the world, and sees clients in Southern California and beyond.

Jennifer, ERYT 500 has been immersed in the world of human potential for the last 20 years. As a consultant and coach, a yoga teacher, and a mother to 2 girls her passion lies in helping individuals unleash their hidden gifts and grow into bigger versions of themselves.

Jennifer has been teaching yoga, conducting workshops, and leading retreats since 2009. Her classes, workshops, retreats, and corporate seminars focus on how to recalibrate energy so you are operating from a place of clarity, joy, and connection to yourself and others. She specializes in Hatha, Kundalini Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, and Sound Therapy. Jennifer obtained a Master of Arts in Instructional Design and Performance Improvement from the University of Michigan and worked for over a decade as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies helping them improve their employee and customer engagement, build strong teams and develop great leaders.

Jennifer strives to live an awakened life and finds great joy in spreading the practice of living yoga within the modern world.

A practitioner and teacher of Kundalini Yoga since 1973, Mehtab has trained hundreds of yoga teachers throughout the United States. He is a certified Vedic Astrologer and author of Astrology Yoga, the first comprehensive book on using the science of Jyotish in the practice and teaching of yoga. Mehtab is the author of Gong Yoga, published in eight international editions. His books Teaching Gong Yoga and Gong Therapy, have been used in courses around the world. He has conducted trainings for yoga students, teachers and sound healers in the United States, Europe, Australia, Asia, and South America.

Adarsh is a visionary leader and mentor who supports teachers, healers, parents, artists and leaders in joyful living and transformational impact.

Adarsh’s first loves were music and dance, which she studied from the age of three. These were her most original expressions of the divine, of creativity and a way to connect to the soul. In 1999, she expanded into a dedicated study of yoga, meditation, human consciousness and healing. Adarsh soon became a Kundalini Yoga teacher, and a creator and teacher of Celestial Communication, for which she is most known. She shares these practices with an emphasis on self-love, receptivity and grace, in her hometown of Los Angeles and internationally.

Adarsh has a B.A. in Anthropology and English, and she has worked in business as a Human Resources Manager, Marketing and Sales Director, and as the CEO and Director of a Yoga Studio. She is a Trainer of teachers in Kundalini Yoga & meditation, and she serves the evolution of individuals through one on one Spiritual Mentorship. Adarsh feels a sacred duty to share her experience and knowledge to support others in their own spiritual quest.