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It is my intention to share with you all the beautiful, amazing adventures and teachings that I’ve experienced. My life has been blessed with the light of yoga and the sincere peace that it brings to everything — from relationships, to work, to eating right. I hope that in these pages you will find WELL-BEING and PEACE; which I believe all evolved beings seek. Hopefully, humanity will grasp that integrating spirituality into the “real world” is not something out of our reach, but simply a personal choice to shift our perspective from fear centered living to LOVE CENTERED living.

Blessings on your journey,
Erika Faith Calig & the Cloud Nine Yoga Family
Huntington Beach, California
Surf City, USA

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Namaste!

I am a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Instructor Trainer (E-R.Y.T. 500), and a certified advanced practitioner through the White Lotus Foundation. I currently teach Ashtanga-based vinyasa and trantrik-style yoga classes around the beach cities of Southern California (Los Angeles & Orange County). I lead international and local retreats, facilitate yoga workshops and train people to become yoga teachers through my CLOUD NINE YOGA STUDIO & SCHOOL, nationally recognized by The Yoga Alliance. I am also the founder of THE SURFIN YOGIS, a surf and yoga club based in Redondo Beach; now expanding to Bolsa Chica and Huntington Beach!! The Universe has called me to do this work in the world to help others through balancing and harmonizing mind*body*spirit.
Teaching Yoga and doing healing work is my life and my love.

My main focus these days is playfully working with yoga postures as a moving meditation, pranic breathing with internal visualizations, vocal affirmation/release and spiritually uplifting poetry to facilitate a true journey into the heart of being human. My teaching techniques sometimes include thai yoga massage, partner work, soft hands-on adjustments, aromatherapy and energy work to open each student energetically and ecstatically. For over fourteen years, I have worked with many people; old, young and in-between. I have worked with those with cancer, addiction, mental illness, and other physical traumas. I have especially worked with those just needing to let go, relax and stretch — to reawaken the body & reconnect to the soul. My goal is to get to know each of my students and learn about their story, so together we can find what works. Each person and body is unique. Our needs vary moment to moment, day by day. People can benefit from a yoga practice in various ways - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and psychological. I like to help guide each person to their own flexibility, healing, courage, wisdom, faith, strength… The Authentic Self… the “Namaste” under all the muck and crud of the two-legged experience.

My first training started in the womb - my mom did yoga when she was pregnant for me! I come from a “yoga family” and both my parents continue to practice yoga. I did my formal studies at Sonoma State University (in the Northern California wine country) where I received a B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology in 1997. My studies there focused on holistic forms of mental health such as Yoga, Dream Analysis, and Art Therapy but I also dabbled quite a bit in biofeedback, psi phenomenon, and ecopsychology. After a two year internship assisting yoga classes (under Eleanor Criswell-Hanna), I realized I had to devote my life to living Yoga. Since then, I have been teaching all eight limbs of yoga *full-time* and continuing my education in the fields of yoga, ecology and the healing arts.

In 2007, I moved on from a full time lecturer position at California State University, Fullerton where I taught Basic & Intermediate Yoga courses as well as a Yoga Instructor Preparation Course through the Division of Kinesiology for nearly seven years. I am now teaching for the Cloud 9 Yoga Co-Op in Orange County, CA where I encourage students to break away from the everyday grind and to find their “deeply satisfied no matter what” self inside. In yogic terms, this is called SANTOSHA. My hope is that I will assist all who cross my path to surrender effort, go with one’s uniquely natural pace and become content with whatever is present within each moment.

My company, Cloud Nine Yoga, offers Basic and Advanced Yoga Teacher Certifications, approved by Yoga Alliance at both the 200 and 500 levels. We currently have 8 branches in Southern California and will be opening more branches in Seattle WA, Austin TX, San Francisco CA and Oklahoma City OK in 2009.

Aside from training advanced yogis, I also teach Thai Yoga Massage, Core Sequencing Bodywork, various yoga related workshops, as well as conduct yoga retreats. I provide community support, social gatherings and create networks for yoga practitioners. The list goes on…. A Reiki Master-Teacher since 1998, I love to attune and train Reiki Practitioners, Masters and Teachers. I am also a S.H.E.S. minister (Spiritual Healers Earth Stewards) who enjoys officiating wedding ceremonies! I have experience in facilitating baby blessings and assisting mothers during the birthing process. Finally, I am training in the Yaki and Lakota ways of holding ceremony - specifically sweat lodge with our beloved spiritual father, Paul “Eagle Bear” Perrotta.

Please check my schedule for further information or contact me at (310) 989-0878
yoginiom@yahoo.com

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