Zoreh is the Founder and Director of High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Zoreh's joyous personality and sense of humor endear her to her students with a teaching style that is both nurturing and fun. Her teaching combines a delicate knowledge of the body that allows a compassionate spiritual expression of the postures to emerge. Zoreh enthusiastically shares her passion for combining yoga with exploring the world; inviting students every year to join her yoga retreats in special places like Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Thailand, and Greece. She is a registered Hatha Yoga teacher with more than 15 years of teaching experience and a degree in Business Management. She is also a certified Yoga Therapist and Meditation Teacher. Zoreh has studied numerous methodologies including Iyengar, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Anusara and yoga methodology of the American Yoga College.

Kim has studied and taught Hatha Yoga for over three decades. His lifelong passion for mystical truth led him to become ordained as a swami of the Temple of Kriya in Chicago. He was recently elevated to the position of Maha Swami in the Kriya lineage, enabling him to ordain others as swamis. Kim was director of the Temple’s Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Program before moving to New Mexico, where he continues to direct High Desert Yoga’s Teacher Training Program. He is certified by the Yoga Alliance as a RYT, 500 hours. He is recognized by many well-known yoga instructors both as a “master of his art” in personal practice and as a true “teacher’s teacher”; one with the ability to communicate the timeless truths of yoga on many levels to fellow instructors in a way that enables them to pass this wisdom on to their own students.

Supriti is a lifelong devotee of Yoga and has been teaching for over 35 years. In 1978, she traveled to India and took public classes at the BKS Iyengar Institute with the Iyengar family. She continues to study primarily in the Iyengar tradition with visiting senior instructors. She practiced Therapeutic Massage for 25 years. She continues to deepen her understanding of the workings of yoga while teaching and studying with the staff of High Desert Yoga. Supriti is certified by the Yoga Alliance as a ERYT, 500 hours. She is a lover of poetry and inspires her students with readings from the masters of many wisdom cultures. She is currently the  General Manager of the studio and is gratified by the explosion of interest in Yoga and the growth of so many of her students into teachers in their own right.

Patti has been a physical therapist for over 35 years and a yoga teacher for almost 10. She is a life long learner, and creative in the process of integrating her vast studies as a PT and the wisdom of yoga. She brings together experience in manual therapies, trauma resolution, sensory integration and yoga wisdom in ways that make yoga accessible to everyone....no matter the challenge. In her private practice as a physical therapist, Patti utilizes a depth of understanding and curiosity to assist her clients become more empowered in their bodies. As a yoga teacher, she assists students in becoming more creative and curious in personalizing their yoga practice. She also teaches yoga teachers to be more skillful when working with students with challenges.

Judy, E-RYT, is an experienced teacher who brings her nursing knowledge into her practice of yoga. Intrigued by the system of yoga, she is dedicated to her practice and studies. Judy has been certified at the basic level of Silver Age Yoga and has assisted in the Teacher Training at High Desert Yoga. She developed and teaches the Senior Yoga Teacher Training. She teaches multiple levels of students and has furthered her understanding of necessary adjustments and assists for special needs while working with many private students. Through her teaching, the true spirit and science of yoga are revealed.   Judy teaches the High Desert Yoga Senior Yoga Teacher Training.
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Anneke is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and a new mother who creatively uses props and individual assists to help students get the most out of her classes. She uses targeted yoga poses to help students overcome imbalances caused by habitual ways of moving, working and living in the body. Anneke also specializes in Pre-natal Yoga. Outside the studio, Anneke enjoys family, camping, hiking, and gardening in our beautiful high desert weather.

Avery has been practicing yoga since her teenage years. She completed her 500 hr. teacher training through the Temple of Kriya Yoga, and High Desert Yoga. Inspired by her practice and our human capacity for happiness, compassion, and evolutionary transformation, she began teaching in 2005. Avery's teaching style is influenced by her love of nature, Vipassana meditation, her playful, creative attitude, and her deep gratitude for her Teachers. She loves helping students find just the right approach for letting the gifts of yoga benefit their lives. Avery teaches with reverence, sincerity, joy, attention to alignment, stability, and the breath; and an earnest intention for all beings to live their soul's dream, thereby restoring balance to our world and enabling true freedom and peace. She is also a radical mother, artist, musician, grassroots circus performer, queer activist, and organic gardener.

Katja completed the 500 hour Teacher Training at High Desert Yoga in August 2011. She is certified to teach Children’s and Teen Yoga, and has worked and volunteered with children/teens from a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds, as well as teens with addiction issues.  She loves dance and movement and has studied yoga and taken dance classes for 15+ years.  Katja credits her massage therapist/musician father and Yogini mother with instilling this love.  In her classes she seeks to create a space to explore, listen to, and connect with ourSelves, our bodies, and the bigger picture around us, through mindful, intentional movement, and inner awareness.  Katja holds a BA in Creative Writing and Art from the University of New Mexico.

Julie began yoga in the tender first months of motherhood. That was eight years ago. Finding the space within to practice can be a challenge. The benefits of a regular practice, no matter how short, are infinite. As parents the discipline of devotion to our children is our practice. Asana (postures) will support and enliven this practice. Julie has completed the 500 teacher training and Mini Yogis certification offered at High Desert Yoga. She teaches family yoga and kids yoga in schools. She also holds a BA in Religous Studies from The University of New Mexico.

Heather is a social worker and psychotherapist, and incorporates emotional depth and awareness into her yoga classes. Currently, she is training in the Somatic Transformation method, a modality of healing trauma through somatic work. Heather is a graduate of the 500 teacher training at High Desert Yoga and has been teaching for three years. She enjoys working with beginning and more advanced students, and is passionate about the healing that comes when students reconnect with their bodies through yoga.

Jude is a 500 hour certified yoga teacher who has been teaching for six years. Her studies in meditation, eastern philosophy and yoga began over 37 years ago. Jude encourages students to develop their inner and outer strength and flexibility and to move beyond perceived limitations and fears. Her alignment based classes are fun, supportive, challenging and inspiring- helping students to tune into their breath and find the joy of being alive in their bodies! Jude recently received “The Five Mindfulness Trainings” from Thich Nhat Hanh who she considers one of her most significant teachers. Her teaching is also inspired by Traditional Thai Yoga Massage. Jude has been the trip leader on numerous yoga, bike, kayak, cultural and philantropic trips to Peru, Guatemala and Alaska. Recently she was a visiting yoga teacher in Ilha Grande, Brazil. 

As we travel across the ocean of life, all of us have a longing to have a happy, holy, fulfilling experience. In search Dev Saroop Singh found yoga exercises to be very effective. A few years of Hatha Yoga then Kundalini Yoga delivered desirable results. And there came Ayurveda. Steeped in Ayurveda and Kundalini Yoga, Dev Saroop Singh will lead you to the best waves on your ocean of consciousness that suits your personality and body type. Wherever you are is the best place to start for an ancient tradition that has compiled the experiences of many travelers with great wisdom. These travelers have laid a path for all of us to help our journey be a pleasant one. KRI certified since 2004.

Niki has a long background of being in love with movement.  She did many kinds of dance as a child and teenager and has always loved exercising outdoors and being in the mountains.  Niki found Yoga in 1995 during Massage School and soon after started teaching both Massage and Yoga.In 1999 Niki attended the High Desert Yoga teacher training.Niki believes that yoga is a powerful tool for feeling at home in your body, empowering yourself, and releasing tension.  In her Yoga classes she combines strengthening and flexibility.  Core strengthening, Slow Sun Salutations and Restorative self-massage techniques are always used.The flow portion of Niki’s class is called “Surprise Sun Salutations” because she sneaks different standing poses into the sequence.  Deep, full exhalations are always encouraged to breathe out tension and laughter is welcome.Niki’s eclectic blend of Yoga styles include: Iyengar, Kripalu, Vinyasa Flow, Pilates, and “Follow your intuition.”All levels are welcome in Yoga for Lunch.

Sarah is a seasoned and certified Pilates teacher specializing in group instruction. Bringing to the table years of experience in dance, yoga, fitness, and massage, Sarah trained and mentored extensively under master Pilates teacher, Alexander Garcia, first as a dedicated student, and then as a teacher at his studio in Albuquerque.  When Sarah is not challenging her students in mat class, she can be found practicing her “other” job as an attorney and mediator, composing creative nonfiction, doing cartwheels in the park, or even, sometimes, swinging high above the ground from the flying trapeze.   Sarah’s love of movement and affinity for communication markedly inform her enthusiastic and passionate teaching style. 

Tim began his Yoga training in 2000 in the Ashtanga Vinyasa and Iyengar traditions. He has studied for the past 10 years with Tias Little and Prajna Yoga, as well as completing the first 3 levels of teacher training. He has also studied the chanting and philosophy of the Yoga Sutras with Sonia Nelson at the Vedic Chant Center. Tim is a Licensed Massage Therapist and just finished his first year of study at the Ayurvedic Institute. This past September he completed a month long training “The Heart of Yoga” at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in India. Tim has taught private and group classes for the past 7 years.  His classes focus on helping students to have their own deep experience in a safe and sacred space

Bill has practiced yoga for over 20 years and recently completed the 500-hour teacher training program at High Desert Yoga. He is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) of Yoga Alliance. His approach to yoga is based on what the internationally acclaimed author and teacher trainer Donna Farhi calls the “technology of yoga.” In other words, if you practice yoga, you can enjoy greater physical and emotional well-being; belief in any particular philosophy is not required. Bill spent 15 years working in Latin America and Central Asia as an English teacher and diplomat. He came back to New Mexico to plant roots and stay put! 

Emily has practiced yoga for over 12 years. She recently completed the 500 hour teacher training program at High Desert Yoga as well as a prenatal yoga teacher training with Colette Crawford. A mother of two, she believes that practicing yoga can help women find the balance between effort and surrender that pregnancy, birthing, and motherhood require.