Full Circle Yoga & Healing Arts 

Teachers and Healing Arts Professionals

Jeff began his health journey 25 years ago by overcoming childhood obesity. After trying every diet and workout fad ever to have a book written about it, he took up daily meditation and a plant-based diet which he continues to this day.  Jeff is now a health coach to encourage and teach others how to cook yummy, nutritious plant-based meals. Jeff continues his studies in nutrition from Dr. Michael Gregor of NutritionFacts.org, and the works of T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.

A longtime practitioner of Inner Bonding®, I  found yoga and meditation to be a natural extension of my self-care practice. After  completing yoga teacher training in 2017, I began incorporating plant and energy medicine techniques into my practice, combining them into a unique blend of strategies I call "Embodied Mindfulness." As my teaching career has grown and evolved, it has become a true pleasure of mine to share these strategies with others. I also teach workshops on herbal wellness, essential oils, and natural remedies with a passion and joy. When I’m not working, I enjoy reading, crocheting, and appreciating the great outdoors. Now offering individual Guided Meditation or Embodied Mindfulness sessions. Partial or full fee forgiveness available for those whose finances have been affected by coronavirus.

Kristen is a seasoned teacher and healer with more than two decades of practice in yoga and holistic health.  Kristen works with individuals and groups to help them gently release pain and unhealthy patterns, and gain strength and confidence. This year she will be speaking about "Care for the Spiritual Empath" and "Tools for the Spiritual Empath" to educate sensitive, spiritual people about their special gifts. Kristen is the Director of Full Circle Yoga's training programs and conducts private sessions in breath-centered yoga, meditation, and reiki energywork. More at www.kristenfewel.com

A Yorba Linda native, Joe DeStefano (“Dr. D”) has been a student and practitioner of the East Asian healing arts for more than 35 years. Known for his gentle technique and warm bed-side manner, Dr. D uses a blend of eastern and western manual therapy techniques alongside traditional herbal remedies, breathwork, and acupuncture to address a wide-range of health issues – from pain to stress/anxiety, oncology support, and infertility.  He provides private acupuncture sessions in the Healing Room on Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. 

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Michelle Adams, RYT500, Certified Yoga Therapist, was trained at Loyola Marymount University with continuing study in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya. In addition to her yoga studies, Michelle has found that incorporating energy medicine techniques enhance the healing aspects of a yoga practice.  Michelle is a certified energy healer who has studied several alternative approaches to healing including Reiki, Touch for Health, Quantum Healing, and Primordial Sound. She continues to study Energy Medicine under the direction of Donna Fremon-Powell, C.GIt., Master Instructor.

Monica Valdez C-IAYT, is a yoga therapist certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University’s Yoga Therapy Rx program. Monica has helped many people using all aspects of yoga including breathwork, meditation, therapeutic postures and the ancient holistic healing modality of Ayurveda. She has extensive experience helping people with chronic physical, physiological  and psychological  conditions such as lower back pain, sciatica, autoimmune disorders, hormonal imbalances, shoulder pain, stress, anxiety and cancer treatments among others. Monica also offers Reiki (energy) treatments as part of her healing practice. 

Purvi Shah is a Certified Usui Reiki, Holy Fire Karuna Reiki II Master. Her integrative formula of intuitive guidance, coaching, Reiki healing, and mind/body wellness strategies has allowed her clients and students to experience positive, long-term transformations.  As an Intuitive Coach she identifies problems that hinder growth and provides individuals with the tools to achieve a greater sense of wellbeing, physically, emotionally and spiritually.  She has most recently broadened her horizons by becoming a Certified Yoga Teacher (RYT200) and Certified Angel card reader, adding Angels to her Reiki Healing treatments and Yoga classes. 

On her path toward wholeness and vitality, Vitzania took up the steady practice of yoga, meditation, Reiki, and other modalities to gain an inner sense of overall wellness. "I overcame recurring mental and physical pain through yoga, meditation, and reiki. I take pause and move the ongoing stuff out. In doing so the changes in my day to day information arrive in a sense, with outstanding clarity of mind and body. I am a practitioner of Usui Reiki level 2 and a yoga and meditation teacher through Full Circle Yoga's certification program. I continue my education in HighSelf Resonance Therapy (HRT) and am also a member of Conscious Movement, a personally supportive process group that equally enriches all of my practices."
 

Dena began her yoga and meditation practice to combat chronic pain, then deepened her practice by adding Ayurvedic practices, Reiki healing, chakra exploration, and yoga teacher training. Dena experienced corrective scoliosis surgery at age 13, Fibromyalgia diagnosis at age 23 and at age 37 a broken left tibia & shattered knee joint. Dena suffered a freak accident in the final weeks of yoga teacher training and spent over a year in rehabilitation. This tragic experience lead her to approach yoga in an entirely new way through a creative and adaptive personal chair yoga practice. Dena assists students with modifications and educates in the use of props to empower a creative mind-body experience. 

Linda Saslow received her 200-hour YTT from White Lotus Yoga Foundation in Santa Barbara. Teaching yoga is part of her journey with health and wellness that began at the Atma Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in 2005. Linda is three years sober, an achievement she credits largely to an active meditation practice. Linda’s style of teaching Hatha yoga is gentle and relies on stretching and slow movements.  Linda’s previous yoga teaching posts have been Las Lomas Verdes Swim Club and Fullerton Community Center Wellness Fair.