Yoga & Ayurveda in the San Francisco Bay Area
Cassandra McDonough teaches meditative, rhythmic, and bhakti-powered Vinyasa yoga in the Prana Flow style as well as a more gentle Kripalu “Hatha” yoga. She is a Kripalu 500-hr certified yoga instructor, as well as a 300-hr graduate of the Prana Flow Vinyasa training with Shiva Rea. She has also completed Prenatal training with Jane Austin and Restorative Yoga Teacher training with Judith Lasater at Yoga Tree in San Francisco for a total of more than 900 certification hours in yoga. Cassandra is also deeply immersed in the study and practice of Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science. After attending the California College of Ayurveda, she is now an Ayurvedic Health Counselor, offering over 1800 additional hours of certification hours in the art of “the original” yoga therapy. She has been a student of yoga since age 14, practicing for about 20 years, and teaching for almost a decade to date. Yoga has helped Cassandra completely heal moderate scoliosis, sciatica and lower back pain, anxiety, thyroid disease, and has intimately connected her to the great wonder of life itself.
The intensity of Cassandra’s practice is in large part owed to volunteering at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA. In 2009, she spent a full year immersed in an intensive live-in program where she had the opportunity to study with many world-renowned teachers from many healing traditions. During this time Cassandra also developed a deep off-the-mat yoga practice, learning how to use yoga to actually heal her whole life. Her most influential teachers are Mark Whitwell and Shiva Rea, who both espouse a breath-centered and life-affirming practice. Yoga allows you to “have your life!” in the words of Mark Whitwell. She invites student-friends to embrace the healing practice of yoga as she continues on her own path.
Cassandra offers possibly the most powerful and healing private yoga lessons as well as classes and events in the Silicon Valley area of California. Please head over to the Private Lessons Page for more information if you are interested in changing your life!
Please feel free to contact Cassandra concerning more information and a free 15 minute consultation if you are interested in private lessons or yoga and meditation instruction at your organization! Distance lessons are available.