Samantha Shakti is a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor, who is highly regarded for her depth of yogic knowledge and playful storytelling skills. Samantha views yoga as the ultimate vehicle for remembering our hearts true nature. Her classes are both physically challenging and therapeutic with deep spiritual insight that awakens students on all levels. Sam began her studies 23 years ago and has been teaching for 16 years. As a perpetual student she has learned from many great masters throughout the world, including India, where she was given the name Shakti.

Samantha is also a certified AcroYoga Instructor and is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 certified teacher trainer. Her years of experience and multiple certifications in massage and energy therapy give her classes a unique quality that inspires embodied freedom. In addition to being a premier teacher in Silicon Valley, Sam teaches workshops, retreats and teacher trainings globally. She and her husband Bradley founded the Shakti Yoga Shala on the grounds of Big Basin Vineyards in Boulder Creek CA. www.bigbasinvineyards.com