Encinitas Instructors
“Do your practice and all is coming - Guruji.”
Manju Jois
Manju’s Encinitas schedule:
(Manju will not teach on Tues & Wednesdays)
Mon, Thur & Fridays: Mysore is from 7:00-9:00 am
Sat & Sundays: Mysore is from 7:45-9:45 am
October: 13-17, 20-21 & 31
November: 3-7 & 25-28
December: entire month (no Tue-Wed)
January: entire month (no Tue-Wed)
February: 2-6, 9, 10 & 13, 16-20 & 23-24
March: 1-26 (no Tue-Wed)
June: 1-2 & 4-6
Ashtanga Yoga master Manju Jois is the eldest son of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. His introduction to yoga began at the age of seven, when he was awakened early each day by his father for lessons that would forever change the course of his life and the lives of those who would study with him in the years to come. By age 15 he started teaching alongside his father and has continued ever since. His 50 years of teaching the true Mysore Ashtanga method has taken him to 22 countries and 21 states in the US and has resulted in rich educational offerings for students worldwide, including Ashtanga workshops and intensives, all of which focus on the ancient traditions passed down through his father.
Andrew Hillam
DATES: January 15 onwards..
Andrew started a daily Ashtanga Yoga practice in 1994 with David and Simi Roche while studying at the University of Adelaide in Australia. In 2004, he and his family moved to Encinitas where he continued yoga studies with Tim Miller. Since 2001 Andrew has made several trips to Mysore, India, to study with Guruji, Sharath and Saraswathi and has been granted Level II Teaching Authorization from the KPJAYI. He continues to make yearly pilgrimages to Mysore for further studies in Yoga, Sanskrit, Indian philosophy, Vedic chanting and puja.
David Miliotis
DATES: November 19 onwards...
David began his practice and study of yoga in 1989 and was soon after introduced to Ashtanga Yoga by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Since 1999 David and his family began traveling to the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India to study yoga with Guruji, Sharath and Saraswati. In 2000 he and his wife, Andrea, received authorization from Guruji to teach Ashtanga Yoga, and then in 2009, received Level II Authorization. David also studies Sanskrit and chanting from Dr. M.A. Jayashree and Laxmish Bhat.
From 2002 to 2007, he and Andrea directed and taught the Mysore program at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center (CA); from 2007 to 2010, they opened and directed Ashtanga Yoga Bend (OR). He and his family now live in Encinitas, CA where he teaches at Jois Yoga.
Lisa Schrempp
DATES: October 12 - November 18
Lisa began her studies of yoga in 1985. She has teaching certificates from Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram in Kerala, South India 1990 and a Yoga Therapy Certificate from B.K.S. Iyengar in Rishikesh, India 1996. She has practiced Ashtanga Yoga since 1991. Having completed the primary and intermediate series with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, she is the only Level 2 Authorized Ashtanga teacher in Arizona. Lisa is a certified Jivamukti teacher, having also served as a mentor and educator in the Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Training Program.
In 1999 she graduated from the Ayurvedic Studies Program in Albuquerque, New Mexico with Dr. Vasant Lad, with an invitation for advanced studies in the Gurukula Program. She continued her study of therapy and treatment with Dr. Sunil Joshi, a noted Ayurvedic clinician. Under the tutelage of Dr. Vasant Lad she has studied sacred texts, herbs, disease pathology, and Pancha Karma treatments.
Lisa last returned from India in September 2009. She was blessed to be with Sri K Pattabhi Jois just days before he left his body. During this trip she received authorization from R. Sharath Jois to teach the full intermediate Ashtanga series. She also worked throughout the summer in the Ayurvedic clinic of her teacher Dr. Anil Kumar. She is extremely grateful to her teachers and their teachers for passing on the sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga.
Aimee Echo
DATES: October 12 - January 13
Aimee began her Ashtanga Yoga practice in 1999 with Noah Williams and Kimberly Flynn at their shala in Los Angeles. It was there that she developed a daily practice and a devotion to the Ashtanga method that would eventually lead her to Mysore, India, in 2007, to study with Guruji, Sharath and Saraswathi at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute (now KPJAYI). Though she feels the practice itself is the best training a teacher can have, she has completed the YogaWorks 200hr Teacher Training (2004) and both the Primary and Intermediate Series Trainings with Master Teacher Tim Miller (2006 & 2008). She began teaching Yoga in 2005, at Yogaworks and at Pacific Ashtanga Yoga Shala, where she taught under the guidance of Authorized teacher Diana Christinson for 6 years. She has also studied Sanskrit, chanting and the Yoga Sutras with Laxmish Bhat at AYRI, Dr. MA Jayashree and Dr. John Casey.
In 2010, after several extended trips to India to study at KPJAYI, Aimee received Authorization to teach Ashtanga Yoga in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.
Aimee teaches Ashtanga Yoga, is a Certified Massage Therapist and sings in her dance rock band theSTART.
