Meet Our Teachers

Kerstin Allvin

Kerstin Allvin received her RYT studying with Katherine Austin at Karma Yoga in Bloomfield Hills in 2009. She subsequently taught children’s yoga and was a substitute teacher at Karma Yoga. She was on the teaching faculty of Studio Planet Yoga, Rochester, MI for two years. She continued her deep study, love and practice of yoga in the Anusara tradition, receiving her Anusara Inspired Teacher certificate in spring of 2015. She taught yoga at the Oakland University Recreation Center, Rochester, MI to students, faculty and staff for 5 years and taught Anusara Universal Principals of Alignment and sequencing to the Oakland University Golden Grizzly’s Men’s Baseball Team Pitchers during that time. Currently, she is studying to become a Neelakantha Meditation teacher as taught by Paul Muller Ortega and Blue Throat Yoga. She is also a full-time free-lance professional harpist and educator. She recently moved from Michigan to California and is so grateful for this path of light and love that has been offered to her.

Kerstin teaches Anusara Yoga—a heart-based, grace-filled yoga that teaches universal principals of alignment, which allows all levels of practitioners to become more aware of energetic subtleties connecting heart to body-mind.

Kristen Juarez

Kristen Juarez been a student of yoga for at least 20 years, and has been teaching for about 10 years. She began teaching in Houston, Texas, and has continued teaching here since her families' move to the Sierra Foothills about 7 years ago. A stay-at-home mom, Kristen homeschools her three beautiful children. Kristen might not tell you herself but she's is also a musician—playing sometimes with a local group—ask her about it sometime!

Kristen's flow classes are both inspiring and challenging. They are enough of a challenge for experienced students and spacious enough for those just beginning their path. Kristen brings to her classes a freshness and grace that you'll carry with you when you step off of your mat and back into the world.

Courtney Berti

I have been practicing yoga for nearly 20 years with plenty of breaks in between. Through every joy, trauma, and ego death, yoga calls me back to practice, align, and ground the spiritual, into the physical, or transmute the physical into the spiritual. I hold my 200-hour certification from MVP Yoga and am currently completing my 500-hour teacher training and Ayurvedic nutrition certification.

My goal is to help people heal from trauma through yoga, great food, loving community, and cultivating awareness of our body’s inherent knowledge of human nature, or “biognosis,” through attunement to micro and macrocosmic natural phenomena.

Aerowenn Hunter

The founder of Ayama Yoga, Aerowenn has been a student of yoga for more than 30 years. After teaching her own style of Bikram yoga for three years, she received her first teacher certification in 1999 from Seven Centers Yoga Arts in Sedona, Arizona. For several years at Seven Centers, she continued her studies with her most formative teachers, Rama Joyti Vernon and Ruth Hartung–Sraddhagasgar, whose teachings emanate through her to this day.

After years of teaching and having established Ayama Yoga, Aerowenn continually witnessed the healing power of yoga in her students and knew it was time for the next level—to become a yoga therapist. She graduated from the training with an accumulation of more than 800 hours of yoga teacher training and received her IAYT yoga therapy accreditation in July 2020.

Aerowenn's greatest passion is to see the healing, power, and peace that yoga provides her students. Through the studio, she seeks to serve the small and mighty community of Meadow Vista, where she has lived and taught since 2005.

Susan Hayes

After a nearly 20-year absence, Susan Hayes is happy to be returning to Meadow Vista, where she opened her first yoga studio — Mountain Top Yoga — in 2000.

Susan has been a student of yoga since 1976. She did her yoga and meditation teacher training at the Expanding Light at Ananda Village in Nevada City, CA. She teaches a spiritual form of yoga, inwardly-focused, with an emphasis on precision and technique that is a reflection of the many years that she studied Iyengar Yoga.

Susan has been specially trained to teach yoga to seniors and people with osteoporosis, children’s yoga, yoga for people with MS, therapeutic yoga, prenatal and postnatal yoga, and “mommy and me” yoga, as well as yin and restorative yoga. Susan is also a certified foot Reflexologist.

Professional certifications Susan Hayes: Levels I and II Ananda Yoga instructor; Yoga Alliance e-RYT500; Meditation teacher (levels I and II) — Ananda.org; Reiki level I and II practitioner; Foot Reflexologist (member Reflexology Association of California).

Contact Susan directly at 530.878.7065