Director Kevin Kimple is one of the few Ashtanga Yoga instructors in Oregon personally Authorized to teach by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Kevin graduated with Honors and a BA in Dance from U.C. Berkeley in ‘93.  He spent the next six years living in New York City and touring extensively throughout the U.S.A. and Europe with the Martha Graham Ensemble, MOMIX, Bella Lewitzky and other notable dance troupes. In 1996 Kevin began studying yoga with David Life and Sharon Gannon of Jivamukti. He left dance touring in 1999 and moved to Boulder, Colorado to deepen his yoga studies under the tutelage of Ashtanga Master Richard Freeman. He studied with Richard for several years, including 5 months of teacher training intensives, and also taught at Richard’s school The Yoga Workshop.

Sarah Wells Sarah Wells has spent 14 months in India studying yoga with the fountainhead of contemporary Ashtanga, Sri K Pattabhi jois. In addition, she has completed over 270 hours of teacher training with Ashtanga yoga masters Richard Freeman, Dr. M A Jayashree, and Manju Jois. Sarah has been practicing yoga for over eight years and teaching in Eugene for four. She maintains a daily practice at the Eugene School of Yoga under the guidance of Kevin Kimple. Before yoga and becoming a mother, Sarah studied and practiced Herbal medicine and was a performing dancer.

Yongsun Choe began practicing yoga nearly 20 years ago after her only daughter left for college. After deciding to fulfill her life long dream of traveling around the world she began practicing yoga to keep her health up. Her journeys included visiting the Suan Mok international mediation center in South Thailand, where she was first introduced to Vipassana Meditation.

Dan Cox  A child of the 60's, Dan Cox grew up with a taste for idealism. In his teens he was attracted to Indian Philosophy and practiced Transcendental Meditation, taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, throughout his high school and college years. In his 20's Dan read the stories of contemporary gurus such as Neem Karoli Baba, Anandamayi Ma, Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramana Maharshi. But most of all, he was inspired by Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda and Be Here Now by Ram Dass. He met Ram Dass at a lecture, and began following his "cookbook", experimenting on himself with diet, fasting, and asana - and continues to this day. He studied Yogananda's Self-Realization and was initiated into several techniques of meditation as taught by Yogananda (Energization, Hong-Sau, and Aum). Dan began formal asana studies in 1984 at the Iyengar Yoga Center Of Palo Alto. Around that same time Dan spent one very crazy year in a life-changing San Francisco group therapy movement, where he had many extraordinary experiences, and met many unusual people who helped stretch his concepts of Reality and turn Dan on to the entire spectrum of Old Age, New Age, and Ageless philosophies. He read and read, book after book, about mythology, religion, spirituality, healing, and psychology until it all started sounding like the same One Thing... and that is how Dan came to know in his heart there is no right or wrong path - just your path. Dan is grateful to have found yoga, but still loves to discuss other souvenirs from his seeking period: Mythology, Ayurvedic Healing, the ancient Enneagram personality system, Taoist poetry, and A Course in Miracles. In the early 90's Dan moved to Portland where he practiced yoga and ecstatic dance at various downtown studios. In the late 90's a Bikram studio opened nearby and Dan found the intense heat and sweat a revelation, and an antidote for vata imbalances brought on by stress, overworking, excessive driving and flying, and coffee drinking. He practiced as often as possible, sometimes daily, and after a year or two began feeling rejuvenated. Dan met Yongsun in 2001, and they studied yoga together with local Portland teachers and in workshops. In May of 2003 they completed Richard Freeman's 200 hour Teacher Training in Boulder. Yongsun began teaching in prisons with Sarajoy Marsh's Living Yoga, while Dan deepened his practice of Ashtanga, alternating with Iyengar and Bikram. He is grateful to have met and studied with many inspiring teachers along the way: Ram Dass, Catherine de los Santos and Larry Hatlett, Julie Lawrence, Julie Gudmestad, Rodney Yee, Ramanand Patel, Adil Palkhivala, Doug Swenson, Angela Farmer and Victor van Hooten, Bikram Choudhury, Tias Little, Richard Freeman, Dona Holleman, and John Friend. In late 2007 Dan and Yongsun arrived in Eugene, and shortly thereafter were delighted to discover Eugene School of Yoga, with Kevin Kimple and Sarah Well's faithful presentation of the contemporary Ashtanga Yoga System taught in Mysore India by the late Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois and family.