YOUR INSTRUCTORS

The instructors at Shakti Yoga Shop are enthusiastic practitioners of Anusara Yoga. Each of our instructors bring their unique style of sharing their love and knowledge of yoga. They have all studied intensively with Anusara’s top instructors, including founder John Friend. Due to our dedication to the Anusara system, students can expect to find a positive and uplifting environment, strong understanding of alignment and philosophy, and continuity within our classes.

Brette Scott Brette Berlin Scott
Brette is a Certified Anusara Instructor and co-owner of Shakti Yoga Shop. Her love and study of yoga began in Los Angeles, CA in the mid 1990’s. In 2000, she returned to her Iowa roots and founded Yoga on 5th in West Des Moines. Its expansion into Shakti Yoga Shop makes it the metro’s longest running studio. With more than a decade of teaching experience, Brette teaches dynamic and thoughtful classes that ask students to engage themselves physically, mentally and emotionally. She delights in seeing students transform both on and off the yoga mat.

Paula DeMatteis Paula Secker
Paula is an Anusara-Inspired Instructor and co-owner of Shakti Yoga Shop. She has been studying and practicing yoga since the late 1990’s.   Paula teaches classes that are explorative, playful, and thought provoking.  She takes pleasure in empowering students to connect to their inner strength, beauty, and divine nature. She loves learning from everyone around her, in particular her students. Paula is on the path toward Anusara certification.

Paula DeMatteis Joseph Schneider
Joseph began practicing yoga more than 15 years ago.  He met Desirée Rumbaugh in the late 1990s, began to study Anusara Yoga with her and has not looked back. Joseph’s enthusiasm for yoga spills into his classes in equal measures of kindness, humor and sensibility. He would like to think that he is a living testament to the promise of starting yoga “late in life” (as in over 50 at the time) and has found it deeply transformative. Joseph is an Anusara-Inspired Instructor.

Paula DeMatteis Marialyce Eilts
Marialyce embarked on her yogic journey in 2000. She attended her first full yoga workshop in 2004 and discovered that yoga had more to offer than physical exercise. Shortly after, she attended her first Anusara yoga class and has been a devout student ever since. The playfulness and joy that Anusara’s Tantric philosophy offers has led Marialyce to her path of teaching. Mary’s generosity of spirit and knowledge of Anusara is a gift to her students. Marialyce is an Anusara-Inspired Instructor.

 

 
"The knowledge of his own true nature is the source of a yogi's contentment."
- Swami Muktananda