The Instructors
Fernanda Ruiz, has been a Yoga Alliance Certified Instructor (RYT-200) since 2012. My classes are a mix of restorative Hatha, Vinyasa, and Power Flow which integrate alignment, endurance, and breathing techniques with basic postures and creative sequencing. Each of my classes are designed to energize the body, cultivate a meditative consciousness, and to improve overall health and vitality.
I acquired my certification through Lotus Pond Center of Yoga and Health in Tampa, Florida in 2012. I have led classes at the University of South Florida, The Botanical Gardens of Tampa, Evolation Yoga Tampa, Trinity Yoga Studio and RiseFit Outdoors Gym as well as working one on one with several clients.
In 2014 decided to relocate and began a new journey by attending an eleven day Vippasana Meditation (silent) retreat in Jesup, Georgia. It was there that I envisioned and understood my path as a healer. This revelation lead me back to my childhood homeland in Veracruz, Mexico. While in Veracruz, I led classes at Santosha Studio, and organized and funded a small Yoga community in Jalcomulco, Veracruz. I also hosted two summer retreats at Green Eco Resort titled “Healing with Love and Self-Awareness”. While being in the jungle, I experienced a deep self quest and lived the change I was longing for.
However my gypsy soul continued to whisper so my family and I resettled in Coloma, California during the summer of 2016. While there I taught classes at Lotus Yoga Studio. Soon after, for the love of the great North Fork of the American River, we relocated and set roots in Colfax, California. It was here in late 2018, that I joined the Rebel Health community guiding Vinyasa classes for nearly two years until the world wide pandemic closed our doors. On September 2021, I took a leap of faith and opened the Paloma Yoga Studio.
I have materialized a long lived dream of creating a Sacred Space where Yoga, Meditation, Breathing Techniques and movement of energy are taught. My ultimate goal is to share this sacred space with the best team of instructors in the area.
- Namaste.
Mukti Devi Lanier is very happy to be a part of the Yoga Community at Paloma Yoga in Colfax, CA. She is a certified Meditation Teacher through the Meru Institute at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, a Kriya Yoga and Meditation Center in San Jose, CA. Mukti Devi met, served, meditated and studied with her teacher, Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, there for over twelve years.
Rev. Mukti Devi was first initiated in 2011 and ordained by her teacher in the Kriya Yoga Tradition in 2018. In addition to certification as a Meditation teacher (Levels I & II) through that institution, she holds a M.Div degree in Yogic Studies and is a certified Vedic Counselor.
Mukti finds great joy in leading and teaching meditation and, together with her husband, Chris, enjoys playing Kirtan and other spiritual music for and with others. She also teaches Harmonium Classes and co-leads a Community Kirtan Circle on Wednesday evenings at Inner Path in Nevada City.
COURTNEY DUPREE.
For nearly 20 years, yoga has been part of my life with plenty of breaks in between. Through every joy, trauma, and ego death, yoga calls me back to alignment, 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 and an 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 macro cosmic natural phenomena.
JAMES JOHNSON.
Hello I’m James Johnson, yoga was my door way to experiencing and exploring my spirituality as well as day in day out life style of discipline. I have been a Yoga Alliance Certified Instructor (RYT-200) since 2017. After completing the Primary Series Teacher Certification I was a member of the yoga community in Reno, NV as a yoga teacher and practitioner for the last seven years. With a recent move to town, my partner and I are beyond excited for our new home and the new space at Paloma Yoga