OUR FACULTY

Cecilia Foissard, E-RYT 500

Cécilia is a French certified 500 hours Ashtanga & Vinyasa Teacher. She discovered yoga after years of competition in gymnastics when shed moved to Canada for her law and journalism studies in 2012. Former gymnast and ballet dancer, movement was part of her daily life since a very young age. First introduced to asanas, meditation came along the way. During a year, yoga became part of a daily routine. Breathing, moving, (re)connecting and sharing moments was life changing.

A first big trip in Latin America in 2014/2015 gave her the opportunity to take classes with inspiring teachers in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. In early 2018, she took her first Ashtanga/ Vinyasa 200 hours YTT in Tampaksiring, Bali and started teaching in the French Riviera at Yoga studios, Hotels and with Private clients. The same year she taught as a guest teacher in Paraiso Yoga Studio and Anjali Casa Divina in Sayulita, Mexico. In 2021, she had the opportunity to take the 300 hour Lakshmi Rising Advanced Yoga Training Course in Costa Rica with Dr. Liz Lindh.  Cecelia was invited to join the Lakshmi Rising team as a master teacher in 2022. Through movements, Cecilia loves sharing sweet but strong flows, sharply intuitive mixing dance of the breath and poetry of the body. She loves facilitating and holding space (colorful and flowery, always) in order to help people to move and find their own voice, together. For her, yoga is an art, a science, a dancing meditation as well as a real way to connect to others. It’s also a fantastic tool box to learn how to observe, how to understand, how to infuse, how to heal and finally, how to bloom. She truly considers teaching as the sweetest and the kindest duty. Teaching is actually to be at the service of the world. Gently spreading the message and sharing as much as she can for the beauty of Yoga is the most precious gift. Read more

Anoa Monsho, RYT 500

Anoa Monsho, RYT-500, is an experienced practitioner and teacher of yoga, meditation, breathwork, intuitive movement, Pilates and expressive writing. Her life’s work centers personal transformation as the catalyst for community well-being. Anoa brings an invigorating blend of creativity, spirituality, and deep joy to her highly sought-after classes, workshops, retreats and creative projects.

A forever student, her teaching style is characterized by curiosity and a calm presence that creates connection and draws participants in, encouraging them to explore their inscapes and reveal their own intrinsic power, beauty and wholeness. Anoa’s classes are transformative experiences described by participants as profound journeys of self-exploration, self-love, acceptance, story-sharing and personal growth.

Anoa earned her 500-hour yoga teacher certification through Lakshmi Rising’s Advanced Yoga Training Program and is currently pursuing a second 300-hour training with Uplifted Yoga Teacher training. Anoa teaches restorative, Nidra, honey flow vinyasa and hatha styles of yoga.

Poised at the intersection of equity, wellness and social justice, Anoa creates sacredspaces to help her community find well-being, joy, and the tools to sculpt lives that they love as a necessary step to shaping a better world. Anoa’s writing has been featured in Yoga Journal, Essence, The Guardian, Detour XP and many other publications. About Me: My earliest memory is dancing with my grandmother. She taught me the utter joy of moving my body with both precision and abandonment. Gramma also taught me the power of story, weaving tales of myth, magic, lived experience and history into a riveting narrative that draped across her entire, glorious life. She was a southern Black woman, a healer, and a witness to both holiness and horror. When I discovered yoga at the age of 11, she watched indulgently as I flexed my young body into geometric shapes, animals, and trees. She was my first yoga student. Yoga, dance and writing are the lifelong pillars that hold me down, lift me up, and give me insight into all of life’s strange complexities. I find answers, or at least the most interesting questions, on the mat, on the page, through intuitive movement to music. Fervently believing that yoga, meditation, dance, and expressive writing could transform lives and enhance health and well-being, I began teaching yoga and dance in my community in East Austin, Texas in the early 1990s and have been teaching at community centers, universities, in corporate and nonprofit settings and internationally
since then. Here’s what I believe: Transformational well-being is an experience you can choose. That choice radiates outward, creating a planetary frequency that may heal humanity. Heal yourself, heal the world. Read more..

Allison Schumann RYT 500

YOUR MINDFULNESS MENTOR
Allison Schumann is an International Wellness Facilitator and Spiritual Mentor who has woven 25+ years in the wellness industry with embodied experience in the modalities of breath, massage, the path of Yoga, Meditation + Mindfulness, Vibrational Human Tuning and Sound Therapy to help corporate groups, communities and individuals feel good more and just feel more.

Gaby is a Yoga, Ayurveda and Meditation Teacher with over 12 years of practice in integrative wellness and healing arts. She facilitates nature-based retreats, guides mind-body courses and coaches individuals on how to create an ecosystem of internal resources that increase resilience and unveil intrinsic potential. Her teachings weave together the Ancient traditions of Ayurveda, Buddhism and Tantra, alongside modern-day neuroscience, somatic psychology and Earth wisdom. Gaby guides womxn’s circles and intentional collaborations committed to cultivating spaces of vulnerability, discovery, authentic expression and liberation. Through the tapestry of mind-body practices, Gaby shares tools for deeper intimacy and understanding one’s intuitive abilities, mental power and pathways to freedom. Gaby received her Ayurvedic training at the California College of Ayurveda in 2017 with additional study under Dr. Lad and holds a B.A. in Communication from New York University. Gaby is faculty of the Lakshmi Rising School of Yoga and Wellness, a Masters Candidate for Integral Counseling Psychology at the CIIS and co-founder of ClimbWell, an organization devoted to exploring the intersection of rock climbing, mindfulness and personal development. Read more..

Brittany Lynne, E-RYT 500

Brittany is passionate about helping others create a foundation for a more balanced and peaceful life. She guides her classes with creative, intelligent sequencing and the intention of cultivating present-moment awareness through movement, gratitude and stillness.

Brittany is a Yoga Alliance-certified E-RYT 500 yoga and meditation teacher and continuing education provider. She has studied meditation, yoga asana, sound healing, breathwork, the neuroscience of meditation and yoga nidra and has led over 3,000 hours of practice with her students. She is a teacher on Inner Dimension TV and Insight Timer and specializes in teaching mindfulness for company headquarters and workplaces including The Oscars, TOMS Shoes, Omaze and Thrive Market. Brittany strives to share her light with the world and encourages others to do the same. Read more

Satya Moses

Satya Moses can only offer a biography in the form of gratitude. He is thankful to his parents, Robert and Meenakshi, lifelong seekers on the yogic path, who raised him in a household full of practice, meditation, wafting incense smoke, and Sanskrit verse. He is eternally indebted to Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, his family guru, by whose grace his parents met, and into whose lineage he has been initiated. He is grateful to his adopted uncle, Dr. Robert Svoboda, for guiding by example into the myriad worlds of tantric practice. He is thankful for Mark Morey and the lineage of nature school teachers who introduced him properly to the living, uncivilized world. In his late teens and early twenties Satya traveled the world synthesizing the treasures of his upbringing with the realities of life in a plethora of places, plying his trade as an artist and illustrator. He lived for six months in the Himalayas and there underwent formal yoga education and received certification with Swami Govindananda of Sivananda Yoga Vidya Peetham. He is currently in a transitional life-phase, moving out of an expansive roaming youth and toward a rooted deep-listening third era, always guided by meditation, art, and nature. Read more