OUR TEACHING FACULTY

Kapil Gauba, Certified 500HR RYT, Architect
Born and raised in India, Kapil’s relationship with yoga began early in life, where the practice was naturally woven into everyday culture and experience. Over time, yoga evolved into a deeply personal and holistic journey for him — one that extends beyond physical movement into breath, awareness, philosophy, and inner transformation.
Originally trained as an architect, Kapil brings a thoughtful understanding of structure, alignment, spatial awareness, and embodied experience into his teaching. Having also lived in Canada for several years, his perspective is shaped by both Eastern traditions and cross-cultural experience, allowing him to approach yoga through a lens that is both grounded and contemporary.
Kapil completed his 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Thailand and later continued his advanced studies with Lakshmi Rising in Italy. Alongside yoga, he is deeply interested in analytical psychology, particularly the work of Carl Jung, and explores the resonances between Jungian thought, Indian spiritual philosophy, and yogic wisdom traditions.
His teaching is rooted in the understanding that yoga is not only a physical discipline, but also a pathway toward self-inquiry, integration, and conscious living. Through his classes and mentorship, he aims to create a grounded and reflective space where students can explore yoga with authenticity, curiosity, and awareness.

Heidi Schaepsmeier is a registered Yoga teacher and a certified Pilates instructor with over 4000 hours of teaching experience and owner of MyOmbody. She is an Ayurvedic practitioner and her passion is to inform and support people of all ages to live an active and strong life by incorporating routines of Yoga, Pilates and Ayurveda into their daily lives. Being a practicing massage therapist for 3 decades allows her to integrate and consider physical limitations and restrictions and work towards increasing the quality of movement and living a live that is closely aligned with your true self. She is dedicated in creating authentic well-being through mindful movement, education, and awareness. She offers classes, workshops and retreats in Yoga, Pilates and Ayurveda in Canada and abroad.

Chloe combines traditional and contemporary understandings of the mind-body-breath connection to create fun, sustainable, and empowering yoga sadhana (practice). Having trained in Ashtanga & Hatha yoga in India, Chloe later graduated from Lakshmi Rising’s 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training, deepening her studies in Vinyasa Flow with a focus on longevity & injury prevention.

She fosters a non-dogmatic approach, ensuring you understand the intention behind each instruction. Chloe encourages gentle discipline, inviting you to soften and meet your edge with curiosity. Every body and all levels are welcome; she looks forward to meeting you on the mat.

Martina Saorin is an E-RYT 500 certified yoga teacher, specialised in Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga as well as being an Advanced Yin and Restorative Yoga Teacher, a Level 3 Reiki Master and a Sound
Therapist Practitioner based in London, UK. She has been studying Yoga since 2014 with renown teachers between Europe and India and she successfully completed her 500 hours YTT with Lakshmi Rising in Santa Ana, Costa Rica in March 2024.

Her journey with sound began with Don Conreaux and the Tone of Life in Poland, where she attended a 9 days intensive Gong and Sound therapy training in July 2015. She studied Sound Therapy with the British Academy of Sound therapy (BAST) in UK and she is a fully qualified as practitioner since April 2020. She had been a resident sound facilitator at the Somerset House from October 2018 to January 2020, played at the Royal Albert Hall for UnDisturbed festival in April 2019, she has been hosting regular sound baths at Glastonbury Festival for Humblewell Healing Area since June 2019.

In 2018 she founded “Yogic Sound”, which combines yoga (mainly Hatha vinyasa/Yin/Restorative) with the transformative power of the Gongs and Himalayan and Crystal Singing bowls, with the intention of bringing the body back to its natural state of balance and harmony. Martina has always been strongly believed in the power of the sound and Yoga as healing tools to restore balance, harmony and wellbeing in the whole body, through the principle that everything in life is in a state of vibration.
Some of her favourite quotes:
“A healer does not heal you. A healer is someone who holds space for you, while you awaken your inner healer, so that you may heal yourself.” Maryam Hasnaa
“A Gong Bath is the most powerful form of holistic resonance known to man.” Don Conreaux
“Sound will be the medicine of the future” – Edgar Cayce Read more...

Anoa Monsho, MFA, RYT-500, is an experienced practitioner and teacher of yoga, meditation, breathwork, intuitive movement, Pilates and expressive writing. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from Goucher College and her 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 a second 300-hour training with Uplifted Yoga Teacher training. Anoa teaches restorative, Nidra, Yin, Slow Flow vinyasa and hatha styles of yoga.

Poised at the intersection of equity, wellness and social justice, Anoa creates sacred spaces 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. Àṣẹ!Learn more about Anoa at anoamonsho.com Read more..

Sheri started with a career working in NYC in Fashion and Design.  Her path into motherhood brought her back to Rhode Island where she began her studies in Interior Design and her beloved yoga practice became a vehicle of professional healing work. She has been a student and instructor for over 25 years and has had the blessings of many great teachers with her root teacher being Saul David Raye.

In addition to certification in Yoga, Thai bodywork, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Sacred Dance, and Feng Shui, she is a passionate Breathwork Facilitator.

Currently, Sheri is enrolled in her 3^Rd year with Her Mystery School- An immersive study into Deep Feminine Sovereignty, Illumination, and Revelation. What does it mean to create a positive, balanced, vital beat in our everyday experience? The sacred art of thai bodywork is an ancient holistic healing art that harmonizes mind, body, and spirit.  Practiced in Thailand for over 2,500 years, TB has its roots in ayurvedic medicine as well as buddhist and yogic practices and is based on the theory that the body’s vital energy flows through channels called Sen.   TB seeks to release energy blockages, which restores equilibrium.

Benefits can include:

• Relieve muscular tension + improve circulation
• Boost the immune system + increase flexibility
• Catalyzes the energy body for deep healing
• Balance the body’s energy system + integrate mind, body, and spirit for an overall feeling of well-being
• Integrates and regulates the nervous system

TB is performed on a floor mat in a safe, relaxing environment in a warm room with soft lighting and gentle music. This type of environment creates the sacred space necessary for the recipient to experience the internal and external changes that unfold through TB. The TB practitioner uses her palms, forearms, elbows, knees, and feet in a fusion of techniques, such as reflexology, joint mobilization, assisted yoga stretches, unhurried twists, and pressing movements that are rhythmical, flowing, and smooth.  A traditional TB session lasts between 1½ and 2 hours. Recipients should wear loose, comfortable clothing. Layers are recommended. Transformational Breathwork: We are all born into this life with a unique human chart/ course. My teacher refers to it as Earth School. This chart is a set of things that we have soul-contracted to learn while we are here. Many of these things are inherently part of the human experience, like learning how to love ourselves, use our voices and speak our truth, create healthy relationships, and heal our lineage patterns. We will be presented with infinite opportunities to learn, heal and grow.  Understanding that core wounds and limiting beliefs and patterns are present for us to evolve, can make the process much more empowering. Breathwork supports you in creating a conscious, kind, and intimate relationship with yourself. You learn to hold yourself through difficulty with groundedness and grace. You learn to hold yourself through triggers and activations with love and patience. You learn to speak to yourself with tenderness as you peel the layers of conditioning and programming that we collect in our childhood. The Work is done lying down and being guided through a 2 part breathing exercise. It is a meditation and breathing practice in which the conscious control of the breath will influence the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state of a person with a therapeutic effect. Read more..

Maggie Ledbetter is a Las Vegas–based yoga teacher with over a decade of experience teaching embodied movement including both yoga and dance. With roots in classical ballet and a lifelong love of movement, Maggie weaves together strength, grace, and self-inquiry through her teaching.

She holds a 500-hour RYT certification, having completed her 200-hour Ashtanga and Vinyasa training in Las Vegas and her 300-hour advanced training with Lakshmi Rising in Italy. Additionally, she holds certifications in Yin Yoga, Meditation, Kinesiology, and Trauma-Informed Yoga.

Maggie teaches Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin, and Meditation with a focus on guiding students back to their own inner wisdom. Her classes encourage self-trust, curiosity, and the understanding that everything we seek already exists within. As a yoga teacher trainer and mentor, Maggie is passionate about helping others find their authentic voice, inner wisdom, and confidence both on and off the mat. She is honored to be part of the Lakshmi Rising teaching team.