DEREK TOWERS
Derek studied religions, spirituality and their practices since early high school. He is a Zazen practitioner, studying with Kevin Bortolin, for about the last two years. Derek has studied and practiced Judo for nearly 7 years at the Encino Judo Club in Oxnard.

RAECHELLE CARINO
Raechelle started practicing Yoga 20+ years ago because she was born with hip dysplasia, severe asthma, and had anxiety problems growing up. Because she feels Yoga has been such a beautiful gift, Raechelle wanted to share it with the world. As a result, she began teaching classes in 2001. Yoga has been there for her from the beginning. She practiced as a college student, through her pregnancy...and now she does Yoga with her baby boy, Angelo, who was born on June 13, 2008.

SARAH BLOOM
Sarah recently moved from Santa Barbara to Ventura and is very passionate about Yoga. She has been teaching classes for the last 7 years at studios and gyms in Santa Barbara, including: Yoga Soup, Gold's gym, Spectrum gym, and the Santa Barbara Yoga Center. The style of class she leads would be classified as "Vinyasa", though her teacher training was in "Classical Ashtanga", and she has practiced Ashtanga Mysore individually. Sarah's dance backgroundlends itself to a more fluid/ dance like form of a yoga class, connecting poses with the breath as Vinyasa does, but with more dance like movement within the class time.

VALERIE PIKE
Valerie is originally from the South! She is a soy candlemaker and trained by Mini Yogis! She is ZanZilla's Kid's Yoga teacher. She has studied many children books, yoga games and dvd's and taught classes and learned that 45 minutes is a great class length even though she has new yoga poses, yoga games and material to go on like the solar system!

Valerie loves the ocean and many of her poses and meditations are ocean themed. She believes in saving our oceans from the seahorses to even the sharks! She is a certified scuba diver, loves to kayak and considers herself a mermaid! She has owned a sailboat and would someday like to learn surfsailing.

Peace, love and harmony to our younger generation!

TIM HARRIS
In addition to teaching Restorative Exercise™ (RE) principles, Tim is also the anatomy instructor at KALI Institute for Massage and Somatic Therapy. He has over 500 hours of massage education in various techniques and 11 years of teaching massage and beginning anatomy. After 40 months of intense personal RE practice as well as feedback from students and clients, he states with confidence that RE is of real and substantial benefit.

PORTIA BRAY
Portia has been Bellydancing for 12 years. Her passion is American Tribal Style, the style made made famous by FatChanceBellyDance and Tribal Fusion, made popular by Rachel Brice and UNMATA. She has danced all over California with Sisterhood Dance Collective, Wild Routes and Mockingbird Tribal. From wrap parties for Xena Princess Warrior to Indian weddings and regular gigs at local events, restaurants and festivals, performing has been a highlight of her dance career. Portia loves teaching dance and seeing the transformation of strength, grace and confidence as people learn and improve. Her goal is to have people leave class being able to move in a new way, have fun, and want more!

CO-TEACHERS:
Joann Landon: Joann 's journey has transformed herself from High School History Teacher to Restorative Exercise Specialist. Along the way she dabbled in teaching Elementary P.E., a favorite job, before becoming a full-time mom, and raising two kids. As one is successfully off to college, she is happily pursuing her passion for health as a Restorative Exercise Specialist.

Jennifer Otani: Jenn' has been a helpful and suppoertive presence to Zan in the Saturday morning Vinyasa Rock Classics class for several years. In addition to showing an interest in her own form and technique, she has been unanimously accepted as the co-teacher for this class.

Allison Maires: Allison has been immersed in the Restorative Exercise Specialist Teacher Training program for the past year and is completeing aspects of her internship at ZanZilla as Zan's co-teacher on Monday and Wednesday nights at the Flexibility/RE classes.

DENI JONES

Bio's and photos coming soon!