Kyonghwa Kim-Nobis
Kyonghwa began her yoga journey in 1996 and has been a daily Ashtanga practitioner since 2005. She has completed Primary, Second, and Third Series teacher training with Tim Miller, her primary teacher and is currently studying Advanced B, or Fourth series. She participated in teacher training with Adarsh Williams. She is a registered yoga & certified Pilates teacher, and has extensive experience employing therapeutic yoga for those who need to improve their flexibility & mobility.
Kyonghwa has taught Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga since 2008. She loves the Ashtanga yoga practice wherein physical movement using breath, bandhas and driisti results in a meditative state. She believes daily Ashtanga Yoga practice, over time, moves one from the physical practice to a recognition of the spiritual aspects of yoga. Kyonghwa's love of yoga in general and Ashtanga in particular has led her to open Ashtanga Yoga Monterey to serve those who want to learn and/or practice Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
Vika Kolesov, RYT 500, AHC
Vika took her first yoga class in 2007 and started practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 2013 at Yoga Is Youthfulness. Soon after she realized the practice effects on deep mental, emotional and physical levels. She attended Ashtanga Yoga workshops taught by David Swenson, Petri Raisanen, Peter Sanson, Tim Feldmann, and Tim Miller. In 2016. Vika completed Yoga Teachers Training YTT200 in 2016 and YTT300 in 2023 at Mount Madonna Institute School of Yoga. Looking for the foundational knowledge about healthy, balanced lifestyle, she studied Ayurveda and graduated from Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda as Ayurvedic Health Counselor (AHC) in 2019.
Vika is deeply passionate about Yoga and Ayurveda and happy that these ancient sciences became part of her life. She feels honored when she gets a chance to share her knowledge with others.
Ashley Velasquez
Ashley has a deep passion for learning and sharing tools that help us to live. Naturally then, she fell in love with yoga when she began practicing seriously in 2011. Ashley practiced Bikram yoga for 6 years where she discovered lessons learned on the mat could also be applied to improve life off the mat. She discovered the power of consistent, steady practice in creating profound changes in the mind, body, & soul, and competed in the National Yoga Asana Championship 3 years in a row. She later discovered Ashtanga yoga, and fell in love with the simplicity but rigor of the series. It was the Ashtanga series that called Ashley to begin teaching yoga and to complete her 200-hour teacher training.
Off the mat, Ashley is a licensed therapist where she leads group therapy at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Her yoga practice informs her therapy work, and her therapy work informs her yoga practice. As a yoga teacher, Ashley aims to create a space where students can discover a deeper connection with their own personal practice through focus on the breath, posture, and drishti.