Teaching Staff | Yoga Teacher Training

Allison Eaton is the lead teacher for all 26 day trainings except the Feb. 16 to Mar. 12, 2009 training

Kevin Durkin is the lead teacher for the Feb. 16 to Mar. 12, 2009 26 day training.

Shane Perkins E-RYT 200

Having over one thousand hours of formal teaching, Shane holds an E-RYT registry with Yoga Alliance. Shane has 20 years of meditation and yoga practice, his teaching style is Iyengar based Hatha yoga.

Shane was raised at SKMC Meditation Center in Bowling Green, Virginia. He received initiation to a formal meditation practice at age 10, and studied and traveled with Sant Darshan Singh for several months during this time.

His studies include an Anusara yoga intensive with Hanneli Francis, six months of Kundalini yoga practice in Vancouver, Canada, a four-day yoga intensive with Baba Hari Das of the Mount Madonna Center, a week intensive with Desakachar in Toronto, and four 200- hour teacher trainings at Yandara Yoga Institute, including ones taught by Iyengar teachers Kevin Durkin and Victor Oppenheimer. Shane also spent two years as an apprentice, training in wilderness meditation and Chi gong (Ancient Chinese yoga). This training included numerous solo retreats ranging in length from two to twenty-eight days.

Shane recently spent 6 months in India and Nepal where he attended teachings and went on retreats, undertaking deep and extensive practice in Vipassana, and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

Shane is also a proficient musician and singer which is an enhancement to kirtan sessions.

* With deep space and tender joy, my best wishes are with you.*

Allison Eaton, E-RYT 200

Allison learned the yoga lifestyle through her mother, a yogini of 30 years and initiate of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Through her mother’s influence and guidance, Allison received the teachings of ahimsa (self love and love for others) and artha (creation of a balanced life). Throughout her childhood, Allison practiced gymnastics, where she learned the virtues of focused concentration (dharana), determination and passion (tapas). She came to yoga asana (postures) at age 18, and has since acquired in-depth study and teaching experience in various disciplines.

Iyengar Yoga brought stability to her practice, taught her to think intelligently and to practice “right action” within the postures. Vinyasa flow yoga turned her yoga mat into a sacred space, bringing creativity and liberation (moksa) to her practice and teaching. Anusara Yoga brought her heart into her practice and taught her to align herself with the universal life force energy (prana). Meditation (dhyana) and breath control (pranayama) showed her that she could bring contentment (santosa) into any moment. Tai Chi practice taught her to “leave out the extra.”

Allison is a registered teacher through Yoga Alliance. She completed her teacher certifications through Yoga Fit (Power/Vinyasa Flow), Corrin Adams (Iyengar-Influenced 200 Hour) and Shiva Rea (Vinyasa Flow), with additional study and training under Kevin Durkin, Certified Iyengar Teacher and Yoga Therapist and Victor Oppenheimer, Senior Iyengar Teacher.

Allison has an ability to connect to the needs of the individual student and to empower the teacher within.

Recent Student Testimonial:

What can I say, WOW! Allison absolutely exemplified the combination of Yogini, Leader, Professional, Spiritual Guide and Consummate Teacher. Her poise, presence, and undeniably uplifted energy were such a significant catalyst for my personal growth as both a teacher and as a human being. I cannot say enough regarding the clarity of integrity, the generosity of spirit and the unconditional love that filled our classroom each and every day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Namaste,
Tom Morisette, owner of Present Moment Conscious Living Retreat, recently honored as one of the "Top 10 Yoga Retreats Worldwide.”

Craig Perkins E-RYT 500

Craig is registered with Yoga Alliance with over 5000 hours of yoga practice and teaching.

In 1968 Craig trained under Yogi Ananda Bhavanani (a follower of Swami Sivananda) in Vancouver, Canada, and became a certified Sivananda-style yoga instructor. Around the same time, he began his 30-year meditation study with both Sant Kirpal Singh, and later with his successor Sant Darshan Singh, he also studied, and became initiated in, Tibetan Buddhism, and furthered his Hatha Yoga studies with Yogi Shaym Acharia.

After several years of teaching classes in Vancouver, Craig began teaching for Coquitlam Adult Education, by then he was also running his own yoga school, The Yoga Center.

In 1972 Craig started a "live-in" yoga school in Miami, Florida, and two years later he moved to Sawan Kirpal Meditation Center in Virginia, where he lived for 20 years with his wife, and two sons. He also lived with his family at a Sivananda Yoga Center in Washington, D.C. for one year in 1980.

Craig has made five trips to India, studying meditation at Sawan Ashram, Delhi, and Deradhun. For 5 years he was studying Chinese yoga, T'ai Chi and Qi gong with a master/student of Robert Smith, and he also taught yoga at a yoga retreat in Baja, Mexico, for 5 years.

Craig is involved with yoga psychology and deep ecology. He has studied Sivananda, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Yoga Flow style. He has also compiled the booklet, "An Introduction to Yoga Life", based on 30 years of yoga experience.

Craig is the director of Yandara Yoga Institute, and will be teaching at all trainings.

Kevin Durkin

Kevin Durkin has practiced yoga since 1976 and has taught since 1991. He is certified as an intermediate (junior) yoga teacher by the United States Iyengar Association.

He has been to India five times to study with B.K.S., Geeta, and Prashant Iyengar. He has assisted in the medical classes at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India, and studied at the International Iyengar Institutes in New York, Manchester, Zurich, London and Paris. In celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the Iyengar Institute, he was one of the 65 Americans invited to the Yoga Teachers Guidance Course taught by B.K.S. Iyengar in January, 2000. Kevin has taught workshops in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and teaches specialty workshops regularly.

Kevin is a graduate of the Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado. He has completed the unprecedented third year advanced studies program and has worked as a teaching assistant at MTIC.

Peter Sterios

Peter is an international yoga teacher based in San Luis Obispo , CA . A writer and former contributing editor for Yoga Journal, his classes reflect over three decades of study and practice in the US and India. His first yoga DVD "Gravity & Grace: Yoga for Finding Your Inner Teacher" was released in 2007 and is available at www.manduka.com . Peter also founded Manduka, a leading eco-yoga products company in 1997. For more information, visit www.petersterios.com

Yandara Yoga Teaching Staff