Yessie Chavez

Founder & Lead Teacher, Seattle

What’s your favorite yoga pose?

Dancer’s Pose because it works my entire body and requires focus, it’s nearly impossible to think about anything else when I’m balancing on one foot. In this pose I feel strong, open, stretched and present.

What’s your tech guilty pleasure?

Spotify! I love music and I love that part of my job as a yoga teacher includes making playlists, lots of playlists, sometimes I feel like a DJ - it’s really fun!

What’s your favorite aspect about tech?

Connection to family and mentors! Tech has given me the ability to interact with people that inspire me by following them on social media and learning from them. Tech also allows me to stay connected to my family and show my loved ones the beautiful places I travel to in present time via Skype and Facetime.

What’s your favorite quote?

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu

Jaclyn Winters

Lead Teacher, Los Angeles

What’s your favorite yoga pose?

Wheel Pose because it’s such an intense heart opener and vulnerable position. I feel we live in a society where we feel the need to stay guarded and boxed up. In Wheel, I feel the freedom to break out of the box. It makes me feel free and open. Also, it’s such a great stretch!

What’s your tech guilty pleasure?

My tech guilty pleasure is any kind of photography or video app. I have a secret passion of shooting photos and videos and turning them into artistic shots. Any app that helps with that, I love!

What’s your favorite aspect about tech?

My favorite aspect about tech is its ability to connect people from all over the world. Also, it allows us to get information about anything quickly. Allowing us to stay educated on any topic we research or find interesting.

What’s your favorite quote?

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” -Osho

Paul Clingan

Lead Teacher

What’s your favorite yoga pose?

Extended Child's Pose because it lengthens out my entire backline which is always tight. This pose releases tension in my low back and it's really relaxing because I can focus on my breath since my body isn't being required to do anything physically challenging.

What’s your tech guilty pleasure?

There's an app called Hitlist. I'm sure there are others like it, but it alerts me of really cheap flights abroad. So once a week, I'm debating if I can afford to fly to Helsinki for $320 dollars for ten nights.

What’s your favorite aspect about tech?

My favorite aspect of tech is that it allows me to do two things at once. I can workout and listen to a podcast. I can cook and watch a show on my phone. I can wirelessly video chat someone across the globe and eat pizza. Pretty sick if you ask me.

What’s your favorite quote?

“Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.” -Marcus Aurelius