Todd Semo has been practicing Iyengar Yoga since 1996. He began teaching in 2000. Todd is currently certified at the Intermediate Junior I level.

Todd comes to the practice by way of childhood sports and martial arts. Each successive activity has contributed to the refinement of the physical into the spiritual. While Todd’s classes are focused on the physical aspects of the postures along with ideas on practice and philosophy, his is an example of the life change that shines through this practice.

Todd believes that he has a duty to pass on the high quality of instruction and attention to detail that he has received from his teacher, Manouso Manos. He continues to study and apprentice with Manouso weekly, both attending and assisting classes. Todd has studied with The Iyengar family (B.K.S., Geeta, and Prashant) in both India and the U.S. six times. He continues his studies in Pune, India, with the Iyengar family as often as he is permitted (every year and a half).

Barbara has been studying and practicing yoga for over 25 years. Her primary teachers are Judith Lasater and Ramamand Patel at the Iyenger Yoga Institute in San Francisco where she gained her original yoga teacher certification in 1987.

She attended the July Intensive at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune in 1987, and continues to study principally with Ramanand Patel. For the last 22 years she has taught hatha yoga classes in San Francisco, mainly at the University of California in the Millberry Recreation Program. About yoga she says "Its an on-going miracle in my life--a gift that I am incredibly grateful to have been given and even more delighted to be able to share." In teaching her emphasis is on helping students feel the joyful liberating aspect of yoga in the belief that this liberation frees the sincere student of yoga to find and express their true nature and potential.

A native of Japan, Sachiko began studying yoga at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of NY in 2001. Her teachers included Brooke Myers, Kevin Gardiner, Bobby Clennell and Mary Dunn. After moving to SF in 2007, she started to study with Manouso Manos. She is in her second year of a teacher training program taught by him and Gloria Goldberg.

She feels blessed by the guidance and grace of her teachers and fellow students. She looks forward to exploring, discovering and sharing the gift that is yoga with her students.