MEET YOUR TEACHERS
Ricky Tran
Ricky Tran, BBA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, CBA, Yoga Life Coach, serial yoga-preneur, founder of Feel to Heal Retreats, Addison Circle Yoga, Breakfast Yoga Club (Houston), the Tranband yoga prop, Apocalypse Yoga, Standard Yoga Training Co., Krama Yoga Center, Castle Hills Yoga, Yoga Southside, and traveling speaker, is widely recognized as an accomplished yoga practitioner and teacher.
Coming from a life-changing addiction to meth, Ricky found yoga as a way to heal his stiff and aging body, clear his troubled mind and awaken to his highest spiritual Self.
Ricky earned a bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management and Real Estate from the University of North Texas in 2002 and a Vinyasa Krama Yoga Teacher certification at Loyola Marymount University in Los, Angeles, CA in 2008. His yoga teachings are inspired and informed by 15 years of practice and study under different methods, mainly under the disciple lineages of Sri T Krishnamacharya, including Ashtanga Vinyasa, BKS Iyengar Method and Vinyasa Krama. Yoga teachers to whom he lends loving credit include, but not limited to Srivatsa Ramaswami, David Williams, David Swenson, Sri Dharma Mittra, and The Amazing Kumar Pallana. He has been featured in a handful of yoga and wellness magazines. He has led yoga programs at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Texas Yoga Conferences, Cosmic Yoga Festival, Holistic Festival of Life, and a few others.
He currently lives in Dallas, TX and leads teacher trainings and workshops both locally and on the road, while building his online yoga subscriber community. Learn more at www.RickyTranYoga.com.
Social media @rickytranyoga @addisoncircleyoga @feeltohealretreats @apocalypseyoga
Coming from a life-changing addiction to meth, Ricky found yoga as a way to heal his stiff and aging body, clear his troubled mind and awaken to his highest spiritual Self.
Ricky earned a bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management and Real Estate from the University of North Texas in 2002 and a Vinyasa Krama Yoga Teacher certification at Loyola Marymount University in Los, Angeles, CA in 2008. His yoga teachings are inspired and informed by 15 years of practice and study under different methods, mainly under the disciple lineages of Sri T Krishnamacharya, including Ashtanga Vinyasa, BKS Iyengar Method and Vinyasa Krama. Yoga teachers to whom he lends loving credit include, but not limited to Srivatsa Ramaswami, David Williams, David Swenson, Sri Dharma Mittra, and The Amazing Kumar Pallana. He has been featured in a handful of yoga and wellness magazines. He has led yoga programs at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Texas Yoga Conferences, Cosmic Yoga Festival, Holistic Festival of Life, and a few others.
He currently lives in Dallas, TX and leads teacher trainings and workshops both locally and on the road, while building his online yoga subscriber community. Learn more at www.RickyTranYoga.com.
Social media @rickytranyoga @addisoncircleyoga @feeltohealretreats @apocalypseyoga
Ricky's Feel to Heal Retreats! Learn more www.feeltohealretreats.com
Danielle D'Alesio
Danielle is a mindset coach and certified yoga instructor who specializes in helping women reduce stress, step into their confidence and discover themselves.
After experiencing a powerful life transformation through yoga, Danielle decided to become a teacher. For years, she struggled with anxiety and insecurities, and despite a successful career, she felt unfulfilled.
She started yoga as a physical practice to do cool arm balances and handstands, but she gained so much more. Through consistent practice the anxiety started to fade away. She gained a state of inner peace and confidence, and her life transformed from party girl to being on a path towards self-actualization.
Reflecting upon her growth, she found her purpose was to help facilitate this to others. She completed her teacher training at Skanda Yoga Studio in Miami, Florida, and the following year, she left her corporate engineering job to pursue her passions of yoga, health, mindset and spirituality.
She loves teaching yoga and meditation in a way that will help you release limitations, fears and insecurities in order to fully step into your power and receive your dreams. Still with an engineer brain, she enjoys focusing on technique as well as the scientific aspects of the practices. She thrives on teaching classes of a deeper spiritual nature, guiding her students to experience their true selves outside of the roles they play, attaining a state of inner peace, connection and love for themselves and others.
After experiencing a powerful life transformation through yoga, Danielle decided to become a teacher. For years, she struggled with anxiety and insecurities, and despite a successful career, she felt unfulfilled.
She started yoga as a physical practice to do cool arm balances and handstands, but she gained so much more. Through consistent practice the anxiety started to fade away. She gained a state of inner peace and confidence, and her life transformed from party girl to being on a path towards self-actualization.
Reflecting upon her growth, she found her purpose was to help facilitate this to others. She completed her teacher training at Skanda Yoga Studio in Miami, Florida, and the following year, she left her corporate engineering job to pursue her passions of yoga, health, mindset and spirituality.
She loves teaching yoga and meditation in a way that will help you release limitations, fears and insecurities in order to fully step into your power and receive your dreams. Still with an engineer brain, she enjoys focusing on technique as well as the scientific aspects of the practices. She thrives on teaching classes of a deeper spiritual nature, guiding her students to experience their true selves outside of the roles they play, attaining a state of inner peace, connection and love for themselves and others.
Gaby Pusateri
Gaby Pusateri, ERYT-500, PRYT, LCCE has been teaching yoga since 2008, and passionately brings the benefits of yoga and mindfulness to people of all ages and abilities. She teaches flow yoga, restorative yoga, mindfulness to children and teens, prenatal yoga and ‘Mommy & Me’ postnatal yoga.
Gaby was drawn to yoga when she found her constant backaches diminished and that she was less reactive, more peaceful and more mindful with consistent practice. She received her 500-hour yoga certification in 2008 through Sunstone Yoga, and then expanded with the second prenatal yoga teacher certification from Prenatal Plus Yoga in 2013 after experiencing the benefits of yoga throughout both of her pregnancies. She has served as a Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator (LCCE) since 2010 and as a birth coach helping moms have natural births. With her Live Free Yoga certification in 2017,
she teaches yoga and mindfulness to the children and teens throughout DISD.
In the many years of teaching, Gaby has heard abundant definitions of what yoga is.
Gaby defines yoga as the peace, the inner power to remain present to what is
happening right now. This peace is within us all the time. Through the practice of yoga
poses and mindful breathing we access our inner peace and remain focused on the
present.
Gaby was drawn to yoga when she found her constant backaches diminished and that she was less reactive, more peaceful and more mindful with consistent practice. She received her 500-hour yoga certification in 2008 through Sunstone Yoga, and then expanded with the second prenatal yoga teacher certification from Prenatal Plus Yoga in 2013 after experiencing the benefits of yoga throughout both of her pregnancies. She has served as a Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator (LCCE) since 2010 and as a birth coach helping moms have natural births. With her Live Free Yoga certification in 2017,
she teaches yoga and mindfulness to the children and teens throughout DISD.
In the many years of teaching, Gaby has heard abundant definitions of what yoga is.
Gaby defines yoga as the peace, the inner power to remain present to what is
happening right now. This peace is within us all the time. Through the practice of yoga
poses and mindful breathing we access our inner peace and remain focused on the
present.
Brendon McCarville
Brendon McCarville, MBA, FNTP, RYT-500 is a yoga teacher and wellness and mindset coach who helps women remember who they are at their core and express that into the world so they can create lives of purpose, energy and impact. Using yoga and meditation along with energy work, subconscious reprogramming techniques and nutrition, she guides women back to themselves and facilitates transformation for the mind, body and soul.
Brendon began seriously pursuing a yoga practice in 2014 in an effort to heal a rock climbing injury. She healed her shoulder and found a new passion for the peace and focus that yoga provided. The practice became a way to not only improve flexibility, mobility and physical strength, but a way to practice mental and emotional strength as well as to develop a deeper spiritual connection. She completed her 200 hour RYT Yoga Alliance certification with Summit Climbing, Yoga & Fitness in Dallas, TX in 2015 and has been sharing her love of yoga ever since with students and yoga teachers in training.
Brendon began seriously pursuing a yoga practice in 2014 in an effort to heal a rock climbing injury. She healed her shoulder and found a new passion for the peace and focus that yoga provided. The practice became a way to not only improve flexibility, mobility and physical strength, but a way to practice mental and emotional strength as well as to develop a deeper spiritual connection. She completed her 200 hour RYT Yoga Alliance certification with Summit Climbing, Yoga & Fitness in Dallas, TX in 2015 and has been sharing her love of yoga ever since with students and yoga teachers in training.
Concepcion Pallin
I was first introduced to yoga at a local gym in 2007, I immediately fell in love with its physical aspect and have been practicing since. I enjoy the mind-body connection and most of all the spiritual aspect of yoga. Through my years of practice, I learned yoga has a way of permeating so much deeper than the external, and the spiritual side of the practice is what kept me in my practice. Yoga has helped me in all areas of my life; physically, mentally, and emotionally. Aside from helping me get my body back after only after months of giving birth to my first child, it has also helped me get off medication for TMJ syndrome, tension headaches, stress, anxiety, and depression. Because the practice has given me so much more than physical strength and openness, I believe yoga is a gift which should be shared with everyone. After a few years I decided to take teacher training in 2012 and 2015 received two 200 hour yoga teacher certification. Teaching yoga has been a huge part of my life ever since, where not only do I enjoy sharing the practice and meeting beautiful souls, it has also brought me tremendous growth and self-love. I believe yoga can help anyone who applies the practice into their daily routine change unhealthy patterns, and replace them with new healthy patterns. It all starts with the mind, one breath at a time. Come practice!
