Meet Your Guides
​Our team possesses exceptional depth and quality, addressing the unique needs of each student to help them realize the abundance they aspire to achieve in their lives.
We help foster well-being, comfort, and community.​​​​​​
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Hal Marcus
Artist
Community builder through inspiration, art and optimism.
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Hal Marcus has a life-long passion of the arts. His sense of colorful expressions of a cubistic world of shapes within shapes originated from the influences of Mexico. His love for art reflects the environment in which he lives. El Paso people, streets and mountains show up in his works of art, and make people proud of their community along the border. His works are cultural icons for the community. His entrepreneurial pursuits have led him to collaborate with hundreds of institutions creating images for worthy causes. His works express local and global themes of love and peace derived from his experiences. Hal Marcus’ self-taught folk-art style has become main stream in the isolated art community along the Rio Grande. His works are found in public, private and corporate collections worldwide.
Leilainia Marcus
Meditation + Coaching + Yoga + Belly Dance + Kundalini
Transformation through Movement, Breath, Stillness, Awareness
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Leilainia ( lei-Lain-ya) is an El Paso Native. She left for 23 years and has returned to El Paso to bring depth of expertise and joy back to her home town. She is a certified Chopra Health, Meditation, and Wellness Coach, as well as a Traditional & Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and an award-winning Dancer.
Leilainia’s sessions uplift the spirit, inspire confidence, create physical and universal awareness, and enhance self-knowledge.
Growing up, her mother had a dance school named the Sunset Palace, which led to a life of dance and movement from world renown teachers. She started teaching Dance & Fitness in the mid 90's (she would sub for her mother.) She began teaching Yoga in 2008 at the Hotel Del Coronado in California directly after her training. In 2017 she began teaching Kundalini after her training with Maya Fiennes.
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“My vision is to create sustainable happiness, health, and vitality by sharing tools that enhance everyday life by balancing and harmonizing the internal world that creates our daily experiences.”- Leilainia.
Jessika East
Vinyasa Yoga
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A native El Pasoan, Jessika has been practicing yoga for 18 years, teaching for 10. Studying a range of styles, she teaches Vinyasa, Bikyasa, Barre, Power, Heated Power, & Kurunta, a strap supported practice.
Build strength, balance, flexibility, control, stamina and mental clarity,
Come fill your cup with the best medicine there is: YOGA.
Kareesha Willow
Belly Dance Joy
Kareesha Willow has been dancing since she was born. She literally danced out of her mothers womb, as her mothers was one of the original Sisters of The Moon Belly Dance troupe in El Paso in the 1970s. She is energetic, hi energy and a ton of fun. Kareesha teaches Wednesdays
Kareesha and Leilainia teach belly dance together Fridays for a dynamic class experience.
Richard Powell, D.S.S.
Life and Business Coach
Richard L. Powell, DSS. served as a CEO in the business world for over 27 years, while spending almost four decades in the pursuit of enlightenment, inner advancement and personal growth.
Along the way he earned a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica (USM) and a master's and doctorate degree in Spiritual Science from Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy in Los Angeles.
He has been a Board Member of the University of Santa Monica since 2007 and has facilitated numerous workshops and seminars.
He has traveled the world, both teaching and learning, and continues daily on his journey to personal evolution.
Yadira
Aerial Artist + Performer + Dancer + Yoga Coach
Enhancing people's well-being, whether in the air, on the ground, or in the water.
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Meet Yadira, a versatile artist and coach specializing in dance and aerial performance. With a background in dance, she extends her expertise as a certified 200YTT yoga coach, seamlessly combining her skills in aerial arts. Yadira has a passion for making individuals better through movement and wellness.
TANG
Tai Chi Chuan and QiGong
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Mr. Tang is a lifelong practitioner of Classical Chinese Martial Arts, Chen Family Tai Chi Ch’uan. He learned this practice in his home town near Hong Kong as a youth, and he has taught Tai Chi for many years in the desert southwest. Chen Family Tai Chi Ch’uan is known for healthy regulation of the body and for its martial arts applications. "Mr. Tang is a very down to earth teacher and a master of his craft."-Krishna Caran
Tang teaches Chen Style TaiChi and 24 Steps.
RINA
Traditional Yoga
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Rina is a passionate yoga practitioner and instructor with over 20 years of experience. "I am dedicated to nurturing physical, mental and spiritual well-being through yoga practices," explains Rina. "My teaching is rooted in the philosophy of yoga as a life style, emphasising its integration into daily routine for holistic well-being."
Rina's classes are based in Traditional Yoga: nurturing physical and mental well being through the integration of guided postures, breath control and meditation.