Yoga Shala Founder & Director of the Traditional Mysore Program, Authorized Level 2 by Sharath Jois Yoga Centre

I started practicing yoga in 1996 and discovered my passion for Ashtanga yoga around the year 2000 when I developed my self practice. Desperately, seeking to study under the guidance of a teacher I found David Swenson and Tim Miller and from that point on continued to study under Timji.

In the continuous search for true knowledge in 2010 I took my first class with Paramaguru Sharath Jois in Encinitas, CA. Since then he became my guru and teacher.

After several long trips to Mysore, India and following his US tours, Sharathji decided to bless me with his Authorization to teach the Ashtanga yoga method.

I feel so humbled and blessed to have been gifted an Ashtanga community in San Antonio, TX and when I received my Authorization I thought to myself, "This is ours, I share this with my students and I can offer them more"

More about Ana HERE

Co-Owner of Yoga Shala San Antonio, Authorized Level 1 by Sharath Jois Yoga Centre, E-RYT 500

I was born and raised in Mexico City but we moved to Texas in 1998. In 2004 I walked into my first yoga class and since then I practiced Vinyasa, Hatha and Bikram yoga. My first studies were in Hatha yoga.
In 2013 I began an Ashtanga practice and found everything I love about yoga so it soon became my main practice. I completed the Ashtanga training with my teacher, partner and friend Ana Hollis at Yoga Shala.
Since then I've attended intensives with Tim Miller, Kino McGregor and Tim Feldman. I've been fortunate to have been part of numerous workshops with amazing teachers like Eddie Stern, Kino McGregor, David Swenson, Tim Feldmann, Taylor Hunt among other great teachers.

In 2018 I was blessed with the opportunity to travel to India to study with Sharath Jois, Eddie Stern and Robert Moses during the Ashtanga Yoga Yatra in Rishikesh.

My next trip to India was in 2022, this time to Mysore, studying under the guidance of Sharath Jois. Along with the daily yoga practice, philosophy, chanting and Sanskrit classes with Lakshmisha were my daily activities. It was a very special life changing experience. I returned to Mysore in 2023 and 2025 when I received the blessing and authorization.

I'm very grateful for my family and their incredible support throughout this beautiful journey, specially my husband Alex who always inspires and encourages me in everything. My children who teach and surprise me everyday reminding me the practice of yoga goes way beyond the mat.

I feel so lucky to teach and share the passion of this beautiful practice with others.

"Yoga is a light that once lit will never dim. The more you practice the brighter the flame" -BKS. Iyengar.

RYT 200, RCYT

Jenny started to practice ashtanga yoga in 2010. She finished her 200-hour ashtanga teacher training in 2019 at the Yoga Shala of San Antonio (RYT 200). She took continuing education afterwards to teach yoga to children in 2020, the year of the pandemic. This period was her silver lining to found Glow Little Lotus Yoga and teach children virtually. In early 2021, she became a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) with Yoga Alliance. She has students from babies, toddlers, young children, tweens and teens and children with disabilities. She is also trained to teach yoga to youth athletes, yoga in the school classroom and trauma-informed yoga to youth.
A yoga student herself, Jenny keeps her progress in the ashtanga practice with Ana Hollis, her teacher in San Antonio. She likewise learned and practiced from senior Ashtanga teachers like Eddie Stern and Kino MacGregor.
Her own practice on the mat inspires her as a teacher. Jenny loves sharing the benefits of yoga and mindfulness to both adults and the youth and is thankful for the opportunity to teach at the Shala.

RYT 200

I was born in Morelia, Michoacan. Mother to Valeria, Eduardo, Santiago and Alonso. My family is my main life project and the reason I work hard to be better everyday.

I'm a Holistic Nutritionist, health coach and chef with experience in eating disorders and all the work I do today comes from my own experience. I lost 40 pounds and completely transformed my body and my life.

I have discovered on my own transformation journey that when you are on a transformational path, many tools, information and time are needed to be successful. Ashtanga Yoga has been part of my family for years since my mother has been a long time dedicated practitioner and owned her Shala in Morelia. I finally incorporated a daily Mysore practice to my routine in 2020 and as part of this journey I decided to complete the Ashtanga Yoga Immersion at Yoga Shala in 2022. The way yoga relates and can be seamlessly incorporated to my holistic nutrition and health coaching studies, has inspired me to share this practice that I know can make a true impact on peoples lives.

RYT 200

As a RN and then Nurse Practitioner, my love for yoga has always complimented my career. However, it wasn't until the pandemic of 2020 when I left work to stay home with my 3 daughters, that I found myself with the time to begin to deepen my yoga practice. Along with a dear friend, we committed to an early morning zoom adaptive yoga teacher training. Upon completion, I felt a pull to continue learning.
My yoga practice has involved several styles of yoga over the years, but nothing has ever brought me as much peace and grounding as ashtanga yoga. In the Spring of 2022 I enrolled in an intro to Mysore class and was captivated by how personal and meditative yoga truly can be. After later completing YSSA Ashtanga Yoga Immersion, my deep love for this practice ignited a fire in me to want to begin to share as a teacher.
Most importantly, I am a “forever student” always ready to learn from seasoned ashtangis. I feel so fortunate to have found my teacher, Ana Hollis, as she is authentic and incredibly inspirational. Through Ana and YSSA, I have also enjoyed opportunities to learn from Eddie Stern, Taylor Hunt and Kino MacGreggor.
As a teacher of ashtanga yoga, I hope to provide a space for students to experience the healing and transformational benefits ashtanga offers.

RYT 200, 300

My name is Anna Lambrou but my friends call me Annula
I am a Montessori teacher and a Yoga and Pilates instructor.

Since a very young age I began with physical activities.I did that for a couple of years until I felt it wasn’t enough. When I was 20, I began to run marathons every year. Switching to triathlons until I injured my heel and right leg around 2011. I was living in San Antonio ;s when my YOGA journey started.>I began practicing Bikram yoga as the studio was very close to my house.
After a couple years of practicing, in 2014, I went to Los Angeles and trained with Bikram Choudhury to become a Certified Bikram Yoga instructor.

From there I had the opportunity to take more trainings:
Inferno Hot Pilates with Gabi Walters,
Mat Pilates with Julie Valenzuela,
and Yin Yoga with Melissa Christensen.
I feel blessed teaching all these modalities that keep me physically and mentally in shape.

I discovered that for me this was the best therapy to maintain my mind and body active and develop that inner peace that makes us feel better.

I’m so grateful for my family’s support, all of them; Luis, Alexa , Luis Jr.
And my fur babies to Apollo, the Great Dane and Ramona, the little Chiweenie.

Thank you, Yoga Shala, for this opportunity!
I’m so blessed and happy to share what I love and getting hooked with my ashtanga practice.

The journey never ends.

Namaste,

Annula

RYT 200

Craig has been practicing Yoga since 2004. In 2018 he was introduced to Ashtanga Yoga at Aranya Yoga Ashram taking their 200 hr course in Goa India with Krishna Das Baba.
He furthered his interest in Ashtanga at Yoga Shala San Antonio with Ana Hollis, and completed the primary series 200 hour immersion in 2019.
He really enjoys sharing his passion for yoga with people who are both already practicing or just starting out.
Yoga, and Ashtanga in particular, has had a great impact on his life. It has helped him restore and heal injuries and problems with his back. It has also helped him focus and steady his thoughts, which helps him out in so many aspects. He would like for other people to benefit from Ashtanga like he has.

RYT 200

Christy began her yoga journey as a Christmas gift in 2014. She sought out Ashtanga yoga to begin healing physically, mentally and spiritually. From the first moment she stepped into YogaShala, she knew she was home. She started taking classes regularly and completed her 200 RYT at YogaShala in December of 2019, 5 years after first stepping through the Shala's doors. She wants to give back to the community through Yoga Therapy as she continues her life long learning through the practice of Ashtanga.

RYT 200

As a true Aquarian, I am truly dedicated and completely immerse myself in what I do. With the intention to share my passion for health & wellness, I've spent years studying and preparing myself. I am a certified Access Consciousness Facilitator by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition of NY. I am also a meditation and hatha yoga instructor and an expert in food science.