Kino MacGregor is a Miami native who is happiest on the beach with a fresh coconut and a poet at heart who always stops to smell the flowers. She is the founder of Omstars—the world’s first yoga TV network.

Angelica has been guiding bodies through space for over a decade. At 15 years old she became a dance instructor for her local studio. At age 18 she was convinced by a friend to take a yoga class and fell in love with savasana.

R. Alexander Medin is a native of Oslo, Norway where he grew up pursuing many different talents. He became Norwegian Champion in boxing at 18, but then gave it up for a career as a ballet dancer. He was first introduced to Ashtanga Yoga in 1995 and it has been part of his daily practice since.

Franci Blanco is a meditation and yogic breathing teacher. She is the founder of Happy Hearts Yoga Project. The Happy Hearts Yoga Project is a collective of yogis and heart healers, whose primary objective is to "gently shake the world" with a focus on improving our communities from the inside, out, and beyond.

Yoga, Ayurveda and Wellness expert Insiya Rasiwala-Finn grew up in Bombay, India with Yoga and Ayurveda shaping her life. She is passionate about sharing the transformative impact of these wisdom practices with inspiration, freshness, poetry and joy; embodying her life as a mama, yogini and community connector in our modern world.

"The 12-step program and Yoga saved my life….one is my lifeboat, the other my launching pad.” Through treatment for a substance addiction in 1987, I was introduced to the 12-step program. It absolutely saved my life. I returned to school, co-founded a business, and co-authored a patent."

For the past 10 years I consider myself a circus artist and performer. In 2005 I joined the cast of Le Reve, a Las Vegas circus spectacle, and have since performed more than 3200 shows in a unique and challenging performance environment. After a long lasting gymnastics career, in which I competed in Israel and internationally, I had found a new path and career.

Shanna Small has been practicing Ashtanga Yoga and studying the Yoga Sutras since 2001. She has studied in Mysore with Sharath Jois and is the Director of AYS Charlotte, a school for Ashtanga in Charlotte NC. She has written for Yoga International and the Ashtanga Dispatch.