Amy@BlueMoonYogaFresno.com
Amy is committed to helping people of all walks of life achieve healthy bodies and lifestyles. She brings to her classes an engaging sense of humor and loads of laughter
coupled with a keen eye for detail, technique and grace. Amy encourages students to strive and find new edges in their practice, reinforcing confidence and a can-do attitude.
Amy began her bikram yoga practice in 1999 and received her certification in 2000 from Bikram Choudhury. After having founded two successful studios on the Central Coast, but looking for a slower pace of life, Amy resettled in North Fork in 2005. At BlueMoon Yoga, Amy is infinitely enthusiastic and dedicated to sharing the bountiful yoga lifestyle to the Fresno and Clovis communities.
Instructors
Britney Andrews
Britney (MBA, Bikram TT '10) is a Fresno native who has travelled to India via Berkeley has once again landed in Fresno. Students of Britney's (a pianist and ex-runner) easily let go of the distractions of the day and are guided with clear focus on the work at hand. Students are guaranteed a gentle journey within themselves leaving class with a deep satisfaction of time well spent.
Jean Chang
Jean (a Dentist, Bikram TT '10) is one of BlueMoon Yoga's very first students from 2006. A former marathon runner and triathlete, Jean loves a challenge and encourages her students to engage in new experiences. Students participating in Jean's classes can look forward to working hard, share a few laughs, and exploring new boundaries to meet and even surpass their goals.
Vicki Zetterberg
Vicki (finance/legal industry, Bikram TT '08), a native Californian, divides her time between southern California beaches, Easter Sierra mountains, and here in the Central Valley, the nation's breadbasket. Vicki loves fresh air, jazz, baseball, is a former avid long distance runner, and was a former aerobics & pilates instructor. Vicki's passion for yoga brings to her teachings a deep understanding of the physical, mental & spiritual benefits of a consistent practice. Students of Vicki's are encouraged to master precision in their postures, maintain intensity to effect anatomical/physiological shifts, acute focus & attention, all balanced with a sense of relaxation, peace & mindful centeredness in their life.
Carly Frederick
Carly Frederick (Former ballerina, TT '11) enjoyed a 10-year ballet career in Seattle, Horticulture in Oregon. Upon returning to her native Fresno, her 4-year Blue Moon Yoga practice provided inspiration to become an instructor. Alongside the rigours of dance, Carly's love of surf, sun, dogs and nature is evident in her teaching. Carly's class is delightfully graceful, poised and earthy. But don't let the "light on her feet" approach undermine the "kill you softly" atmosphere in her classes!
Who is Bikram?
Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India™
Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began Yoga at the age of four with India's most renowned physical culturist at that time, Bishnu Ghosh, the younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (author of The Autobiography of a Yogi, founder of the Self-Realizations Fellowship in Los Angeles).
BIkram practiced Yoga at least four to six hours every day at Ghosh's college of Physical Education in Calcutta. At the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga Championship. He was undefeated for the following three years and retired as the undisputed All-India Yoga Champion. At seventeen, an injury to his knee in a weight lifting accident during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics brought the prediction from leading european doctors that he would never walk again. Not accepting their pronouncement, he had himself carried back to Bishnu ghosh's school, for he knew that if Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and the first to scientifically document Yoga's ability to cure chronic pain ailments and heal the body. Bikram was asked by Ghosh to start several Yoga schools in India.
The schools were so successful that at Ghosh's request traveled to Japan and opened two more. He has since brought his curative methods of Yoga therapy around the world, with Bikram Yoga now on every continent.
For more information about Bikram, Articles and Current Events visit www.bikramyoga.com
