Mountain Sangha Team
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Shanon Farney
Shanon Farney is an RYT-200, Certified Hot Pilates Teacher (YACEP Yoga Alliance/Hotsource), and an Embodied Breath Breathwork Facilitator Coach.
Shanon rediscovered her love for yoga in 2018, after major personal life changes. During that same time, thinking she had signed up for a yoga class, she accidentally attended her first Hot Pilates class. The healing, balance, release, health, and community she experienced changed her life. After 20 years in corporations, she gave up her career to care for her family and pursued her passion and love for community, yoga, pilates, and healing by opening Mountain Sangha Yoga & Pilates in Boulder Creek in October 2023.
Shanon is currently pursuing her 300hr Yoga Certification with aspirations to certify others in Yoga.
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Sera Timms
A self-described creative mystic, Sera Beth Timms began her healing path through visual art, music, dream work and imagination, always seeking to find a deeper path of fulfillment and truth than that which the status quo construct had ascribed to the world.
Music, sound, and frequency are a deep part of her personal lineage, coming from a patriarchal line of talented musicians, including her father, who spent his life on the road in the outlaw country world.
Sera has been creating and performing music for over 25 years now and has found the perfect marriage of healing arts and creative expression through the art of soundbaths. Sera began facilitating soundbaths and sound healing ceremonies in 2021 while immersing herself into the study of Usui Reiki, energy healing, metaphysics, and yoga while in upstate New York working for Bodhi Holistic Spa and Yoga.
She has built her practice over 17 years as a conduit to the illuminating intelligences of tarot, astrology, I-ching, runes, indigenous wisdom, goddess work, ceremonial magick, Hermetic Qabalah, and crystal healing, as well as being a lifelong student of the esoteric mysteries.
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Tamar Frey
Tamar Olivia took her first intentional breath over 8 years ago, and it changed everything. A certified Pranayama instructor through the Breath Center and Mind/Body Facilitator, her journey to breathwork began through her own profound healing experience. After years of seeking healing through traditional approaches, she experienced her first breathwork session and immediately knew she had found something extraordinary. The practice allowed her to access deep healing and clarity that transformed her life in ways she never imagined possible, igniting her calling to share this gift with others.
Tamar brings a unique perspective as someone who bridges the worlds of corporate success and spiritual practice. Having navigated her own healing journey, she understands the courage it takes to dive deep and do the inner work necessary for true transformation. Her passion is helping others discover their own path to healing and wholeness through the sacred practice of breathwork, believing in the profound ability of conscious breathing to unlock our innate wisdom and facilitate lasting change.
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Jenn Hicklin
My heart beats to the rhythm of laughter, the love of my family, the soft fur of my dogs, and the whispers of the spirit. There is nothing more precious than those I love and who love me. Some of my deepest connections are with animals and Mother Nature. I've found profound healing and connection through massage, reiki, breathwork, and the sacred spaces created in ceremony. These practices have become a way to honor the divine within myself and others, and I'm honored to share these gifts with those seeking a deeper sense of peace and belonging. I believe in the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit, and I strive to create experiences that foster deep relaxation, spiritual exploration, and a renewed sense of self. Decades of living on this planet has shown me many things that I would love to share. I believe that when we love all and serve all, the rest falls into place.
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Laura Manley
I have been practicing yoga since the age of 18. When I was in my early thirties I walked into my first hot yoga class at and it was love at first sweat!! I have training in Vinyasa flow and I am a certified Modo hot yoga teacher. Modo yoga is a form of hot Hatha yoga that incorporates many of the Bikram postures plus flow and core building asanas. I am one of just a few certified Modo yoga teachers in Northern California. Due to my background in dance, I encourage all my students to find the dance in their yoga practice. This is done with a fun easy flow approach that never compromises the integrity of correct alignment and core building. You will usually find yourself flowing to music in my classes! My class is accessible to beginners and more seasoned yoga practitioners alike. Come prepared to breathe, dig deep, and open your heart.
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Laura Walker
Laura began her dance journey at age 12 at the Dance Warehouse in Santa Barbara, CA. She continued dancing through her college years, but after graduating was captivated by the love of the sea. Laura’s subsequent maritime conservation career took her to San Francisco, where she worked at the San Francisco Maritime Museum Association, and then to Alaska where she was a deckhand and naturalist on a glacier and wildlife charter boat on Prince William Sound. After a couple of years in the arctic wilderness, California called her back home and she landed in Santa Cruz, working at careers that were dedicated to ocean conservation. It was at this time that Laura was drawn back to the yoga and dance world by the mecca of yoga and ethnic dance opportunities in Santa Cruz. For seven years, Laura spent every free hour outside of her full time job learning about Middle Eastern dance and yoga. Whether it was Bharatanatyam (Indian Classical Dance), Bollywood Hindi Cinema choreography, Folkloric Belly Dance, Fusion Belly Dance, or American improvisational belly dance, she spent a decade performing, and eventually teaching, Middle Eastern dance. In order to be fully qualified as a dance teacher, Laura earned certifications from the Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance, San Francisco’s Fat Chance Belly Dance, and her RYT 500+ from Mark Stephens and the National Yoga Alliance. Laura believes that dance and yoga can be accessible to anyone and is dedicated to helping her students find joy and strength through a dedicated yoga and dance practice.
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Claire Ogilvie
Clare is a healing arts professional who has practiced yoga throughout her life and has been a certified yoga teacher since 2022. She is also a psycho-spiritual healer, shamanic practitioner, and breathwork facilitator.
Her approach to yoga is rooted in creating a safe, compassionate space for students to connect with their bodies, cultivate presence, and reconnect with their innate wholeness. She is passionate about supporting others in feeling safe and at home in their bodies, becoming more fully embodied, and discovering greater connection, awareness, and ease within.