Yoga Teacher's Bios

Kaya Geneen weaves her Masters in Psychology with a 200 Awake Heart Yoga and  Mindfulness Training. She brings you classes that are intended to serve  the integration of mind, body, and spirit through movement, play, and  connection! Inviting you to use the shapes to drop into your body and  enliven your breath.  

Kaya believes deeply in the power of yoga practice on and off the mat.  Her personal practice has increased her life force and capacity to  continue showing up with her whole heart and being.  Kaya is a mama to 4 kiddos, having tools cultivated on the path through  yoga, has expanded her capacity to be with her kids in more deep and  meaningful ways.

Ally Carroll is a certified yoga instructor, meditation coach, and school teacher. Having international background and experience she observed and practiced spiritual traditions on the Asian continent for almost two decades.

 Ally’s integration of Yoga with the Traditional Chinese Meridian System and science allows students to explore the depth of not only their physical practice but also delve into the mental/emotional/spiritual component of human existence. 

She teaches yin yoga and wholeheartedly believes in its gradual transformative healing.  

The newest owner of Yoga Salinas as of July of 2025. Audrey Grace is a certified yoga teacher and women’s wellness guide devoted to helping women return to the sanctuary of their bodies. Rooted in the lineage of non-dual tantric yoga she seamlessly weaves mindful movement, womb yoga, and feminine healing arts. Bending breath, softness, and intuitive embodiment to create spaces where we can rest, remember, and rise.

 Audrey’s offerings are gentle, soulful, and intentional—an invitation to listen inward, honor the body’s rhythms, and reconnect with the wisdom that lives in the womb, heart, and breath. Her teaching is a soft landing place for those seeking grounding, reconnection, and a return to their innate wholeness.

Jamie Dillon's motto is: "If it's not fun, it's it's very likely not worth doing." Dillon is most interested in teaching restorative and gentle yoga, with attention to alignment and patience. He studied simple fundamental techniques of pranayama, with a view to careful safe teaching. Jamie is highly interested in the history and teachings of yoga and was trained at Mount Madonna Center in the traditional eight limbs of Ashtanga yoga. 

Adriana Jimenez is a Certified Soul Purpose Coach, specializing in Radical Self-Love, Sensual Embodiment, and Transformation. She works with students and clients to alchemize pain into purpose, deconditioning outdated narratives, and attuning to our soul desires by rewilding our connection to self, through pure, authentic love. Adriana is a Reiki Practitioner, Certified Crystal Alchemy Sound Healer, Sacred Plant Medicine Practitioner and Ceremonial Cacao Educator having mentored over 100 practitioners globally. She works with women's groups and mixed groups from a space of inclusivity, empowerment and trauma informed wellness. 

Paula Monteith holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance from UC Irvine.  She completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Carmel Yoga, a 50 hour Teacher Training in Prison Yoga with James Fox, and has a Shoden Level I certification from Santa Cruz Reiki Works. Paula enjoys sharing her breadth of experience and deep love of movement as medicine for the body, mind and soul. 

As an instructor, Lauren Hernandez enjoys teaching ways to integrate the mind-body connection into daily life. She practiced yoga during both pregnancies which helped her connect, listen and honor her changing body. Yoga has taught  her, as a mother of two boys, how to respond instead of react. 

Lauren's classes will show you how to fill your entire body with compassion and power. Discover how yoga can transform life today. "Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self." 

- Bhagavad Gita

Allison Le is a 500HR-RYT and believes that yoga is so powerful it can help shift major physical, emotional, and mental patterns in our lives from just one class. 

Allison’s classes are anatomically sequenced to keep you safe and balanced in your body. Her vinyasa flows help "burn off" excess energy before leading you into a cooling, restorative end of practice where you can find your own bliss. She incorporates aspects of yoga she is passionate about such as anatomy and physiology, somatics, the energetic body, the Yoga Sutras, and more. 

Qigong inspires Serena Drago to live each moment more mindfully.Serena completed her 500-hour Massage Therapist Licensing / QiQong training & theory at Five Branches University and received additional QiQong trainer certification under Master Fajun Christian Real of Templestyle Integrative Arts in Santa Cruz, Ca. 

Serena will always be a student of the practice and is deeply grateful for the loving wisdom her teachers have shared with her.