The Yoga Connection is a nonprofit yoga organization under the direction of Priscilla Potter, that has been teaching yoga, meditation, Kriya Yoga and Hatha Yoga Teachers Training for over 20 years.  Our instructors are knowledgeable, dedicated individuals who bring to this course a wealth of insight, compassion, and experience in the classroom, as well as their own personal practice.  They demonstrate through their teaching and their presence how yoga can affect your life and the lives of those you teach.

Priscilla has been training yoga teachers for over 20 years. She is the founder and director of the Yoga Connection, a nonprofit service organization dedicated to service through yoga. Her inspirational and intuitive teaching style is supported by 30 years of training and over 25 years of teaching. She is a professional astrologer, meditation instructor and a lifetime student and teacher of Kriya Yoga.

"Priscilla wears the mantle of her Kriya Yoga lineage with dignity and grace. She walks her talk...for over thirty years she has served, cared for and inspired her students, family and friends"  - Lilias Folan, yoga teacher and author.

Becky started practicing yoga in 1992. She completed her 200 hour level teacher training at the Yoga Connection in 2002. In 2005, Becky
completed her training at the 500 hour level with the International Yoga College. Becky is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the E-RYT 500hour level and is a member of the Arizona Yoga Association. Becky teaches classic Hatha yoga with emphasis on the breath. Her area of special interest is Ayurveda, the traditional healing system of India. She has studied yoga in India at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram and continues to study at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque.

The beauty of yoga is that it is adaptable, modifiable and individual. Yoga should not be one size fits all!  Through Becky’s teachings, she will help you listen to your body and your breath, which will enable you to actually be your own "best" teacher. Becky invites you to join her on the journey of yoga. Yoga is the path to finding balance in your life. Remember...the journey is just as important as the destination! Visit her website getn2yoga.com 

Ginny has practiced yoga since 1994, when her husband Tom suggested they take classes together. In 1996, seeking a deeper connection to the yogic path, she completed her 200-hour hatha yoga teacher certification with Priscilla Potter, Swami Mahatarananda of the Kriya yoga lineage, and has been teaching since her training. She received her 500-hour certification through the International Yoga College in October 2005, with a specialization in Applied Yoga Sutras, and is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level. She honors all of her teachers including Priscilla Potter, Natasha Korshak, Lilias Folan and Rama Jyoti Vernon.

Ginny enjoys the wonderful community of instructors and students at the Yoga Connection. Yoga has enriched her life in all ways, and provides a nice balance to her background in Chemistry and current profession as a science education evaluator. Ginny feels blessed to be a vehicle for the teachings to which she has been exposed, and thinks that approaching yoga with a beginner’s mind allows an unfolding of the essence of yoga. Her approach to teaching is respectful of each student's gifts, talents, personal beliefs and values.

_Johndennis holds three meditation lineage transmissions: Zen priest and roshi from Matsuoka Zengagu Roshi; Kriya yoga swami from Goswami Kriyananda, and Tibetan Nyingma lama from Master Boma Meitzu Quan.  Govert Roshi is the founding dharma teacher of Daikakuji, Great Enlightenment Zen Buddhist Temple in Phoenix.  He practices and teaches several Ways which are mystic arts that open and widen the meditative path.  Among these are ikebana, chanoyu (tea), zen gardens, and shodo (Japanese calligraphy). 

Govert Roshi is especially adept at the Ways of astrology and feng shui teaching and consulting in both these arts.  Johndennis is the author of Feng Shui: Art And Harmony Of Place.  He practices and teaches qi gong and qi healing, arts that he learned directly from many highly accomplished Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese masters.  Govert Roshi teaches this wealth of ancient tradition in a deep, light-hearted and direct way to overcome practical and spiritual obstructions on the path to bliss, liberation and enlightenment.

For more information about Johndennis, visit his website johndennisgovert.com

Sue began teaching yoga to preschoolers as a warm-up for creative movement. She has been teaching and practicing yoga since 1987. Priscilla Potter was her first formal teacher and mentor. She completed the Yoga Connection teacher training in 1994 and is now one of the teachers for the program. She has also been influenced by Gary Phelan, Lilias Folan and Christina Davis and Joseph & Lilian LePage. Sue's style of teaching is eclectic and draws from many sources, primarily Kriya Yoga & Kripalu Yoga.

She is a registered nurse and balances teaching basic safe alignment with allowing students to experience the flow of energy. Sue teaches in order to share with her students the experience of yoga as a journey of self-discovery. Sue is also a certified Yoga Therapist and Director of La Mariposa Therapeutic Yoga LLC.

"I teach here because the Yoga Connection philosophy creates room for individuality, inner exploration and growth and has allowed me to experiment with who I am as a student, a teacher, a woman and a spiritual being."

Anthony lives in Tucson, and has been practicing and teaching yoga since the 1970s. He has a doctorate in Indian religious and philosophical traditions from Oxford University, and taught for seven years at the University of Montana where he was a professor of Asian Studies. Anthony was a faculty member of the Providence Institute, Tucson, where he combined his academic and Yoga backgrounds to teach Sanskrit, Yoga Philosophy and the Bhagavad Gita in their Yoga Teacher Training program. At present he teaches yoga and Sanskrit, leads workshops on the Yoga Sutras, and works as an independent scholar.

Sarah completed her 200 hour level teacher training at The Yoga Connection in 2007. She specializes in Back Care and Restorative yoga and has been assisting with the Yoga Connection's Hatha Yoga Teacher Training program since 2009. She has also taught extensively in treatment and mental health facilities. Sarah is also a licensed massage therapist and practices traditional massage, polarity and craniosacral therapies. Yoga and massage are natural extensions of her deep curiosity of anatomy, physiology and movement of the human body.