(RYT 500 / E-RYT 200)

Kristen has embodied movement her entire life. Exploring and training in many forms of dance and yoga has given her a special combination of skills.  Her classes flow fluidly, focusing on alignment, working the body in a balanced way, and linking poses gracefully and intelligently.   

Kristen believes the ancient yoga texts teach important life skills that can benefit everyone. Because of this, she leads a free Yoga Sutra Study Group that studies the deeper meaning of yoga. She shares these powerful teachings in her classes as well, making her classes inspiring both physically and spiritually. Her classes build strength, balance, and flexibility in the body, and a deeper sense of calm, peace, and stability in the mind and heart. 

Kristen loves to bring all aspects of yoga to teens. She has experience teaching at high schools and teaching private lessons to teens to help with anxiety related issues. 

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Monica Graham brings over 25 years of fitness experience ranging from aerobics, body building, Zumba, Les Mills, Instructor Training and as of late, her very own branded yoga workout, YogaHIIT.  She started her yoga journey just 7 short years ago after suffering a back injury.  After attending her first yoga class, she never thought that yoga would become her passion.  She now lives, breathe and trains yoga daily with clients all over the world.  In addition to her love for yoga, she loves music and many students come to her class just to check out her playlist.  Whether it is her soothing voice or jazzy music selections, you can always count on an awesome class with her.  

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Toni Dee's obsession with anatomy and exercise started at a very young age. With over 35 years in the industry, she is an accomplished multi-certified fitness professional, teaching everything from aerobics to weight training. Movement and Alignment being her focus, she has extensive experience in corrective exercise and post-rehab therapy for seniors, special needs and injuries. Her training is ever evolving and broadening to incorporate many different branches of yoga. She is the creator of "Hot Yogi Core" Workout. 

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After being diagnosed with pretty severe scoliosis, she turned to Hot Yoga and found that it gave her relief for her back pain. The heat and humidity were the right combination for healing and recovery.

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Since coming to Some Like it Hot Yoga & Boutique, Toni has felt her practice and study of the art expand in rapid and positive ways; nothing makes her happier than sharing her knowledge and love of yoga with others and helping both new and seasoned yogis improve themselves and their lives through their shared love of the art.

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Kelly Decker has played sports most of her life. Plus she has raised three boys...so look out. 

She became addicted to Inferno Hot Pilates when she started practicing at Some Like It Hot Yoga a few years ago and is thrilled to be leading classes with such a supportive yoga community.   Students taking Kelly's class can expect to seriously sweat and have fun.  She has great energy and her classes are packed full of new exercises to do.   She plays great music and joins in the challenging class...because she is that FIT!

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Instructor / RYT 500

Gabriel Azoulay is a world-renowned yoga and Thai massage instructor, who developed, designed and led the Yoga Teacher Training Program for variety of well-known Yoga brands around the globe, including the Institute for Yoga out of Atlanta and Absolute Yoga in Thailand.

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As a professional dancer, yoga and Pilates have been a part of Jamie’s personal health and wellness routine for over 20 years. She discovered hot yoga in 2006 at a small studio in Hawaii, immediately felt the healing benefits of practicing in infrared heat and has been hooked ever since! She started teaching yoga in Novato after completing the 200-HR Yoga Alliance /BikYasa teacher training in 2016 and recently furthered her teacher training in Nepal with World Yoga Alliance. Jamie is deeply passionate about guiding students through proper alignment with awareness of breath while moving with intention and grace. Her classes inspire students to cultivate patience, compassion, and gratitude – essential qualities to be taken off the mat and applied to everyday life. Ultimately, Jamie hopes yoga helps others to discover a deeper awareness and understanding of the interconnectedness of their own physical-mental-emotional-spiritual well-being.

Besides yoga, Jamie has an extensive teaching background in many different movement styles such as aerial dance and capoeira (Brazilian martial arts/dance). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Individualized Studies (pre-med/life sciences focus) and a master’s degree in Ecological Anthropology. She has over 10 years of experience teaching biological and cultural anthropology at the college level and has spent nearly two decades dedicated to the field of environmental education. Jamie is currently the Youth Initiative Manager at LandPaths. In her spare time, she performs with dance companies and artists in the Bay Area and Hawaii.

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Beauchamp Keeve started yoga in 2013 at Some Like It Hot Yoga while in high school to relieve intense back pain. After finding success in pain relief, Beau has gone on to fully embrace yoga as part of his life.  He continued his practice during his participation in both high-level high school and collegiate athletics. Throughout the years, his appreciation of the added benefits has grown exponentially.  

Beau’s enthusiastic and energetic practice of yoga is shared with anyone in class with him, and his appreciation of the spiritual benefits of the art as much as the physical, makes Beau’s yoga a well-rounded and dynamic practice.  Beau takes special care to make his practice both accessible to any beginner but equally engaging for the more experienced practitioners. 

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This past year has been a journey of personal growth for me. I started taking my physical and spiritual health more seriously. I fell in love with Inferno Hot Pilates right away. This past March I wrote in my journal that I would attend training and teach my first class by 12/19. With the help of my supportive family, friends and inspirational instructors at Some Like it Hot I have achieved this goal!

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I began teaching almost 20 years ago. Being an educator has been a passion of mine. I can honestly say I enjoy going to work every day as Special Education teacher at San Jose Middle School. While I’m not teaching, I stay extremely busy with my family, sports, volunteer work and life. Staying healthy, exercising and reaching my goal of becoming an IHP instructor was been a positive lesson for my children. They see the joy teaching brings to me. I’m excited to give that gift to my students both in the classroom and the studio!

Afro-Latin Dance Instructor

Anna is a Caribbeanist, and holds a Master's in Latin American Studies from UC Berkeley, where her work focused on African-Caribbean 'folk' forms in music, dance and language. 

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She has extensive immersive experience and training in the dance cultures of Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti and Brazil.  

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Fluent in six languages, Ms. Gottreich is a full-time traveling dance artist.  Her high energy and fun classes draw from a rich repertoire of knowledge and focus on the true joy of collaborative dance.

Instructor RYT 200 / IHP Cert

Alexandra grew up in the Bay Area as an avid runner, soccer player, hiker, and overall outdoor and fitness enthusiast. This passion, accompanied by her love of people and motivating them to be their best selves, provided a natural next step for her to take on an active role in the health and fitness industry.

She discovered Inferno Hot Pilates (IHP) in 2017 and fell in love. She began teaching in 2018.She loves how challenging these high intensity, low impact workouts can be and takes pride in curating kick ass classes with awesome playlists