Athena Pappas, Owner
Athena Pappas is a Level 3 Iyengar Yoga teacher with over 30 years of dedicated practice and study. Her journey began with a personal quest for self-understanding, and she found solace in the detailed and progressive Iyengar Yoga method. Rooted in the lineage of B.K.S. Iyengar, this unique tradition transcends physical exercise, offering a path to heightened awareness and inner connection. Athena has studied extensively with senior teachers in the United States and directly with B.K.S. Iyengar in Pune, India. She finds beauty, spaciousness, and possibility in the practice, reflecting her love of nature and art, and is grateful for the students who have shared her journey.
Max Kopeikin
Max grew up in Southern California immersed in movement and the performing arts, and is now a Bay Area-based psychotherapist and yoga teacher. He has practiced yoga for 20 years and taught for over a decade. Max is passionate about yoga, celebrates diversity in his work, and is an active member of the LGBTQQI++ community. He is currently mentoring with Athena Pappas and plans to certify in the Iyengar tradition this year.
May Mei Chong
May Mei has been an avid student of Iyengar Yoga since 2000 and is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher. She loves sharing how the practice brings balance, joy, and a deeper mind-body connection. May Mei values both active and restorative yoga, and aims to equip students with tools they can carry beyond class. When not on the mat, she enjoys scuba diving among the kelp forests of Monterey Bay.
Adrienne Klein
Adrienne discovered Iyengar Yoga in 1982 while studying at UC Santa Cruz, beginning a lifelong journey of practice and self-discovery. She became a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher in 2002 and has studied extensively with senior teachers in the U.S. and in Pune, India. Adrienne loves how yoga meets the needs of each day and inspires her to share its grounding, energizing, and restorative benefits. She currently serves as Secretary on the Executive Council of IYNAUS.
Magi Khoo
Magi began practicing yoga in San Francisco over 15 years ago while juggling a busy corporate career and graduate school. Originally from Malaysia, she eventually left the corporate world—something she had long dreamed of—and discovered a renewed sense of strength, ease, and freedom through yoga. In 2011, during a year-long yogic journey, she unexpectedly found herself in two month-long intensives with senior Iyengar teachers Rajiv and Saraswati Chanchani in the Himalayan foothills. After a decade of exploring other styles of yoga, the clarity and depth of Iyengar Yoga profoundly shifted her practice and life, and she now dedicates much of her energy to its study and teaching.