Candice Lopez Mitchell

Candice is also part of the YACEP, which allows her to provide continuing education to other yoga teachers and is currently an ERYT 500, an experienced registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance. She received an advanced degree in Yoga Studies with Chinese Bodywork training, Tui Na, and Hypnotherapy certifications through a private college called Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. Candice is a mother that loves her two children, Zoey and Ocean, and is married to her soul mate, she feels blessed for all that is. Candice has been practicing yoga and dance since she was a little girl. In 2004 She began teaching middle Eastern dance and Yoga in several gyms in the Valley. Currently her husband, Branden Mitchell, and her own and teach at their Dojo, School of Martial Arts and Yoga, called Many Ways of Defending. They are also involved in teaching programs at several Charter schools in the Valley. Candice understands the body's energy, its mental, emotional and physical, and surrounding energy, and uses the teachings she has recieved from her yoga schools and teachers, Buddha, and from her favorite teacher of all time, Sadhguru. She loves to create new ways to be in yoga. Offering Yoga with hypnotherapy, dance or through martial arts, has been a gift that she can help others to understand and be their true light.