Kamie Loeser

Kamie serves as the Northern California Yoga Institute's Program Director and is the Lead Trainer/E-RYT for all Yoga Teacher Trainings. She has been practicing yoga since 1996 and began teaching in 2000. Kamie became a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) through Integrative Yoga Therapy in 2001. To expand her knowledge and skills as a practitioner and instructor, Kamie continued her yoga education with Anusara Yoga and became a Certified Massage Practitioner with additional training in Thai Massage. The former owner and director of Santosha Yoga Studio in Chico, CA (2001-2005), Kamie sold the studio to travel and further her studies abroad. She has studied meditation and Tibetan Buddhism at the Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, and taught yoga to raise money for a non-profit organization while living in Cusco, Peru. Kamie is a certified Prenatal Yoga Instructor and provided doula services and childbirth education through her Joyful Birth Prenatal Yoga programs at Santosha Yoga Studio. Kamie also later served as the Yoga Program Supervisor at In Motion Fitness in Chico, CA for four years. Kamie's has provided personal training through Savvy Health Solutions as a Savvy F.I.T. Academy Instructor, working one-to-one with individuals with moderate to severe injuries and musculoskeletal disorders. Through Savvy Health Solutions, Kamie implemented programs that met the guidelines as set forth by the ACOEM and the Official Disability Guidelines (ODG). In 2018, Kamie became a certified iPEC Energy Leadership Coach, and has subsequently obtained a High Performance Life Coach certification from Brendan Burchard and Life Coach certification from Jay Shetty. With a Bachelor's Degree in Geography and a Master's Degree in Community Planning, Kamie taps into her 30 years of experience as a community planner to bring people of diverse backgrounds, experiences and intentions together to create a "community" of yoga and health practitioners that promotes diversity, compassion, and acceptance. She guides students to explore their intention for practicing yoga and to express it in their life, relationships, work, community, and world. Kamie believes that in order to facilitate positive change in the world, we must first transform ourselves...from the inside-out. Kamie's approach to each yoga class, workshop, and training is to"honor, serve, guide, and inspire." Her intention is to empower students to compassionately greet their edge, patiently expand their limits, and connect to their inner power, wisdom, joy, and grace. It is from this place that she instructs aspiring teachers to tap into their personal experiences and knowledge to find their voice and create their authentic teaching style. Kamie has established the Northern California Yoga Institute as an affordable, high-quality, and in-depth provider of 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, Workshops, and Advanced Studies Programs in Integrative Dynamic Yoga.