MORGAN MAZZA, E-RYT 500, is passionate about creating space where students can cultivate personal power through the challenge of asana. She believes in asana as a physical vehicle for transformation of mind and spirit. Morgan uses dynamic and thought-provoking alignment-based classes (both flow and form) to draw attention to habits and tendencies in a self-discovery process. Student empowerment surfaces through the cultivation of this awareness. In carefully crafted classes, students are guided into challenging physical postures but asked to journey inward to look at their own reactions, tap into their strength, and step into presence.

Morgan has attended numerous training, but the most influential to her practice and teaching have been with Christina Sell. She credits Christina for her shift to clearer and more targeted teachings, both on and off the mat. She completed her 300 hour teacher training in flow and form with Christina Sell & Giocanda Parker in 2017.

Morgan is the owner of Surya Yoga in El Paso, TX where she loves teaching classes to her dedicated community of yogis. She is also humbled to be the lead teacher of both the Surya Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training, as well as the 300 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. Most recently she has become passionate about leading retreats in beautiful locales finding that the beauty and abundance of nature inherently enhances the asana practice.

CASANDRA SALAS-PORRAS’s yoga practice began in 2001. Since then it’s been a wild ride. Learning what Yoga truly is and what it is not. Learning and unlearning things on and off the mat.

She has completed many Yoga Teacher Trainings, all varying in styles and teachers. Amongst some of these are three Teacher Trainings at Radiantly Alive in Bali Indonesia, a Yin Training with Sebastian Pucelle & Murielle Burellier and an Ashtanga Training with the legendary Tim Miller. She’s also submerged herself in deep introspective silence and meditation during a 12 day Vipassana in India. Meditation is an important part of her life.

In her personal practice and while teaching, although always focused on alignment and Pranayama, she says “All of that can go to waste if we don’t surrender and allow vulnerability to crack open. We may be the most dedicated Yogi and if we don’t take a look at what’s going on inside of us, well a pose will forever remain just a pose. Now, if you do the asana AND look within, well, there the magic will rise.”

Always giving you the map to take the road back to your true self; showing you that you’ve got the tools within you. Reminding you that the bitter and the sweet are both equally needed in life. Casandra teaches Yoga from the heart.