About Kamie Noelani Loeser, M.A., E-RYT

"Yoga is...an invitation to engage the world from the perspective of those who live wholly in it...human beings have access to their own power, which is nothing other than the practice of yoga." -Poised for Grace

IDY-Integrative Dynamic Yoga(TM) is an emerging yoga style that provides a means to creating mind/body integration and personal awareness while at the same time cultivating optimal health, wellness and fitness. IDY is based on Kamie Loeser's experience and knowledge in yoga, physical and functional muscular conditioning, bodywork, biomechanics, fitness, group exercise, personal training, and other contemporary health and fitness modalities. IDY is also a fusion of Kamie's background in Integrative Yoga Therapy, Anusara Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Mindfulness Based Stress Relief meditation practices and, most recently, Savvy Fitness Functional Intervention Training (F.I.T.). The IDY Method expounds the Seven Principles of Synergy - a systematic method for the application of yoga principles and practices that can be incorporated into and serve as the foundation for any yoga tradition as well as exercise and fitness regiment.

Kamie Noelani Loeser M.A., E-RYT, RYT, CMP IDY Principal Instructor Personal Trainer Savvy F.I.T. Instructor NCYI Program Director

Kamie is the Founder and Program Director of the Northern California Yoga Institute and serves as the Yoga Teacher Training's Principal Instructor and E-RYT. She has been practicing yoga since 1998, teaching for over 10 years, and is registered with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and an Experience Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with over 5,000 hours of teaching experience. Kamie, a life-long health and fitness enthusiast, has spent the last thirteen years studying and practicing a variety of Yoga traditions and meditation practices that serve as the foundation of IDY-Integrative Dynamic Yoga(TM).

Kamie became a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) through Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) 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 (CMP) with additional training in Nerve-Touch Thai Massage with Lek Chaiya of Thailand. The former owner and director of Santosha Yoga Studio in Chico, CA for four years, Kamie sold the studio in 2005 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, doula and childbirth educator. Kamie also serves as the Yoga Program Supervisor at In Motion Fitness in Chico, CA. Kamie also offers one-to-one yoga therapy and personal training and most recently Kamie joined Savvy Fitness as a Savvy F.I.T. Academy Instructor, working one-to-one with individuals who have moderate to severe soft tissue injuries and musculoskeletal disorders. Through Savvy Fitness, Kamie implements programs that meet the guidelines for treatment as set forth by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the Official Disability Guidelines (ODG). She also writes the "Yoga Prescriptions" column for Living Life Magazine.

Kamie teaches small group "yoga as therapy" through her Specialty Classes, specifically working with clients living with or recovering from a variety of injuries and ailments, including:

chronic back pain · bulging discs · lumbar discectomy
degenerative disc disease · scoliosis · kyphosis
torn rotator cuff · shoulder bursitis
hip replacements · sciatica/piriformis syndrome
torn ACL and meniscus · fractured tibia
foot and ankle injuries · plantar fasciitis
hand and wrist pain · carpal tunnel syndrome
osteoarthritis · osteopenia · osteoporosis
diabetes · heart disease · menopause · depression
cancer treatment and recovery

With a Bachelor's Degree in Geography and a Master's Degree in Rural and Town Planning, Kamie taps into her 18 years of experience as a community and environmental planning consultant 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 IDY-Integrative Dynamic Yoga(TM). The Northern California Yoga Institute provides yoga students and aspiring instructors a strong foundation in the practices and principles of IDY-Integrative Dynamic Yoga(TM) from which to teach in any setting to every-body.

Yoga Teacher Training Guest Speakers

David Scholz
Philosophy Instructor

David began practicing asana in 1997, and since 2000 has been a dedicated practitioner of the Anusara style of Yoga, a style developed by his principal teacher, John Friend. David is a graduate of Dr. Georg Feuerstein's 3-year, 800-hour, distance-learning course on the traditions, history and philosophy of Yoga. Since 2005, David has also been a student of Dr. Douglas Brooks, Professor of Religion & Classics at the University of Rochester—New York, the historical and pedagogical lineage holder of Rajanaka Tantra. In addition, David began studies in 2007 with Dr. Paul Muller-Ortega, also at the University of Rochester-New York, whose scholarship focuses on Kashmir Saivism and the works of the 11th century Master of Yoga, Sri Abhinavagupta. David uses his solid understanding of the bio-mechanical principals of Anusara and his widening grasp of Yoga's wisdom and liberation teachings to create a Yoga class that advances the traditions in an authentic fashion while encouraging growth and the experiential through personal experimentation within the boundaries of a distinct method.