Samanthea Jane Finch-Grace

Contact Information   
21194 Philly ave.
Bend, Oregon 97702
United States
Email: shri3mom@yahoo.com
Phone: 541-646-6001
Website: samgraceyoga.com


Schedule  
Back Bend Yoga 

Bend, Oregon 

Mandala Yoga Community 

Bend, Oregon 



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Professional Background  
  
Samanthea was born in Texas. Since her first yoga classes in 1995, she has practiced and studied many well-known styles of yoga, and has studied and trained as a teacher in non-violent communication. She is lucky to have traveled extensively to yoga workshops and training's, eventually finding a style of hatha yoga that incorporates all the aspects of yoga that she loves; Anusara Yoga. She also studied with Paul Mullar-Ortega, Douglas Brooks, Christopher Tompkins and Hareesh Wallis, Tantrik scholars in philosophy and meditation, and went to India in 2010.
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Samanthea has been Hatha Yoga teacher from www.livingyogaprogram.com in Austin, TX since 2003; Anusara-Inspired, www.anusara.com. since 2005 and has completed 500 hr RYT Power yoga/ Ashtanga through www.tiffanyyoga.com with Tiffany Cruikshank from Yoga Pearl in Portland. Yoga has shown her how to fill her heart, mind, and soul with light and stillness. Life is both beautiful and full of challenges, and being able to help her students navigate their own personal journeys brings her immense joy and fulfillment. Samanthea’s classes emphasize clear alignment principles and challenge students to safely move deeper into the physical practice while connecting fully with their hearts’ truth. Samanthea has completed yoga therapeutic's training's with John Friend and is particularly passionate about using therapeutic alignment of Anusara® yoga to help students and clients heal from injury and chronic pain, and discover greater freedom and ease in
their bodies. Students find Samanthea’s teaching invigorating as well as nurturing, and appreciate her balance of lightheartedness, enthusiasm and wisdom. As a teacher, Samanthea is deeply dedicated to helping students get a revelation of their own divine nature and to taste the bliss of their hearts through Anusara Yoga's® Universal Principles of Alignment. The practices of Yoga help us become aware of our connection to the Universal Spirit and realize that every moment is a chance to remember and honor this.

Samanthea found her home and reconnected with herself when she found Anusara Yoga and John Friend. Sam will always be grateful for her first teachers, Charly Pivert, Vanessa Scott, Iris Lambert, who taught aliegnment, humor, devotion and meditation. She is especially grateful to John Friend, whose faith in her to teach yoga and strength as an example of having an open-heart has encouraged her through the years. After teaching in Austin, Sam moved to Montreal, QC, before moving to Ashland, where she has taught at Ashland Yoga Center, Rasa in Medford, Superior Athletic club and also the YMCA in Medford. Sam has studied Anusara extensively with the founder of Anusara Yoga, John Friend, and with certified teachers Charly Pivert, Christina Sell, Darren Rhodes, Sianna Sherman, Desiree Raumbaugh, Martin and Jordon Kirk, Noah Maze and many others She has completed numerous trainings in the Anusara method, including two Master Immersions, level two training and two Therapeutics trainings with John Friend. Sam also, offered Seva for 6 months with Anusara Yoga and the Merry Band in 2007, and apprenticed with John Friend. 
She is currently working her way toward her 500 hour full Anusara certification under John’s guidance. Samanthea is also a mom of 3 beautiful children. Sam finds that her enjoyment of life and the discipline of a daily yoga practice blend perfectly together, as one informs the other and they are never separate. 




  
  



Yoga Background  
Charly Pivert All Immersions, most workshops and Public classes 2005-2007
Christina Sells 2006-2007 Many workshops and public classes
Vanessa Scott in Ashland, Oregon Many public classes through the years 2005-2008
Sara joy Marsh in Ashland 2006
Desiree Raumbaugh in Dallas 2006 May
Kelly Haas Dallas 2007 Jan.
Martin Kirk Therapy workshop Castle hill Fitness in Austin TX 2007
Martin and Jordan Level one TT June 2007 Madison , WI
Daren Rhodes Barrington, IL May 2007
Darren and John in Sante Fe Oct. 2007
Robin Golt in Montreal, QC June-Dec 2007 Classes and workshops
Paul Mullar-Ortega workshop in Montreal Sept. 2007
John Friend 4 times 2005, 2006 including Master Immersion
2007 On Tour as apprentice and Registration help with Merry Band for Jan. -June, all workshops and trainings during this period.
Robyn from Arcata weekend workshop in Ashland Oregon summer 2007
2008 12 days in Tucson for Advanced Intensive, Master Immersion and workshop
Darren Rhodes and Noah Maze Level Two Teacher Training August 2007
John Friend San Fransisco weekend workshop Sept 2008
Estes Park First Annual Anusara Gathering
John Friend Level Two Teacher Training October 2008, Boston
Wanderlust Festival July 24th-26th 2009 Yoga workshops
Oregon Anusara Tour with Merry Band; John Friend August- Sept.2009
Workshop with certified Anusara teacher; Ulla Lundgren Sept. 2009, Ashland,OR
Completing 500 hr. Teacher Training; yogapearl.com, in Portland. 
Tantrik Philosophy Studies with Chrisopher Wallis; http://yogasthana.org/chris_wallis.php?cPath=1
Anusara 2nd Grand Gathering Estes Park,CO
Miami 2011 Therapy Training, Weekend workshop and Advanced Intensive With John and Anusara Kula!
Anusara-Inspired Gathering July 2011
Public classes with Certified teacher Ulla Lundgren
Workshop S.Dakota John Friend Aug, 2011
Denver, CO weekend workshop w John Friend Dec. 2011
Good to Great Program with Noah Maze started January


Questions and Answers   

Q: What other hobbies do you have aside from yoga practice?
A: Hiking and Biking around beautiful Bend, Oregon Traveling anywhere, talking with people, communication in anyform letters, eyes, cute animals. I love water, hot tubs,sauna, steam room, even a cold splash. Eating sushi, drinking teas, wearing my favorite jeans,reading a good book. World travel

Q: What is the title of a book that you have read recently that you could strongly recommend?
A: Poised for Grace by Douglas Brooks, Meditations from the Mat by Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison Swami Shankarananda Everything is Consciousness Nothing Exist That is not Shiva Swami Muktananda Meditation for the Love of it Sally Kempton Be Love Now Ram Dass

Q: What is one of your all-time favorite movies?
A: Some of my fav's: The Razor's Edge, Babette's Feast, Dr. Strangelove, Valley Girl, Dirty Dancing.

Q: What is one place that you would like to visit in the world? Why?
A: India, and I went Feb. 2010 to Ganeshpuri and Kerala. It is a sensorially experience and some of the places my teachers have been inspired. next? ... something Tropical Mexico or Bali!

Q: What's your favorite color?
A: Blue,Red,Pink.

Q: What award in high school should you have won?
A: Most Superkalifragilisticexpiallidosas!!!

Q: What is one of the funniest incidents that occurred in one of your yoga classes?
A: It was me and I am too embarrassed to say. I can hold space for those moments though.