"I teach because I want to share with my students the life that yoga can give them."
"I teach because I want to share with my students the life that yoga can give them."
- Shannon Kassoff
About Me
My journey with yoga started like most in the West, as a form of fitness, but somewhere along the way my purpose for practice changed to a more spiritual path or self-actualization. The more I learned about the ancient wisdom of yoga the more I wanted to know. I began to have a sense of fulfilling my potential, of finding my true purpose. Yoga offers self-reflection, the practice of kindness and compassion, and continued growth and self-awareness. Through the practice, I am striving to be my best self, with myself, with others, and with the world.
After attending a few workshops and yoga programs, I decided to take the next step into teacher training with no real plan to become a teacher. Instead I was following the desire to immerse myself in all things yoga. About half way through my first training, there was a profound internal voice that said you have to share this path with others. I was being called to serve.
My passion in life is service work. My family and I have done non-profit work in Africa and Belize since 2006 with a focus on education, clean water, and cross cultural community building, as well as, serving the homeless communities of Los Angeles and Orange County. Yoga has only proved to enhance this aspect of my spiritual life and sharing this path was the next step in my heart-felt journey.
I am always learning. I completed my 200-hr yoga teaching certification in Power Vinyasa in 2010, Restorative/Yin Yoga training in December 2011 and completed a 500-hr certification through YogaWorks Professional Teacher Training Program in April 2014, Roll Model Method: Ball Sequencing & Innovation Training February 2017, I am a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider and I continue to grow in my personal practice and love of yoga.
I have run my own 200-hr Teacher Training Program since 2015 which continues to be one of the great joys of my life. To be a part of the transformation of students is an honor and a privilege.
I hope to open the hearts and minds, as well as, the bodies of all that I have the privilege to guide in the journey that is our yoga practice.
After attending a few workshops and yoga programs, I decided to take the next step into teacher training with no real plan to become a teacher. Instead I was following the desire to immerse myself in all things yoga. About half way through my first training, there was a profound internal voice that said you have to share this path with others. I was being called to serve.
My passion in life is service work. My family and I have done non-profit work in Africa and Belize since 2006 with a focus on education, clean water, and cross cultural community building, as well as, serving the homeless communities of Los Angeles and Orange County. Yoga has only proved to enhance this aspect of my spiritual life and sharing this path was the next step in my heart-felt journey.
I am always learning. I completed my 200-hr yoga teaching certification in Power Vinyasa in 2010, Restorative/Yin Yoga training in December 2011 and completed a 500-hr certification through YogaWorks Professional Teacher Training Program in April 2014, Roll Model Method: Ball Sequencing & Innovation Training February 2017, I am a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider and I continue to grow in my personal practice and love of yoga.
I have run my own 200-hr Teacher Training Program since 2015 which continues to be one of the great joys of my life. To be a part of the transformation of students is an honor and a privilege.
I hope to open the hearts and minds, as well as, the bodies of all that I have the privilege to guide in the journey that is our yoga practice.