Meet our Staff

Shoshoni’s yoga teachers are warm, experienced, down-to-earth yoga practitioners and dedicated ashram residents. We are committed to bringing out the yoga teacher in you! Trainings are led by a primary teacher training leader (ERYT) with 2000+ hours of teaching experience. Other teachers join for anatomy, Sanskrit, philosophy, pranayama and asana classes.

We believe that the learning process takes place at the heart level, through one’s own personal experience. We strive to nourish individual learning styles in a creative and structured environment

Swami Omkari Devananda

Swami Devananda, Senior Yogacharya, ERYT500 and CIAYT, has lived and taught at various ShambhavAnanda Yoga Ashrams since 1988. With over 30 years of practice, Devananda’s lighthearted teaching allows students to open and find their practice naturally. She is a senior teacher of yoga and meditation and author of Yoga in the Shambhava Tradition. She loves to share the joy and depth of inner experience that ShambhavAnanda Yoga has to offer. In her free time, Devananda enjoys gardening, studying Ayurveda and painting thangkas.

Yogini Hendrickson, CIAYT

Yogini has lived in the Colorado Ashrams for 18 years.  She has two decades of experience as a Physical Therapist (PT, MPT) and is also a C-IAYT certified Yoga Therapist.  Yogini enriches all Shoshoni yoga trainings and retreat programs with her passion for nourishing the body and soul through compassionate yoga as well as her anatomy expertise.  In her free time, she enjoys baking decadent treats, hip hop dancing, and spending time with her family.

Shakti Wood

Shakti, ERYT-500, is a big-hearted yogini well-known for her abundant laughter. She leads yoga trainings and directs the Shoshoni gardens, both of which are flourishing. Shakti spent several years traveling and pursuing different meditative paths, but finally found her teacher and home when she came to Shoshoni in early 2011. Her classes are often playful, with an emphasis on self discovery; she loves to share the inner experience that comes from bringing yoga off the mat. In her free time, Shakti loves to spend time outside with her family.

Maitreya Wood, Acharya

Maitreya has served at Shoshoni since 2004, teaching mostly meditation and philosophy. Maitreya’s classes are both down-to-earth and expansive, guiding students deeper into their personal experience of yoga through discussion and introspection. He says of teaching, “It opens me and draws from me things that I didn’t even know were there.” A Colorado native, Maitreya loves to spend time with his family hiking or rock climbing when he isn’t in the classroom. 

Dayalan Hendrickson, Acharya

As a longtime and long-term practitioner, Dayalan contributes his love for meditation and yogic philosophy to the Shoshoni community. As one of the philosophy teachers during yoga trainings, he inspires lively and thoughtful conversation about how to bring yogic teachings into everyday life in a meaningful way. When he isn’t teaching, he can be found fixing things around the ashram or making Shoshoni-famous enchiladas.