San Antonio : Quarry Market

Ana Hollis

Yoga Shala

Ana has been physically active in sports all my life, teaching aerobics and then weight training. So it did not take much for a friend to persuade her in 2000 to become one of her students and her first yoga teacher.

Ana jumped into her classes 4 to 5 times each week and just loved it. At the time,sge had no idea what yoga was, or that these classes called Ashtanga would shape the foundation of her practice and teachings today.

Right away Ana was hooked and began reading everything she could find on yoga, yoga philosophy and later on the human anatomy so that she could understand what was happening in her mind and body to make the postures.

Breath, rhythm, timing, focus, concentration, toning both the body and mind and much more … wow, all this from Yoga.

For Ana's Ashtanga practice, she has been very fortunate to have as my core and continued teachers Rosella Rossi whom she met in 2004, Tim Miller in 2005 and David Swenson in 2006. To this day, Ana attends as many workshops, classes and teacher trainings with them whenever possible.

Getting to where Ana is now has taken her on a wonderful journey within. She has tried other styles of yoga such as Hatha, Kundalini, Power, Vinyasa and Anusara, only to end back at what she love - Ashtanga. Ana has had many wonderful teachers, including Doug Swenson, Shelly Washington, Andrew Eppler, Robert Boustany, Nicki Doane, Eddie Modestini, Karen Henderson and Charly Pivert for Anusara.

Ana's Ashtanga teachings are on point with the core Ashtanga Traditions that have been handed to her by her teachers. She also give Vinyasa classes inspired by Ashtanga and Anusara with focus on breathing. Ana enjoys inspiring other people to practice what she loves.