A space for all of us

Sofia is a passionate and creative Latina lady who loves food, music, and plant medicine. Yoga gives her the space she needs to slow down and find balance.  This is essential, living in this fast-paced environment and society.  This is one of the many reasons she chose to become a yoga teacher.  Now she can hold the container to support others in slowing down and finding balance.  As someone who has a tendency to worry about what is happening next in life, yoga has helped Sofia find patience, trust, and presence.  Now she holds the space to share this gift with others.

Allison is a RYT 200 and Breathwork facilitator with devotion to creating spaces for people to return home to their heart space through breath and movement. Drawing inspiration from the elements of nature, plant allies and the world around her, she creates a grounded space for people to show up exactly how they are. She deeply believes in the healing powers of breathwork & yoga and is excited to be teaching at Valkyrie where she completed her Breathwork & Facilitator training!

Abby fell deeply and madly in love with yoga 7 years ago.  It was instant.  She was mesmerized.  It was something she felt that she had been searching for her whole life and she finally found, the language that she spoke.The language of the heart.  As she began to sweat and twist she remembers thinking to herself "Everyone should be invited to have this experience."  She started practicing nearly every day.  It was so much more than an hour long physical practice. She completed a 200-hour teacher training program in 2017.  But like the addict that she is (don't worry, she is happily in recovery), she wanted more.  She also wanted to be able to offer everyone a practice that was accessible to them.  She took an additional 300-hour program to broaden her education in yin, restorative, accessible yoga, and yoga of recovery.  After that, she craved a deeper understanding of the body and she attended a cadaver dissection course which focused on fascia and respiration.  Her mind was completely blown.  That first class experience still exists within her.  Abby wholeheartedly believes this is for everyone.  For herself and her heart, there are entire worlds to find in all of these practices.  She absolutely loves holding space for others to find, remember, and come home to themselves.

Free Willie!  That’s what Yoga does for Will.  It gives him a blueprint of his most inner self, his internal GPS system.  Yoga allows Will to go on an incredible journey into Self while shedding layers.  This is how Will taps into the most pure part of himself and connects with his source.  Intriguing and Scary but worth it.  Yoga is his daily path. 

“It takes a village…”

“I am so grateful to be a part of a community that accepts the heart of all.  I am honored and privileged to share yoga at Valkyrie in the heart of Ocean Beach and be a positive energy in this divine community.  My intention is to share with devotion my gifts to teach and connect and to share my genuine kind hearted smile with everyone.  Honoring the light in everyone."

Monica believes that the simple action of showing up on our yoga mat creates a ripple effect of positivity to many other seemingly unrelated aspects of our lives. 

She loves to create an atmosphere filled with great music, unity in breath, and equal parts ferocity and gentleness. 

It is her intention to hold a safe space where we feel free to listen to our body’s needs to move, modify, and use our breath and tones to release tensions and welcome mobility in a nourishing community container.

Denika is a natural breathwork facilitator with a warm, grounded presence, trained and certified by Valkyrie! She weaves the ancient wisdom and healing practices of her Mesoamerican ancestors into her sessions, offering a unique experience that blends tradition with transformation. Her compassionate approach creates a powerful, nurturing space for participants to reconnect with their breath and find deep healing.

Driven by her passion for collective well-being, Denika creates sacred spaces where individuals and communities can explore balance, healing, and personal transformation. Her sessions combine grounded practice with ancestral knowledge, providing a supportive environment for participants to explore, heal, and grow.

Summer Chevalier facilitates various styles of yoga such as hatha, vinyasa, yin and restorative. Movement based meditation by means of yoga postures, breathwork and pranayama, has helped her enter remission after a 20 year battle with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Her practice has been her guiding light through times of darkness, and given her an overall a renewed sense of purpose and passion. She loves to share these tools in hopes that they may benefit and support others as much as they have her. Summer believes that as we come together to practice and heal it helps to heal the collective that connects all of us as human beings. We gather and dance to the rhythm of our breath. From her classes, you can expect aligned, intentional movement, building heat gradually in the body while using the breath as our grounding anchor. When she’s not practicing, you can find her skating around OB and hosting women’s group skates to further unite the community through movement! Let’s flow, dance, skate, and breathe together. 

Gianna is professionally trained in sound healing therapy, yoga, energy healing & lifestyle counseling. After healing her own body from severe injuries using these tools, she truly believes that we can heal our body, mind and spirit by slowing down to find peace and harmony. 

Gianna focuses on the art of healing and slowing the body down to rest and restore. 

She  uses instruments such as crystal alchemy bowls, Tibetan bowls, and chimes to create harmony and deep relaxation within the mind, body and spirit. 

There are many paths to the top of the mountain. There is also the path of no-path... the subtle awareness of being present with all that is. Growing up in the canyon of Palomar the metaphor of the mountain revealed itself to Rus as stillness, observation, and meditation arose naturally during childhood. A deep knowing that all things share the same breath. Rus received his 200 YTT certificate in 2016. Utilizing a unique syncretism of Zen, Bhakti and Sufi, he hopes to inspire self-actualization, self-realization, and self-care.

Maharani took life vows as Vaisnava monk six years ago, to deepen her thirty years of Bhakti Yoga practice. She has over 1,000 hours of yoga teacher training in India; completed her Breathwork and Facilitator training at Valkyrie; and has been a Reiki Usui Master for fifty years, certifying healers and offering continuing education for reiki teachers. Before becoming a monk, she was a successful art historian, working in Academia, the Vatican Museums and ArTv. Today she lives in Ocean Beach, where she directs her efforts to create a meditation temple, while hosting weekly mantra-chanting programs and helping people to heal body, mind and soul.