"I stumbled across YiY while walking aimlessly through downtown. I grabbed the schedule and read through the brief description of the various Yoga styles taught at YiY. I consider it a blessing to have chosen Samantha's Vinyasa Flow class as my first yoga experience. Since that first class about 1.5 months ago, I have become consumed with the yoga experience. Samantha has an energy that exudes peace and compassion. The feeling I experience before, during, and after class is truly magical.
My YiY yoga experience has set me on a life course that, for once, 'feels authentic'. Many thanks and blessings."
- Jeff Salazar
"Samantha Matthews has an unusual ability to work in a rehabilitative mode. Her patience and compassion provide the environment for the yoga student with physical disabilities, or the older student , to experiment with capabilities, to learn to trust the body, to relax deeply. She seems to move in tune with these students. She weaves a spiritual component with her yoga teaching skills, so that a meditative state is reached each lesson. And she knows the body and the practice so well that she can offer its core to even the most physically challenged individual."
- Joan Alpert, Mountain View, CA
"Samantha Matthews has trained me in Yoga with her extemporaneous expertise in the practice. I now have insight on how to prevent common workplace injuries by practicing Yoga. After 4 months of practicing once a week, I find myself to be effortlessly conscious of the position my body is in when I am working at my desk or computer. In addition, the constant pain and discomfort I have had for several years in my back and wrists has been dramatically minimized due to the Yoga exercise. Not only has Yoga benefit me in the workplace; I have learned to integrate Yogi techniques in my everyday experiences. As a result, my emotional
intensity has greatly diminished and my enhanced awareness has allowed me to gain control of oncoming health ailments, before they are out of control. Connecting my mind and body with the aid of Yoga has allowed me to be more productive, efficient, healthy and blissful. Thank you Samantha and thank you Yoga!" -
Lorinda Farfan, San Jose, CA
