the ripple effect

after looking at the recent updates to a couple of yoga studio schedules, i've noticed that there are new names where familiar names used to be. out of curiosity, i've been scanning other schedules to figure out who went where. after all, when one leaves, another one replaces that person. and the replacement, in most cases, comes from yet another studio, leaving another void that has to be filled. it's the yoga ripple effect, so to speak.

of course, the busybody in me also wants to know why all this moving around is going on, but if it has anything to do with studio politics, i know i'll never get the real answer from anyone :(

so from what i've seen in the schedules, this is as close as i could get to where everyone has moved to/from:

andrea marcum left earth's power yoga and now has her own studio, u studio

christine navarro left both bala yoga and karuna yoga and now teaches at earth's, at times team-teaching with steven earth

daniella devarnay seems to have picked up christine's evening classes at bala, with no replacement for christine's morning classes

jodi blumstein (a recent transplant from chicago) has taken over christine's ashtanga intro classes at karuna

jeff wells left maha yoga and now teaches at jiva yoga

kathleen kastner (imported from kansas!) and aras baskauskas have divvied up jeff's lunchtime classes at maha

missy costello also left maha

greville henwood gave up everything but the kids classes at maha and yogaworks westwood

vytas baskauskas has taken over the openings left by missy and greville at maha

both aras and vytas will continue to teach at santa monica power yoga (by the way, as of the last survivor episode, aras has survived yet another tribal council vote)

and i'm still trying to find out where missy went and if greville is teaching anything else besides those kids classes (but then again, there's that new studio opening up soon on the westside... hmmm... you think?)

and the changes just keep on coming...

moral of the story: if you are an avid student of certain teachers, make sure you're on their mailing lists so you don't lose track of them if and when they move!