Roxanna is a certified yoga & meditation teacher with over 2 decades of experience. She has been teaching prenatal, postnatal and preschool yoga in Contra Costa County for the past 4 years after leaving her yoga community in Boulder, CO. Roxanna taught prenatal privately and in small home groups before growing a loyal following at Indigo.

Roxanna loves to teach Yin yoga, encouraging students to quiet their mind and relax in to the postures. Each posture has a physical benefit to it as well as a calming effect on the nervous system and glandular system.

Roxanna has also been dancing and leading 5-Rhythm "Waves" for 15 years. She believes in the healing power of dance/movement and loves to share her joy with others. Her specialty is creating playlists and leading waves that leave others touched, moved, and inspired.

In her spare time, you can find Roxanna riding her bike, exploring the coast or spending time with her grown children.

“Practicing yoga brings me to stillness, to presence and awareness of my breath and body.”

Learn more about Roxanna: https://roxannakoppsmith.com/

Jinah Choi has been practicing yoga since 2013. She initially enjoyed yoga as a low-impact physical exercise and quickly learned that it provided a meaningful way to honor and connect with her body. Her journey deepened as she sought to explore yoga beyond the physical asanas, leading her to complete a 200-hour teacher training at Barefoot Movement in Oakland. She has also trained in trauma-informed yoga through Exhale to Inhale (16 hours) and prenatal yoga with Roxanna Smith (50 hours) at Indigo Yoga Studio in Walnut Creek, California. Jinah’s teaching integrates mindful breathwork, detailed alignment, and insights drawn from psychology, yoga philosophy, and Buddhist teachings. She continues to deepen her practice under the guidance of Tara at Inner Mother Yoga Studio in Seoul and is a perinatal yoga teacher apprentice with Leonora Willis at Daughter of Samoa in Oakland. Off the mat, Jinah enjoys Gong Fu tea rituals, attempting latte art at home, and staying active with strength training, pilates, gyrotonic, and golf.

Practicing yoga since about 2007, Amy Marcus joined Indigo as a student in 2022 and immediately fell in love with the studio's friendly community and welcoming energy. In 2023 she became pregnant and soon switched to Indigo's prenatal classes, where she found tremendous physical and emotional support throughout the ups and downs of pregnancy.

Amy began teaching prenatal yoga at Indigo in order to give back and support students through their pregnancies. Pregnancy is a unique, precious, nuanced phase in a person's life, requiring great care and compassion. Amy strives to bring both to her classes, fostering community with light and humor as well.

Amy grew up in Kailua, Hawaii, and has lived and worked in France, India, and Italy. With her international experience working in multiple languages, Amy enjoys connecting with students from all different backgrounds and supporting them on their unique journeys of becoming a parent.

In recent years she has facilitated conference sessions and workshops on climate action, international education, and supporting yourself and colleagues in grief. She is a co-host on the CANIE Climate Dialogues podcast, exploring the intersections of international education and climate action.

Lily was first introduced to Yoga 18 years ago during a ballet summer intensive. She continued her alignment-based Yoga training with Bay Area teacher Dana Lawton (Loka Yoga Oakland) throughout her undergraduate program at Saint Mary’s College of California.

 

Lily is a Yoga Alliance-certified ERYT-500 Yoga Teacher and Continuing Education Provider. She specializes in Children’s Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, and Standup Paddle Board Yoga.

 

As a teacher, she enjoys learning from her students and their experiences… on and off the mat. Lily brings fun and laughter into her teaching. While keeping students grounded, she loves to create room for play!