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Eric Kipp
Growing up youngest of six in a Catholic family in the Midwest, I don't think I had even heard of yoga until college. I was not ready. Driven by curiosity and a passionate aversion to freezing winters I began traveling to beautiful places.�I quickly fell in love with hiking up and down hills from Africa to the Caribbean to the Hawaiian Islands.
More influenced by Thoreau, Kerouac, and Muir than Patanjali I wanted to breathe fresh air and be in motion. I fell equally hard for yoga at 30 and relished 8 years in the studio soaking in all I could integrate.
In 2009, I was ready to fuse my two passions and Hiking Yoga was launched. San Francisco was the perfect blend of hills, fresh air, stunning views, and one of the most progressive yoga cultures in the world.
Pouring myself into getting more yogis out into the fresh air over the next three years has been the most rewarding and satisfying offering of my career. I am so blessed to be recognized in features in Yoga Journal, CBS, ABC, Forbes Magazine, Frommer's, Men's Journal as well as many other local and national media.
Even dearer to me are the invigorated smiles on the faces of yogis falling in love again with the hills and trails in their community, feeling their bodies in a new way. We have locations around the country and soon will have them around the world. Carina and I are now training others to bring Hiking Yoga to their communities.
Our innovative teacher training program is equal parts developing business skills and learning to lead yoga hikes. This is a unique combination not offered by any other training and allows you to thrive as both a yoga teacher and business owner.
Sharing insights and wisdom I have picked up along the way is an honor. I love working with studios, retreat centers, and teachers around the world helping them bring their vision to a growing community.
I spent 2 years training at Coach U on small business and life coaching. I have always burned with a passion to make my life uniquely mine and this inspires all that I do helping my clients do the same.
When not leading a hike, I am usually found hanging with my fabulous wife Carina & our baby girl Quincy. I am a huge fan of the afternoon nap. We spread our time between Bay Area, Kansas City, and Uruguay. You can find me on facebook or linked in.
Emily Galvin
Emily Galvin RYT has been developing her yoga practice since 2002.
She was first drawn to yoga after numerous sports injuries and a need to take control of a body that was working against her at such a young age.
From the moment she stepped onto her mat her passion for the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of yoga lead her to study with some of the leading teachers in Southern and Northern California. Her practice then led her away from the corporate world and into a place where she wanted to share this beautiful gift of yoga.
She received her 200 hour certification in Interdisciplinary Hatha Yoga with Don and Amba Stapleton at Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica.
She then packed her bags and her yoga mat and took her exploring and teaching through South America were she taught at an Eco Farm in Argentina, the Jangala retreat in Peru, and in the mountains of Chile.
A call from home took her teachings back to the Bay Area where she was excited to take her discoveries and share them with her students.
The insight of numerous teachers allowed her to practice in styles from Ashtanga, Iyengar, Bikram, Yin, and mixed styles of Hatha (Power and Gentle Flow).
Her relationship with yoga continues to grow, change, inspire, center, balance, and bring love and light. Her intention as a teacher is to help others to learn/heal from the inside out. She is working to start a non profit that brings yoga as physical and mental therapy into the hospitals.
Movement and laughter are essential to life and thus the basic structure of her style of teaching. She is known for her easy flow and transition between poses and ability to help students listen to their bodies and explore in their practice.
This style allows Emily to guide in her Beginners classes and her more advanced morning flow classes since it is the student that learns become the real teacher. Her yoga classes encourage students to tap into their own creativity and to stay present and rejoice in the NOW.
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