Antonia Kao has been practicing yoga since the early 1990s and teaching throughout the San Francisco Bay Area since 2003. She first fell in love with Kundalini yoga, then discovered Ashtanga Vinyasa in 2003. Since then, she has studied Ashtanga with many veteran teachers, including her current teachers John Berlinsky and Lea Watkins, and, at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy. Antonia completed 200 hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher training at Avalon Yoga (mentors: Anirudh Shastri and Ben Thomas) and advanced studies/ teacher training with Erich Schiffman.  Her classes range from gentle, restorative hatha to traditional ashtanga vinyasa and she works with kids through seniors, including those with physical challenges, in a gentle, fun, kind way. She is ongoingly a student of yoga in its broadest sense and draws upon the breadth of her experiences with yoga and complementary mind-body-spirit practices when teaching.