"Thanks so much for your wonderful teaching over the past few months. Yoga has become an important part of my life."

Adam Lang

"I took your class on Wednesday at Stanyan. I walked in feeling low energy and with knee pain...I left feeling super and loose. Thanks for the personal attention. You are very good at what you do... I hope to take another class with you and Christopher Love - my favorite teachers. Maybe even make it a regular thing."

Eric Wilson

"You are such a good soul. I always wanted to tell you...you are my favorite yoga teacher...and often your words bring me to tears...good tears."

Shelley Anixter

"Your class was excellent and pulled me way up. Thanks!"

Stephen Ash Peltier

"I love Amy's yoga classes because she combines excellent teaching technique and great attentiveness and sensitivity towards the students' bodies and their needs. She also creates an environment that is supportive of beginners and advanced yogis alike!"

Suzana S. Couto, Veterinarian

"Amy is a natural born teacher. Her life is about service and she embodies all the values we look for in a teacher. She is gentle, challenging, knowledgeable, generous, open, constantly skirting the balance between learning new things and teaching them to others. She has found unique ways to help others with special challenges, for example, restorative yoga techniques that many others overstep. She has energy in her work and is unstoppable in finding new and creative ways to offer what she has learned to others. Her yoga classes, for example, encompass a wealth of experience and anatomical knowledge. I find her classes are as challenging for advanced students as they are within reach and challenging for beginners. The most obvious thing about Amy is that she never sits still with anything. She is constantly enlarging her field of expertise and then finds a way to teach others. This is what I count on Amy to do, to keep me on the edge."

Margaret Levine

"Thank you! That was the perfect blend of ass-kicking and spirituality!"

Wendy Lucas, Internet Programmer

"Amy has wide knowledge of yoga asanas and philosophy to draw upon in her instruction, which allows her to integrate the physical benefits and spiritual aspects of yoga. I enjoy her balance of flow and focus to offer a full body experience in her classes. Amy also is soothing and gentle in her presence which facilitates my sinking deeper into the yoga experience. Amy definitely embodies the spirit of mind-body being."

Douglas Kasle, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist

"Amy brings clear intention and compassion to both her yoga and massage practices. Beyond her formidable knowledge and technique, it is Amy's presence that makes for consistently good classes."

Chris Gallagher, Musician

"Each yoga practice is like a journey. You come to your mat, and your destination is unknown. You guess that you will revisit places you've been to before, though they may feel somewhat different, and around the corner, discover something new: a new pose, a new flow; and that discovery will fill you with happiness, surprise... or laughter depending on the pose and your aptitude to take it with some humor. In those journeys, the role of your 'guide', your yoga instructor, is essential. Amy is a wonderful guide, probably the best I got to travel with so far... She is an inspiration on and off of the mat. Her words, the tone of her voice, both calming and wise, resonate beyond the class time. She's a beautiful human being, who manages to share her well-rounded knowledge of the practice of yoga, with a lot of compassion and care for her students, a great sense of humor, and an eclectic choice of music. A delicious class. Thank you Amy!"

Agnes Hogan

"Amy brings a fantastic energy in all her practices mixed with awareness and joy. I have been taking restorative and hatha yoga with Amy for the last year and she has been among my favorite yoga instructors. In each session she guides us to a place where we feel that there is space to explore, there is still place to grow."

Anthie Domi

"I am from the east coast, and I only get into the city every other month. Practicing with Amy is always the high-point of my visit!"

Steven Hershkowitz

"I first met Amy when she was the sub for a teacher whose class I was really looking forward to. Those first moments were really difficult from a point of view of non-attachment... but soon Amy's special energy captivated me, and I've never looked back! She is a very knowledgeable teacher, has great rapport with her students, and gifted hands for those adjustments we all wished we didn't need. Her classes often combine pranayama, flow and restorative asanas in surprising and fun sequences, and I always leave with a deep sense of well-being."

Leslie Brennan

"Amy Kahn imbues her teaching with wisdom and kindness and somehow remains to be real and grounded. Her knowledge of yoga is immense but she is never intimidating. Amy's focus is on the student. With her energy and guidance you feel like you can do anything!"

Elizabeth Marlow

(Sent to me by a Yoga teaching colleague and friend): "Thank you for having Amy as your sub. In class she is a perfect mix of knowledge, desire to teach, ability to communicate, and movement. I hope you will have her again whenever you are away."

Alice Oshiko

"When I facilitated a two week yoga mini-course at the high school, Amy Kahn helped us out by volunteering to teach. She kept the attention of 20 teenage girls with a great mix of asana and vinyasa and answered questions knowledgeably. She was professional and courteous and a great addition to our program."

Andrew Rose, Gateway High School, SF

"I found immediate results from the one class and am excited to do more."

Art Khu

"Dear Amy... I wanted to tell you that I truly enjoyed the class and was impressed with your presence, your knowledge and your 'freshness'. I think you're doing everything right!"

Aurèle Carlat

"Amy, I thoroughly enjoy your classes and especially your approach to yoga. Alternating between your flow classes and Leslie's Iyengar classes has been really great. Tonight's class was terrific. I'm always interested in trying new things. I found the way we came into shoulder stand very helpful. I'm accustomed to coming into it differently, and the way we did it in class helped me tuck my shoulders."

John Desanto

"I have been wanting to take some time and thank you personally for a great weekend at Mount Madonna. Physically, spiritually, every way, I felt uplifted! The massage classes were a great way to bond, and learn, and you know how I feel about your yoga teaching without telling you...but I shall anyway - I always look forward to them as one of the most important things in the day."

Leslie Brennan

"I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know how much I appreciate the wonderful environment that the two of you provide during the retreats...There are a lot of possibilities for Yoga retreats out there, but there are none like yours. You both have a knack for allowing your warmth and inner beauty to shine through – and believe me that makes all the difference."

Kellog Stover

"I was nervous about signing up for the yoga, massage, hot tub weekend. I had done a good deal of yoga before, but due to low flexibility and learning disabilities, I am not very good at it, and my attempt to learn massage had also failed. None of that mattered much during the weekend. It was well organized so that I got to know people quickly and felt comfortable with them. The instruction was patient, and I got to experience some things I never had before (such as partner yoga, even though I went alone). By sleeping dorm-style and sharing some meals, the whole event was quite reasonably priced. I enjoyed it and experienced tremendous relaxation. I will certainly attend the next one if I can."

Ethan Davidson

"You won't regret anything you do with Amy. Her classes and retreats are minimally priced and maximally loaded with great things. She has a natural gift as does her partner Ama. The Valentines Day Retreat in Fairfax that I did with Amy and Ama was one of the best retreats I have attended. It combined the luxuries of self-care with the rigors of yoga and the sweetness of learning and sharing ways to heal and give to others through touch. I am still using massage techniques that I learned in the class. The retreat also reignited my love of Thai massage. One of the most valuable things you learn from Amy is that if you don't use it, you loose it. Amy has also been instrumental by being an example of what comes of keeping an exciting, joyous, exploratory, and insight-filled yoga practice going."

Margaret Levine

"Thank you so much for the heavenly massage yesterday, I felt so warm and well taken care of and the feeling is still there. I've been ranting and raving to Boris about how relaxed and renewed I felt afterwards. Thank you, it was truly a gift to have you work on me."

Amelie B (6 months pregnant)

"Amy so clearly knows anatomy, meridians, and just what feels good. For the first time, I had the experience of a massage therapist who went deep enough, long enough, and thoughtfully enough. Amy's proficiency in yoga is embedded in her massage practice. I can't wait to get another one."

Carey Kozuszek, Occupational Therapist

"During Amy's Thai massage your body floats from one movement to the next mixing gentle stretches, freeing up of the joints and stimulating the energy flow. The result is a wonderful sense of relaxation and release. It's a real treat!"

Suzana S. Couto, Veterinarian

"About the massage...WOW, I felt 100% better afterwards!"

Chris Gallagher, Musician

"It is a pleasure to join the large and continually growing community of people chanting mantras of praise, appreciation, and respect for Amy. My comments come from my intimacy with her as a friend, and from my personal experience of her as a yoga teacher and massage practitioner/healer.

"I do not know of another person who more fully embodies the truest and most important qualities and character of a friend, teacher, and healer than Amy. Her love of truth inspires me toward more honesty, integrity, and authenticity. Her impeccability of word and action is as trustworthy as a climber's rope. Amy is a true teacher and healer, with confidence born of experience, skill, knowledge, and humility. Her strength, tenderness, toughness and compassion dance in perfect symmetry. Amy has helped me to become a truer, wiser, kinder, and more authentic person."

Robert Rabbin, Writer, Speaker, and Spiritual Activist