Melissa has been teaching Yoga for 20 years, on five continents. She has led advanced teacher trainings, retreats, special workshops, and weekly classes. She has completed over six teacher trainings herself, and has specialized training in Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, Vinyasa, and Alignment based asana practices. She has also studied extensively with Angela Farmer, Victor Van Kooten, and Rama Vernon – some of the first Western Yoga teachers, all of whom have inspired a rich tapestry of creative, highly energetic, and in depth knowledge of Yoga which she weaves throughout her classes. She has been traveling to S. E. Asia since 1995, and considers it to be a spiritual home. She has journeyed to Thailand many times, and is certified in Thai Massage.  Aside from teaching Yoga regularly, she is also a licensed bodyworker, licensed counselor and Ayurvedic practitioner, living happily in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Zoreh is the founder of High Desert Yoga and has been teaching yoga since 1985. She is a faculty member of the High Desert Yoga Teacher Training Program since it origins 15 years ago. For the past twenty years she has been teaching classes for the general population and offering private yoga sessions to help many with back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee, and ankle issues become pain free with proper alignment and mindfulness. Zoreh’s upbringing started her on the path of Sufism and she has studied numerous paths and methodologies including Iyengar, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, meditation, and the yoga methodology of the American Yoga College. Zoreh’s joyous personality and sense of humor endear her to her students with a teaching style that is both nurturing and fun. Her teaching combines a delicate knowledge of the body that allows a compassionate spiritual expression of the postures to emerge.