Valorie Valencia, PhD, RYT 
The door to well-being opened for Valorie in 2001. She completed the 200-hour yoga teacher
training program at the Southwest Institute of the Healing Arts and the 500-hour program at
Inner Vision. She has been exposed to an eclectic blend of Hatha yogasana
styles, including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Bikram, Jivamukti, and has practiced
Kundalini yoga. Valorie integrates aspects of these various yoga styles into Now Power
Yoga workshops.
Her many teachers include Brian Miller (Chi Yoga), Jeff Martens, Sri Dharma Mittra,
Paul Grilley, Edward Clark (Tripsichore Yoga Theatre), Dr. David Bercelli, and Nicolai Bachman
(Sanskrit Sounds). In addition to classes at The Pointe South Mountain, she has taught yoga
to women inmates at Maricopa County's Tent City Jail.
Most recently, Valorie learned meridian theory from Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama at the California
Institute for Human Sciences, joint freeing exercises from Mukunda Stiles, Shamanic practices
from Dr. Alberto Villoldo, health and longevity approaches from David Wolfe, relationship insights
from Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, wealth-generation recipes from Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup
for the Soul) and Robert Allen (The One Minute Millionaire), and Qi Gong and other Taoist
practices from Cain Carroll and Master Zhongxian Wu.
A scientist by profession (www.authenti-corp.com),
Valorie incorporates techniques such as MTT (Meridian Tapping
Techniques) and ThetaHealing. As a member of IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences), she has
studied with Gregg Braden, Dr. Bruce Lipton and other pioneers integrating science and
spirituality. She has also been heavily influenced by the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Dr.
Wayne Dyer, Sonia Choquette, Brian Tracy, Dr. Danial Amen, Michael Tamura, Dr. Luanne Oakes,
Dr. Deepak Chopra, Stuart Wilde, Ken Wilbur, Dr. David Hawkins, Dattatriya Siva Baba, and Barbara Mahaffey.
Valorie’s never-ending investigation of health, prosperity and relationships adds to the maturity of
knowledge and insight she offers. Her goal is to live another 450 years.
Steve Price, MFA, RYT
 
Steve survived 25 years in the advertising industry, starting as a copywriter on Madison Avenue.
In 2002, after getting into three car accidents at the same intersection, he took his first yoga class.
He began teaching one year later and has since taught thousands of classes at Valley studios, health clubs,
colleges and addiction recovery centers as well as private sessions.
In 2006, Steve received his MFA in Creative Writing, and has published stories and poems in journals
across the U.S. and abroad. He has taught creative writing at ASU, Benchmark Elementary School, Phoenix
Art Institute and community colleges throughout Maricopa County.
Steve’s writing gurus include Norman Dubie, Mary Sojourner, Martín Espada, Simon Ortiz, Joshua Beckman,
and Jeannine Savard. Among his many teachers of yoga and other spiritual practices are Dave Oliver, David
Hari Jap Meyers, Sevak Khalsa, Jeff Martens, Erich Schiffmann, Ana Forest, Jonathon Monks, Cain Carroll,
Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama, Zhongxian Wu, and Sonia Choquette.
Steve maintains a daily practice of yoga and writing, including a love poem to Valorie every day
since they met on July 11, 2008 but who’s counting?
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