our tribe
Lena Tancredi, Yoga Teacher, Co-Founder
“My name is Lena. My heart is full of gratitude for being able to be here and now doing what I like to do most. The older I get, the more I understand the quote: ‘The body is a temple where the holy spirit lives.’ If you take care of your body as a sacred space, it can take you wherever you need to be.’
There was a moment in my life that was a turning point in my journey and from that moment I experienced a shift in the way I perceived myself, I realized that I had found my own dharma; my own path. From that day, the benefits I received through the practice of Yoga went directly to my heart and I started to live in a different way. I started to experience yoga as a practice of embodiment, for healing, for awakening, for becoming more conscious and empowered. And gradually I changed my habits and my way of thinking.”
Lena Tancredi is an internationally recognized certified Hatha yoga teacher. She has studied Yoga and Ayurveda in India, Haridwar at Baba Santosh, and Puri Ashram. She is trained in Nidra Yoga, Yin & Yang Yoga, and many meditation methods.
Her desire in teaching yoga is to share the art of yoga that has changed her life, and brought joy, grace, strength, inner peace, beauty, and a sense of empowerment in all that she does.
After making Ibiza, Spain her home since 1990, Lena has regularly lead yoga classes since 2005. In 2011 Lena founded Sunset Mountain Ibiza Yoga Retreat and has dedicated herself to teaching exclusive yoga retreats, reaching a plateau of more than 23 weekly retreats each year. During the winter months, Lena is also an artist and travels the world sharing her workshops and teaching yoga retreats around the world.
Leeza McGuire, Co-Founder
Leeza McGuire (seen here with her trusty side-kick, Bambi) has spent a life-time traveling the globe and visiting fabulous places to explore and experience. Yoga has been a big part of her spiritual journey, attending many yoga retreats in France, Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, America and India. Her professional life has been designing and organizing high-level events for corporate clients at her company Clik Events based in Cannes, France. It’s been a long-time dream of hers to translate her flare and expertise in event planning to yoga retreats with a vision of allowing people to discover yoga, or deepen their practice and spiritual awakening in the most magical places in the world.
Atonka / Catrin Zambella, Owner of Nama-Stay
A compass of boundless love, endlessly giving to create new life. Atonka moved from the Swiss Alps to to sacred water in Zion National Park, to be with her beloved family Jonathan and Massimo. She believes that everything should be done in a sacred manner, with sincerity, love and devotion, with a firm conviction that true living means virtually perfecting one’s soul, one’s spiritual existence in tune with life, people, animals, trees, water, stars, rocks and the universe.
By nurturing the growth of her dream, Atonka endeavors to inspire through living by example. In the soulful depth of her eyes, she describes her way in the realization that, “Being yourself holds the quintessence of all healing, language and heart knowing, at all levels of consciousness and understanding. By being who you truly are, it awakens ALL of you, it awakens the existence of true life, where there is no beginning and ending but a oneness of a complete embrace, where boundless love, energy and infinite sharing is possible.”
Shelley Pulcini-Corso,
Private Chef
Born and raised in Connecticut, Shelley was given the tools to learn basic cooking, baking and gardening at an early age. As a teen she made the decision to become a vegetarian and jumped into healthy cooking. A post college cross country trip landed her in Tucson, AZ where she started her culinary journey cooking healthy vegetarian entrees at Wild Oats natural grocery. She continued to hone her skills when she joined the team at the acclaimed Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Tucson, AZ and eventually became Sous Chef.
After 11 years working for Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Shelley was offered a promotion to become the first woman to hold the position of Chef De Cuisine at Canyon Ranch Spa Club in Las Vegas, NV. After 5 years in Nevada, she accepted a position at Red Mountain Resort in Ivins, UT as their Executive Sous Chef. After 7 years of working for Red Mountain Resort, Shelley branched off and started her own personal chef business where she has worked in client's homes cooking diet specific foods, cooked for multi-day yoga retreats and dinner parties.
Eduardo Emmanuel Ballesteros
Jesse James Rice
Creators of alkǝmē, Eduardo and Jesse express themselves through sacred sound and vibration. Eduardo is an alkǝmist with Crystal Tones from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. An avid lover of life, he shares his gifts through yoga, vibrational alchemy and holistic medicine. You can catch him welcoming the sunrise on a mountain peak, reading a book near a body of water, or in a sacred shala creating ceremony.
Jesse is a musician, songwriter and filmmaker born and raised by the ocean in America's Pacific Northwest. He's written and directed independent films that have played around the world. He continues to write songs, perform and produce films—all with the goal of expressing the essence of truth and raising the vibration of the planet.
