Pilar Salazar
Pilar was drawn to yoga through her fascination with anatomy of the body, movement, and exercise, and the mysteries of the conscious and unconscious mind. In 1999, she received her first teacher training at the Kapoli Yoga Center in Escazu, Costa Rica, which was followed by a second teacher certification from the YogaWorks program. In 2014, her devotion to her own practice led her to Mysore, India, where she studied at the Krishna Patthabi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute. Most recently in 2017, she did a teacher training in Tulum, Mexico with Tim Miller. Pilar has a dedicated personal yoga practice which is based in the Ashtanga Yoga method.
Pilar teaches Vinyasa Flow for all levels; her students enjoy her dynamic, uplifting, and invigorating teaching style, with her main intention focusing on alignment as well as keeping the mind and breath in the present moment. Pilar is fluent in both Spanish and English, and her teaching style is a marriage of the best of many worlds: Eastern yogic philosophies such as fluid breath and inner discovery; Western values of achieving personal goals; and Costa Rica's light-hearted Pura Vida style.
Travis Bays
Travis has been surfing since the age of 14, and two years later became a member of La Jolla Shores Longboard Association and started competing locally. In college, he joined the NSSA (National Scholastic Surfing Association), the University of San Diego's surf team, and became a Surf Coach for the University of San Diego High School. He also founded Evening Glass Surf School in Mission Beach-San Diego and was the head surf instructor. He now has nearly 20 years of surf experience, and over 10 years of surf instruction, and is a certified open-water lifeguard by the Costa Rican Lifeguard Association.
Travis has a deep love and respect for the ocean, and his surf and bodysurf instruction very clearly encompasses that. He also possesses a fantastic ability to get people laughing with his silliness, showing that he most definitely does not take himself too seriously. However, he also inspires confidence; he gives students the tools they need to exceed their own expectations in the water.
Anki Cramer
Anki Cramer has been working for Bodhi Surf + Yoga since early 2019, and as a yoga teacher since 2020. She has been deepening her own yoga practice for over six years in Germany, Bali, and Costa Rica, and with a wide variety of teachers of different styles. She completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training with Alejandra Torres at Vida Asana in Jaco, Costa Rica, in 2020. She is continuously learning, both as student of the oga practice, as well as a teacher. Anki has deep gratitude towards her teachers and inspirations encountered throughout various points of her yoga journey: Aram Raffy, Alejandra Torres, Pilar Salazar and longtime inspirations, Ty Landrum and Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
Anki teaches Vinyasa Flow for all levels, and her classes are a mix between fun vibrant movement combined with philosophical aspects of the practice, heating the body up and preparing for everyday life's challenges. She lives by the quote: "Take your practice seriously - but never take yourself seriously." Anki is fluent in English and German and intermediate proficient in Spanish.
Dennis Monge
Surf Instructor
Vanessa Mora
Vanessa Mora has been working at Bodhi Surf + Yoga since 2022. She is an avid surfer, an animal lover, and sunny presence wherever she goes. What makes Vanessa a surf great instructor is her ability to communicate with the guests and meet them where they are at. She is always positive, smiling, and ready to make each surf lesson fun and memorable.
James Jacobs
Surf Instructor
Jimena Amador
Jimena has been working at Bodhi Surf + Yoga since the end of 2019. Prior to that, she was actually a regular participant at our Surf Saturday community service events. She primarily works as a nanny for Maya and Clea, but also does a variety of other jobs in and around Bodhi Surf + Yoga! She has lived in the community of Bahia Ballena her entire life, and love to hang out with her friends and go to the beach in her free time!
