Suvani (Gail Stepanek), M.A., has been practicing and teaching yoga and dance for 30 years. She trained in Integral Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Anusara Yoga and is certified as a yoga teacher through Sivananda Vedanta Centers.

Suvani studied Siddha Yoga extensively with Gurumayi Chidvilasananda from 1984-1996 in India and the United States. Over the past nine years, she has studied with Amma, a perfected yoga master from Southern India. Suvani taught Hatha Yoga at Amma's ashram in Amritapuri, India in 1998. She was also a teacher and resident at the Sivananda Vedanta Center in San Francisco from 1998-2001. Suvani has taught yoga, meditation and dance in many health clubs, yoga studios and colleges throughout the United States. She directed her own modern dance company in New York for 16 years and her own dance studio in Manhattan, NY. She is currently a Professor at City College in San Francisco teaching Yoga in the Physical Education Deptartment. Ms. Stepanek has also had training in Tai Chi, energy and emotional body healing, Continuum, Release Work, Authentic Movement , The 5 Rhythyms of Gabrielle Roth and Dance as self-healing with Anna Halprin."