meet our instructors

Tom Longo

Tom Longo is the West Coast Director for the Meridian Flexibility System, a certified Resistance Stretching Instructor, and co-founder of StretchWorks. He teaches Resistance Stretching classes and workshops and works with individual private clients, general audiences, serious athletes and professional performers. Tom was flexibility trainer to Dara Torres both before and during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, where Dara won two Gold and three Bronze medals for swimming. He provided Resistance Stretching, injury prevention and correction, as well as nutritional counseling to Dara. read tom's full profile...

Anne Caswell

Anne comes to yoga from a background in dance and improvisational movement. She has been studying yoga for 12 years and received her teacher training through the Advanced Studies Program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. read anne's full profile...

Doran Christie

Doran, co-founder of Stretchworks is a resistance flexibility trainer. She has trained for many years with Tom Longo and Bob Cooley, author of “The Genius of Flexibility.” Doran’s background includes extensive study of yoga, meditation and mindfulness and holistic health. Currently Doran studies Insight Yoga with Sarah Powers. Insight yoga is a comprehensive path of study that bridges Yoga, Chinese Medicine and Tibetan Buddhism.

As a resistance flexibility trainer. Doran works with her clients to regain youthful agility, strength and power, and fluidity and suppleness in the joint capsules and connective tissue. She works to create a program of resistance stretching and strength that builds lean muscle tissue that is elastic and elongated, improved posture and alignment, and a sense of overall balanced well being. Doran considers her work to be an imperative component to injury prevention and recovery. A personalized program of resistance stretching creates changes in the body and stimulates a robust healthiness, strength and youthful agility, and increased balance for every body. Resistance stretch and strengthening uses leading edge positions that stretch synergistic muscle groups along their correct movement patterns.

Doran helps many women create a positive body image that may include hormonal balancing through stimulating and clearing acupuncture meridian lines activated with resistance stretching. Doran has experience working with women addressing menopausal symptoms as well as PMS and post menopausal symptoms. read doran's full profile...

Connie Habash

Connie Habash has been teaching yoga since 1993. Her passion is weaving yoga philosophy and spirituality into the practice. Ayurveda, Sanskrit, chanting, and the cycles of the seasons also inspire her classes. She additionally holds a Masters degree in Transpersonal Counseling and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. read connie's full profile...