Management
Jean-Christophe Gabler moved from France to Los Angeles in 1993. After pursuing a career in the entertainment industry for several years, he discovered his talent for finances while working on the development of Yogi Times Magazine. His yoga practice became a turning point in his life, giving him the focus and the direction he had been seeking. After returning from a 10 day Vipassana meditation course, JC delved into the publishing world with great passion and an intention to share the joy of yoga, health and sustainability with the world!
As the Publisher and Co-founder of Yogi Times, JC’s focus is keeping the magazine running smoothly with an eye toward the future growth of the company.
He is overjoyed at the new arrival of his son, Enzo Parienti Gabler, born on the 22nd of May, 2006.
Bringing people together seems to be an ethos for Sophie Parienti. After earning her BA in Art history at the University of Bordeaux, France, she pursued an interest in Media and Communication with a Public Relations Cetificate at UCLA. Since first arriving in the states in 1992, she has delved deeply into the world of holistic health and yoga philosophy. Sophie trained with some of the most respected teachers in Los Angeles and turned her understanding of yoga into a lifestyle. For twelve years she dedicated her time to teach and spread the joy of yoga among her students. In 2002, she founded Yogi Times magazine in Los Angeles by gathering a team of passionate and dedicated entrepreneurial spirits who still run the magazine to this day. As a fearless leader, Sophie Parienti and her team have launched two other magazines: Yogi Times San Francisco and Yogi Times Business. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and Yogi Times co-founder, Jean-Christophe Gabler.
Martin Hughes is a slave to synchronicity. The universe’s incomprehensible path has led this unassuming wanderer from an adolescence in a backward backwater town to a Virginia liberal arts college where liberal was a cuss word and art was mysteriously absent. He then found his way to the twinkling lights of London’s West End and then Times Square and a Broadway stage. The fall of the World Trade Center sent him from east to west where he found true love in a secret corner of Disneyland and learned the meaning of warrior one. Now he secretly manipulates the masses from behind his computer screen in the name of health, happiness and the yogi’s way.
Kirsty came to Yogi Times having spent 10 years in publishing at Crain Communications where she gained extensive sales experience at leading publications including Advertising Age, Crain’s Business Magazines, and Modern Healthcare. She brings to Yogi Times a wealth of knowledge on industry trends, media, marketing, advertising, web, events and distribution. A native of Scotland she came to Los Angeles in 1992 having received a BA in Commerce from Glasgow Caledonian University. She introduced yoga to her life several years ago after too many sports injuries. It was a decision, she believes, that opened her eyes to a new way of life and a joyful balance between health, fitness and wellbeing.
Marketing
Liz Hage comes to Yogi Times from San Francisco via a stopover in New York City where she worked in the event planning and marketing department of a large investment bank. It was in NYC that she opened to yoga and began to dive in to living a more conscious life. Liz’s dance of yin and yang has flowered into the role of Marketing Manager at Yogi Times. With a degree in Environmental Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara, Liz has a soft spot in her heart for the earth and holds a “small” goal in life to save the planet. Yogi Times is one of her vehicles for this goal. She loves being a part of the YT team and spreading the word on the yogic lifestyle through her marketing outreach.
Editorial
Molly received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a Minor in Dance, Magna Cum Laude, from Michigan State University. To earn her liberal arts degree, she had to articulate herself through writing and the electives she chose were English and Art courses. While in school yoga found Molly. She moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to complete a teacher training at Sacred Movement, and is now actively involved in the yoga community, teaching at Golden Bridge and Liberation Yoga. She is fascinated by how the universe lead her to this career and is honored to have the opportunity to utilize and combine her interests and talents. She channels her well-developed critical eye for the fashion shoots that she produces and other artistic decisions that are made for the magazine. When Yogi Times was looking for a style-savvy individual who stays on top of new trends, products and establishments, with an interest with health, spirituality and the environment, the description could not have been a more apropos fit. Molly is grateful to be sharing her passion for yoga and a conscious lifestyle with students and readers.
Perhaps it’s Jessica Ridenour’s humble midwestern upbringing that roots her
firmly to the ground, or perhaps it’s tree pose. Either way, she is
delighted to bring her down-to-earth sensibilities to the Yogi Times team
after fours years spent as a freelance writer and editor. Jessica received a
BA in psychology at Kent State University (where she first discovered yoga)
and earned a certificate of professional designation in journalism from UCLA
in 2005. The small town Ohio native moved to LA five years ago—after stints
in Phoenix and New Orleans—and is still amazed by the energy and imagination
that the City of Angels holds. She’s awed by the life-altering capacity of
yoga and is honored to join in Yogi Times’ mission of sharing joy, balance
and abundance with LA and beyond.
Lisa Maria has worked in the field of holistic wellness for twenty years.
Her corporate experience includes regional sales and management for Fresh
Fields (a Whole Foods company), Wild Oats, New Chapter Supplements and
Kent Homeopathic Associates. Her journalism background includes
co-founding, co-producing and co-hosting two weekly talk radio programs that
featured interviews with cultural visionaries Deepak Chopra, Marianne
Williamson, Wayne Dyer and others. Lisa’s articles have been published in
Yogi Times, Whole Life Times, Common Ground, Yoga Magazine UK and
others. She is currently writing a biography of Oprah Winfrey for 3rd graders,
to be published in 2007. Lisa received her BA in English Literature from Goucher College in 1987.
Heidi Jo Corey is one of the lifestyle editors at Yogi Times. Her first yoga pose was mountain, balancing on the edge of her crib when she was two. Since then she has done numerous teacher trainings with Ana Forrest and just graduated Gurmukh's pregnancy teacher training for the second time. Full of life and joy, Heidi is known for her endless enthusiam and ability to see go in all.
Graphics
Jessica graduated with honors from California State University, Northridge with a BA in Business Marketing. Although business intrigues her brain she is truly an artist at heart. Fulfilling her dream, she earned a Professional Designation Degree in Graphic Arts from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. She considers Yogi Times a home away from home, where she can express her commitment to the yogi lifestyle through visual communication. Her favorite yoga pose (as well as her favorite color and typeface) changes daily. She is grateful to give love, balance and joy one magazine spread at a time.
Sales
The many roads, threads, ropes and twists that led Nicole Bordges to Yogi Times seem as random as the drawn lines of a Celtic knot. Born in Florida, she lived in a small town and raised horses, cats, cows, chickens etc and eventually had the abrupt twist of moving to Las Vegas, where she spent her teen years. After sin city, Nicole began a liberating journey which lead her all across the face of Europe and eventually back to the US. She lived and studied in Santa Barbara for two years where she became deeply interested in Natural Health and the healing arts, and later graduated from Pepperdine University with a degree in International Studies with emphasis in Intercultural Communication. After graduating, Nicole was involved in many different kinds of business, all with the common thread of Sales and Marketing. She spent three years with Basic Media Group, the publishers of Let’s Live, Get Active and Physical magazines. There she learned the ropes of advertising sales, custom publishing and became immersed the LOHAS environment. Nicole joined the Yogi Times team in July of 2007 and is delighted to be back home in the world of conscious media. Although the roads that led her back seem meandering and aimless, when looked at separately their end product is interconnected and meaningful – much like the Celtic knot.
Stella Cheung: `stel-la/`chung/ n: 1. 1st generation Chinese-American. 2. Year of the Dragon. 3. B.S. in Marketing & Operations from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California; M.A. in Communications, emphasis in Public Relations with a Master’s thesis on Health Communications, California State University, Fullerton. 4. Background in strategic planning and execution in print, web, and radio advertising, marketing, & promotions. 5. Industry expertise in Entrepreneurial Business, Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Technology, Finance, Travel, Education, Sustainable Business, and E-commerce. 6. Strives for excellence in performance with positive results, values honesty and integrity, and always in the spirit of service. 7. Passionate about living a healthy lifestyle & sharing this knowledge with the world through Yogi Times. 5. Yoga instructor for low-income community medical center. 6. Classical pianist—idolizes Chopin, Beethovan, & Rachmininoff. 7. Child of a kung-fu master, poet, & spicy cook. 11. Looks forward to going to the movies and sneaking in burritos with her best friend Greg. 12. Just married her best friend. 13. Yearly mentor for USC undergraduate students.
Alicia Johnson moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2005. After receiving her BA in graphic design from San Francisco Sate University, she spent the next 8 years in SF representing some of the best emerging artists on the West Coast, supporting their marketing and sales efforts, and practicing yoga. After spending time traveling extensively around South East Asia studying yoga and the principals of Buddhism, she met her amazing husband and now calls Manhattan Beach her home. She continues to teach yoga and practice Ashtanga. She is thrilled to work for a company like Yogi Times where she can combine her love of yoga, her business sales and marketing experience, supporting conscious companies and photography.
