Practice yoga with us at Tribal and deepen your connection to your breath and your body with our amazing teachers and tribe of dedicated professionals.
Joanne
Joanne Fanny Barry, founder and co-owner of Tribal Tulum, has been sharing her yoga, humor and sense of vitality in Tulum since 2006. Her early yoga inspiration was Baron Baptiste, Baptiste Power Yoga. Her guru is Carmina Mock, an Ashtanga teacher and amazing human being who guides students to realize that true power is working with your limitations in all forms. “The ability to assess and work with what is, is what yoga is all about”. Also known as Fanny Barry, Joanne writes and paints. Her memoir, “Map of Life and Beauty” and her books for cancer patients, “I Wish I Knew”, published by Blue Heron Bookworks, are available on Amazon. Her life philosophy is that “each moment and each being is a gift and a lesson if you are open to it”. Accredited to teach Hatha yoga by the AAAI/ISMA, (American Aerobic Association International/International Sports Medicine Association) and Yin Yoga teacher training with YUJMU. She is a B School graduate and carries the philosophy of entrepreneurship and social responsibility into her business, her yoga and her life. She blogs at thatbarrygirl.com.
Photo by @i_write_light
Ricardo
From Tampico, Northern Mexico, Ricardo loves movement and the interaction between body and mind. He began yoga to improve alignment in martial arts competitions and immediately fell in love with its focus on balance. His trainings have focused on Vinyasa Flow Yoga and Mobility and Weight Training. Ricardo's Sunday Funday practice is often the highlight of our yoga week as we play into our poses and Ricardo shares effective ways to increase balance, flexibility, and strength. He also teaches Vinyasa Flow and Soulful Movement at Tribal.
Mariana
Mariana is from Guadalajara, Mexico. “Yoga changed my life and helped me cure physical and emotional problems and helped me to respect and accept myself”. Mariana’s classes are invigorating and she incorporates how yoga helps us live less accelerated lives and be in the moment into them. Balancing postures are her favorites because “you can see yourself and your students build confidence, something that improves each and every person’s life.“ Mariana studied with Ellen de Jonge and Alan Montaño in 2016 and 2018 Mariana teaches Vinyasa Flow at Tribal Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings at 8 am.
Chelsea
Chelsea is a long-time California transplant who adores her (sun-safe) beach life. She began her practice at Moxie Yoga & Fitness in the Mission District of San Francisco and completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Yoga Dicha in Tulum, Mexico. She is passionate about arm balances, good food, and her dog, Lulu. Though she is thrilled by challenges, she believes there is incredible strength in being gentle with oneself. She gently decided teaching was not her favorite thing since it added more stress to her already busy life and we miss her at the Tribal. But she co-publishes the newsletter with Joanne and you may find her subbing a vinyasa flow class now and again. - Photo by @i_write_light
Eugenia
Eugenia, from Venezuela has been teaching yoga in Mexico since 2006. In 2009, she shifted her yoga focus from an open Hatha style to the Iyengar method. She completed her grade II Iyengar certification in 2015. Her discipline combined with her humor and love for yoga motivate her students toward a perfectly aligned asana practice. She teaches Iyengar yoga at Tribal and the wall ropes class, Karunta. Iyengar is a perfect compliment to all yoga styles since it creates a muscle memory that carries through to life on and off the mat.
Ursula
Ursula Grunewald is a professional dancer educated at Cuba’s National Art School in Havana. Born in Cancun, Mexico, she has a passion for yoga and it benefits to body and soul. She teaches Dance Flow, Conscious Hatha, Yin, Vinyasa and Slow Flow at Tribal. Her mantra “In Lak’ech Ala K’in” (Mayan for “I am your other you) is evident in her teaching which espouses compassion, kindness and training our bodies to be congruent with our actions.
Daria
Daria found yoga more than 12 years ago and it has helped to heal her body, mind, and heart from past injury. She has studied with Shiva Rea, Mathew Cohen and Jorgen Christiansson in California and received her 300-hour Yoga Alliance certification from Daniel Aaron of radiantly Alive Yoga in Ubud, Bali. Her positive attitude and love for life comes to the forefront in each and every class she teaches. Daria is an accomplished herbalist and loves natural food and style. She teaches Slow Flow, a Yin Yang practice and the Roll and Release class at Tribal.
Blanca
Blanca’s instruction is inspired by her 20+ years of experience as a yoga instructor. Her hatha classes are inspired by her studies in Chennai, India at the KYM institute founded by the great yoga master, Krishnamacharya. Her instruction is nurturing yet challenging and she allows her students to find their inner spirit in entering the poses from the basic to advanced. She came to Tulum four years ago for the natural beauty of the location and the diversity of students, enriched by foreigners from all over the globe. She teaches Hatha Monday Tuesday and Fridays at Tribal
Barbara
Barbara teaches Vinyasa Flow, Yin and Restorative at Tribal. Yoga for her is “the artwork of awareness on the canvas of body, mind and soul,” Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An integrated lifestyle. Her classes are woven together with the intention to connect body and mind. Her background in clinical psychology combined with yoga trainings in India and Bali in Hatha, Yin Yoga and Vipassana meditation. She creates classes that are alignment and flow centred as well as mindful.
Leif
Leif is an Open Water Dive Instructor and cavern guide. His dad taught him how to snorkel young and ever since that first glimpse of an unknown and seemingly endless world below the surface, I was hooked. At 15 I earned my PADI open water certificate and I've been diving non stop since. After studying audio and music in college, I decided my real passion was in exploring and protecting the same underwater realm which I love so much. Which is why I became a PADI Instructor. It gives me the opportunity to share my passion with the public and educate others on how to enjoy and care for the precious blue parts of our planet. Join us for a yoga and dive retreat or a yoga and dive day and learn from the master himself! And share some good freakin vibes!
Alex Jr.
Alex Jr is our cavern guide and, risking being cliche, you can call him a fish in water. From Mexico City, he learned to dive with his uncle Acuatic Tululm’s founder, Alex Alvarez. It shows. Alex is certified by PADI and GUE as a cave diver and cavern guide. Clients say he is patient, amazingly comfortable in the water and a great cavern or open water guide. He has been at Acuatic Tulum since before Tribal and Acuatic bonded and knows the area and diving like few others. Join him dive any day before or after your class.
Esteban
Our Free Dive Instructor, Esteban has been in search of depth since his arrival in the Yucatan! He has been our freedive guru at Acuatic Tulum and Tribal since 2018 and is an expert at connecting you to your breath in the water. Freediving is an amazing way to find your pranayama and deepen your connection to the breath. Try freediving any day before or after your yoga practice. But beware, you will find yourself wandering from your mat to the water more and more. Esteban is licensed to teach freediving by Apnea Total and gives courses and experiences here at Tribal/Acuatic.
Orlando
You may see Orlando at the front desk most afternoons. But his mind is in the portrait picture above! He is our afternoon admin person checking people in and taking care of the business. However, most mornings his is following the guides into the cenotes and training for his dive master cert. From Mexico City, he has been in Tulum for 2 years and working with Acuatic and Tribal since he arrived. He is an amazing snorkel guide now and all his instructors say he will make a fantastic open water guide shortly.
Greydi and Manuela and Chris
Greydi, Manuela and Chris are the Tribal Cleaning staff. Without them Tribal just wouldn't be as nice. All three are working mom's and they manage to balance life with love and gratitude like true yogis. - Photo by @i_write_light and @georgespictures
Animal Yogis
Our cats Macho and Oli and now Cumpli are fabulous members of the staff, ensuring that no one takes things to seriously. We have recently rescued two wonderful dogs: Astro and Oye Tu. One of the amazing things about Tulum is the animal culture here. We love practicing ahimsa toward all our animal spirits.
Our wonderful dog Beto, rest in peace, is in the very cement in Tribal. He blessed us with his presence as a puppy when we broke ground and lived her for nearly three years until he died suddenly on an early Sunday morning. He was Joanne's joy and happiness for all who knew him. Tribal will always be his home.