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140 Balboa Street @ 3rd Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94118

Faculty

Auritte Cohen-Ross - Founder

A mother of two elementary school age kids, Ms. Ross founded Celsius and Beyond after her frustration and disappointment with the state of science education in the schools in the US. She came from Israel where the pursuit of science is encouraged and seen as critical to the success of the country's economic development.

Ms. Ross has spent 12 years in the high tech industry and served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a technical communications specialist. She is a Cum laude economics graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.

Leslie Lawrence

Ms. Lawrence has been teaching science to elementary and middle school children in the San Francisco Public School system for over 10 years. For many years she taught science without text books, using hands on experiments and encouraging student's curiosity. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Art from UC Berkeley; a Master's Degree in Journalism from New York University; and a Teaching Credential from San Francisco State University.

Cynthia Bates

Ms. Bates is one of our kid's yoga instructors. She is a former teacher at an international school in Tokyo, Japan and was an instructor in an after-school program in California. She has been practicing yoga for over 8 years and has been apprenticing with senior Iyengar Yoga teachers at the renowned Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco.

Ms. Bates received her master degree in Social Marketing from UC Davis.

Ms. Bates' love of children and Yoga come together in her teaching. Her classes help children to strengthen their body and their heart as well as gain a calmness of spirit. And, they're lots of fun too!