Joey Soto – Yoga – Hatha

joey 1-Ms. Joey Soto is a yoga teacher who specializes in teaching meditation and vinyasa yoga to beginner and intermediate level students. She has practiced and taught yoga around the world and brings her expertise to private and public classes throughout southern California.

Training corporate executives, attorneys, parents, pregnant women, and teens, her clients have said that they enjoy the emphasis on alignment, breath and meditation she brings to her classes. She is a published author, a Manduka Ambassador and donates yoga sessions to support important causes, including ThirstProject, NextAid, and Cancer Support Community. In addition to teaching yoga, Joey has been a leader in environmental issues over the last decade through her work as a water resources consultant and community philanthropist.

Joey is a 500-hr National Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Instructor, CPR/AED Certified for Infant, Child, and Adult, holds a M.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning from California State University, Fullerton and B.A. in Environmental Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Learn more about Ms. Soto on her website, www.sotoyoga.com or contact her at: [email protected]

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

Lisa Walford – Yoga Teacher – Iyengar

Lisa Walford holds an Intermediate Senior Iyengar teaching certificate and has been teaching yoga in Los Angeles since 1982. She continues her studies annually with the Iyengars, in Pune, India, and teaches worldwide.

In her rigorous and technically informative classes, she creates an ambiance of internal focus inspiring to both beginning and advanced students. Through yoga, she continues to explore the introspective process of balancing the physical with the energetic body while deepening her appreciation for the creative spirit. In her words: “Yoga brings us from the finite to the infinite, from pain to purpose and passion, and from disease to discriminating awareness.”

Lisa is on the Board of the not-for-profit organization Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics and the Iyengar Yoga Association of Los Angeles.

She was the curriculum director for the Teacher Training Program at YogaWorks through 2006, and was instrumental in its development. She is on the advisory board of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and the Yoga Studies program at Loyola Marymount University. Lisa has a BA from UCLA and is co-author of The Longevity Diet, now in its second edition, and The Anti-Aging Plan.

Lisa teaches at Iyengar Yoga Institue of Los Angeles (http://www.iyila.org/)

 

Marla Apt – Yoga Teacher

Marla AptBased in Los Angeles, Marla is a Senior Intermediate level Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. Her 20 years of experience have made her a prominent instructor both throughout the United States and abroad where she leads workshops, intensives, retreats and teacher training programs.

Marla teaches at Iyengar Yoga Institue of Los Angeles (http://www.iyila.org/)

 

Sianna Sherman – Yoga Teacher

Sianna ShermanSianna Sherman is an internationally celebrated yoga innovator who shares her passionate voice with devotion, deep practice, and soulful teaching. She is known as an inspired storyteller and as a community activator of conscious and collective collaboration. Her initiation into the fires of yoga occurred in 1989 and she has been immersed in the practices ever since

 

Darren Rhodes – Yoga Teacher

Darren RhodesTap into the wellspring of your inner Oasis!Every member of our staff is expertly trained in the art and science of teaching yoga.We specialize in making yoga more accessible.

All of our classes are ongoing and open to drop-in students. To view when class times are, visit our schedules page, and select a studio location (downtown, central, or east). If you find a class you would like to try out, just show up. For your first class, please plan to arrive 10-15 minutes early in order to fill out our welcome form and alert the teacher to any injuries or limitations you might have. Save time: download, fill out, and sign our welcome form for your first class! >>download welcome form 

Yoga for the raw beginner? We highly recommend our “intro 2 yoga” classes throughout the week that you can drop into at any time.