Darren Rhodes – Yoga Teacher

Posted on February 25, 2014October 6, 2019 by admin@wholeuni

Tap 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.

Sianna Sherman – Yoga Teacher

Posted on February 25, 2014October 6, 2019 by admin@wholeuni

Sianna 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

Marla Apt – Yoga Teacher

Posted on February 25, 2014October 6, 2019 by admin@wholeuni

Based 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/)

Lisa Walford – Yoga Teacher – Iyengar

Posted on February 25, 2014October 6, 2019 by admin@wholeuni

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/)

Joey Soto – Yoga – Hatha

Posted on February 25, 2014October 6, 2019 by admin@wholeuni

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

Elena Brower – Yoga Teacher – Hatha

Posted on February 25, 2014October 6, 2019 by admin@wholeuni

Elena Brower
Founder/Co-owner

Mama, founder and co-owner of VIRAYOGA, and co-author of Art of Attention, Elena has taught yoga for 16+ years. After graduating from Cornell University in 1992 with a design degree, she worked as a textile and apparel designer for 6 years, and has studied with master yoga teachers for over 10 years. Through her teaching, influenced by several traditions including alignment-based Hatha and Kundalini yoga, Elena offers yoga as a way to approach our world with realistic reverence and gratitude. Her classes are a masterful, candid blend of artful alignment and attention cues for your body, mind and heart.

From the Museum of Modern Art to the Great Lawn at Central Park, from the playa at Burning Man to the Eiffel Tower, Elena is honoured to offer larger-scale experiences of yoga, but her true service is in shifting awareness within the smallest interactions; one family, one household at a time. As a coach with the Handel Group, she coaches individuals and teaches courses, and she’s been featured in the New York Times, Yoga Journal, Element Yoga for Beginners DVDs, ABC News and NBC News. Dozens of yoga practices with Elena can be found on Yogaglo.

As the Executive Producer of On Meditation, she is curating a project about the relevance of meditation and its benefits. The first limited-edition printing of her first book, Art of Attention, co-authored with Erica Jago, was released in December 2012 and sold out within a few weeks; Art of Attention’s second edition was released in March 2013.

Along with her own writings, Elena contributes to Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Huffington Post, CrazySexyLife, Positively Positive, The Chalkboard Mag, TheDailyLove, and Elephant Journal, and is an original board member of YogaEarth. Elena is also a Beauty Ecologist with Pangea Organics, part of the movement to bring organic, all-natural beauty care products to millions of households worldwide.

Rod Stryker – Yoga Teacher

Posted on February 25, 2014October 6, 2019 by admin@wholeuni

The founder of ParaYoga, Rod Stryker, is widely considered to be one of the preeminent yoga and meditation teachers in the United States. He is renowned for his depth of knowledge, practical wisdom, and unique ability to transmit the deepest aspect of the teachings and practices to modern audiences and students from all walks of life. Rod has taught for more than thirty years, training teachers leading corporate seminars, yoga retreats, and workshops throughout the world.
Acclaimed as a leading voice for the ancient traditions, accomplished Yogi, teacher, lecturer, and writer, Rod’s down-to-earth approach is informed as much by his mastery of the sublime teachings, as it is by his love of life and devotion to his wife and four children.