we teach what we love so each class is unique and blissful
Adria Baratta
200 hr T wit Noah Maze
Adria came to LA via NYC in 2010 and has been yoga-ing all over Echo Park, Silver Lake and Los Feliz ever since. A gymnast in her formative years, Adria found yoga in college after stints as a dancer, diver, & runner. Trained in alignment-based Hatha yoga, anatomy and philosophy, Adria's classes will break down poses for both beginners and more experienced practitioners.
Yoga for Runners
Begins March 2, 2016
ADRIANA RIZZOLO
Adriana is a yoga teacher and healer based in Topanga, California. She travels teaching women in NYC and worldwide. A Brooklyn native for years she co-founded Awakened Feminine, an offering for women committed to transformation and supporting each others empowered living. She is a student and teacher of David H Wagner and Living Meditation, and works privately mentoring and empowering women through yoga, meditation and the powerful practice of chanting. She passes all of this knowledge and love on to her students through her private sessions and workshops, writings, kirtans, and online training courses in her practical and intuitive approach. Find out more about Adriana at www.awakenedfeminineyoga.com and @artofloving on Instagram.
Alison Harma
Alison has been a dedicated yoga practitioner since she stumbled upon her first yoga class over ten years ago. Since that first experience, she has explored numerous different styles and traditions of yoga. Before settling in Los Angeles, Alison traveled across the country with Broadway shows allowing her to study yoga with exceptional teachers across the country. While constantly on the road, her yoga practice has allowed her to maintain a sense of balance in her life and, no matter where she travels, her yoga mat has always given her a place to call home. Alison’s classes are a flowing exploration of the body and mind, reminding us that life is about the journey, not the destination.
Open & Restore
Sunday: 6:00pm – 7:15pm
Amalia Gardner
Amalia Gardner, M.S., L.Ac, is a Board Certified Chinese Medicine Physician. She graduated from Emperor’s College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2013.
As well as practicing Acupuncture Amalia is certified Yoga instructor. She began practicing Ashtanga Yoga in 1999.Growing up in San Diego Amalia had the good fortune of studying with Tim Miller at the Ashtanga Yoga Center in Encinitas, CA as well as with many other wonderful teachers who helped shape the instructor she is today (Christina Allen, Anne Nowell, Susan Taylor, Rich McGowen, and Jodi Blumstien). In 2003 she completed a yoga teacher training in the tradition of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga.
Amalia’s keenness for helping others is exemplified in the time she takes with each of her students and patients to ensure they receive the most effective practice or treatment possible. Her work in life is to inspire everyone to take control of their own wellness.
Brenda Andujo Mah
Brenda took her first yoga class in 1997 in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya. Since her first class, she felt the soothing and calming effects of this ancient and powerful tool and wanted to make it accessible to anyone interested in more peace of mind and clarity to navigate life. She has 500 hours of yoga training from The Breathing Space. In addition to teaching at Yogala, Brenda also offers private yoga instruction for any students interested in deepening and taking their new or existing yoga practice to the next level.
Additionally, Brenda graduated from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelors Degree in Sociology and a minor in Women’s Studies. In 2006 she created “Be goods,” a line of raw, organic, vegan and gluten-free sweets and savories-- "Be goods" are featured in various yoga studios, (including Yogala :) restaurants and stores throughout Southern California.
Diana NGuYen
Gabriela Tollman
Gabriela Tollman is a Certified Member of the American Council of Hypnotherapists. Her background in theater and filmmaking inform her work as a hypnotherapist as she believes all three mediums have the ability to access and affect the subconscious mind. She is thrilled to be sharing her love of hypnosis in a group setting and believes hypnosis is effective in rewiring the subconscious mind. Gabriela believes hypnosis has the power to help individuals reset behavior patterns and reconnect to their inner peace and wisdom.
Heather Mendoza
Jamie Ford
Jamie loves that almost anything can be worked out through yoga. Yoga grounds and focusses her while opening her up to more joy and fun! She feels best when doing a regular practice and loves that there is so much to explore through the practice. There is always more to learn and discover.
She loves teaching vinyasa - fun and flowy classes with elements of sound healing. She likes students to get into their breath and enjoys working with themes as a way to focus the class.
Jamie is 500 hr YT with Christy Marsden of Yoga Blend. She's been teaching Yinyasa Yoga and Sound since 2010 and at Yogala since we opened! She is also a Sound Healer.
Soundbaths (Monthly)
Sunday: 7:30-8:45pm
Jap Dharam Kaur / Vicky Rose
Jap Dharam Kaur is a Certified KRI Level Two teacher who has been teaching steadily for 9 years and practicing for 12. She also trained in pre-natal and children’s yoga. Having been a teacher of one thing or another most of her adult life, it was during Level One Teacher Training at Golden Bridge L.A. that Jap Dharam knew that teaching Kundalini Yoga was what she was meant to do. She finished that training and never looked back. It is her great pleasure and passion to teach people of all ages, conditions and walks of life. As Jap Dharam has done so, she has continued her study of Kundalini Yoga with annual trips to India, assisting in Teacher Trainings and a deep personal practice.
Joella Enderes
Joella teaches a heart centered alignment based Hatha Yoga class. With emphasis on guiding the breath consciously through asana practice, her classes seek to bring the individual into a deeper sense of balance and harmony. With a focus on creating strength and flexibility, mindfulness in movement, and intelligence in action, Joella intends to create a space where all students feel safe and supported in their practice.
Originally from New Zealand, Joella moved to Western Australia at age 10 and grew up along the coastline in the beachside community of Augusta. Joella’s mother took her to her first yoga class when she was 13. Her practice of Hatha yoga and recent focus on studies of Iyengar yoga has transformed her life and paved the way for a strong personal practice. Joella completed her 200hr teacher training at Liberation yoga and continues to study with enthusiasm as a seeker on the path. She is deeply grateful and inspired to be able to share her experiences and insights with those around her. Students of all levels are encouraged and welcome to join her classes!
"Through aligning energy in the body we raise our own vibration and that of those around us. We begin to remember our true nature - that which is luminous and expansive beyond our wildest dreams!”
Find her on Instagram here.
Kayla Robbins
For Kayla, yoga seamlessly aligns her mind, body, spirit and breath.
She loves leading poses that challenge students to push their limits, while allowing them to laugh at themselves in the process.
Kayla first discovered yoga seven years ago and has been hooked ever since. She practiced in studios all over the world before finding and falling in love with Yogala on the first day she moved to Los Angeles.
Yoga for Mental Wellbeing Donation / Monthly
Sunday 4:00 - 6:00pm
Lauren spencer king
Lauren loves that through yoga everything becomes clear. She can get out of her own way and "see".
She loves guiding students to an understanding of the wisdom in their bodies and souls (that they are often seeking elsewhere). She wants her students to learn to trust their own intuition and encourages them to be empowered by their own feelings. Her students are learning to be healers for themselves. Lauren treasures holding space and being witness for that journey.
Lauren competed the four levels of David Elliot's Healer Training and has been teaching Breathwork Meditation since 2014. She is also an artist.
Laetitia deLagasnerie
With Laetitia's lifelong love of dance and movement, her discovery of yoga 16 years ago was a natural fit. She thinks of yoga as a life saver, having sustained her through the birth of 2 children, and illness. She has studied many styles over the years and is certified to teach Hatha and Kundalini. Her Hatha flow class draws from different practices, aiming to keep her students safe with a strong emphasis on breath and alignment. While encouraging them to enjoy the process she guides the practice to become a moving meditation. Laetitia has been studying lately with well know Iyengar teacher Koren Paalman. Visit Laetitia's website.
Open & Restore (Live Sitar 1st Fridays)
Friday: 7:00pm – 8:15pm
letania kirkland
LeTania loves that yoga creates a sacred space dependent on nothing more than the movement of mind, body and breath.
She loves introducing beginners to the foundation of Vinyasa Flow and guiding more advanced practitioners in a strong vinyasa that flows like a dance to inspiring music (usually:). There is close attention to alignment, seamless transitions and movement with confidence.
LeTania trained at Laughing Lotus NYC with Dana Trixie Flynn and Jasmine Tarkeshi and has been teaching Vinyasa Flow and Restorative Yoga since 2007. She is also a mother of two and a journalist.
Follow LeTania's Blog: ofmanyworlds and on Facebook.
Matt Williams
Matt loves Yoga's simplicity. All it requires is showing up, moving through practice and breath and the shift happens both inside and out.
Matt's classes integrate all the aspects of Yoga into the practice including Breathwork, Mantra, and Personal Application.
Trained at theYandara Yoga Institute, Baja Mexico, Matt teaches a heart-centered Vinyasa Flow. He's been teaching with Yogala since 2014. He is also a Reiki Practitioner.
MEITAL BAT OR
For Meital, yoga provides the tools to be closer to her true inner self, to live life fully from a place of closeness inside.
My Sadhana, self practice, is an integration of Meditation (observation), Pranayama (energy work), Ashtanga Yoga Vinyasa and Raja (reflecting on the values of the mind with the guidance of yoga philosophy). Ashtanga is a practice of a meditation in movement composed by a set of postures performed in a dynamic style. The practice encourages me to stay close to breath and energy while in movement and to gaze towards the inner self and I bring my Sadhana into my teaching.
The foundations of my teaching is Ashtanga, and I incorporate aspects of Vinyasa flow, Kundalini meditation, Philosophy of Yoga, and Thai Yoga Massage in my courses. I offer variations of postures and different rhythms of flow for all practitioners and the present moment.
By teaching Ashtanga Yoga Vinyasa as a series of set postures, I am sharing with students the tools to have a self practice at home that serve the journey of their lives.
My yoga path started India, in the woods near the Parvati river banks in the foothills of the Himalayas in 2002.
Leaving India left with me the constant presence and calling of yoga that I wished to explore more fully. It was when I met my teacher Shimon Ben Avie in Israel that the inner meaning of the yoga knowledge started to open within me and flow into my life. I have been fortunate to have been Shimon's assistant for his teachers training courses in Ashtanga Yoga.
Since 2005, I have been teaching classes, courses and workshops in Madrid, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Cape Town, Paris, New York, and LA. I teach classes for groups and privates, workshops, and annual courses for teachers and practitioners.
My intention through the practice is to share the tools to liberate the mind and body from all that is hiding our true inner self. Through the yoga tools of asana postures, meditation, and philosophy we have the opportunity to live life in totality and in closeness to ourselves and to be in synchronization with the world.
Meredith Carter
Pedro Shanahan
Balance, flexibility, strength and breath keep Pedro practicing. He loves the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of his regular practice.
Leading Donation Based Yoga makes him feel better about life. He offers the basic Power Yoga se - Ashtanga-based, vigorous flow. It's for all levels, students are encouraged to take breaks as needed and to push through perceived limitations. There are no judgements. Classes feature a kick-ass core challenge and brief mediation with cool down at end. Amazing workout, even if you are totally broke:)
Pedro trained with Steven Earth Metz at Earth's Power Yoga for 16 years. He has been teaching Donation Based Yoga since 2005 and with Yogala since the beginning! He is also an actor with the Actors' Gang and a teacher of acting in prisons.
Rachel Scandling
Yoga brings Rachel out of the everyday grind and back into a centered self. It's where she processes, reflects and practices gratitude and presence. She loves that it can be relaxing, energizing, fun, calming-all in one.
She loves beginning and ending her classes with extended stretching while the core of the class focuses on flow. Expect fun transitions and new ways of practicing basic postures. Hip and heart openers are essential!
Rachel trained with Cloud Nine and has been teaching since 2010 and with Yogala since we opened our doors!
Raquel Jordan
Yoga taught Raquel how to love and honor herself. It brings her back to her true essence; keeps her open, clear, strong, centered and relaxed so that she's functioning at her optimal level.
Awareness of the body and breath is a key component to her teaching style. She loves incorporating props and walls when implementing the concept 'power of opposition'.
Raquel holds a 200 hr certification through YogaWorks under the tutelage of Joan Hyman and Carmen Fitzgibbon and continues to take workshops and intensive which inform her practice and teachings. She's also studied with Gurmuhk, Tej, Paul Cabanis, Jeanne Heileman, Anna Forrest, Tony G, and Elena Brower. She teaches classical Raja yoga, including; Alignment based yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Restorative, Yoga Nidra and Meditation.
Visit her website: RaquelJordanYoga.com
Iyengar-Inspired
Mondays 8-9:15pm
Candlelight Flow
Thursdays 8-9:15pm
Rebecca Hirsch
Originally from Chicago, Rebecca studied Drama at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. While in New York, Rebecca took her first yoga class at Yoga to the People and was forever hooked! She has been practicing Yoga ever since. After finishing college, Rebecca moved to Los Angeles to forever escape the cold to pursue her two loves: Acting and Yoga.
Her certification is from Hot 8 Yoga in Beverly Hills, her Kids Yoga certification from Zooga Yoga and she is currently getting her 300 hour certification. Rebecca loves working with all ages and is very excited to be apart of the Yogala Family!
Sahil Shrof
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Sara de la cruz
Yoga makes Sara more capable of feeling deeply - both the good stuff and the bad stuff - and along with her meditation practice, helps her to be kinder, more present, more resilient, and more courageous. It keeps her connect to her humanity. And it makes her feel more alive.
She loves cultivating a space with students where there is permission to fully be ourselves and where we're invited to practice with whatever might show up for us on any given day - physically, psychologically, and emotionally. Within this space, she teaches a strong, grounded and meditative practice that focuses on a strong core, a soft heart and a willingness to listen to our bodies and to give ourselves the practice that we need, regardless of what it looks like.
Serge Berliawsky
Serge is drawn to the healing, heart-opening and transformational power of yoga.
His teaching incorporates Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, Mantra and Meditation. Serge has practiced the yogic arts of India & Tibet since his youth, and teaching since 2000. His approach evolves out of a deep transmission from younger years living in Kula (yogic community), engaging in lengthy practice before the hours of dawn, and undergoing rigorous study with his teachers. In classes, Serge blends his knowledge of traditional yogic practice & philosophy with thousands of hours of training in Ashtanga Yoga, Yin Yoga, Rudra Yoga, Kundalini, Ayurveda and Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a BA in Religious Studies with an emphasis on South-Asian traditions, a certificate in Yoga Philosophy and reads/writes Sanskrit.
More at shivakaliyoga.com Om Tat Sat.
Shivakali Yoga
Tuesday: 5:30pm – 6:45pm
Steve Acros
The potentialities of the practice never cease to amaze Steve. "When I'm sick it makes it makes me feel healthy, when I'm sad, it's makes me happy, when I'm at best, it makes me feel better." He loves teaching beginners, as well as back bends and poses that surprise you:)
Steven is an Echo Park native. Born and raised here, his teaching style reflects the LA lifestyle: equal parts relaxing and adventurous. As someone who practices many different styles of yoga, he loves to keep classes fun and challenging by incorporating those styles into his teachings. His motto is Sapere Aude or Dare to Know. He believes that by keeping an open heart and mind you will never stop growing.
Always looking for new ways to push himself, Steven found yoga. After it changed his life by connecting him to his more spiritual self, he became eager to share his passion with the rest of the world. He teaches that yoga, although an amazingly effective physical activity, is in reality so much more. When he is not teaching he remains very active. Steve is an avid runner, cyclist, as well as personal trainer. He has a huge emphasis towards healthy living through physical fitness. Expect to be motivated by Steven both on and off the mat.
Suze Q
Kundalini Yoga saved her life. A crazy party girl in her 20s, SuzE Q was on a path not sustainable for her body, mind or spirit. Her best friend invited her to a class and it began her journey back to health and wellbeing. Kundalini continues to save her life on a regular basis. It balances her body, thoughts and emotions and gives her the opportunity to connect with source energy and her divine Self.
There is a variety of focus in her classes, I tent to lean more toward heart & navel chakra sets. I believe in this day & age that what is needed so deeply is courage (navel center) to move from the heart! That being said, you will sweat, it will be a good work out for your body, mind & spirit. Here are hundreds of sets & infinite ways to put them together. So you never really know what you are going to get... But rest assured, you will always get what you need! Since then she has studied under the senior staff at Golden Bridge Yoga and completed Level 1 Teacher Training in 2007 for KRI certification. Now crossing over from the entertainment industry where she serves as a professional dancer, choreographer and much more, SuzE Q brings her unique charisma, compassion and acute body awareness to Kundalini Yoga instruction. Her classes are geared towards pushing through the boundaries of the mind to awaken ones true potential.
Kundalini
Tues: 10:30am – 11:45am
Thurs: 10:30-11:45am
Veronica Desoyza
Veronica has been practicing yoga for over 20 yrs. She is certified in both Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga. She believes firmly in the healing and transformative powers of her practice. It has helped her find joy and peace in all that she undertakes. Veronica spent the first part of her life as a Ballet and Modern dancer, aerial artist, and singer. She has performed on Broadway, off-B'way, and around the world. The only way she was able to withstand a grueling, demanding, and highly competitive career was through her yoga practice. It has kept her centered, sane, and healthy. Veronica also has been a licenced and practicing massage therapist for 14 yrs. "I believe we can make the world a better place with yoga."