My love affair with yoga started on the last day of a free week-long pass at a ritzy gym on the Upper West Side in 1998. Five minutes in, I knew somehow that this balance of mindfulness and movement lived somewhere in my cells, and probably had long before I'd stepped on any mat.

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After seven years practicing with Beryl Bender Birch at the NYRRC, I earned my 200-hour Yoga Certification at New York Yoga in 2005, followed by a Hot Yoga Certification a few years later.

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For the past two decades, I've taught yoga to cancer patients, screenwriters in Belize, diplomats at the UN, seniors, teens, writers and lovers of the written word, in addition to weekly private clients of all ages, some of whom have been working with me for as long as I've been teaching.

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I’ve been teaching HOT vinyasa yoga at the studio that birthed me for 10+ years now and have found a love for teaching 5, 15, 25 people at a time that I can’t even describe. And starting in 2020, livestreamed for the studio and started teaching Zoom classes on my own, with students in PA, NJ, CO, and all throughout NY. Those happily continue today.

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My classes aim to create the kind of safe space where every body can feel good about trying new things, celebrate what's possible, let the struggle go and the smiles come. I believe that what's cultivated on the mat can and should be lived off the mat, all towards moving through this life with more energy, ease, and grace.

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I hope you come play on the mat with me soon. Yay yoga!

 

love, dana