Dana, MA, E-RYT, YACEP, is an Authorized Level 2 Ashtanga Yoga Instructor with almost two decades of teaching experience. She holds a Master’s Degree in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University where her research focus was Yoga Philosophy and Sanskrit, and her thesis was an original translation of a medieval text, the Yogatārāvalī. She has also studied postural yoga, chanting and Sanskrit extensively in Mysore, India.
Dana teaches traditionally-rooted classes, workshops, and trainings in person at Humming Puppy, Equinox, and online, offers private sessions, and mentors emerging yoga instructors. Her classes are supportive and precise, with a focus on helping students build and sustain a holistic practice that integrates physicality with philosophy. She also teaches the Core Yoga Philosophy Courses for LMU’s Yoga Philosophy Certificate Program, which you can join online from anywhere around the world.
She was initially drawn to yoga in 2004 while living at home in Florida, but eventually moved to New York City where she attended NYU and FIT and cultivated a devoted Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga practice. In 2009, while also pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications, she completed a Registered Yoga Teacher Training at Urban Ashtanga Yoga Shala in Orlando, Florida. She has since completed additional training in Restorative and Vinyasa Yoga.
Beginning in 2011, she made five annual month-long trips to Mysore, India, to study Ashtanga Yoga at the KPJAYI and to further her connection to the roots of the practice.
Since 2013, she has taught Mysore Ashtanga classes, and is also a Classical Pilates instructor with 600 hours of training from New York City’s Power Pilates, has served as co-director of New York Yoga’s 200-Hour Teacher Training, taught in trainings at The Corner Yoga, and is a published poet featured in the Poetry of Yoga.