Teachers

Yoga Teaching Staff

Lorna Sirota

Certified Iyengar instructor

Lorna Sirota started practicing yoga in 1984. The last eight years she has studied, practiced, and taught in the Iyengar tradition. Lorna took her first trip to Pune, India to study with the Iyengars in 2003.

Through her tangible and inspirational teaching style, Lorna guides and challenges each student in working towards proper alignment in asana, for inner and outer balance.

Nancy Sander

Certified Iyengar instructor

Nancy Sander has been teaching Iyengar yoga for 6 years. She completed the 3 year teacher training program at the Iyengar Institute of Los Angeles in 2000 and became a certified Iyengar instructor in 2004.

Nancy has been teaching at various studios on the west side and has also taught at Los Angeles Trade Technical College and West Los Angeles College.

She has had the privilege of studying with Geeta Iyengar and Sri B.K.S.Iyengar as well as with many of the senior Iyengar teachers in the U.S.

Nancy brings a sense of humor to her classes and she enjoys teaching asanas that students can practice at home with simple props at home such as a walls, chairs and blankets.

B.K.S. Iyengar says, " Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. Long uninterrupted practice of asanas done with awareness will bring success. Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flow into you."

From Illumination, Aphorisims of B.K.S. Iyengar.

Nancy teaches the Saturday morning 8:00 a.m class weekly.

Jennifer Edwards

Certified Iyengar instructor

Jennifer is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher practicing since the early 1990’s. She has studied with BKS Iyengar at his Institute in India and at the 2005 Yoga Journal Estes Park Iyengar Intensive. She is a graduate of the three-year Teacher Training Program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles. She serves the local yoga community as Vice President of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Southern California.

Jennifer is a dedicated practitioner who has taught at yoga studios throughout Los Angeles and at elementary and middle schools in Santa Monica and Culver City. She approaches teaching with reverence, assurance, precision, humor, and personal joy. Her classes focus on the essentials of yoga and offer students the opportunity to experience first hand the many benefits of yoga.

Suresh Rajagopalan

Certified Iyengar instructor

Suresh Rajagopalan has been practicing Iyengar yoga for eight years
and is a graduate of the three-year Teacher's Training Program at the B.K.S. Iyengar Institute of Los Angeles.

He has been teaching for two years and has studied with senior Iyengar teachers including Manouso Manos, Karin O'Bannon and Faeq Biria.

He combines a friendly teaching style with a sense of humor.

Keri Lee

Certified Iyengar instructor

Sonia

Certified Iyengar instructor

Sonia is a certified teacher of Iyengar Yoga and a graduate of the three-year Teacher Training Program in Southern California.

She has studied in Pune with the Iyengar family and has been fortunate enough to study with some of the most brilliant teachers of Iyengar Yoga and close disciples of Mr. Iyengar and Geeta and Prashant Iyengar.

Sonia continues her education by attending classes, workshops and conventions and studying yoga philosophy. She loves teaching and aims to share to the joy and vibrancy that yoga brings to practitioners.

Jeff Perlman

Jeff has been practicing Iyengar Yoga since 2000 and is a graduate of the three-year teacher-training program at the BKS Iyengar Institute in Los Angeles. He has studied with the Iyengar Family in India and regularly studies with Manouso Manos and other senior teachers in the United States. He has been teaching in and around Los Angeles since 2006.

Rupa

Tulsi Laher

Tulsi Laher

Nick Salcedo

Yoga practice began in 1995

Nick Salcedo

Yoga practice began in 1995