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YogaWorks teachers lead skillful and compassionate classes to help you feel good in your body and mind.

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  • Jesse Schein

    3 seasons

    Jesse Schein is an experienced yoga practitioner and teacher dedicated to helping her students achieve inner peace, focus, and self-love. For 23 years she has offered her teachings rooted in the YogaWorks method coupled with the vinyasa flow style of Ashtanga. Expect precise instructions delivere...

  • John Gaydos

    3 items

    John has been practicing yoga since 1972 and began teaching at YogaWorks in 1997 when he retired from being a professional dancer. Because of his dance background, one of his unique talents is teaching yoga to dancers. John likes teaching all levels but loves introducing yoga to people who have n...

  • Jillian Pransky

    1 season

    Jillian Pransky infuses her yoga classes with mindfulness practices, compassion, and ease. Her seamless style of working simultaneously with the body, mind, and spirit, while attuning with nature and the environment, creates inspiring classes and an integrative healing experience. Her technique ...

  • Justin Temple

    4 items

    Justin Timothy Temple was instantly drawn to yoga after being pulled, hooting and hollering, into his first class at the bidding of his friends over a decade ago. In the years since, he has devoted incalculable amounts of time, energy, and keystrokes in Google to the study of yoga. Justin strives...

  • Lesely Fightmaster

    7 items

    Lesley was a dedicated yogini and yoga teacher. She took her first teacher training at YogaWorks in 2006. Her classes are breath focused and alignment based - and combine her love of movement with the practice of yoga. Lesley believed that the transformational gift of yoga should be available to ...

  • Maeve McCaffrey

    11 items

    Maeve is a senior yoga and fitness trainer based in Los Angeles, CA with over 25 years of experience. She uses that insight to create effective and safe classes with unique sequencing.

  • Melanie Lora Meltzer

    1 season

    Melanie began her practice of yoga 29 years ago as a fluke when it was offered as part of her theatre training. Upon graduating from college, Melanie started working behind the desk at Yoga Works so she could practice every day. 2 years after that Maty Ezraty invited her to take the Teacher Train...

  • Michelle McKay

    3 items

    Michelle McKay is an experienced and certified yoga teacher, teacher trainer, mentor, and Urban Zen Integrated Therapist. She holds a business degree from Pepperdine University and has been known to be hilarious.

  • Olivia Barry

    14 items

    Olivia is a Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Yoga Therapist (International Association of Yoga Therapists), and Certified YogaWorks Teacher. She is interested in helping people thrive physically and spiritually through the teachings of yoga.

  • Patti Quintero

    1 season

    Patti Quintero, M.A, E-RYT, has taught yoga since 1998. Her teaching style is born out of her training in Ashtanga and Iyengar Yoga, focusing on postural alignment and the fluidity between body and breath. Pattiā€™s challenging yet compassionate approach, encourages students to move mindfully thro...

  • Romy Phillips

    3 items

    Romy Phillips is a Yogi, Yoga Therapist, Teacher Trainer, Author, Yoga Mentor, Entrepreneur and creative in many ways. She believes in always growing, evolving and generously sharing what she has learned!

  • Sarah Ezrin

    1 season

    Sarah Ezrin is the author of The Yoga of Parenting. She is a world-renowned yoga educator, content creator, and mama of two boys. Sarah writes extensively on the subjects of yoga, parenting, and mental health, often interweaving these themes. She is a regular contributor for Yoga Journal Magazine...

  • Tamika Caston-Miller

    5 seasons

    Tamika Caston-Miller is an E-RYT 500 with advanced training in Trauma-Informed Yoga, Somatics, Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. Her journey has been informed by chronic pain and injuries, social justice, ancestral healing, and compassion. She has studied with some of the most notable ...