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Office Yoga® & Estée Lauder
Welcome Estée Lauder to the Office Yoga® Family! Our newest client knows that beauty begins from within. We’re thrilled to announce that Estée Lauder is bringing Office Yoga® to their headquarters in Manhattan! Does your company have offices in…
Michael Clement
Michael Clement, NYC OYO Instructor Michael is a 200-hr RYT certified yoga instructor who specializes in vinyasa flow, meditation, and restorative yoga. He studies the impacts of living in high-stress environments, and focuses his practice on soothing, strengthening, and supporting. Having worked intricately with…
Laura Cohen
Laura Cohen, Bay Area OYO Instructor Laura Cohen is certified Office Yoga® instructor and an all around artist with over 20 years of dance training and performance experience. Her proclivity for anatomy lead her to receive her 200 RYT certification…
Cindy Raspiller
Certified OYO Instructor, Bay Area Cindy’s yoga classes focus on creativity of movement and calming of the mind. Believing that everybody can benefit from yoga, she strives to break complex movements and ideas down into their basic parts so student…
Brandi Zorzy
Brandi Zorzy, OYO Instructor San Francisco Brandi has been practicing yoga since 2008 and received her first certification in 2011, and continues to study with master teachers in San Francisco and New York City. Brandi is a practitioner of Neelakantha Meditation…
Maryam Sharifzadeh
Founder & CEO of Office Yoga® San Francisco I don’t consider being the first woman in history to swim around San Francisco Bay my biggest accomplishment. Nor was swimming across Lake Tahoe the biggest, nor being nominated Top 22 Conscious…
Charlotte Birkett
Certified OYO Instructor While practicing Yoga at retreats in the United Kingdom, Charlotte decided to add teaching Yoga to her body of work. Yoga for Charlotte hits all the juicy parts of her body and soul while painting pictures in…
OYO Sequence Series: Holiday Flow
Behold, the Office Yoga® Holiday Flow Keep this in your back pocket for emergencies, food breaks, party tricks, and more. Sometimes we need a few minutes to decompress and recollect ourselves, especially when we’re with our entire family, or our significant…
The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi
Yoga Sutra 3.3 “tad eva artha matra nirbhasam svarupa shunyam iva samadhih” Last month we explored the fifth limb: Pratyahara. This month, we move on to the last three limbs: Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi. We bucket the last three limbs together into one,…
Cleansing Breath
Is the air quality affecting your breathing? Are you getting headaches due to smoke from the California wildfires? Let’s hold off on the deep ujayi breaths until the air clears. In the meantime, try this Cleansing Breath exercise, learned from…
Off the Mat: Yamas
Earlier this year we visited how the Yamas were outlined in Sri Swami Satchidananda’s rendition of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. We learned that the Yamas are the moral and ethical principles which guide us in living with others in order to live a fulfilled and happy life. They direct…
Ardha Chandrasana: OYO Style
For the last four months we’ve been exploring different Office Yoga® Sequences, during the OYO Sequence Series. For more detailed OYO Sequences, click here. We took some time to chat with Bodhi, our favorite Office Yogi. She shared with us…
Kaitlynn Murphy
Please welcome Kaitlynn Murphy, certified OYO Instructor! Kaitlynn Murphy is a certified Office Yoga® and Vinyasa Yoga Instructor who’s lived in the Bay since 2015. Kaitlynn completed her first 200-hour RYT under Stephanie Snyder at Love Story Yoga and OYO Instructor Training in 2018. She is fueled by…
The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Pratyahara
Yoga Sutra 2.55 “tatah parama vashyata indriyanam“ Last month we explored the fourth limb: Pranayama. This month, we move on to the fifth limb: Pratyahara. Pratyahara is the action of turning in, and simultaneously mastering the quieting of the mind. By reducing…
Meet Melissa
OYO Instructor, Melissa Phillips Office Yoga® Austin Please give a warm welcome to Melissa Phillips, our most recent Office Yoga® instructor in Austin, Texas! As a lover of movement, and a trained dancer, Melissa attended her first yoga class 15…