Staff teacher
My yoga classes aim to awaken inner resources for personal healing and to bring students into alignment with their full potential to thrive both on and off the mat. I balance precise asana instruction and alignment with intention, breath, flow, meditation, and music in classes carefully themed to deepen the student's understanding of yoga. My classes are infused with love! I focus on the interconnection between mind, body, and spirit while guiding everyone to work at their own pace in a safe, playful, and transformative environment. I encourage students to cultivate authentic self-worth, experience presence in their entire being, and tread the path to higher consciousness. Central to my teaching is a belief that the more people learn to be present to themselves, the more they are likely to become present to their communities and the greater world. My prayer and vision is that we all rise up and become the light and healing our world so dearly needs. I received my 200 hour Certification from Center for Yoga in 2004, participated in the Work-scholar Program at Esalen Institute in 2006, and earned my B.A. from Naropa University in 2007. My Major was Traditional Eastern Arts with a 1,000 hour Yoga Teacher Training Concentration; my Minor was Somatic Psychology. In 2008 I graduated from The Institute of Psycho Structural Balancing with a 550 hour Massage Certification. That same year I lived at a wellness center in Auroville, India where I taught yoga and dance. In 2010 I received my professional training to practice Holistic Health Coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I graduated from Sofia University in 2013 with my M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology and a Specialization in Transpersonal Life Coaching. In 2014 I produced a yoga DVD titled The Yoga of Food: A Whole Person Approach to Eating and in 2016 I produced a meditation CD titled Body Love, Soul Purpose. In 2017 I went on to co-found Body Love, Soul Purpose as a community organization with my good friend Rachel. I currently practice and teach in Los Angeles and lead retreats worldwide. I love the LA beach community and live in El Segundo with my partner Josh.
By Josie Kramer on Jun 18, 2018
This class will guide you through a meaningful intention-setting, a feel good warm up, a few rounds of sun salutations, and into a dancing warrior flow. Afterwards, enjoy a supported shoulder stand, wheel pose, thread the eye of the needle, a wide leg forward fold, spinal twists and a relaxing savasana. Try extending love and respect for your body as you focus on your potential rather than any shortcomings or imperfections. Namaste, Yogis!
By Josie Kramer on May 31, 2018
Enjoy this short yet well-rounded flow anytime of the day! You can expect intention-setting, deep breathing, sun salutations, a creative mandala flow, bridge into wheel, hip opening, forward folding, a spinal twist and savasana. Finish feeling renewed and energized! Namaste, Yogis!
By Josie Kramer on May 21, 2018
Enjoy a well rounded vinyasa flow practice designed to help you find peace, health and balance at every level of your being. Melt away the stiffness. Strengthen the weakness. Mend the broken places. Tolerate the stillness. Allow grace to happen. Expect a gentle warm up, sun salutations, humble warrior flow, core strengthening, forearm stand, wheel, and thread the needle. Namaste, Yogis!
By Josie Kramer on May 3, 2018
This 30 minute vinyasa flow class is a short yet effective way to squeeze some yoga into your day! Take time to reconnect with yourself, set a positive intention for your day and cultivate inner and outer peace. You can expect a gentle warm up, sun salutations, a warrior flow, heart opening, hip opening, forward folds, twists and savasana. Enjoy, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Apr 14, 2018
Enjoy this 30 minute flow anytime in your day! Feel into the poses, relax with the help of your breath and allow your experience to be what it is! Be aware of your inner dialogue. Speak to yourself in a way that is kind. Quick warm up, sun salutes, warrior one flow, bow pose, pigeon, spinal twists, a gentle forward fold and savasana. Enjoy, Yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Mar 25, 2018
This is a strong, well rounded flow practice designed to help you connect with your body and breath while releasing any physical or emotional stress. You can expect sun salutations, a warrior flow, standing balance poses, inversions, bridge pose, as well as hip opening and savasana! Namaste, Yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Mar 6, 2018
This well rounded 30 minute vinyasa flow class will take you through a series of sun salutations, standing poses, heart and hip openers and a gentle cool down. Carve 30 minutes out of your day and feel connected and rejuvenated! Let your breath be your guide! Enjoy, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Feb 17, 2018
This practice helps you find balance at all levels of your experience - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Let go of the to do list of the day, release any expectations you have of your practice and relax into the present moment. Flow with positive intention through sun salutations, warrior poses, inversions, heart and hip openers, and forward folds. Enjoy a final surrender in savasana. Namaste, Yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Jan 30, 2018
This flow practice focuses on cultivating your medicine - exploring the ways in which yoga can help you nurture your body, mind and spirit. Set a positive intention at the beginning and then enjoy a challenging flow class designed to help you go deeper both physically and spiritually. You can expect sun salutations, standing balancing poses, crow pose, inversions, wheel pose, pigeon, and gentle forward folds, twists, and savasana at the end. Namaste, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Jan 18, 2018
This class will explore the theme of balancing opposites - both on the mat and in life: if you're having a difficult emotion, can you cultivate its opposite? Can you breathe lightness into the heaviness of the pose? Can you offer up what doesn't serve you and cultivate more of what does? Can you find the balance between effort and surrender, stability and openness, self-acceptance and a goal? Enjoy exploring these questions and many more throughout a challenging flow practice with plenty of standing poses, heart and hip opening, as well as arm balancing and inversions. Namaste!
