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 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!
By Josie Kramer on Dec 24, 2017
In this flow class work on staying with a strong and calm center while being attuned to your body's wants and needs. Expect a feel-good warm up, sun salutations, a challenging standing sequence, time to work on arm balances and inversions, heart opening, hip opening and a gentle cool down. Enjoy a long savasana at the end!
By Josie Kramer on Dec 11, 2017
This flow class includes a gentle warm up, a heat building standing sequence, arm balances, inversions, heart and hip opening and a gentle cool down. Approach your edge gently and consciously. Explore your limits and receive whatever is happening with an open heart and a clear mind. Let go of perfectionism and instead practice more gratitude and self-acceptance. Enjoy, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Dec 5, 2017
This practice focuses on healthy striving while letting go of perfectionism. As you flow through the class, listen to your body. The most challenging option is not necessarily better. What's best is offering love to yourself! Enjoy a challenging vinyasa practice that you can work at your own pace. Explore stability, explore feeling with the movement and staying centered as you move. Sun salutations, standing poses, heart and hip opening, inversions, and a cool down are all part of this class. Namaste!
By Josie Kramer on Oct 22, 2017
This is a challenging one hour vinyasa flow class with an emphasis on strengthening self-acceptance and releasing perfectionism. We do want to refine our position in each asana so that prana moves through us clearly and with ease, and at the same time, we want to release the ideal of "perfection" and being at war with ourselves, both on and off the mat. Expect a gentle warm up, sun salutations, a warrior flow, balancing postures, inversions, as well as heart and hip opening. Offer love to yourself and enjoy!
