Uptown Yoga Dallas - Instructors

Elizabeth (a.k.a. "Zed") love for yoga began in 1993 in New York City with Noll Daniel's at Urban Yoga. Shortly after discovering yoga, she began to explore the practice and it’s many traditions all over the big apple. In 1999 she found her yoga home at OM yoga, where she has practiced primarily over the last several years. She is also a graduate of the OM Yoga teacher training program and has recently moved back to Dallas after living in NYC for the past 13 years. Carla comes from a rich background in contemporary dance, receiving her BFA in Dance from Southern Methodist University in 1991. As a professional dancer, she has traveled throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America performing and teaching for New York choreographers (among others) Kevin Wynn, Bill Young, and Donna Uchizono.

Her teaching style and practice are influenced by Vinyasa style Hatha yoga with Iyengar based alignment principles, as well as her background in dance encouraging others to approach movement through asana in a thoughtful and intelligent way.