our Yoga Teacher Training Instructors
Meet our certified Yoga Alliance–experienced instructors guiding our 200-hour, 300-hour YTTs, and YACEP courses online and in-person.
MEET ALY
Yoga teacher, Reiki healer & writer
Aly is compassionate, warm, grounded, and quietly playful. She is a student, traveler, singer, mentor, guide, and devoted space holder who deeply believes in the power of being truly seen. Those who work with Aly often describe feeling safe, held, heard, and accepted, as though they have permission to soften into themselves without needing to perform or prove anything.
With a naturally non-judgmental presence, Aly creates environments where vulnerability feels welcome and authenticity feels possible. She meets people with honesty and humanity, bringing both depth and lightness into her teaching.
Aly first encountered Ayurveda during her 200-hour yoga teacher training in Sedona, Arizona, at a time when she was struggling with severe acne and digestive challenges that were affecting her confidence, mood, and overall sense of vitality. She remembers feeling irritable, disconnected, and uninspired, and then experiencing profound shifts as she began aligning her daily rhythms with nature through yogic and Ayurvedic practices.
There was a spark the very first time she learned Ayurveda, a quiet but unmistakable knowing that this was part of her path. Witnessing how dramatically her body and mind responded to small but consistent changes awakened a desire to share this wisdom with others. Once you have experienced what it feels like to truly feel well in mind, body, and spirit, she believes, it becomes very difficult to return to living disconnected from that awareness.
She is now a Board-Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner (NAMA) and 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with experience across clinical settings, retreats, and educational programs. Her studies have taken her throughout the United States and to India, where she trained in traditional Ayurvedic therapies and consultation practices. She has worked with diverse populations, including oncology patients, veterans with PTSD, athletes, children, and individuals navigating major life transitions.
Aly’s teaching style is deeply down-to-earth. There is no façade. She describes herself as raw, loving, and imperfect, and believes that authenticity itself can be healing. Her classes emphasize accessibility, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and sustainable lifestyle rhythms. She strives to create offerings that feel human and spaces where students can connect not only to philosophy and technique, but to their own lived experience.
Originally trained in performing arts at Sarah Lawrence College, Aly brings creativity, emotional expression, and storytelling into her teaching. Her professional path has included roles as a yoga teacher, Ayurvedic clinician, program director, retreat leader, health educator, and coach. She has lived and worked across the mainland United States, Hawaii, Europe, and Central America – experiences that continue to shape her understanding of community, resilience, and belonging.
Outside of teaching, Aly feels most alive in the water or under the sun. She loves swimming, freediving, hiking, long walks, music, poetry, and spending time with her German Shepherd, Oslo. The ocean remains one of her greatest teachers – a place that reminds her how small and how connected we all are at once.
What’s your favorite yoga pose and why?
Pigeon Pose (Kapotasana) has always been both humbling and transformative for me. I have naturally tight hips, which means I don’t get to “muscle through” the posture. I have to surrender to it. If I resist, I create more tension. If I soften, space slowly appears.
That lesson mirrors so much of life.
Physiologically, I’m fascinated by how hip-opening postures influence the autonomic nervous system, particularly through the vagus nerve and the organs housed within the pelvis. Kapotasana can create profound regulation throughout the body, affecting breath, digestion, reproductive organs, and emotional processing.
What is your favorite quote?
“It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself. I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.” – Rupi Kaur
This quote speaks to something I return to again and again – the idea that home is not a place or a person, but a relationship with yourself.
What inspires you in your practice?
I am inspired by the understanding that the work is never finished. Life knocks us off our feet – sometimes gently, sometimes dramatically – and practice becomes the act of returning. Returning to breath. Returning to awareness. Returning to presence. Returning to ourselves. Coming back is my regulation. It is my recalibration.
My students inspire me endlessly through their curiosity and willingness to explore. I’m also humbled by how much there is always left to learn. The deeper you go into yoga and Ayurveda, the more you realize how vast these traditions truly are.
To me, practice is about cultivating the ability to be fully wherever you are… in discomfort, in joy, in uncertainty, in stillness.
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