Alyssa Yackley

 Alyssa Erin Yackley is a New York City-based yoga teacher and performance artist.  With a background in alignment and kinesthetic anatomy, she practices and teaches a variety of styles of yoga asana.  Alyssa currently teaches open classes at Yoga To The People, both in Traditional Hot Yoga and Power Vinyasa Flow settings. With the simple philosophy that when we engage ourselves from the center we create freedom to our limits, Alyssa empowers students to cultivate a practice that builds from the strength of the core outward to the extension and mobility of body and spirit. Encouraging a practical approach to breath, voice and movement Alyssa seeks to illuminate the subtle body and make the corporeal and emotional self a tool of discovery for every practitioner.  She holds a BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Devised Theater and credits the awareness and focus of her yogic practice as the foundation of her acrobatic choreographic work.  Great gratitude and thanks to her teachers and influences: Marleen Pennison, Lindsay Dombrowski, Isaac Pena and Sam Chase.