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By 2008, the company had 21 yoga studios. [3] In July 2014, the company, which then had 29 yoga studios, was acquired by Great Hill Partners for $45.6 million from majority shareholder Highland Capital Partners. [4] [5] In 2016, the company's studios had 3 million student visits. [6]
Bryan Kest (born 1964) is an American yoga teacher. Recognized as the creator of one form of Power Yoga, [1] he is the founder of Santa Monica Power Yoga, based in Santa Monica, California. [2] Kest has led yoga classes, retreats and workshops worldwide. [3] He is credited with pioneering the practice of donation-based yoga in the United States ...
Erich Schiffmann (born 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American yoga master, [1] known for his 1994 video, Yoga Mind & Body, featuring actress Ali MacGraw. [2] He is the author of a best-selling book, Moving into Stillness. [3] He has taught yoga for more than forty years.
Santa Monica (Spanish for 'Saint Monica'; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to its climate, beaches, and hospitality industry. [11]
Sarah Powers (born c. 1963 [1]) is a yoga teacher. She co-founded the Insight Yoga Institute and created Insight Yoga, a combination of yoga, transpersonal psychology and Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, described in her 2008 book of the same name. She was closely involved with the creation of Yin Yoga. [2]
Alo Yoga was founded in 2007 in Los Angeles by Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge, childhood friends who had become interested in yoga as a treatment for anxiety and a back injury respectively. [1] The name stands for "air, land, and ocean". [ 1 ]
The Foundation has been recognized as establishing Santa Barbara as a major center for the practice and training of Yoga. For example, the Santa Barbara Independent [ 8 ] called the city "A Mecca for Training Programs and Practice" and wrote that White Lotus "serves as the origin story for many instructors around the world."
The Yoga Alliance is a U.S.-based nonprofit membership trade and professional organization for yoga teachers, headquartered in Arlington Virginia.The organization created the title of Registered Yoga Teacher in the United States to refer to teachers who have finished a yoga teacher training through a school registered with the Yoga Alliance.