
10/11/2025
✨ Instructor Spotlight ✨
We’re asking our team a few fun questions to get to know them better.
Meet Yana! Known for bringing the upbeat and positive energy to every class and being your biggest hype woman. Let’s see what she has to say 👀⬇️
1: 💬 “What inspired you to become a fitness/yoga instructor?”
🧘🏼♀️I started teaching yoga right after finishing my yoga teacher training in 2016. I never intended to teach, I was just curious as to how and why yoga was such a powerful technology that changed my life so drastically. Once I spent time learning the yoga philosophy and how it works - I felt like there was no way that I could NOT share the magic of yoga with everyone else!
2:🌿 “What’s your favorite way to move or unwind outside of class?”
💃I dance as a somatic practice. To feel deeper, to work through emotions, to alchemize feelings. I practice ecstatic dance. It is a modality that allows me to shift from one emotional state to another so fast. For example when I am feeling intense anger, sadness, really anything - I dance it out. I move it out of my body. I transform it into something else - compassion, understanding & kindness for myself, gratitude, joy. Emotions are energy in motion and they are meant to be MOVED and shifted.
3:💡 “What’s one piece of advice you always share with your students?”
💭“Come back to awareness”
It’s the only piece of yogic philosophy that has saved me :)
4: 🎧 “What’s one song or music type that always gets you in the zone?”
🎤Any of my ecstatic dance songs that allow me to feel and move me.
Check out my Spotify account under:
Yana Banzen. 🎧
5: 😋 “What’s your favorite thing to eat after a class or workout?”
🍽️ I usually teach a block of 2-3 classes so by the time I get home I’m starving. My partner usually has a delicious pizza or some other giant vegan feast prepared for lunch or dinner. I’m very lucky. 🍕🥗🌮🥪🌯
6: What’s your favorite class to teach🔥
💪🏼Hatha yoga/Deep stretch and Fast & Furious. I love to either go hard or slow down completely. I’m all or nothing.
➡️ Catch her Sunday AMs, Tuesdays at noon, and subbing for us throughout the week.
Have more questions? Ask away in the comments ⬇️😊