Founder
Rebecca Wood
Rebecca has been drawn to yoga since childhood — long before she had a word for it — using breathing techniques to steady herself through asthma and allergies, and loving to stretch as a young gymnast.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and took her first class at Gold’s Gym. She was hooked. “I remember leaving that class feeling so open and clear. I loved it.” She trained at Planet Yoga with Leeann Carey and first met Kofi Busia, who became one of her main teachers.
Over the next eight years she studied with Donna Farhi, Rodney Yee, Erich Schiffman, Richard Miller, Kofi Busia and Judith Lasater — taking Judith’s first-ever Restorative Yoga Teacher Training at the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco in 2000. After moving to Tampa she developed her successful Yoga for Beginners DVD series, and continues to deepen her practice through personal study and workshops with senior Iyengar teachers — between running two businesses and raising two children.
On video: Yoga for Beginners, Vol. 1 · Yoga at the Zoo (Kids Yoga) · Yoga for Kids · Restorative Yoga
