dya has been teaching yoga professionally for over ten years. Her graceful meditative style draws on a diverse range of influences and forms. She first trained as a teacher in the Vinyasa flow style at the White Lotus Foundation in California. Here she began a period of seven years intense study and training while teaching at various highly regarded yoga studios in California and Seattle.

She has studied with some of the leading lights of yoga in the West, such as Sarah Powers and Andrea Scaravelli. While the flowing form of graceful Vinyasa is very present in her classes, the soft restorative form of yin yoga brings a meditative form with gentle opening and melting into the asana. Here it is about surrender and breath, witnessing presence. While she has also trained extensively in pre-natal yoga, her most formative training she undertook at the renowned Krishnmacharya Yoga Midram in Madras, India where she studied yoga therapy.



Adya’s approach embodies grace, presence and awareness. Breath is taken as the bridge between mind and body with a flowing asana practice enabling a shedding of layers of thought and contraction. This form of yoga focuses on the integration of movement and stillness, collecting the awareness through asana and breath so totality and witnessing presence are anchored in the body.



Aiming to guide a depth of experience of asana and energy and to bring her students into a melting with simplicity and expanding energy. Yoga here is a primary tool of transformation and healing. Energy expansion in the body facilitating the meeting with ourselves in the moment. The result is a return to the original purpose of asana, ‘to meet ourselves in stillness. ’

She brings a progressive fusion of yoga with other traditions, expanding from the roots and simplicity of the traditional yogic lineage.



In Yoga and the Path of Healing, yoga is merged with acupuncture in a union between the two schools, working with the flow of energy within the body. A flow of life force is created in asana practice which is then worked on through acupuncture, triggering a return to the body’s natural wisdom and balance.

In Yoga and the Power of Breath, yoga practice grounds awareness and connection deep within the body while soft rebirthing style breath work sessions allow the body to expand and meet deep-rooted emotional and psychological layers.

Alongside her yoga groups, which form an integral part of each transformation cycle, Adya teaches regular open yoga classes in PachaMama and leads yoga practice during silent retreats.