FOUNDER
Lara Benusis is a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor with over
15,000 hours of experience teaching yoga. She brings to each of her classes and workshops a background in education, movement analysis and curriculum development as well as a true passion for teaching yoga.

While performing as a professional dancer she obtained certifications in Kripalu Yoga, Ashtanga with David Swenson, Pilates Mat with Kelly Kane, Level 1 & Level 2, Teacher Trainings, Master Immersions, theraputics and hands-on assisting with John Friend in the Anusara tradition. She appears in videos: Gaiam’s “Cardio Burn Yoga” and John Friend’s “The Basics of Teacher Training.” She has assisted over 30 workshops at The Kripalu Center, Yoga Journal and Omega Conferences.

She has taught, consulted and trained a wide range of professional and amateur athletes and dancers as well as a diverse group of corporate and academic clientele, including NYU’s Stern Business School, School of Dentistry, School of Law, Pfizer, Oxygen Media, Martha Stewart Inc and Nickelodeon. In 2001, after two years of teaching in The New York Public School System, she created and designed the current yoga program at The Children’s Aid Society, including Mommy and Baby, toddlers, and pre-teen schedules. Lara is currently also on staff at Memorial Sloan Kettering’s The Bendheim Integrative Medicine Center, Equinox, Dance New Amsterdam, Pure Yoga, Amy Marshall's Dance company and is the founder of Namasteens.