About Liza

Liza DiGaetano is the founder of Garage Yoga, a traditional Ashtanga Yoga Mysore program in San Diego, California.

Liza has over 25 years of experience teaching yoga and movement and is an advanced Ashtanga Yoga practitioner. She has been practicing and teaching the traditional method of Ashtanga Yoga as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, the founder of the Ashtanga Yoga practice and his grandson, R. Sharath Jois for over 20 years. Her dedication to the Ashtanga Yoga practice began in 2005 with senior teacher, Tim Miller. Since 2011 Liza has traveled annually to Mysore, India to study with her teacher, R. Sharath Jois, at The Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute (KPJAYI). In 2014, after many years of dedicated practice and trips to Mysore, she was blessed by Sharath with KPJAYI Level 2 Authorization, allowing her to officially teach the traditional Ashtanga Yoga Mysore method.

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Beyond her primary practice, Liza has studied and taught various modalities of yoga traditions and holds an E-RYT 500+. To name a few, she has studied Yin Yoga with Paul Grilley, the traditional 84 asana sequence with Jimmy Barkin, Yoga Therapy with Bo Forbes Psy.D and is pre and post natal yoga certified. Liza has been a student and member of Edward Clark’s Tripsichore Yoga Theatre, a London-based performance company known as the “Cirque de Soleil” of Yoga. Liza has led countless yoga intensives, trainings, and retreats throughout the United States and abroad.

Liza has also extensively studied Ayurveda, the ancient science of self healing, with Dr. Madan Kumar MD, (Professor at Pankaja Kasthuri Ayurveda Medical College) in Thrivandrum, India and with Dr. Talveen Krishna (founder of IVAC Ayurveda Center) in Mysore, India. Liza actively studies energetic healing and plant medicine. She completed Jonathan Goldman’s 2 year Gift Of The Body Healer Training in 2016 at the Essential Light Institute in Bend, Oregon.

Liza is a mother of a beautiful child and hopes to inspire and provide support for women who wish to continue their practice throughout pregnancy and motherhood. Liza practiced daily throughout her pregnancy and very shortly after her enlightening home birth. Her first hand experience of practice during pregnancy and post-partum in addition to teaching many women throughout this process allows her to be an highly experienced, compassionate guide during the transition from maiden to mother. Liza strives to empower mothers through the Ashtanga Yoga practice demonstrating how powerful it can be in healing and restoring balance in the mind, body and spirit during pregnancy and motherhood.

Liza has a deep love for the traditional Ashtanga Yoga Mysore practice and teaches to ignite that love in her students. She strives to make the Ashtanga Yoga practice accessible to all students, of all capacities, and teaches from a place of kindness and compassion. She believes that the physical practice of Ashtanga Yoga allows us to become better humans in the world. The method becomes our path to becoming more compassionate, happy, resilient, present and ultimately, more evolved beings on the physical, mental and spiritual plane.

Beyond traditional Ashtanga Mysore practice, Liza offers private and group yoga classes, yoga therapy sessions, asana/posture clinics, workshops, yin yoga, Indic philosophy lectures and guided meditation.

Interested in becoming a member of the Garage Yoga Mysore program in San Diego? Interested in working privately with Liza? Email Liza at liza@garageyoga.com.

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