Rising Lotus Yoga

Jessica Frank is a 500-RYT Deaf yoga teacher certified in the Sivananda lineage. She is based in southern California and has been teaching yoga in American Sign Language since 2011. She has long been an advocate for access to yoga for Deaf people and is a co-facilitator of the nonprofit, DeafYoga Foundation, an organization focused on sharing yoga in sign language. When she’s not teaching a class, you can probably find her hiking somewhere with her Ewok lookalike pup.

Elizabeth Philipose has been on a meditative path for fifteen years. She completed a four-year program in the frequency of meditation, and four levels of training in bioenergetics, breath work, and embodiment. She has a daily practice and retreats several times a year. Her style is unique, eclectic and highly attuned to subtle body energy; transcendent and embodied, spiritual and scientific, multidimensional and accessible. She offers knowledge that brings the mind into alignment with energy bodies and connects us to our authentic, masterful self. Besides teaching meditation, she has twenty years of classroom experience as an international politics professor.

Co-Owner and Co-Founder.
British born Yoga teacher, Claire Hartley, found her deep passion and healing with Yoga in the early 90s at the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York, the east coast birthplace of the Vinyasa Yoga movement.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2001 where she continued her training with some of the best teachers in the world including an apprenticeship with Lisa Walford.
In April 2006 she opened and co-founded Rising Lotus Yoga, a busy and thriving studio in Los Angeles, attracting practitioners seeking alignment based Vinyasa Yoga classes with healthy doses of dharma talks, chanting and joyful community. Since 2007 it has won 3 Los Angeles “Best of&rd...

Soft, grounded, and always holding space, Rae brings relaxing assists and creative sequencing to all her classes. She teaches yoga as an inquiry - a way to shed layers, understand our experience, heal emotionally and physically, and strengthen the essence of who we really are. 

After success in Entertainment and Real Estate careers, Aleyna discovered a passion for Health and Wellness, particularly yoga. She found that her yoga mat became a sanctuary for her when she was going through a particularly hard divorce. After taking her own “Eat/Pray/Love” self exploration journey of sorts to Thailand and Bali, complete with 2 yoga retreats, she realized her passion and drive to further her education, practice and devotion to yoga and upon her return to the states made the decision to pursue her teacher certification. She studied under Claire and Daniel and received her 200 RYT certification from Rising Lotus. Aleyna loved the teacher training program so much that she assisted Claire d...

Anna Hanson approaches yoga, with a curious mind and playful attitude. While fun and mindful, her classes are physically demanding. Students can expect to be greeted with a smile, a bit of yoga philosophy, some breath work, and a whole lot of strength-building flow. She is passionate about encouraging students through advances in their physical practice, managing stress, and moving beyond perceived limitations.
She received her 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification with Rudy Mettia and Travis Elliot of Santa Monica Power Yoga and has since been certified in two different styles of barre, Pilates Plus, and through Air Aerial Fitness. Her biggest influences have been Rudy and Travis certainly, as well a...

I first stepped onto my yoga mat in 2002, in Studio City, CA. I was born and raised in California as a dancer but grew up to be a traveler & Set Decorator for Television & Film. The slow stretching is what lured me into that first class. Very quickly I found there was more going on in yoga class so kept exploring… on and off again… for years. In any time of difficulty I would find myself back on the mat. It brought me ease & peace. In times of stress it brought me back to my true nature. And in off hours it brought physical relaxation, strength & fun. Bonus! Why would I ever leave my mat? These are the aspects I focus on in class. A steady Vinyasa - studying breath, alignmen...

Jay Averell has been a student of Iyengar yoga since 2001. He graduated in 2006 from the three year teacher's training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles and has recently passed assessment at the first level for certification by the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the U.S. His extensive medical background allows him a great knowledge and understanding of the anatomy of the human body, which he incorporates into his classes. He attended the Iyengar Yoga convention in 2007 in Las Vegas where he studied with Gita Iyengar. The senior teacher that he regularly studies with is Manouso Manos. He has been teaching yoga classes since 2005, and his love of Iyengar Yoga is evident to his students through his infectious enthusiasm.

Julia has always been drawn to the ways of nature and has made a life of understanding nature's poetic laws. For Julia, a spiritual life does not escape the body, but absolutely includes it. That's why she fell in love so long ago with all that Yoga has to offer. Julia Frodahl has been teaching yoga, mindfulness, and meditation for over 15 years, and practicing for 25. Her teachings weave the ancient philosophies of yoga and Buddhism together with a great love and respect for nature and nature’s pace. Julia also works privately with individuals and couples in a process called “Inner Work", integrating contemporary Jungian psychology with Buddhist teachings to help people heal and create lives that are more balanced, fruitful, an...

As a yoga teacher, I’ve had many amazing opportunities to work with all different types of people at various levels of practice. My passion for teaching is always rewarded by the aid I’m able to give my students. I’m humbled and grateful to forever be a student of yoga and pride myself in learning as much as I can as often as possible. My class descriptions and teaching style are ever evolving, taking from my teachers’ vast amounts of precious knowledge from Iyengar traditions, gentle and therapeutic applications, restorative postures, vinyasa flow, meditation, and bhakti practices. These ideas, techniques and information influence my everyday practice as well as my development as...

Rosanna began her yoga journey with a firm nudge from her dance professor and mentor while a dance major at the University of Michigan. Her first classes were in the Iyengar tradition at the Ann Arbor YMCA and soon after with master teacher Cindy Lee in New York. She loved the physical aspect of the practice, but quickly noticed that her mind was quite chatty. This led to a lifelong practice of self-inquiry while having some extraordinary adventures in the entertainment business, first as a one fifth of a girl band that toured with N’SYNC and had its own reality show, and then as a television host alongside Ryan Seacrest and other fancy Hollywood types. Her soul searching found her much more at home on her red yoga mat (its still red), than on the...

Pursuing a lifelong interest in fitness, I found my way to yoga in the early 1990’s at Yoga Works in Santa Monica. I enrolled in a Fundamentals of Yoga weekend Course, and I was hooked! What followed was years of practicing yoga with the most respected teachers at the finest studios in town. My practice took another huge step forward when I found the Rising Lotus Yoga studio, and met my future mentors Claire Hartley and Daniel Stewart, who ignited within me a light of desire to become a teacher. After practicing with Claire and Daniel for a three years, I poured myself into their 200 hour yoga teache...

Tiffany took her first yoga class as a freshman in college, and over the years practicing yoga has become a way of life. In 2015, she decided to deepen her practice, and completed the 200-hour yoga teacher training program led by Daniel Stewart & Claire Hartley at Rising Lotus Yoga. Now, her passion is to share the practice of yoga with the community.
Tiffany teaches a gentle flow connecting mindful movement with the breath. Her sequences are designed to balance strength and flexibility, while offering a variety of modifications to make yogis of all levels feel comfortable. Tiffany creates a light-hearted environment with music, moving meditations and affirmations. Her classes incorporate pranayama at the beginning of class to help bring focus t...