Laura Bogner - Glendale Yoga Studio Owner & Instructor

Yoga has been in my life for as long as I can remember.  I grew up watching my mid-western mother of five doing her yoga practice in our suburban living room.  At the time I thought she was really weird! It wasn’t until years later when my older sister came home from college in San Francisco raving about the yoga class she was taking that I decided maybe yoga wasn’t so weird after all! I took my first yoga class on a high school spring break visit to San Francisco and I have been a yoga enthusiast ever since.  Over the years I have practiced many different styles of yoga ranging from the physically intense styles of hot yoga or Bikram, the quick moving Asthanga, the extremely gentle styles such as Vini and Restorative Yoga and everything in between.  I think all yoga is good as long as it is practiced under the guidance of a knowledgeable instructor.  I received my teaching certification from the acclaimed Center For Yoga (now Yoga Works) in 1997. This program was unique in that it taught an eclectic mixture of many different styles of yoga and how to adapt them to group classes.  Since receiving my certification I have taught yoga all over Los Angeles and opened Glendale Yoga in 2001. I received my Pilates Mat certification from The PhysicalMind Institute in 2003.  I love to implement pilates into my classes to build solid core strength. Glendale Yoga represents a diverse community of students of all levels.