Founder and co-owner of Virayoga in New York’s Soho district, Elena has been teaching yoga for over 14 years. After graduating from Cornell University in 1992 with a design degree, she worked in textile and apparel design for 6 years, trained to teach with Cyndi Lee, then began studying Anusara® yoga with John Friend and became Certified. After ten years of study with Douglas Brooks, Hugo Cory and now the Handel Group™, her classes are a masterful, candid blend of artful alignment and attention cues; pure empowerment for your body, mind and heart.