Maya is a 500-hour certified advanced yoga instructor. She did her training at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Nosara Costa Rica with Don and Amba Stapleton where they emphasize yoga for the multidimensional self. In her classes she focuses on yoga as an inquiry into the present moment and the self.Maya has also studied yoga with the yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra in New York City. Another of her passions is Vipassana meditation and she has practiced with several teachers in the Theravada Buddhist tradition at the Insight Meditation Society and the Forest Refuge, including the Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw.Maya strongly believes that there is no such thing as good and bad yoga, there is only showing up and not showing up. That can be as simple as coming to class or as subtle as showing up for the moment.