Aly believes that yoga wakes us up! Yoga invites us to embrace ourselves as whole beings while encouraging us to refine; always. It is the way we engage with everything that informs and empowers the way we live. She also believes deeply in the medicine inherent in the natural world that is accessible by simply paying attention.

Aly received her 200 hour certification through Frog Lotus International Yoga School under Vidya Heisel. She completed a 72 hour anatomy intensive from the Anatomy School for Yoga Teachers in New York under Jason Brown. Aly will always consider herself first and foremost a student of yoga and of being a teacher of yoga. She attends classes, workshops, intensives, and trainings whenever possible. Her teaching continues to be influenced by teachers like Marni Sclaroff, Tara Judelle, Elena Brower, Tiffany Cruikshank, and Darren Rhodes.

As a teacher, Aly intends to create a safe space that encourages practitioners to have an experience of themselves. Her classes are intelligently sequenced and infused with intention, breath awareness, body alignment, and lots of smiles.

You will most likely find Aly in the woods, dancing, studying “green witcheries”, meditating, or being a goofball with her son, Tommy. Visit Aly online at www.gratefullyrooted.com.

Lorena is a 500-hr Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. She is a graduate of
Washington, DC's Yoga District 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training, and received the 300-hr
Advanced Teacher Training Certification at Beloved Yoga in Reston, Virginia. Lorena also holds other certifications from Beloved Yoga, including Yin Yoga, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Compassionate Senior and Chair Yoga. She has also trained in Pranayama, Sound Meditation, and Ayurvedic Lifestyle, and holds a certificate of Reiki I from Reiki Center of Greater Washington. 

Lorena’s yoga journey started more than 25 years ago in her native Peru. Since then, she has been enjoying the benefits of the different types of yoga on and off the mat. She is excited to share the tools that yoga offers through her accessible and spiritually-oriented yoga classes. When participating in Lorena's class, you can expect a full intention, a meditative flow that can be done by everyone. She is open to all possibilities and is always willing to customize the session to the needs of the participants while cultivating their strength, equanimity, compassion, joy, and awareness of the body, mind, and soul. Her classes include breath, a mixture of flow and stillness, soothing music, and a fully guided final relaxation, with sound bath meditation and mantra music.

Lorena loves to connect with nature and enjoys exploring possibilities with the use of the imagination in a creative and intuitive manner. She loves people of all ages and welcomes every opportunity to build a better world through Yoga.

She currently guides online sessions at Yoga District and is part of Beloved Yoga’s
Private Team.

Lorena is a graduate of the Washington Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and studied at the Music Conservatory in Peru. She enjoys the creative performing arts and is a company member at Gala Hispanic Theatre.