Lena Whitfield

Lena came to yoga as a nervous beginner herself, in her thirties, after a stretch of bad sleep and worse stress. She teaches the Beginners’ Series that way: nothing is assumed, every pose has a plain name, and no one is ever asked to “just flow.”

You’ll find her teaching Tuesday’s Beginners’ Series, Wednesday’s Midweek Vinyasa, Friday Vinyasa, Monday Restorative & Yin and Sunday Slow Flow. She also hosts the second-Saturday workshops.

She works as a middle-school librarian during the week and recommends a lot of books, none of them about yoga.