At Stone Wave | The Collective
Elitza is currently teaching classes at the Gardiner Stone Wave Yoga studio.

Yoga Credentials
She completed her 500-hour teacher training with Bikram in L.A, and her 200-hour with Yoga Works, NY. She has been mentoring with Shiva Rea since 2004, and has completed over 2000 hours of studying and assistance.

More About
Elitza started her yoga practice in 2000, and has found it to be the most reliable coping mechanism and therapeutic tool physically and mentally. It became obvious that her talents and aspirations to provide support, healing, and guidance for others through yoga and life coaching were a much more natural, stronger suit than her corporate work.

She did her 500-hour yoga training with Birkam Choudhury in Los Angeles in 2003. Her 200-hour yoga teacher training was at Yoga Works NYC in 2007, followed by certifications in Kids and Prenatal Yoga in 2008, and birth support doula in 20018. Since 2004 her main teacher-mentor has been the radical prana vinyasa flow catalyst Shiva Rea. Elitza has nearly 2000 hours of studying with and assisting Shiva globally on many continents. Shiva Rea has sparked her awe and practice of the divine feminine. Elitza has done yin and restorative yoga intensives with Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers. David Life and Sharon Ganon have infused the love of prayer, chant and devotion in her practice. Seane Corn taught her to forge an authentic evolutionary connection to spirit. Elena Brower has shown her what being present with the mud and the lotus can look like. Dana Flynn taught her to fly, be wild and goofy and playful, especially in her 50s. Rodney Yee and Alison West have been rocks of inspiration in precision, discipline and mindfulness, locked in with wicked wit and an eye for the poetry of life.

Elitza’s class style is a blend, which evolved with practice and deep listening to the breath and body. You will be challenged in an intuitive, creative and intelligent way. Her class aims to work every direction, every muscle, and every joint, using breath and space awareness. She is especially interested in assisting students connect to their inherent power, self-appreciation, confidence and healing potential.

She is fluent in a bunch of random languages. Her favorite language as a yoga teacher, life coach, mother and wife is sacred silence and active listening. She adores her fantabulous college teen, her man and her three cats. You can find her baking, gardening, chanting, smudging, reading, writing, running, hiking, kayaking and being in awe most days. The rest of the time she does what we all do- “walking each other hOMe.”

Learn more about Elitza by visiting the below links.
Social: @elitzadevi

There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

Elitza Dempsey, RYT-500