Yoga Divina

Just finished a private lesson with Rachel. I’m pretty out of shape due to a knee injury and needed some one on one yoga therapy. It was a great session and I will be back! She will accept you no matter where you are physically or emotionally and I left feeling better than I have in months! Yoga can be funny for a beginner and Rachel created a fun and encouraging environment where it’s ok to laugh at yourself!

I’m a beginner, and I was a bit intimidated by the idea of walking into a class the first time. If you’ve been thinking about learning yoga, but are perhaps like me, and worried about the fact that you are not in the tip top shape of your life, Rachel might be just what you are looking for. She helped me feel at home with the other students in the class who were all more experienced than me. I thoroughly enjoyed my first class, and felt terrific and accomplished for getting over that hump.

Yoga Divina is a great, intimate yoga studio. Rachel is FANTASTIC! She is super knowledgeable about integrating Yoga poses with specific issues you may be having. Her one on one instruction is superb. Classes are great work outs and Rachel is able to provide personal attention to all of her students. Her meditation classes are a bonus. LOVE this local find.

Rachel is a fantastic yoga instructor, highly experienced, likeable and skilled!!!
As a first time participant in a yoga class I was extremely impressed and satisfied. Rachel gives personal attention and instructions to every participant of her class. The atmosphere is up-​beat, the yoga exercises flow well, and the studio is beautiful. Rachel’s yoga is easy to do, and everyone feel welcomed here.
I left the class more than satisfied, obtaining my goals of destressing from an always busy work schedule, feeling relaxed after her stretching, medidation, and breathing exercises, as well as balancing the energies of my soul.
I chose Yoga Divine after reading the great reviews on Unilocal,and I am glad I did. Her rates are also very affordable for any budget. Looking forward to my next class!
p. s. Rachel’s lovely dog Zeena also welcomed every participant in the class :)… One of the best well-​behaved loving dogs I’ve ever seen.

Rachel is an awesome Yoga teacher. Me and my wife being new to yoga; Rachel has guided us along the way in relieving my wife’s aching neck muscle and keeping my type 2 diabetes under control. She guides us individually because her classes are small enough to do so, but hoping they get bigger. Rachel is not your conventional Yoga teacher but highly recommended. You gotta come check her and her studio out. Thank you Rachel.

I was fairly intimidated by yoga, but I was new in town and looking for something to do to ease my stress. I stumbled upon Yoga Divina, and I’m so glad!
The classes are small, so everyone receives individual attention. Rachel clearly finds it very important for her students to feel comfortable but challenged within their skill level. She circulates among the students and helps everyone with positioning. After all, what’s the point of the pose If you’re not doing it correctly?
I come out of each class feeling relaxed yet invigorated, and the hip pain I’ve been struggling with has vastly improved. Give Yoga Divina a try. You’ll be glad you did!

Rachel is a sensitive, down to earth, perceptive yoga instructor. She is incredibly knowledgable about the nuances of yoga and she is very in tune to her students. She assesses what is needed and organizes her classes accordingly. My daughter takes the teen yoga and absolutely loves it. She always says she had a lot of fun. And I love her classes too. I haven’t done yoga in years and it’s nice to be back in an intimate setting where I can get the attention I need. And her classes are so affordable!

Last winter I could not walk. That was an experience I will never forget. I had a back injury and just didn’t realize it could get more serious. With Chiropractic, I was able to at least get back on my feet. But I had a limp that outdid the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a coincidence that brought me to Rachel, and I limped into a private session with her because she could speak so expertly on my whole experience. Once in our session and while laying on the floor on top of a thickness of lots of mats she wanted first to find in which position I felt no pain at all. Did I mention I walked with lots of pain? Once into the right position Rachel expertly lead me on a set of gentle moves and poses that released me. She doesn’t like the term «break out from prison,» but that’s how I felt. She wanted me to phrase in a more positive fashion but I was so stiff and so afraid to move my leg and she without a doubt freed me from fear for my back, and fear for the «permanence» of my limp. «I’ll have you walking normally very soon,» and now after two sessions I can say I am walking without pain and with about ten percent of my former hobbled state. As an expert on the human anatomy Rachel «gets it.» I’m over 60 but I’m active and refuse to consider anything like surgery. I’m enjoying walking, and bending and being in the body. I would reccommend her private sessions for lower back issues, and hope that if you are in pain that you would consider gentle yoga and stretching (she literally pulled my leg and something «popped!» out of pain) with Yoga Divina to break out of what is truthfully not a permanent injury. I look forward to walking and stretching normally and feel I am 90% at my goal. Don’t live in pain. Just work with this teacher and feel free from the constraints of past injuries.

Truthfully I wasn’t expecting a lot from this place for a snobby reason — it’s in a strip mall that isn’t the prettiest. I was so wrong.
I’ve done yoga for years all around L.A. but after 5 sedentary years in grad school and a recent baby my body is all kinds of out of shape. Going back to a level 1 class was even too much for me at other local studios. I didn’t know that what I needed was right down the street from me in Altadena.
I’d bet that this is the least intimidating yoga studio in existence — no yoga jocks to speak of. I also love that classes are only an hour and cost 10 dollars. Finally, affordable yoga that doesn’t take up like 3 hours of my day. Even better, Rachel is obviously an experienced instructor who is detailed in her adjustments in a way I haven’t really experienced before. I came out of my first class in touch with parts of my body that had been stiff (without my realizing it) for years. I feel like a yoga practice is in my reach again, and I’m so happy about it.

Take it from an aging inflexible dude that just completed his first yoga class with Rachel this past weekend… It was Awesome. Her style is gentle but invigorating for the newbie that I am. My wife and I were both relaxed and energized… How can that be? Seems like opposite ends of the spectrum but I owe it all to Yoga Divina and Rachel’s techniques. We will definitely be back. I recommend her class to all and from the list of classes available from her, there seems to be something for every level of yoga experience. Thanks Rachel!!!

A Different Class of Yoga
I’ve been to several yoga classes with different instructors. This location is new and teaches a yoga that isn’t the mainstream yoga highlighting fancy moves or poses, albeit the kind that shows up as stock art in «well-​being» magazines.
Rachel literally teaches from the ground up (for a beginner, many poses are laying on the floor) so that students realize their unconscious ways of sabotaging proper form. Coming from several other yoga classes, I have never once been given this level of attention towards adjustment into proper foundations for further yoga poses.
Beginners and Intermediate Yoga students should visit and see what they may have been missing from other yoga experiences. For those with injuries and other issues that limit your abilities, Rachel is the most accommodating instructor that focusses on what the class individuals need. I learned a lot in one short session and look forward to continuing a more fulfilling yoga practice in future classes.
Namaste.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Yoga Divina to everyone!
Rachel teaches yoga for normal people. If you have a condition, back problems, injuries, or just not as stretchy and perfect as yoga models, this is the place for you. I have always loved yoga, but due to my health issues, every yoga class I took in the past left me hurting (in a bad way). Rachel’s Challenging Conditions class is right for me.
Who doesn’t have some issues in their body they want to change? I want to bring my fiancé, even though he doesn’t have any major issues, he has some back pain and foot pain from being on his feet all day. He would totally get a lot out of this class, too.
You have to check this place out!

I am eight months pregnant and have been seeing Rachel for prenatal Yoga at Yoga Divina for most of my pregnancy. It has been the best experience and has gotten me through sore back, fatigue and a stiff neck. Prenatal Yoga with Rachel has given me so much peace and has kept me grounded while preparing for the birth of my son. I have brought my Fiancé and friends to join a class and they absolutely loved it as well and will return. It really has been a special experience working with Rachel and I recommend Yoga Divina to everyone.

I’ve been to other yoga studios, and just haven’t felt as if it was at all what I thought yoga would be. I live in Silverlake and i go to Altadena once in a blue moon. I found myself finding this awesome new yoga studio!!! Rachel was soo wonderful and just gave the best class! She took me step by step, (i’m pretty slow) but i just had the greatest feeling in my body afterwards. I have back problems, and i have to say after going to see her about twice now., my back never felt better! I highly recommend it! Even though it isn’t in my neighborhood, it’s worth the drive!!! I already told my family and friends, stop by everyone!!!

I have done yoga at home a couple of times with my wife, but what I got out of attending a class was priceless. With gentle instruction and positive motivation, Rachel made my introduction to yoga amazing. I recommend coming and trying out a class. I took the beginner class at 6:30am and it was amazing to do yoga and to have the sunrise in front of you. My words don’t do the experience justice.
Thanks Yoga Divina