Certified Anusara® yoga teacher, founder and co-owner of Virayoga, and Jonah's mama, Elena's been teaching for 14 years. She is respected and beloved globally for her powerful teaching, compelling students to integrate yoga practice into the realities of daily life. Elena is also the quintessential multi-hyphenate: teacher, designer, coach, journalist, producer, writer and entrepreneur. From the Museum of Modern Art to the Great Lawn at Central Park, from the playa at Burning Man to the lawn at the Eiffel Tower, Elena is honoured to offer larger-scale experiences of yoga, but her true service is in shifting awareness within the smallest interactions; one family, one household at a time.She's been featured in the New York Times, Yoga Journal, the Element Yoga for Beginners DVD series, FitYoga, ABC News, NBC News, and is one of the original teachers on Yogaglo.

Along with her own Art of Attention writing, Elena contributes to the Huffington Post and Kris Carr's Crazy Sexy Life. She's also the voice of Deepak Chopra's breakthrough video game project, LEELA, which blends meditation practice with game play, to be released 11.11.11. As the Executive Producer of On Meditation, she is curating a docuseries of short films about the relevance of meditation and its benefits, to be released in 2012. Elena is honoured to support Women for Women, as well as Akasha Project and Bent on Learning.