Yoga Is Much More Than Exercise -We Are A Health & Healing Place

About Us

OUR TEACHERS: Listed from left to right:
Bri. Damara Shanmugan, Sunje O'Clancy, Lanita Varshell, Anna Noah, Marguerite Tyrell, Andrea Fenwick, Helen Schurig, Heather Smith, Rita Mooney. Missing: Diane Ambrozini, Gena Mills, and Claire.

A Gentle Way Yoga Center is located in La Mesa (San Diego) CA, USA.
We opened our doors August 1st, 2001.

If you are a long-time student of yoga, you will find our Center to be a warm, welcoming home, teaching yoga for fitness and health, using the ancient yoga tradition of mind, body, breath, and spirit exercises.

New students will find us to be a safe, nurturing place to begin an enjoyable, effective yoga practice.

Health or weight challenged students will discover that we are a warm healing Center, where hundreds of students have found relief and healing from pain and disease.

We have 30 weekly classes, with an excellent staff teaching a variety of styles and levels of yoga - gentle to traditional hatha yoga – from several different lineages of yoga. We offer a wide range of faster active classes to deeply relaxing, fun, and therapeutic yoga.

Our Center is open seven days a week, offering 30 OPEN classes per week, plus private sessions, yoga therapy, teacher training, workshops, amethyst crystal bio mat healing sessions, and yoga retreats. We host world respected yoga teachers, authors, and healers.

Please go to the contact page for directions.

 
"Bringing joy back into movement;
bringing health into the body, mind, and spirit."

 

 

 

Read what our students are saying out our classes and teachers:

"This is the best yoga studio for relaxation and rejuvenation, especially if you have any physical problems. I have been suffering with two herniated disks that have caused sciatica for nearly a year. Gentle Yoga has helped reduce the level of pain and increase my flexibility and range of motion. The staff is the best you could find in the county and Lanita, the owner, has a broad knowledge and understanding of human body and how yoga can enhance how you use it! She is a gem!"


"As an active person, I went to this studio originally to help with lower back pain (two herniated disks), and it has ended up being so much more. Not only has gentle yoga greatly helped relieve my back pain, but yoga has improved my breathing and I have learned a lot about yoga philosophy which has helped in my life in general. This is a nurturing studio that can help anyone do yoga, particularly those with physical challenges. My wife and I have also made friends there; it is a wonderful place."


"A great place for feeling good! Andrea teaches heart connection classes that leave you feeling wonderful all over. Helen also teaches a great class that gives you a great workout with a peaceful calming savasana."



"I LOVE Gentle Way Yoga. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced student, this studio welcomes all shapes, sizes, and ages. I especially enjoy Marguerite Tyrell's classes. She is an extraordinary instructor with a wealth of experience and skill, the ability to give individual attention to every student, and the versatility to adapt her plans to meet the needs of students in any given class. Phenomenal teacher! Amazing studio! We are BLESSED by the contribution of A Gentle Way Yoga Studio in our community."

How can we support you? Call us at 619-698-1170