YES! It’s the perfect word, according to Daniel Overberger. And once you start taking his classes, you find it creeping insistently into your own consciousness. Blending a led ashtanga practice with elements of vinyasa flow and kundalini (and a healthy dose of humor), Daniel’s openness is palpable… and infectious. Whether you’re an experienced yogi or a stiff, apprehensive novice, you find yourself inspired and emboldened to tiptoe, walk, or run screaming out to your own personal edge. To say “yes” to questions you wouldn’t have even considered an hour ago.

For Daniel, the teaching gig started in much the same way. Already a longtime practitioner of yoga, when a friend suggested teacher training in Mysore, India, the perfect word was the only answer. In April of 2006, Daniel completed a teacher apprenticeship (certification) under V. Sheshadri in ashtanga vinyasa yoga with a practicum in hands-on adjustments. While in

India, Daniel also studied yoga therapy with Dr. V. Nagaraj. In 2010, he returned to India to study with B.N.S. Iyengar, his teacher’s teacher, and one of the last surviving direct students of Krishnamacharya. Daniel also studied meditation, pranayama and philosophy with Nagaraja S. Pande, receiving his authorization
to teach.

Upon returning from his first journey to India in 2006, Daniel was offered a position teaching the donation-based yoga classes at Runyon Canyon, where he has since gained an appropriately rock star following. In 2009, he began the instantly popular Black Market Yoga, donation-based evening classes held indoors, year-round, with monthly live music nights. And in 2010, he held LA’s first Yoga Stops Traffick event to end human trafficking in India. Daniel and his classes have been featured on KTLA-TV news, in Japan’s Tarzan magazine and LA Yoga magazine, to which he is a regular contributor.