Best of Boston
Best Yoga Instructor
Photograph by Jesse Burke
Rebecca Pacheco
Rebecca Pacheco, a South End resident whose first book, Do Your Om Thing, was recently published by HarperCollins, teaches her brand of traditional yoga mixed [...] read more»
2014 Best Yoga Instructor
Glen Cunningham, Sadhana Yoga
Boston
We’ve loved Glen Cunningham’s classes for the better part of a decade, and on good days, his instruction helps us remember why we hit our [...] read more»
2013 Best Yoga Instructor
Mark Finneran, Baptiste Power Yoga Institute
Brookline
Mark Finneran can't twist himself into a pretzel, and that's precisely why his classes are perfect for us mere mortals. He's mastered the everyman style [...] read more»
2012 Best Yoga Instructor
Back Bay Yoga, Sweat & Soul Yoga, and Equinox
That Lululemon chose this California-cool yogi to lead hundreds of people in al fresco downward dogs in Copley Square to fete its new Newbury store [...] read more»
2011 Best Yoga Instructor
David Vendetti, South Boston Yoga
South Boston
If you had told us a few years ago that one day we'd be scrambling to get to a yoga studio in Southie, we'd have [...] read more»
2010 Best Yoga Instructor
Ame Wren
Cambridge
A self-described "yoga mutt," Ame Wren borrows liberally from various yoga traditions, and even incorporates music and dance—the result being a more intense, less snoozy [...] read more»
2007 Best Yoga Instructor
Amy Leydon, Exhale and The Sports Club/LA
Boston
A former Emmy-winning television producer, Leydon spices up traditional (but challenging) vinyasa-flow yoga with inspiring music and unexpected sequences to show aspiring yogis how to [...] read more»
2006 Best Yoga Instructor
David Magone
It's annoying when a toned yogi informs you, as you struggle with a simple pose, that soon you'll be balancing on your chin. But under [...] read more»
2004 Best Yoga Instructor
Noel Schroeder
Boston
Yoga has gone from niche to the norm. Instructors teach the masses in mat-filled locations everywhere in the city—the gym, the spa, the private studio. [...] read more»
2003 Best Yoga Instructor
Glen Cunningham, Baptiste Power Yoga Institute
Boston
In characteristic Baptiste Power Yoga fashion, the temperature during Glen Cunningham's methodical Vinyasa-style classes is set to a steamy 90 degrees (though the room feels [...] read more»
2002 Best Yoga Instructor
Rolf Gates, Baptiste Power Yoga
Boston
For yoga fiends, Baptiste's intense, heat-infused Vinyasa style has become a secular church in its own right. So it's only fitting that a descendant of [...] read more»