ABOUT ALI
Ali Certain is a yoga and functional movement teacher, community builder, speaker, and lifelong student. Since 2004, she has offered yoga education, postural awareness, meditation, and movement therapy through weekly classes, workshops, online education, studio co-ownership, and guest teaching at Rancho La Puerta and Office Meets Yoga.
As a teacher and mother of three, Ali has spent nearly a quarter-century with a front-row seat to the complexity, beauty, and possibility of the human experience. Her depth of practice, continued studentship, and personal story of healing fuel her passion for bringing people together in pursuit of greater harmony. At the heart of her teaching is a constant invitation to begin again—to return to the body, rediscover connection, and remind each other that we were never meant to do it alone.
Known for clear, nuanced, and articulate instruction, Ali helps people reside in their bodies with greater awareness, strength, and ease. Her integrated approach combines yoga and functional movement with postural alignment, fascial release, and repatterning.
Ali is a lover of deliciousness, adventure, coconut date balls, and going for the joy. She believes travel is one of the great invitations to begin again and a chance to refresh our self-awareness.
As my first teacher, my mother is where my story begins. Influenced by the Himalayan yoga tradition and Ayurveda, her quiet rituals of reckoning and twice daily meditation shaped the landscape I grew up in.
In 1997, I willingly took my first yoga class with a Kripalu VHS tape in my living room, by Megha. My mother and I had just returned from Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA. I was in my early twenties, becoming more aware of the path I was on and questioning it. I was developing a new relationship to Self, transitioning to adulthood and corporate hustle.
Yoga became a steady anchor, instigator and residue in my life. It reflected back enough contrast, that I left my corporate job and 401k, to share yoga and build community. It provoked a curiosity and uncertainty in me that continues to fuel my studentship. I had the great privilege to study yoga, meditation, therapeutics, and yogic philosophy during the intimate, early and golden days of Anusara Yoga.
