Laura Bogner - Owner & Instructor

Yoga has been in my life for as long as I can remember.  I grew up watching my mid-western mother of five doing her yoga practice in our suburban living room.  At the time I thought she was really weird! It wasn’t until years later when my older sister came home from college in San Francisco raving about the yoga class she was taking that I decided maybe yoga wasn’t so weird after all! I took my first yoga class on a high school spring break visit to San Francisco and I have been a yoga enthusiast ever since.  Over the years I have practiced many different styles of yoga ranging from the physically intense styles of hot yoga or Bikram, the quick moving Asthanga, the extremely gentle styles such as Vini and Restorative Yoga and everything in between.  I think all yoga is good as long as it is practiced under the guidance of a knowledgeable instructor.  I received my teaching certification from the acclaimed Center For Yoga (now Yoga Works) in 1997. This program was unique in that it taught an eclectic mixture of many different styles of yoga and how to adapt them to group classes.  Since receiving my certification I have taught yoga all over Los Angeles and opened Glendale Yoga in 2001. I received my Pilates Mat certification from The PhysicalMind Institute in 2003.  I love to implement pilates into my classes to build solid core strength. Glendale Yoga represents a diverse community of students of all levels.

Lila Bassior hails from Sebastopol, a small town in northern CA full of cows, apple orchards, wine vineyards and hippies. Lila began her yoga journey in her mother’s womb and came into this world ready and determined to live a life full of singing, acting, dancing and yoga. Moving down to Orange County was a big change for such a small town girl, but Lila quickly became accustomed to Southern CA life, finding a home within the Cal State Fullerton Theater Department, graduating with a B.A in Theater Arts in 2009. Since then Lila has been fortunate enough to be working professionally in theater, film, commercials, and voice over, all the while enjoying profound growth within in her personal yoga practice! A graduate of the Yogaworks Teacher Training program, Lila is thrilled to share her knowledge and love of yoga with an emphasis on proper alignment, intelligent sequencing and hands on adjustments tailoring a class to fit whomever walks through the door. Lila is a firm believer that yoga is for EVERYONE no matter one’s shape, size, age, or flexibility and cannot wait to share her passion and love with all those who desire to tread the glorious path of yoga. 

Carl Dawson - Instructor 500 YACEP  Carl has studied Yoga for 40 years and has held class for 36 years. Carl began his teaching journey in 1983 with a Teacher training with Ganga White and the White Lotus staff and repeated the training with Ganga the following year. He started holding class at “The Center for Yoga” in 1984 and is still teaching and learning!  Carl studied and held class at The Iyengar institute from 1987-1991 and has held workshops and teacher trainings in California and Oregon.  Carl’s Senior instructors include: Scott Hobbs, Mary Dunn, Dona Holleman, John Schumacher, Ramanand Patel, John Friend, Aadil Palkhivala, Ganga White. His teaching style is described in the introduction to “Light On Yoga,” B.K.S. Iyengar says: “Perform your asana with the heart of a child.”