margaret mann

Margaret (she/her) has had many careers: child actor, dancer, puppeteer, dish washer, restaurant manager, stylist, producer, photo agent, yoga teacher, instagram fitness enthusiast …and again, yoga teacher. A lifelong tenet of hers has always been to live a life embodied, at one with movement and occasional muscle soreness, and breath. In 2002, after spending a a childhood in gymnastic classes, an adolescence in ballet classes and an early adult life training and auditioning for dance rolls, she skeptically took her first yoga class, and was pleasantly surprised. There were no mirrors, no competition, no expectations and there were no rewards. She was immediately drawn to the symmetry, detail, intelligence, sweaty physicality, and the anonymity of the vinyasa practice. To this day she thanks Jeremy Fahey, aka Pure Jai, for that steady and selfless introduction.

Margaret was born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Indiana and lives her adult life in New York. She completed her yoga training with Isaac Pena and Jude English at Sankalpah Yoga in 2009, she was a mentor and a course specific module instructor in the Kula Yoga Teacher Training program from 2015-2020, and celebrated many budding yoga teachers.

She has been teaching group yoga classes in NYC for 12+ years at Sankalpah Yoga, Park Slope Yoga, Pure Yoga, Kula Yoga Project and Bend + Bloom Yoga. She has lead repeat retreats in The Catskills, Costa Rica, and Miami. You can expect her classes to be challenging, disciplined, forgiving, on time, and always with good music.