Judith Lasater has taught Yoga since 1971 and holds workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. and abroad. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is also a physical therapist. Having studied with B.K.S. Iyengar in India and the U.S., she is president of the California Teachers Association. She teaches yoga classes and trains yoga teachers in kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and the Yoga Sutras at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Fransisco and at The Yoga Room in Berkely, CA. She writes extensively about yoga, and her feature articles, columns, and essays appear in numerous books, magazines, and anthologies.

Margi Young moved from San Francisco to New York City to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a dancer. It was after receiving an MFA in dance from New York University, teaching dance at various studios, and directing a small dance company that she realized that her yoga practice gave her joy far greater than her life as a dancer/choreographer. In 2000 she completed 2 yoga teacher training programs: one from OM yoga center and one in restorative yoga from Judith Lasater. She immediately started teaching at OM and has felt very privileged to go to work and be surrounded by open receptive barefoot people. Her teachers in the yoga world are Cyndi Lee and all the inspiring tutelage at OM, Genny Kapuler, Nina Gold, Patricia Walden, Kevin Gardner and Erich Schiffman. She is currently a senior teacher at OM, on the teacher training faculty, and teaches all levels of yoga and restorative yoga. In class she emphasizes correct alignment, deep work and intense relaxation so that the benefits and joys of yoga reveal themselves.