Diana Chuang

A versatile yoga teacher, Diana helps students to discover and nurture their own sadhana (meditative practice) by supporting the exploration of the dynamics of asana and pranayama practice with a gentle compassion that helps to create a space to release and ground. Her classes are strong with an infusion of lightheartedness and an emphasis on developing a strong core and open energy channels to help create space to align with your inner wisdom and radiance.Diana has practiced yoga continuously since 1996 and has taught yoga since 2010. Styles influential to Diana’s yoga instruction include Ashtanga, kundalini, Iyengar, power yoga, hatha and vinyasa flow, anusara, Chopra yoga, SmartFLOW, restorative, as well as yoga’s sister science ayurveda.A dedicated Ashtanga yoga practitioner since 2004, Diana has been a student of legendary Tim Miller in Encinitas since 2006, as well as Noah Williams (since 2014) and James Butkevich (2008 - 2014) in Los Angeles.Diana’s training reflects a focus on studies with dedicated teachers who are connected to the lineage of the Ashtanga yoga method. Diana’s formal training on the yoga teacher path began in January 2010, the start of over four years of mentorship with James Butkevich at Ashtanga Yoga Los Angeles, where she taught and assisted in led and Mysore-style Ashtanga yoga classes in the Silver Lake neighborhood. Diana has completed 300 hours of teacher training with Tim Miller at the Ashtanga Yoga Center in Encinitas, California, cumulatively exploring in depth all asanas in the primary series (2010), the intermediate (second) series (2012), and advanced A (third) series (2015) of Ashtanga yoga. She has attended various Ashtanga yoga sessions and lectures with members of the Jois family: Sri K Pattabhi Jois at the Roosevelt Hotel in his US Tour 2005 (led primary), Manju Jois (Mysore style) and Saraswati Rangaswamy (Mysore style) at Jois Yoga in Encinitas (2010), and Sharath Jois (Rangaswamy) (led primary) at Jois Yoga in Encinitas (2011). Diana’s studies include Sanskrit lessons in Encinitas and Los Angeles in 2010 with Dr. M.A. Jayashree and Professor Narasimhan from Mysore, India.In 2017, Diana completed 200 hours of Voyager Teacher Training at Wanderlust Hollywood covering various modalities of yoga with fellow Ashtangi Joan Hyman (founder of School of Yoga/senior teacher at Center for Yoga). Fascinated by the abundant subtleties of yoga, Diana continues her learning with accomplished teachers connected to Ashtanga yoga such as: a SmartFLOW workshop (Deep and Safe Practice) with Annie Carpenter in September 2019, a mentorship with Joan Hyman in fall 2023, and an intensive training on pranayama in early 2024 with Jeanne Heileman (Center for Yoga/School of Yoga/founder of Tantra Flow Yoga). Diana Chuang is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS). Diana is continually inspired by the transformative power of yoga illumined within herself, her students and teachers in navigating innumerable challenges - including work stress, repetitive stress conditions, sports and chronic injuries, and stroke. Having practiced yoga throughout her former career as a public finance attorney, Diana believes that an understanding of the subtleties of howto practice is one of the most powerful gifts that a yoga teacher, and indeed, the practice of yoga itself can cultivate in a student.Off the mat, Diana served the community for decades as a public finance attorney, helping cities and other public agencies throughout the State of California to build and construct public capital projects, such as water production and wastewater treatment facilities, fire stations, libraries, parks and trails, streets, swimming facilities, and transportation hubs. She enjoys exploring the fiber arts, weaving on a floor loom projects designed for yoga and other life activities. Diana is married to, and inspired daily by, Dominic Panzica - her love and dharma companion throughout many lifetimes.