Prema Posner

Prema Posner is a Yoga Mentor for the Gaja Yoga & Breathwork Teacher Training, where she has served as a lead mentor and teacher in the 200-hour program. She teaches weekly live online yoga and meditation classes through her personal website and is a lead teacher on Ompractice, where she also teaches weekly classes. Prema created The Grief Companion: Held in Love, an online course offering practices to help people feel grounded, supported, and connected to themselves as they learn to live alongside loss.

Prema’s path began with a pilgrimage to India in 2008 and has grown into more than 1,500 hours of training and over 18 years of teaching. Her studies include 200-hour and children’s yoga trainings with Kelly Wood at Karuna Yoga in Los Angeles; advanced training at Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh; SmartFLOW with Annie Carpenter; prenatal and postnatal yoga with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa at Golden Bridge; a year-long Yoga of Service residency with Baba Hari Dass at Mount Madonna; Yoga of Energetics and craniosacral training with Cat Kabira in Bali; and Reiki Master training in Thailand.

Before teaching yoga, Prema founded a public relations firm and served as Director of Marketing for a Los Angeles nonprofit. Her teaching is devotional and gentle, drawing on Bhakti, Hatha, Yin, restorative, and vinyasa yoga, along with trauma-informed approaches, meditation, mudra, and chanting. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

She holds E-RYT 500, YACEP, RCYT, and RPYT designations.