Alyssa Lauren Stone

Alyssa Lauren Stone is a Bay Area teacher of yoga, meditation and breathwork (E-RYT®, YACEP), a certified Reiki Master and a sound healer. Her classes bring alignment-based Vinyasa together with breathwork, guided meditation and yoga philosophy. She aims to make each class relaxing, challenging and rewarding. She has practiced Vinyasa regularly since 2008, and she has been a certified Reiki Master since 2019.

For over ten years she was a software sales executive in New York and Silicon Valley. Before that she worked in media and publishing sales, after graduating cum laude from New York University with degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication and in Sociology. Years of stress-related health issues from high-pressure corporate roles led her to integrative medicine and alternative forms of healing. The pandemic prompted her move into wellness. She returned to school for creative nonfiction writing at Stanford University and completed yoga teacher training. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, HuffPost, Yoga Journal and Business Insider, among others.

Her primary teacher and mentor is Laura Burkhart. She has completed Level 1 certification in Restorative Yoga with its founder, Judith Hanson Lasater, and she is continuing her training with Janet Stone at Stone Yoga School. She is also enrolled in a mindfulness meditation teacher certification program accredited by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. Her intention is to honor Indian tradition while taking account of current knowledge of human anatomy. Her classes include Vipassanā-rooted mindfulness, breathwork and restorative practice.

Alyssa is a classically trained musician. She facilitates sound baths with gongs, drums, Himalayan and crystal singing bowls, harmonium, tuning forks and other percussion, and she offers Reiki. She founded Marvellous Mage, a health and wellness company that brings classes, workshops and retreats to corporate professionals and local communities.