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Jodi Blumstein

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Ashtanga Yoga Teacher

Jodi Blumstein has been practicing and teaching Ashtanga Yoga for more than three decades. She began teaching in Chicago in the late 1990s before moving to Los Angeles, where she spent over 15 years teaching at YogaWorks and the Center for Yoga.

Between 2013 and 2017 she filmed more than 200 classes for Glo and for many years was the platform’s only Ashtanga teacher.

Through decades of practice and teaching, Jodi has developed an approach that emphasizes safety, refinement, and intelligent modification so that students can sustain a strong and evolving yoga practice over a lifetime. Her teaching helps practitioners access the foundational benefits of the Primary Series while integrating the energetic principles of the Second Series and the strength and vitality cultivated through the Third.

She now teaches daily live Zoom classes and hosts an online yoga studio where students from around the world gather to practice together.

Online studio:
https://app.arketa.co/jodibyoga

The Yoga Studio Is Dying — And What Comes Next (Audio)
April 14, 2026

The Yoga Studio Is Dying — And What Comes Next (Audio)

What does it really mean to stay devoted to a practice for three decades — and let it keep changing you? Harmony Slater and Russell Case sit down with Jodi Blumstein: long-time Ashtanga yoga practitioner, founder of one of Ch...