Dr. Ari Beers
Lead Teacher & Founder

Dr. Ari Beers has spent 12 years helping students develop their own everyday practice creating a system for teaching yoga as medicine. Ari Beers is an Ayurvedic expert, as she teaches yoga, meditation and Ayurveda as a lifestyle. She is one of the most prominent voices in successfully fusing Western approaches for health with Eastern elements such as Yoga and Ayurveda.

Ari is a Global Warrior, Founder of Anahata Conscious Living and her method of Psychology engaged students with their heart as well as their mind. Her method draws great influence from Kundalini, Tantric and Hatha yoga, Shamanic breathwork, ancient philosophy, and meditation.

Her yoga sequences are designed to support practices in understanding how trauma is stored and is experienced in the body. She works with different Ayurvedic elements to help relieve anxiety, depression and help build a wellness lifestyle and consistent dedicated practice.

Ari Beers is a fearless, high profile and celebrity yoga instructor. She speaks passionately about embracing yoga as a lifestyle at workshops, retreats, and trainings. She is a strong advocate for women’s empowerment through movement and her experiences and knowledge across all facets of yoga and wellness work to unleash the inner feminine as well as to balance the masculine. Her yoga retreats and teacher trainings are life changing as they not only teach the art of yoga, but also Ayurveda and ancient Eastern healing practices. Together, she will help you deepen your connection with your inner self.

Ben Needham
Teacher

After years of unused fitness gym memberships and in search for another form of exercise to supplement beach volleyball, Ben decided to try out a yoga class in the summer of 2011 while he lived in San Diego.  It was like the first time he tried a homemade chocolate chip cookie -- he was instantly hooked and craved more!  The balance and blend of exercise, stretch, breath, openness, compression, and stress-relief provided such amazing, all-encompassing feelings and benefits, Ben immersed himself in his practice. Ben received his 200-hour yoga instructor certification in the fall of 2013 from CorePower Yoga, and was an integral part of growing CorePower Yoga in Boston.

In 2016, he moved to Central Coast, CA and taught at Spark Yoga and Smiling Dog Yoga.  In 2019, Ben moved to Los Angeles, CA and joined up with Anahata Conscious Living.  He teaches primarily hot/power vinyasa yoga classes, and caters to those who want to sweat and get a solid workout in. Ben brings calm yet energizing vibes into class to break you away from wherever or whatever you do before stepping into the studio.

He will challenge you to push yourself, as well as be the voice that will remind you to learn your physical limits and honor your body.  He is a huge proponent and believer that yoga can benefit anyone willing to try it out, so he is excited to get to know you and see you on your mat!

Sasha Cayward
Social Media Director

My name is Sasha and I am in charge of the Anahata Conscious Living Instagram, blog posts, and a lot of behind the scenes work. I came into yoga mainly for the aesthetic benefits as I was a national level tennis player and put a lot of stress on my body from constant practices, a high achieving student, and just an overly active person in general. However, throughout the years, I have developed a different relationship with yoga, one that revolves around a more internal practice than an external one. Yoga for me means exploration, feeling, and being authentic. The mat is a safe space but it is also a playground. I am passionate about Ayurveda, nutrition, exercise, mental health, and functional medicine and have had a breadth of experiences in each. I am dedicated to deliver information that nurtures and challenges you as I believe in this world, we all need reminders to be still and to be kind to ourselves.

Currently, I am a university student at Williams College in MA and I am working towards a double major in Psychology and Eastern Religion with a Neuroscience concentration. Basically, I am studying the brain and how we can influence and manipulate the brain to improve it via Eastern practices aka Positive Psychology. I took a year abroad to London this past year and loved it so much I have decided to take a gap year and explore how mindfulness is implemented in the workforce.

I have worked in Marketing and analytics at Unify Square, a technology company as well as several startups in both the LA and Seattle area. I love the creativity Anahata Conscious Living gives me and Ari is the sister I never had.