Marla Apt
Marla holds a Senior Intermediate level Iyengar Yoga
teaching certificate. Based in Los Angeles, she teaches
internationally and is on the faculty of the three-year
Southern California Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training
Program. She visited India for the first time while doing
research for a degree in Buddhist Philosophy and has
since returned numerous times for yoga studies including
a year of study in Pune, India with B.K.S. Iyengar, his
daughter, Geeta Iyengar and son, Prashant Iyengar. Marla
continues to study annually with the Iyengars. She has
served as the President of the Iyengar Yoga National
Association of the United States.
Marla is a writer contributor for Yoga Journal Magazine
and is the author of Yoga Journal’s Basics column.
She has been involved with medical research studies at
UCLA on yoga for depression, anxiety and IBS and created
the first yoga therapy content to be incorporated into
UCLA medical school’s curriculum.