Marla, a Senior Intermediate level Certified lyengar Yoga teacher, is based in Los Angeles. She leads workshops and trainings throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has been involved with medical research studies at UCLA on yoga for depression, anxiety and lBS and created the first yoga therapy content to be incorporated into the curriculum of the David Gefffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is a founding board member of a new non-profit organization aimed at bringing the therapeutic benefits of yoga to the general public.

She also writes for Yoga Journal Magazine, and has served as the President of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and is currently a member of the national certification committee.