HaChi Yu, Director. Jivamukti Yoga Collective NYC.

Bhakti Yoga Shala (good folks 2 donate 2)

Jiva Liberated Inc.

HaChi Yu is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher and founder/director of Jivamukti Yoga Collective – New York. 
She is also the founder of Prana Productions LLC,/The Prana Life and was the owner and founder of Jivamukti Yoga LaLaLå! building the first Jivamukti Yoga School on the west coast. (which sadly closed in 2020 due to the global pandemic). 

HaChi was born and raised on the Lower East Side of NYC, and has travelled the world as a teacher, performer and producer. 
She was a principal dancer with Feld Ballet/Ballet Tech for over 20 years during which time she also worked on and off-Broadway.

Her yoga studies began as a child and she has was raised with movement as her first language. Currently, HaChi serves as Facilitator for Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Trainings internationally. She has studied with esteemed teachers within various schools including: Sivananda, Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Tripsichore. HaChi is 500hr EYT Yoga Alliance and is also a certified teacher in Gyrotonic ™ and Pilates. Over the last 25 years her life as a dancer and teacher has taken her around the world where she has taught master classes at universities and festivals…and performed on many of the world’s finest stages with some of the greatest performing artists of our time.

HaChi is honored and humbled to be a lifelong student and dedicates her efforts with eternal gratitude to Sharon and David, Jules and all the jivanmuktahs around the world. She is blessed by the opportunity to study with HH Dalai Lama, HH Radhanath Swami, Robert Moses, Eddie Stern and Rusty Wells. She is in service to all her teachers and these practices that keep her on the path of the Boddhisattva …while dancing with the whirling dervishes whenever they cross her path.

Through strength, intelligence, and fluidity HaChi’s classes focus on the various practices of yoga as an integration of ancient wisdom teachings applied into our modern day life- with joy and reverence.