A 500–hour Kripalu Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, and Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant, Larissa is Manager of Yoga Education for Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living. She has an additional 200-hour certification from Rodney Yee (Yee Yoga), teaches prenatal yoga and chakra yoga, and is a Reiki practitioner. She has taught yoga, meditation, pranayama, and yogic philosophy for the Tanglewood Music Center, Berkshire Opera Company, Juilliard School, and Boston Conservatory.
At the Kripalu Center, Larissa has studied yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda with some of the world's most respected teachers, including Dharma Mitra, Shiva Rea, Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman, Richard Rosen, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Elise Browning Miller, Simon Park, Cameron Shayne, Jimmy Barkan, Sarah Powers, Cyndi Lee, Suzanne Deason, Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Stephen Cope, Yoganand Michael Carroll, Don Stapleton, Shobhan Richard Faulds, Lama Surya Das, Russill Paul, Vasant Lad, David Frawley, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Dr. Scott Blossom, Dr. Claudia Welch, Dr. John Douillard, Vyaas Houston, Manorama, Avinash Lele, Jay Apte, Dr. Partap Chauhan, and Dr. Satya Narayana Das.
An English teacher and outdoors enthusiast, Larissa travels the country teaching yoga workshops, directing trainings, and offering private yoga and Ayurveda consultations. Creator of the CD:Meditative Yoga Flow: A Kripalu Sadhana.
