September News & Events - Free Class Coupon!!

Dice Iida-Klein was born in Los Angeles on October 11, 1984. Until the age of 18 he traveled extensively with his family. They lived everywhere; Santa Monica, Boston, Sherman Oaks and even Snow Hill Maryland where he lived from age 15-17. At the age of 17 he knew that he had to make his way back HOME to the City of Angels and he hasn't left. Raised primarily by his strong and independent mother, Dice is a self-proclaimed "Momma's Boy."   "She taught me to hold doors and to be polite." Says Dice fondly, "To always consider the fact that I was one piece of a giant puzzle and that human compassion and the ability to respect my fellow human being was the key to a happy life. Sounds like YOGA to me." Although he says that he found yoga in 2007, he gratefully recognizes that his mother had been grooming him for the practice of Yoga for years and years before he actually found it in the form of "Hatha" yoga.

Growing up, Dice was very involved in all kinds of sports - Hockey, basketball, baseball and tennis just to name a few. Phys Ed, Science and Mathematics were his favorite subjects in high school, but he ended up graduating from UCLA with a degree in Japanese although he says that even with that, his Japanese language skills are still pretty terrible!

In 2007, Dice found himself working for the Canadian company Lululemon and through that experience he discovered yoga and never looked back. He fell head over heels for yoga and knew fairly quickly that he wanted to teach this practice that he now loved so passionately. After about 4 months of practicing hatha yoga, he began his first teacher training in Los Angeles. The rest, as they say, is history.

"I once thought that yoga for me would always be the same: 6-7 days a week of sweaty classes that allowed me to push my body physically. What I didn't know is that my body AND my mind would change and thus my practice would change too." Says Dice. "A major factor of this change occurred once I began teaching full time. I still practice regularly, but I incorporate other things into it. Parallel bar training, gymnastics, climbing...etc., are all things that I feel yoga has led me to." For Dice, the evolution of his practice is important. "Yoga is what you want it to be. That's the beauty of the practice. We all have all have our own definition of what Yoga is to us. My goal (as a teacher) is to help my fellow yogis create their own definition of what Yoga is to them. Hopefully, along the way we'll sweat, laugh, fall and maybe break a few of what we've deemed as our own limitations."

Thank you Dice.

Please come take a class with Dice during the month of September - ON US! See the coupon below.

Dice's yoga classes are:
Tues & Thurs .... 7:00p - 8:30p....Strong Flow

Wednesday .... 9:00a - 10:30a....Strong Flow
Sunday ........... 9:30a - 11:00a....Strong Flow

"Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are." ~Jason Crandell

"Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about
who you are."

~Jason Crandell