NEDA HONARVAR
E-RYT 500, YACEP
Known for her fiery nature and deep desire to make yoga accessible, Neda’s teaching style reflects her passion and playfulness as well as her dedication to the science, depth, and discipline of yoga. Her classes are an engaging blend of clear, direct, alignment-based instruction and skillful sequencing; expect lots of encouragement and play with generous servings of sweat and laughter.
In 2010, Neda founded Tough Love Yoga, a thriving, community-based studio in Atlanta, GA. After 13 years of operation, Tough Love Yoga transformed into an online and traveling operation and is now based in Iceland. Neda currently resides in Reykjavik and maintains an active teaching schedule, offering asana, pranayama, & meditation classes, ritual gatherings, workshops, retreats, and teacher training programs both locally and internationally.
Neda has trained over 300 yoga instructors through 200 hour and 300 hour teacher training programs registered with the Yoga Alliance, both through Tough Love Yoga and other yoga studios across the globe including Japan, Romania, and the Netherlands.
Neda’s love for teaching is second only to her passion for learning, believing that being a student of yoga has and continues to transform the capacity and potential of her mind, body, and heart. Neda’s primary practices include asana, pranayama, meditation, and ritual. She has been practicing yoga since 2000 and is a devoted student of her teachers Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Darren Rhodes and Christina Sell.