Angela Maguire, RYT-500, is a Holistic Yoga Flow teacher dedicated to using movement and breath to help people feel more alive and connected. Angela attributes the deepening of her yoga practice to her teachers Travis Eliot and Bryan Kest, with whom she practiced every day for ten years while living in Santa Monica, CA. Just before moving back to her home state of New Jersey in 2020, Angie completed her 200 hr YTT with Travis Eliot and Lauren Eckstom and her first 10-day Vipassana course as taught by S. N. Goenka at the Dhamma Center in North Folk, CA.
As an instructor, Angela strives to create a holistic yoga practice that improves balance, stamina, tone, and suppleness in the body while focusing and relaxing the mind. Her studio classes are suitable for beginner and experienced yogis alike. Angela teaches chair yoga to seniors in Ocean County. Her company, Ocean 8 Yoga, offers private and small group instruction to individuals and teams in the home, workspace, or virtually. Previous volunteer events include chair yoga and meditation at the Retreat for Women in Recovery, Barnegat Light, NJ and a Memorial Day fundraiser for Veterans Yoga Project. In 2023, Angela completed a Trauma-Informed Brain Sensitive (TIBS) program that includes mindfulness, neuroscience, and best practices in trauma-informed brain-sensitive yoga. In 2024, she completed an advanced 300 hour YA certification with Sarahjoy Marsh, MA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT that builds to full certification as a yoga therapist with eligibility to register with IAYT.