Dana Slamp is a yoga therapist, teacher and author living in New York City. She first found yoga after an injury kicked her out of running, and she heard yoga was a good “workout.”

At that time, Dana split her time between stage acting (at the Shakespeare Theater, with Arthur Miller at the Old Globe, and more), playwriting, and her “day” job as a legal writer. Consistent yoga practice helped shift her mindset from how her body looked (a preoccupation inflicted by the acting industry) to how she felt – and eventually to how she was showing up for others.

When a crushing breakup forced her to correct course, her job as a Broadway understudy seemed to lose its meaning, and her focus shifted to teaching yoga – creating spaces where others could feel connected and centered.

Years of city hustle led Dana to nearly burnout. She quit her job managing a yoga studio, and enrolled in a yoga therapy course. There, she started to learn at last how to show up for herself. Since she’d been born into a family of preachers, Dana always had a generational curiosity about connecting with the divine. Yoga therapy’s focus on the physiological reasoning behind yoga and mindfulness gave her a fact-based language with which to share the techniques of yoga for all.

Her mind/body school, Prema Yoga Institute, was founded in 2012, and has become the premier IAYT-accredited yoga therapy school in New York City. PYI now boasts an extended roster of courses, is welcoming their 9th yoga therapy cohort of studying yoga therapists in 2023, and features some of the country’s leading experts in mind/body complimentary care.

Dana's teaching can also be found on YogaAnytime, Equinox+ and Embodied Philosophy.