Yava Yoga Center

Cynthia Bialek, E-RYT500 has been in the Northern Virginia fitness industry for over 25 years. 15 years ago she shifted most of her attention towards the practice of yoga and has been teaching over 13 yoga classes weekly for the past ten years. She is also a certified personal trainer, aquatic exercise specialist and the founder of the trademarked program Yoga Afloat®. Cynthia is also the producer and host HeadShotof the cable T.V. show “Yoga with Cynthia” that can be viewed on Channel 10 in Fairfax, VA and Channel 28 in the Reston/Herndon Northern Virginia .mmunities.Her first experience with yoga was actually as a young teen. Cynthia went to a small basement studio twice a week with her mom to practice Hatha Yoga to the beat of bongo drums. The classes then focused on meditation and breathing. Many years later she enrolled in Iyengar Yoga classes and found the emphasis on form and technique to be more suited to her needs at that time. She also found the Iyengar method highly educational, less spiritual but a very practical method to measure improvement.She branched out, however, to become a student of many schools of yoga.