Our Teachers
Ryan Besler
Abby Hinsman
Abby Hinsman
Founder of Vī Yoga and Here Begins Yoga, Ryan is a 500 Hour E- RYT teacher with the Yoga Alliance and has led the yoga program and studio development of multiple studios and programs since the early 2000's. Ryan is beyond grateful and appreciative of his dear friends and teachers, including Dave and Cheryl Oliver, Krista Cahill, Maty Ezr
Founder of Vī Yoga and Here Begins Yoga, Ryan is a 500 Hour E- RYT teacher with the Yoga Alliance and has led the yoga program and studio development of multiple studios and programs since the early 2000's. Ryan is beyond grateful and appreciative of his dear friends and teachers, including Dave and Cheryl Oliver, Krista Cahill, Maty Ezraty and so many others. He leads dynamic classes that balance strength and flexibility with an infusion of yoga language and philosophy in a fun and playful way. Ryan learned quickly in his yoga studies that there was more to yoga than the asana. Off the mat, he enjoys spending time with his family.
Abby Hinsman
Abby Hinsman
Abby Hinsman
Co-founder of Vī Yoga, Abby started practicing yoga in 1999 when she purchased David Swenson’s Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual. For the next 14 years she used that book as her teacher in her nearly daily Ashtanga practice. In 2013 she visited Yasa Yoga for the first time while doing graduate studies in Santa Barbara. There she met the
Co-founder of Vī Yoga, Abby started practicing yoga in 1999 when she purchased David Swenson’s Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual. For the next 14 years she used that book as her teacher in her nearly daily Ashtanga practice. In 2013 she visited Yasa Yoga for the first time while doing graduate studies in Santa Barbara. There she met the owners Ryan and Stephanie and saw the immense value of their alignment informed vinyasa instruction. The following year she completed her 200 hour teacher training at Yasa. She enjoys getting into the technical aspects of alignment within an Ashtanga based practice. You can expect to build strength and stamina in her dynamic classes. When she’s not teaching yoga, she runs Wild Veil Perfume, one of the only grower-perfume and enfleurage houses worldwide, that she founded in 2013. Abby loves to incorporate her own fragrant plant extractions into her yoga classes and workshops.