Daphne Lyon has been teaching yoga since 2011 and has spent the last decade and a half traveling the world in devoted pursuit of the practices that genuinely change lives. She completed both of her yoga teacher trainings in Nosara, her first at Nosara Yoga Institute in 2011 and her second in the Jivamukti tradition at Blue Spirit, before going on to study with meditation masters, breathwork guides and healing teachers across continents. A former Peace Corps volunteer and lifelong world traveler, Daphne brings a depth of lived experience to her teaching that goes far beyond the mat.

She grew up taking yoga and meditation classes in her parents' yoga studio, the practices were woven into her life from the beginning. As a teenager navigating anxiety in middle and high school, they became her rock. Not a trend or a wellness hobby, but a genuine lifeline. That personal knowing of what these practices can do in the darkest and most ordinary moments of a human life is at the heart of everything she teaches.

Daphne is an integrative wellbeing coach, life coach, and habit and behavior design guide, and her mission is to share the practices that transform our inner world so that we can create the outer world we wish to see. She has led retreats across Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, New York and beyond, and there is nothing she loves more than gathering people together in community to share in this one precious life.

Her approach to the body goes beyond yoga. As a trained bodyworker, she weaves her knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine meridians, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, and human anatomy. Daphne brings a rare understanding of how the body holds tension, emotion and history, and how movement, breath and touch can unlock what words alone cannot reach. This informs everything she teaches, from the way she sequences a yoga class to the hands-on assists that make each session feel deeply personal.

She is based in the Philadelphia, Princeton and New York area, and has been traveling to Nosara for sixteen years. She knows this land, this community and this ocean with a rare depth of love and familiarity. Her teaching is warm, rigorous and deeply human, equal parts science and soul, challenge and tenderness. She will hold this week with care, humor and an unwavering belief in what becomes possible when we finally give ourselves permission to rest.