Lashaun Dale loves yoga, fitness and finds magic in movement, groups and music.

She holds degrees in International Relations, Philosophy and Applied Anthropology, as well as an MPH from the School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. The former Senior Manager of Group Fitness Programming at Equinox Fitness Clubs, she now is the VP of Group Fitness for 24 Hour fitness and enjoys experiencing amazing classes around the country and will teach yoga anytime she is given an opportunity to get her OM on.

Lashaun is a certified yoga teacher, reiki practitioner, fitness coach and also holds credentials from NSCA, CHEK specializing in holistic lifestyle management, yoga, core strength, flexibility training and mindset training. She represents Yoga Tune Up and Team Body Bar and is featured in the Master Your Body videos: Core Strength and Stretch, Sportszone, Yogasculpt, Equanimity, Strength Resolutions and Body Bar Flex, and her latest DVD, Total Body Toning. A regular contributor to media publications such as SELF, Women's Health and Fitness magazines she is also the contributes regulartly to many popular blogs and podcasts .

She constantly wonders about the sweet oddities of life and attempts to take every experience and turn it into a chance to learn. She has pursued many lives, teaching certifications and professional degrees and continues to follow her dream of sharing the healing powers of compassion, movement and yoga wherever possible. You can typically catch Lashaun teaching by day, snuggling munchkins by dusk and transforming into a mad owl on the midnight keyboard--she lives in the country near a forest with her husband, two children and a few too many animals.

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