Justicia has been leading Immersion since 2010, and is absolutely in love with this course material.

A native of St. Louis, she has been teaching yoga since 2005 and is the founder, owner and director of Maha in Philadelphia. She is known for detailed alignment instruction and her openhearted teaching style.

Alan is Maha’s resident anatomy geek and mobility specialist with a gift for corrective exercise programs and helping people get out of pain.

A lover of movement in many forms, Alan came to yoga in their early 20’s and loved its ritual and focus on self transformation. After a string of injuries, Alan found Maha to pursue a more anatomy-focused and therapeutic approach.

Deepthi Rao (E-RYT500) is a certified yoga teacher, originally from India with over 800 hours of training. She has a MS degree in Yoga from Swami Vivekananda Yoga University, India. Until the early 2010s she worked in finance, and asana practice was a small part of her training for long distance running. After 2 years as a practitioner she began to discover the effect it had on both her physical and mental health. Around this time she met her teachers Pradeep Sattwamaya and Sandeep Manur and began her formal yoga studies under their mentorship.

She transitioned to teaching yoga full time in 2014 and there’s been no looking back! She has led sessions focussed on Asana, Pranayama and Yoga Nidra. She primarily practices and teaches Hatha & Yin styles and has trained in Yoga Nidra (Sleep Meditation) under her teacher Swami Yoga Ratna of Shankar Prasad Ashram in Gokarna, India. She also teaches Yoga-centered Anatomy for teacher trainings. She is passionate about research related to Mind-Body practices, Sleep and Health Tech. She hosts a wellness themed podcast called The DeepThings Podcast. Deepthi truly believes in democratizing health & wellness through education.

When not in the studio, she’s out exploring new ways to brew her coffee or practicing her pen(wo)manship.