Amber East-D'Anna

Amber East-D'Anna is founder and owner of East West Yoga Studio. Amber holds a BA, JD, E-RYT 200 (RYT 500 in progress) and is It’s Yoga Kids certified. She was born and raised in Cupertino and Saratoga and thought Cupertino needed a lot more yoga when she began offering yoga classes at her mother’s dance studio in 2009.

Amber literally grew up at that dance studio, and began assisting children's dance classes at age 9 and teaching children's dance classes at age 15. One of her passions is working with children and teens of all ages and encouraging them to have more awareness of their bodies and minds, in order to enjoy childhood - instead of feeling stressed at such a young age. Living in the bay area, there is a lot of pressure on children in academics and other areas of life. The intent of the children's yoga classes is to help reverse some of that stress, create strength, flexibility and a positive body images, teach breath awareness, and offer them tools that they can use throughout their days to ease stress.

Amber’s love of all things yoga began in college at UCLA over 13 years ago. It was an entirely new experience and seemed to encourage an entirely different mindset and a healthier approach to daily living. This was affirmed when, during law school at Santa Clara University, she began experiencing severe migraines, and had more days of intense migraines than days without migraines. This is when the healing and grounding power of yoga and meditation became more firmly rooted in her practice. Soon after, she began her ongoing professional training in yoga. Teachers of influence include: Seane Corn, Erich Schiffmann, Judith Hanson Lasater, Sarah Powers, Annie Carpenter, Maty Ezraty, Samantha Shakti Brown as well as all of the teachers at East West Yoga. Amber continues to study, practice, and try to stay grounded while raising her sons, James and Parker, with her husband Patrick.