ABOUT DAN
A lifelong practice of attention, inquiry, and movement.
Dan Ward is a Los Angeles-based yoga teacher, teacher trainer, performer, and creator whose work explores what happens when practice becomes personal.
THE WORK
Teach whatyou have lived.
Dan has practiced yoga since 1990 and has led teacher trainings since 2013. His approach is grounded in disciplined study, clear alignment, intelligent sequencing, and the belief that yoga should help each person become more fully themselves.
Rather than asking students to imitate a teacher, Dan invites them to pay attention—to sensation, effort, choice, habit, and the stories they bring into the room.
The result is a practice that is physically rigorous, thoughtfully constructed, and open to genuine self-discovery.
PRACTICING SINCE 1990
More than three decades of sustained study.
TRAINING TEACHERS SINCE 2013
Helping teachers develop skill, confidence, and an authentic voice.
BASED IN LOS ANGELES
Teaching classes, trainings, immersions, and creative projects.
TWO EXPRESSIONS
Practice and performance belong to the same inquiry.
Dan’s work moves between the yoga studio and the stage. Though the forms are different, both begin with the same questions: What are we paying attention to? What shapes our choices? And what becomes possible when we are willing to look more closely?
ABOUT DAN
A practice built from the inside out.
Dan’s teaching brings together flow, alignment, inquiry, and decades of study. His classes are designed for practitioners who want to move intelligently, examine familiar patterns, and remain curious about what practice can reveal.
PERFORMANCE
The questions continue beyond the mat.
Through The Yoga Project, Dan brings his experience in yoga and performance together to examine wellness culture, power, influence, and the commercialization of spiritual practice.
STUDY AND LINEAGE
Rooted in tradition. Shaped through experience.
Dan’s teaching is rooted in Power Yoga and the YogaWorks tradition, bringing together the movement and rhythm of Ashtanga with the precision and alignment of Iyengar Yoga.
His work has been shaped by teachers including Gabriel Halpern, Bryan Kest, Maty Ezraty, Annie Carpenter, Leslie Kazadi, and Jerome Mercier.
Dan is the founder of Dan Ward Yoga School, a Yoga Alliance-registered 200-hour program centered on helping teachers teach from understanding rather than imitation.
For Dan, teacher training is not about learning to perform someone else’s version of yoga. It is about developing the knowledge, discernment, and confidence to teach from an authentic place.