Mark Stephens

Mark Stephens is an American yoga teacher, author, and educator known for training thousands of yoga teachers and for founding the Yoga Inside Foundation, L.A. Yoga Center, and Santa Cruz Yoga. He is the author of Teaching Yoga (2010; 2nd ed. 2024) and several other widely used textbooks for teachers (Yoga Sequencing, Yoga Adjustments, Yoga Therapy, Yoga for Better Sleep). Stephens has taught since the mid-1990s, has trained teachers in schools, treatment centers, and prisons across North America, and received Yoga Journal's first Annual Karma Yoga Award in 2000 for his Yoga Inside work. He lives and teaches in the Santa Cruz, California area and offers global trainings and online teacher-education programs.