LILA YOGA is a holistic vinyasa practice that aligns body, breath & intentions. In postures we explo
Welcome to Lîla Yoga Studios --a center for yogic learning in the Lîla Yoga tradition. We offer daily classes for all levels -- asana yoga postures classes, meditation, workshops, kirtans, and contact improvisation.
07/31/2026
“Observations within myself and Nonny during difficult times:
Knowing the strength of our full power love and being relatively calm in tough situation is a super power.
Clarity rides on the calm.
Intensity is not panic.
We can be calm within intensity”
~Erica
07/28/2026
Interested in joining us?
This 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training is designed for certified yoga teachers who are ready for the next stage of their journey
—those who want to move beyond foundational instruction and cultivate greater depth, confidence, and mastery in both their personal practice and their teaching.
Whether you feel called to refine your voice as a teacher, explore yoga philosophy more deeply, or lead with greater presence and intention, this advanced training offers the tools and mentorship to support that evolution.
Erica Kaufman, the founder of Lila Yoga, has been offering teacher trainings for over 23 years and has graduated hundreds of competent and compassionate teachers.
Today, Lila Yoga graduates are sharing these teachings in communities across the country and around the world, carrying forward a tradition rooted in wisdom, authenticity, and service!!!
Send Lila Yoga Studios or Erica Kaufman a message if you’d like to learn more or sign up!
07/23/2026
It was my birthday on March 10. I was teaching at the magnificent International Yoga Festival. While at the evening Arti ceremony I looked up and fell in love with the birds. When I taught LILA YOGA the next morning, I shared this with my class and one of the students said I took the picture and she sent me this photo.
Humans can be so self intertained—sometimes with a lot of amplified sound…, and yet there were the birds above it all navigating with air currents, magnetic fields and collaboration—and this beautiful woman caught a bit of their soaring capabilities in the photo.
I am living with interest, respect, awareness and gratitude for the rhythm of nature and gently nuzzling myself into more harmony within it all…, loosening my grip and loosing myself into precious fleeting moments of pure love peace and joy.
07/22/2026
Are you ready to deepen your yoga practice? To learn ancient skills to awaken and focus energy? Does the prospect of expanding your teaching knowledge and passing on these life-affirming practices to others inspire you?
If so, in 2027 we are offering certified Registered Yoga Teacher Training 300 (RYS-300). This is for yogis that have already received their 200-Hour Certification
We are overjoyed to open enrollment and release the full details of our upcoming Lila 300YTT
You can expect:
🌟Training is slow and thorough spread out over a full year
🌟3 in-person modules. Two of them nuzzled by the Appalachian Mountains in Central Pennsylvania. One module in Rishikesh, a spiritual birthplace of Yoga
🌟Includes monthly online group and private sessions
Our Timeline:
✨January 2-9, 2027: Retreat in State College, Pennsylvania
✨March 8-18, 2027: Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, India (March 8-14: IYF; March 15-18: retreat)
✨August 1-8, 2027: Retreat in State College, Pennsylvania
✨Each month includes one, and occasionally two, online sessions lasting 2-3 hours.
✨December 2027: Graduation (virtual option)
To learn more or sign up, send us a DM or reach out to Erica Kaufman
Spaces are limited! We look forward to studying & practicing the great science of yoga with you
07/21/2026
Good Morning
Good Evening
Good Love
Good Life
Does this mean it’s always easy or predictable?
No.
But thankful to see morning and evening, to feel love, and to be in life!
07/15/2026
We are overjoyed to open enrollment and release the full details of our upcoming Lila 300YTT
You can expect:
🌟Training is slow and thorough spread out over a full year
🌟3 in-person modules. Two of them nuzzled by the Appalachian Mountains in Central Pennsylvania. One module in Rishikesh, a spiritual birthplace of Yoga
🌟Includes monthly online group and private sessions
Our Timeline:
✨January 2-9, 2027: Retreat in State College, Pennsylvania
✨March 8-18, 2027: Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, India (March 8-14: IYF; March 15-18: retreat)
✨August 1-8, 2027: Retreat in State College, Pennsylvania
✨Each month includes one, and occasionally two, online sessions lasting 2-3 hours.
✨December 2027: Graduation (virtual option)
To learn more or sign up, send us a DM or reach out to Erica Kaufman
Spaces are limited! We look forward to studying & practicing the great science of yoga with you
07/14/2026
Tomorrow is a very exciting day because we will be opening enrollment and releasing the full details of our upcoming 300-hour Lila Yoga Teacher Training
Whether you feel called to refine your voice as a teacher, explore yoga philosophy more deeply, or lead with greater presence and intention, this advanced training offers the tools and mentorship to support that evolution.
Tomorrow we’ll be sharing everything you need to know, including the curriculum, dates, locations, investment, and more!
Send us a message if you’re interested to learn more! Spaces will be limited!
Look forward to connecting,
Erica Kaufman, MFA E-RYT500
“Don’t be afraid of the quiet space within you. Don’t crowd your head with social media.
Make time for sitting with yourself for meditation, allowing your discipline to be motivated by your interest and not by ridicule.
Know there’s a lot of wisdom within your calm and quiet self.”
Words by Erica Kaufman for the July 2026 issue of Rishikesh Yogalaya Magazine—an international publication dedicated to the wisdom of yoga
🔗https://magazine.rishikeshyogalaya.com/July2026
“Yoga is one of India’s greatest gifts to humanity, and it has spread far and wide
Some of what is being taught now lacks depth, but looking at the popularity of festivals, studios and yoga schools worldwide, there seems to be a sincere interest in contrasting the busy life
I can imagine a world where instead of compartmentalizing yoga as a separate practice from the rest of the day, people learn to integrate yoga into their lives - into decision-making, relationships, and into living a more sustainable lifestyle where calm and quiet are valued and appreciated.”
Words by Erica Kaufman for the July 2026 issue of Rishikesh Yogalaya Magazine—an international publication dedicated to the wisdom of yoga
🔗https://magazine.rishikeshyogalaya.com/July2026