​Padma Dharmata is an ERYT-500 yoga instructor, and has been teaching yoga since 2012, with over 12,000 teaching hours of experience. Her specialty over the years has been teaching large group hot yoga and yoga classes adapted to each person present. Her core belief is that true yoga doesn't mean postures---it's about connecting to who you are, and that everyone can do yoga, regardless of physical ability or inability. She incorporates this method in all that she does, and in physical classes utilizes her signature yoga series (which incorporates breath along with very balanced and scientific movement for the external, internal, and energetic bodies) in order to achieve maximum potential, pain relief, and even healing in the body, as well as mental and spiritual benefits.

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Padma works to bring this element of yoga to the community through pop-up yoga events and offers private sessions, retreats, videos, and certification, and works to engage people in their health and well-being and their journey in life. She also aims to further educate the public that yoga is so much more than the common misunderstanding of it being a set of advanced and complicated postures. Yes, yoga should and can be challenging, but yoga can be as gentle or as complex as needed. It can be physical movement, breath, thought, laughter, a hike in the sun, or an afternoon on the lake. Healing. Yoga is a very broad term that is meant to point to whatever path you choose that connects you to yourself, and to God.

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Padma spent years utilizing hot yoga to manage chronic pain and to heal deep trauma, but during a time of heightened pain and no hot yoga was available, she was forced to find a new way to manage pain. It was then that she discovered an anti-inflammatory diet, as well as Ayurveda, and was able to begin treating her pain through movement and diet alone---severe pain that if left untreated is debilitating and keeps her from being able to walk after some time. While this may not work for everyone, it has inspired her to continue studying the science of herbs and spices, and holistic health and wellness, and she currently is studying to become a Naturopathic Practitioner and an Ayurvedic Practitioner. Ayurveda is her primary means and is essentially the belief that everything in our life can either be our poison or our medicine---especially food, the company we keep, our thoughts, etc. 

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Padma is also an author, and a spiritual guide. After a near-death experience during childbirth in 2023 and crossing over to the other side, the experience impacted her in such a way that it leaves her placing heavy importance on her work and teaching, her children, and connecting with people in the most authentic way possible.