Clio Manuelian

Clio Manuelian is a yoga and meditation teacher in Los Angeles who grew up in New York. She spent the first part of her working life in fashion public relations, leading press for Elle magazine and later for Salvatore Ferragamo, before a growing yoga practice drew her away from that world and into teaching. Among the teachers she names as mentors are Elena Brower, Annie Carpenter, Tias Little, Joan Hyman, Marla Apt and Lisa Walford.

She teaches yoga and mindfulness at the University of Southern California, trains new teachers on Yoga Alliance programmes and leads meditation with InsightLA. Her classes are alignment-minded but playful, mixing steady standing work, inversions and yin with breath practice and a light, encouraging tone, and she has taught at Wanderlust festivals and written practice sequences for Yoga Journal. Alongside studio and corporate classes in Los Angeles she keeps a small donation-based library of recorded classes on her site and leads yoga holidays abroad, with a week on the Greek island of Amorgos planned for summer 2027. On Commune her series Feel Good to Be You is part of the membership.