Meet Gloria Persico

Yoga Fusion Co-Founder

Gloria started her yoga career in the early 1980’s as a wide-eyed student at a less than chic studio in New York City. Since that day, Gloria’s yoga journey has been nothing less than fascinating. Gloria moved to the San Francisco Bay area after years of training in the Boston and New York areas. In February 2002 after many of her yoga students had become devoted to her style of teaching, Gloria become motivated to start from the ground up, one of the first yoga studios in the area called The Yoga Company

During the beginning months as co-founder of TYC, Gloria taught 18 classes each week. As TYC evolved, Gloria developed and directed the first Teacher Training in the area. The studio and her practice blossomed and a beautiful community of people emerged to share in the environment her yoga experience had developed.

Upon selling TYC, Gloria’s career expanded to instructing weekend workshops, integrating yoga into corporate wellness programs and leading directed international retreats. Gloria has truly evolved yoga into her lifelong dream of combining travel, adventure and her passion for teaching. Taking multiple trips each year, Gloria leads her students and peers on location to such sites as Machu Picchu, Peru and the exotic remote beaches of Costa Rica, Mexico, Belize and Thailand, to name a few. Each retreat location is personally researched to ensure every participant enjoys a safe group and personalized yoga experience in paradise. It’s no wonder her retreats are consistently sold out to returning and new participants. As a certified 500-hour Kripalu instructor, Gloria has developed over the last 20 years, a teaching style described as uniquely original. Her vision is expressed as the yoga of compassion. By helping participants learn new postures, blending different training and techniques, Gloria stresses that how you’re feeling is as important as to what you are feeling. Gloria puts each participant on a yoga path, teaching them a comprehensive understanding of yoga and a dedication to the practice.