Suzy Nece, former owner of Yoga Loft in Manhattan Beach, brings playful humor to her athletic yoga classes, which challenge your body, open your mind, and uplift your spirit. Suzy is one of the original Yoga Loft teachers and has been teaching yoga in the South Bay for over a decade. She had the privilege of teaching yoga to our troops in combat, traveling to Afghanistan armed with laughter and a yoga mat.
Nece was previously the Group Fitness Manager of Equinox Fitness Club in Palos Verdes, where she taught all levels & various styles of yoga, mentored a staff of over 30 talented teachers and created signature programming. Influenced by years of dancing, as well as Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Iyengar, Kundalini, and Restorative yoga–and most recently her Yoga Tune Up training with Jill Miller– her classes offer a uniquely lighthearted & inspiring path to wellness for all levels. She explored many movement therapies, including the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, and Pilates, before thankfully being introduced to yoga as a way of healing a dance-related injury.
She has been a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher for the last 20 years and toured nationally with the New York-based Bessie Award-winning dance company, Jane Comfort and Company. Suzy is a Yoga Mittra Teacher Trainer, Planet Yoga certified instructor, a Yoga Tune Up certified instructor, Yoga Alliance member, a stand up comic & mommy. Nece has led yogis on adventures in Hawaii, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Catalina Island and is looking forward to more pilgrimages to Greece and Iceland.
“I just think that life is serious enough and when someone finally finds a bridge to walk through those studio doors – people don’t walk in here because, ‘Oh, everything is perfect and my life is fantastic…they usually walk in because they are jacked up, life is so busy or somebody begged them to finally go to yoga. The culture of this studio – the yoga culture, really – is one of inclusion and acceptance. I love the quote: the shortest distance between two people is laughter. Yoga is union; yoga is about connection. That to me is laughter. The concept of ‘om’ to me is a belly laugh. It’s not this crunchy hippie thing; it’s the religious experience of a deeply felt belly laugh. To be able to laugh at your self is such a gift to be able to take out of this room into reality. To put a smile on someone’s face…that’s my yoga.”
Contact Suzy: suzy@getwokeyoga.com