Daphne Lyon has been teaching yoga since 2011, and over the past fifteen years she has traveled extensively in a dedicated search for practices that create real and lasting change. She completed both of her yoga teacher trainings in Nosara — her first at Nosara Yoga Institute in 2011, and her second in the Jivamukti tradition at Blue Spirit — before continuing her studies with meditation masters, breathwork guides, and healing teachers around the world.
A former Peace Corps volunteer and lifelong traveler, Daphne brings a wealth of lived experience to her teaching that reaches far beyond the mat. She grew up attending yoga and meditation classes in her parents’ yoga studio, so these practices were part of her life from the very beginning. As a teenager facing anxiety in middle and high school, they became her anchor — not a passing trend or wellness pastime, but a true lifeline. That intimate understanding of what these tools can offer in both the hardest and most ordinary moments of life sits at the center of everything she shares.
Daphne is an integrative wellbeing coach, life coach, and habit and behavior design guide, and her mission is to offer practices that transform our inner world so we can help shape the outer world we want to live in. She has led retreats in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, New York, and beyond, and she loves nothing more than bringing people together in community to share in this one precious life.
Her relationship to the body extends well beyond yoga. As a trained bodyworker, she draws on traditional Chinese medicine meridians, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, and human anatomy. This gives her a rare insight into how the body stores tension, emotion, and history — and how movement, breath, and touch can open what words alone cannot. That perspective informs everything she teaches, from the way she sequences a yoga class to the hands-on assists that make each session feel deeply personal.
Based in the Philadelphia, Princeton, and New York area, Daphne has been traveling to Nosara for sixteen years. She knows the land, the community, and the ocean with a depth of love and familiarity that is unmistakable. Her teaching is warm, rigorous, and deeply human — equal parts science and soul, challenge and tenderness. She will hold this week with care, humor, and an unwavering belief in what becomes possible when we finally allow ourselves to rest.