Nina Polo Wieja

Nina has been studying yoga for over twenty years and teaching for more than a decade. Her practice is rooted in the Sri Vidya tradition and shaped by years of study in other living lineages and wisdom traditions.

What draws her most is the way these teachings speak through the body, through breath, through story—and how they help us remember who we are in relationship with the land, with each other, and with the unseen.

She lives in Ojai, California, on the ancestral lands of the Chumash, where she cares for wild horses and the land they call home. These beings—strong, sensitive, deeply attuned—continue to be some of her greatest teachers, reminding her daily what it means to listen, to move from presence, and to live in rhythm with something greater than herself.

Her teaching is also shaped by a lifelong love of storytelling and mythology. She is drawn to the questions these old stories carry: What does it mean to live in right relationship? How do we meet both the sacred and the ordinary with reverence? For Nina, yoga is one way we learn to live those questions in the body. Above all, she is interested in how we root spiritual practice in lived experience—in the mess and the magic of daily life—and how yoga can be a path of care, both personal and collective.