About Maritza

Embodying 40 years of living Yoga and exploring it’s many forms Maritza brings the gift of presence and a rare wealth of experience to her teaching. A lifelong student, originally certified as an Iyengar Yoga teacher in 1989, and later Certified in Anusara Yoga since 2000, she is well-known as one of California-Bay Area’s most influential teachers. She has trained countless seasoned yogis and many respected yoga instructors for the last 30 years. 

Born and raised in France, she trained and worked as a professional actress in Paris and NYC before heeding a profound calling in 1980 which sent her on a life-changing, several-months, solo journey in India, to where she returned yearly to study for more than two decades. 

Sought after for her intimate understanding and articulate instruction of bio-mechanics and core energetics, Maritza teaches with clarity, focus and intensity wrapped in light-hearted humor and authenticity, and she imparts these same qualities in her students. Besides her weighty yoga credentials and her extensive training, Maritza also draws on forty years of diligent Vipassana meditation practice, combined with a strong interest in psychosomatics and a passion in human development to inform her teaching.

Soulful, fierce, insightful and engaging... Maritza is known as a catalyst for transformation. She empowers you to penetrate your body and your life to untapped depths of vitality, healing wisdom, courage and inspiration and she guides you to shift limiting patterns through the subtle and profound force that is yoga. She resides on a hilltop in California-Marin County and spends several months per year in Bali, her second home. Maritza was the Award-winning creator of two widely sold Yoga DVDs, produced by Gaiam in the early 2000.