Carla Olla is a 300-hour ERYT yoga teacher and owner/director of Rhinebeck Yoga Center. Prior to that, she was the founder and owner of Love Yoga Center in Naples, Florida, where she developed yoga teacher training programs. She has been teaching for more than 20 years and has led more than 17 yoga teacher training courses. 

Carla has led numerous “Journey to Sacred India” retreats to share her love of the land where yoga was born, and coproduced an informational DVD, Chair Yoga for a Vital Life with Paula Hanke. She became a Jivamukti certified yoga teacher in 2012 and has been most powerfully influenced by her teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life, the founders of Jivamukti Yoga. She also holds certificates in Ayurveda Yoga, Reiki, and Thai Yoga Massage.

Carla first started practicing yoga to heal an injury and quickly became enthralled with the many benefits the practice has to offer the body, mind, and spirit. Before becoming a yoga teacher, Carla worked as a professional musician and was guitarist on a world tour with Deborah Harry, earning her a Gold Record. In her spare time, she is learning to play the drums and other instruments, and enjoys hiking and dreaming in the nearby mountains.