Dr. Anna Engels is a Co-Founder of Yoga Lab Studio in State College, PA. She is a yoga teacher registered at the E-RYT 200, RYT 500, and YACEP levels with Yoga Alliance. Her yoga teaching and practice combines her background in psychology with a strong grounding in anatomy and functional movement to create intelligent and fun sequences that flow with the breath and connect you to your core.
Anna has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and her clinical interests and academic research focus on stress, anxiety, depression, and their associated patterns of brain activity using fMRI. She has trained in multiple styles of yoga, and studied extensively with physical therapist and yoga teacher Lara Heimann. She is also a photographer and loves traveling the world, capturing moments of beauty. She currently teaches yoga at Yoga Lab and in the Penn State Kinesiology Department. She is also available for private sessions.
