THE FOUNDERS
Three leaders with one standard: embodied devotion to practices that work.
Byron de Marsé
Movement with integrity. Stillness with fire.
For years, Byron has been challenging the norms of modern yoga, pushing the work beyond surface-level practice. He sees what’s possible before it exists and sets direction with courage and conviction.
Raised on a large ranch in Oklahoma, Byron later moved to California, where he was first introduced to yoga — a practice that resonated with both his athletic background and his deeply curious nature.
With well over 10,000 hours of teaching and facilitation experience around the world, his teaching journey began in Santa Monica at the world-renowned Bryan Kest Power Yoga studio and Equinox. After moving to Bali, Byron began teaching at The Yoga Barn, where his classes quickly became some of the most sought after on the island and where he built a dedicated global following.
In 2022, Byron developed Empowerment Yoga — a unique practice rooted in truth and freedom of expression. That philosophy now lives at the heart of The IN Movement and continues to evolve through his daily devotion to the craft of practice, teaching, and self-study.
“The truth will set you free,
it’s just a matter of how free you truly want to be.”
– Byron de Marse
Paul Teodo
Yoga built on discipline & purpose. Music for living to.
Paul brings rigor and clarity to the practices of yoga and meditation. He holds students to high standards while meeting them with grounded care. His teaching is precise, intentional, and deeply embodied.
With over a decade of experience teaching and mentoring at studios like Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga, Unplug Meditation and The Yoga Barn, Paul’s known for classes that challenge you to grow stronger physically and emotionally, as well as soften without losing your strength. His integration of movement, meditation, and live music creates spaces that are focused, honest, and deeply restorative.
Paul teaches you to develop real capacity.
“Find something to be enthusiastic about,
get good at it, and give it to the world.”
– Paul Teodo
Leah Santa Cruz
Meditation with depth, clarity & presence.
Leah’s work as a Meditation Teacher and women’s work facilitator is grounded in lived experience — from anxiety disorder and burnout, to rebuilding her life and learning to steadily return to her self through practice. With a background in psychology and neuroscience, and years of working for high-pressure startups and Microsoft, she brings meditation out of the abstract and into simple, daily-life practices for busy people.
Her teaching is calm, precise, and deeply human. People come to her work to meet themselves honestly, with compassion and courage.
She’s the coach on the award-winning app, “Balance” allowing her voice to help tens of millions of people globally. All this because she teaches meditation as a relationship – that changes how you live, love, and lead.
“What you see with awareness may feel sharp at first…
but held in compassion, it becomes a doorway back to yourself.”
– Leah Santa Cruz
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