bios
Mia
Borgatta, RN, the founder and director of the Ma Yoga program was born in New York City. She has an extensive background in yoga, dance, massage, and women's healing arts. Mia attended her first birth as a doula and received her Yoga Certification both in 1989. The merging of these two disciplines has resulted in the Ma Yoga prenatal technique - an invigorating and empowering practice that includes instinctive positioning and movement in preparation for birth.
Mia has taught yoga since 1990 and prenatal yoga since 1994. She has taught at various centers including Jivamukti and dance festivals, and currently teaches and runs the Ma Yoga Programs at Lila Yoga and Wellness Center in New York.
As a doula, she has been present for the wonder and magic of over 160 births and applies the depth of these experiences to her teaching. Mia is a mother to spirited and inspiring Jaya, born at home in 1994; Jaya proves to be the most demanding and perceptive of Mia's teachers, and brings great joy to her life. Mia is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and practices deep therapeutic massage.
Mia thanks all of her teachers especially Genny Kapuler, Zjenja la Rosa, Robert Moses (Shankarananda), Alison West, and Eden Fromberg who have deeply enriched her life and have influenced her work.
LUISA GUI
Mother of her baby boy Lorenzo, Luisa teaches prenatal yoga at Lila Yoga, Dharma and Wellness and holds private yoga classes in her home. A vinyasa yoga practitioner since 2004, she received her 200 hours certification from Atmananda Yoga Sequence in 2007. In the summer of 2007 she traveled to north of India following the Vedanta master Paramanand Ji and practiced Hatha yoga. She served as an assistant to Atmananda founder John Tamayo in the winter teacher training of 2008. In 2010, she received her prenatal teacher training certificate from Prenatal Yoga Center in New York City. In the same year, she attended a yoga therapy intensive course organized by Omanand Ji at Three Jewels Community Center. She was studio manager at Atmananda Yoga Sequence from June to September 2010. She is currently enrolled in the Yoga Education Program at Paramanand University in Indore, India.
Originally from Italy, Luisa works as a producer in the visual arts, performance and film.
Mia has taught yoga since 1990 and prenatal yoga since 1994. She has taught at various centers including Jivamukti and dance festivals, and currently teaches and runs the Ma Yoga Programs at Lila Yoga and Wellness Center in New York.
As a doula, she has been present for the wonder and magic of over 160 births and applies the depth of these experiences to her teaching. Mia is a mother to spirited and inspiring Jaya, born at home in 1994; Jaya proves to be the most demanding and perceptive of Mia's teachers, and brings great joy to her life. Mia is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and practices deep therapeutic massage.
Mia thanks all of her teachers especially Genny Kapuler, Zjenja la Rosa, Robert Moses (Shankarananda), Alison West, and Eden Fromberg who have deeply enriched her life and have influenced her work.
LUISA GUI
Mother of her baby boy Lorenzo, Luisa teaches prenatal yoga at Lila Yoga, Dharma and Wellness and holds private yoga classes in her home. A vinyasa yoga practitioner since 2004, she received her 200 hours certification from Atmananda Yoga Sequence in 2007. In the summer of 2007 she traveled to north of India following the Vedanta master Paramanand Ji and practiced Hatha yoga. She served as an assistant to Atmananda founder John Tamayo in the winter teacher training of 2008. In 2010, she received her prenatal teacher training certificate from Prenatal Yoga Center in New York City. In the same year, she attended a yoga therapy intensive course organized by Omanand Ji at Three Jewels Community Center. She was studio manager at Atmananda Yoga Sequence from June to September 2010. She is currently enrolled in the Yoga Education Program at Paramanand University in Indore, India.
Originally from Italy, Luisa works as a producer in the visual arts, performance and film.