The DYC story
Community, quality, authenticity, variety. Thirty years of yoga, mindfulness, and wellness in the heart of Dallas.
Since 1989, the Dallas Yoga Center has played a tremendous role in the DFW community, offering the highest quality yoga, wellness, and mindfulness for people to find inner strength, personal growth, and healing in the face of life's most difficult challenges.
Our mission is to educate, enrich, and inspire the community to lead more mindful, meaningful, and healthier lives. Over three decades we have built relationships throughout Dallas with organizations including Baylor Medical Center, American Airlines, the Dallas Museum of Art, Greenhill School, and Accenture, and we have been named Best of Dallas by D Magazine and the Dallas Observer many times over.
Through the wide breadth of our yoga, mindfulness, and wellness classes, our somatic and integrative offerings, and an impressive schedule of regional and international teachers, we serve and educate our community and provide the tools for healing, growth, and self-exploration. To people of all ages seeking healthier, more mindful lives, DYC is North Texas's trusted home for authentic yoga.
What we stand for
Community
Three decades of relationships with students, teachers, and partners across DFW, from Baylor to the Dallas Museum of Art.
Quality
Voted Best of Dallas more than ten times, recognized for the depth and impact of our classes and teachers.
Authenticity
No trendy gimmicks. An honest practice focused on real physical and mental wellbeing.
Variety
A broad, intelligent range of classes, workshops, sound healing, and trainings for every body and level.
Meet the owners
David Sunshine
Owner & Director
David has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 25 years. Through his love of ancient wisdom teachings, he has traveled the globe to study with master teachers including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, T.K.V. Desikachar, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and B.K.S. Iyengar. As director of the Dallas Yoga Center since 2001, he has built a vibrant community and trained thousands of yoga students and teachers. He loves yoga as a sacred practice that integrates body, mind, and spirit, and he leads transformational journeys to sacred sites in places such as India, Nepal, and Peru.
Daniel Sunshine
Co-Owner
In 2016, Daniel teamed up with his brother David at DYC, leading mindfulness, community engagement, and membership. Now a co-owner, he continues to teach mindfulness and sound healing, and he co-created the Mindfulness Certification Training with Sarah Sampson and Dr. Kay Colbert, a program that has empowered thousands to bring mindfulness into schools, hospitals, corporations, and beyond. A meditation, empowerment, and mindset coach, Daniel guides students toward greater tranquility, resilience, and joy.
Come as you are
Whether you can touch your toes or not, there is a class here to meet you. Book a class on our live schedule, or send us a note and we will help you find your way in.
- No contracts, no sign-up fee, no commitment
- All levels welcome, every day of the week
- In Oak Lawn, Dallas since 1989
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