Andrea Marcum

Andrea Marcum

Having started in competitive gymnastics, Andrea Marcum, a Santa Cruz, California native, began instructing yoga in 1999 and soon opened her own studio, U Studio, in Los Angeles in 2006.

In a city filled with yoga stars and behemoth studios, Marcum launched U Studio to success through her distinctive core intensive Vinyasa flow classes. U Studio has won critical acclaim, no doubt due to Marcum's passion and dedication. She relishes in the transformation yoga brings her students and the community it encourages.

When not in her studio, Andrea Marcum teaches workshops and leads retreats in Bali, Costa Rica and around the world. She has been featured in Shape, Self, C Magazine, Huffington Post and the LA Times. Marcum is an Ambassador for Lululemon and Manduka and writes for Gaia, MindBodyGreen, and is a Lifestyle Editor for Origin Magazine. Though her early childhood aspirations were to be a fairy princess, she is pretty happy with the way things have turned out.

"Andrea's combination of a challenging class, and a great sense of humor are unique, intelligent, and always leave me feeling better when I leave than when I arrived. She is an amazing teacher and I love her class." -Heather Graham, actress

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Andrea Marcum
This challenging and powerful vinyasa flow with Andrea Marcum will send your day in the right direction.
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Close to Om
Unite with your highest, greatest self and see that yoga is the path towards purpose, intelligence, empathy and love, both within ourselves and toward everything around us. Rest in restorative postures and metta (loving-kindness) meditation to discover that our journey is about turning inward ultimately so that we can reach out.
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Close to Om
In the second episode of Andrea Marcum's Close to Om series she leverages the postures to go deeper.
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In Mexico with Andrea Marcum
Explore tortoise pose (kurmasana) to inspire self-care. This challenging slow-and-steady practice physically maps out the component parts that build tortoise pose including deep hip- and hamstring-openers, forward folds, arm balances, and challenging balancing poses. Thematically, this class also reveals that, like a turtle, we need to get beneath our hard outer shell and into our contemplative inner landscape if we want to create lasting progress and change. With kurmasana, as in life, it’s the journey and not the destination that matters.
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Agua de Jamaica (hibiscus water)
In Mexico with Andrea Marcum
This short yoga talk with Andrea Marcum takes you to Costa Careyas, Mexico where she shows you just how easy it is to make this delicious drink. You just might forget you are not at the beach as you grab for this delicious umbrella drink. Enjoy!
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In Mexico with Andrea Marcum
In this vinyasa practice with Andrea Marcum our core work will run much deeper than just sculpting bodies. Andrea uses center-strengthening postures to empower you to shape your own inspired reality.
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In Mexico with Andrea Marcum
This vinyasa practice with Andrea Marcum is like an intuitive blind date with yourself—one that connects you to the originality, resourcefulness and vision of your heart.
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Andrea Marcum
Does life feel like the perfect storm of running, spinning, crossfit, sitting, slumping, driving and repeat? This slow vinyasa class will balance the effects these activities can have and bring the physical body back into balance.
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Andrea Marcum
A vinyasa practice influenced by Iyengar and Ashtanga styles. Feel the long Iyengar-influenced holds with the assistance of blocks to set up the choreography of the vinyasa flow to come. The practice then shifts toward more movement and flow, revealing some of the differences between Iyengar’s techniques and the pacing of Ashtanga. This practice is a fun little experiment of yoga styles that allows you to experience the same postures in Iyengar and Ashtanga-esque settings.
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Andrea Marcum
Increase blood flow through the body by moving and breathing. Open seized up hips and hip flexors, create space in the compacted discs between our vertebra, counteract strained necks and shrugged shoulders and improve brain function and digestion with this vinyasa sequence.
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Andrea Marcum
This Rocky Mountain High in Colorado flow will take you into the valley of your hips and give you options for arm balances.
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Advance Your Practice: Foundation to Flotation
In this practice, Andrea helps us to warm the hands and forearms and the rest of our muscles for mayurasana, and there are options for arm balances to give us a taste of where we’re headed.
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Advance Your Practice: Foundation to Flotation
Cultivate a strong core to provide a foundation in arm balances, such as peacock pose (mayurasana). Build the strength, confidence, and courage to eventually take flight.
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Andrea Marcum
This invigorating flow with Andrea Marcum is like a little shot of espresso -- concise but full of spice, with options to modify for those who feel more like a gentle cup of chamomile.
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Andrea Marcum
This class provides advanced students familiarity with arm balancing & allows those learning to find a strong and informed foundation on which to build.
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Andrea Marcum
In this thirty minute class from Andrea Marcum dive right into upper body toning and strengthening. Give your shoulders, arms and core a run for their money, and come out “guns” blazing and ready to bare arms. Please note that this class has a very specific purpose, and isn’t intended to replace a longer more involved yoga practice. It is highly recommend that you have fun with this and modify as needed. When we have fun, we are more likely to be consistent, and consistency is essential to create real change. This video is part of our Yoga Sculpt Fusion practice guide.
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Andrea Marcum
We literally turn our upper body toning upside down in this practice from Andrea Marcum. It’s a playful sequence with serious sculpting to get fit for summer. Physical strength feeds our courage too, so we’ll stare down a few walls while we’re at it. Your inversion practice and your tank tops will thank you. This is a class designed to target upper body strength and is not intended to replace a more thorough practice. This video is part of our Yoga Sculpt Fusion practice guide.
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Andrea Marcum
A delicious relax and renew practice. Former NFL linebacker Keith Mitchell (student in this practice) used yoga and meditation as part of his rehabilitation after a neck injury during a game that left him paralyzed. He prefers a nurturing, replenishing practice to a sweaty workout and reminds us that there's nothing wimpy about adding a bit of yin to our yang.