Cassandra Benning

About Cassandra Benning

Prana Flow Teacher
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500, ID #2189

Aesthetics License Number: 13990 

Cassandra Benning is the owner of The Floating Lotus Yoga Studio and Day Spa. Her skin care journey started when she was 12 years old: having Grade 2 acne, she quickly learned the necessity of caring for skin. With the help of her mother, great skincare products and her dermatologist, she survived her teen years unscathed.
In her early 20s, after earning a bachelor's degree in business administration, Cassandra worked for Lancôme cosmetics, where she loved playing with and selling skincare products. While working there, Cassandra learned that one is never too young to start preventative skin care.

In her 30s, she became interested in shirodhara, a relaxing, ancient Indian treatment. Cassandra discovered that she needed an aesthetics license to perform shirodhara, so in 2005 she obtained that license. She and has been working since then to help clients be their most beautiful, inside and out.

Her Yoga journey began in 1998, when she read The Sivananda Companion to Yoga, and quickly realized her passion. Cassandra enrolled in classes and attended several workshops, growing in her own practice.

Upon gentle nudging by Catherine Rodgers, one of her first teachers, to find her own voice in Yoga, Cassandra decided to become a teacher, in 2000. Teaching came naturally to her, and that has been her love and career choice ever since.

Having always had a dancing spirit, Cassandra was excited to discover Shiva Rea, whose practice and teaching embodied a dancing, flowing style. Cassandra has studied extensively under Shiva Rea and is a teacher of Prana Flow, an energetic, creative Yoga style that takes a full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of Yoga.
Cassandra has an E-RYT 500 designation through Yoga Alliance, with more 6000 hours of teaching knowledge and experience.

Her style of teaching is thoughtful, instructional, and alignment-focused, with a flowing tempo. She loves sharing the deeper roots of Yoga, not just the physical aspect – her calm, nurturing energy supports the emotional aspects of the practice as well.