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Mychal V. Prieto was born and raised in Santa Barbara, CA — shaped early by athletics, movement, and a quiet pull toward something deeper.
What began as a pursuit of physical excellence evolved into a lifelong devotion to the full human experience. Over the past 13+ years, Mychal has walked the path of a student first — studying Kinesiology, earning advanced certifications in movement and nutrition, and being recognized as Most Professional Trainer of the Year at Equinox Santa Monica in both 2015 and 2016. But the deeper training was always happening alongside the formal one.
He began practicing yoga at 18 and meditation at 21 — not as fitness tools, but as doorways. In 2017, he traveled to Spain to complete his 200-hour yoga teacher training and returned to Los Angeles to begin teaching at some of the city's most respected studios. That same year, breathwork entered his world and changed everything.
Today, Mychal is a yoga teacher, meditation guide, breathwork facilitator, and holistic lifestyle coach whose work lives at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern somatic understanding. He holds a 500-hour Holistic Yoga Flow certification and has been a teacher on Inner Dimension Yoga since 2018. His classes and sessions are rooted in presence — in helping people breathe deeper, move with more intelligence, and drop into what is actually real.
For the past five years, Mychal has been studying shamanism with Indigenous wisdom keepers and ritual specialists, integrating those teachings into everything he holds space for. His work is informed by multiple spiritual initiations (traditional master plant dietas), his Mexihka ancestral lineage, Mayan cosmology, and a genuine commitment to his own path of self-realization — because he believes you can only take someone as far as you've been willing to go yourself.
He has partnered with Nike, Adidas, Alo, Lululemon, and Manduka as both a movement director and model, and has led retreats across Australia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and California. He currently teaches in-person at Open Studio in Venice Beach and through the Open app + Inner Dimension Yoga app.
Mychal doesn't teach from a curriculum. He teaches from a path of life experiences.
