Lupita Ramirez

  Lupita’s yoga journey began in 2015, when a brand-new hot yoga studio popped up right around the corner from her home. She tried one class, immediately fell in love, and basically never stopped showing up. To this day, the Hot 60 sequence is her happy place.

  Fast-forward to 2020—when we were all stuck at home in stretchy pants—Lupita decided to turn all that extra time into something meaningful. She dedicated her afternoons to training and earned not one but two 200-hour certifications: YogaHour and Hatha Yoga, both through Yoga Oasis.

Once the world opened back up, she taught at Tanque Verde Guest Ranch and the Forty Niner Country Club. But then life whisked her away from Tucson for a bit, pressing pause on her teaching journey.

      When she heard Roots Yoga was offering a YTT this year, she knew it was her cue to return to teaching. Roots has always been her heart studio, hot yoga is her love language, and she dove right into completing Roots’ 200-hour YTT—now returning not just as a student, but as an instructor.

Off the mat, Lupita is a long-time photographer with 21 years behind the lens. She’s photographed countless weddings and lives for capturing the in-between moments that would disappear forever if someone wasn’t paying attention. Bonus: she’s also Roots Yoga’s resident photographer.

      Lupita has three grown kids, three dogs, loves to travel, loves to cook, and always finds her way back to yoga—the place where she feels centered, grounded, and most like herself.