MacInerney Charles F

Austin, United States

5

5 reviews

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+1 512-459-2267
Website:
yogateacher.com
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Various locations including Cafe Dance, Mt. Bonnell, Austin, TX, 78731
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
1.1 mi3600 North Hills/Village Center
1.2 mi6714 Wood Hollow/Far West
1.2 miHart/Far West
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Local time (Austin) 03:20 Friday, 6 June 2025

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Charles MacInerney E-​RYT-​500, offers ongoing Yoga Classes in Austin, TX, Workshops at studios throughout Tx and the US. Charles also offers Yoga & Meditation as well as Yoga and Writing retreats in Tx, MA, Costa Rica Mexico and Guatemala. He is co-​founder of the Texas Yoga Retreat, the Living Yoga Teacher Training Program, and the Free Day of Yoga.

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History

Established in 1989.

Charles is one of the pioneers of Yoga in Austin, and paved the way for Austin’s current yoga scene. Since 1989 he has taught over 20,000 students. He was one of the first Yoga teachers in the South West to establish yoga classes in government agencies, corporations (including 3M & Apple), hospitals (he started cardiac Yoga programs at Seton Hospital and the Austin Heart Hospital), Universities (he introduced yoga at UT-​Austin for faculty, staff, Students, and worked with the UT Women’s volleyball, track and golf teams). Charles was the visionary behind Austin’s first Free day of Yoga, and worked hard with Sharon Moon, Donna Belk and Mary Esther Middleton to keep the tradition going, and help it spread to other cities including Dallas and Houston.

Charles is co-​founder and continues to teach for the Living Yoga Program, which has graduates teaching yoga in 42 states and 14 countries.

Charles is perhaps most famous locally for his free Full Moon Yoga classes, now in its 18th year.

Meet the Business Owner

Charles F.

Business Owner

Charles has been practicing yoga since 1971 when his mother and sister took him to his first yoga class with them at age 11. His first teacher taught him to adjust the yoga to meet the needs and abilities of each student, rather than trying to force the student into the yoga.

A crippling knee injury in college when he was 19 years old ended his participation in competitive sports like wrestling, soccer and racquetball, but it also brought him back full circle to yoga which was the only physical activity left open to him. Through Yoga, over 5 years of personal practice, he slowly rehabilitated his knee sufficiently to rejoin group yoga classes, and after 18 years of personal practice and working with over a dozen yoga teachers, Charles taught his first yoga class at Maplewood Elementary school in 1989 and has not looked back.

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5 reviews of MacInerney Charles F

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Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
Charles is just an absolutely fantastic instructor. I first met him years ago when he was teaching a meditation class for UT (and I still meditate now, based on what he taught us!), and then have taken a couple of retreats with him, and classes here and there. When people need an instructor, he is the first I recommend. He can teach to all levels, beginner to way advanced, and I simply think the world of him. Seriously, he’ll change your life.
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
Charles is my mentor through the Living Yoga Program where I completed my 200 hour yoga teacher certification. An amazing program if your interested. Charles radiates energy and a light within him that makes people flock to him. When teaching asanas he looks at the pose holistically. Of coarse there is the technical way to get your body into alignment of the pose but then there is the moving within the pose in order to get the most out of it. He teaches how to listen to your body and how to teach others to listen to their bodies, that is what yoga is all about in my perspective. I couldn’t speak to Charles’ abilities and qualities without mentioning he is a master in the essence of breathe. How it moves through your body and what it does for you when engaging in a variety of pranayama techniques. Simply put Charles is amazing and I am so lucky to have found him.
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
I can’t say it any better than the other two reviews — Charles is the best — totally sweet, calm and funny — all at the same time!
The full moon yoga classes are great — and free… but don’t judge his regular classes by the full moon class. It is outside on hard ground which pretty much precludes much except standing poses. The shavasana at the end of his regular class just knocks me out. His voice is like «butta» He has made a CD full of meditations that is excellent — check it out.
He also has weekend retreats — some local and some to exotic places. I have only been on the weekend retreats and they are a great way to relax and get away from the rat race.
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
Full disclosure: I knew this guy a little bit before I took any of his yoga classes. It wasn’t until I had heard good things about him both from Sasha C and other people who didn’t know him outside of the yoga context that I considered taking a class with him.
First, I checked out Full Moon Yoga — the yoga event he hosts every full moon on top of Mt. Bonnell that is totally free and open to the public. Although I had liked my experiences at Yoga Yoga, I could tell that Charles’ approach was a cut above the instruction elsewhere. First of all, he took more time to explain some of the theory of his approach, and spent more time walking around making sure folks were doing the poses correctly.
I then checked out his classes at Café Dance, in which he gives even more personalized attention. I am a big girl, and not an experienced yogi, and he was able to give me suggestions that accomodate my weight so i don’t put too much weight on my shins, for instance, and how to maneuver my position so my gut doesn’t get in the way and I can get a better stretch. Other instructors haven’t seemed as sensitive to the need for weight accommodations, even the friendly and heavier ones. He also helps everyone make their individualized accomodations, too. I ran into a friend as his class who I knew from a completely different context than the one I knew Charles from, and he said he’d been going to Charles for years, which is quite an endorsement from a guy who’s particular and kind of cheap. After seeing how Charles teaches, I don’t want to go to anyone else.
Place rating: 5
San Diego, CA
Seriously this guy is one of the best Yoga teachers in Austin. It really begins with the happy go lucky non competitive vibe that he exudes over each and every class. He knows you are there to feel better and do better whatever better may be. At every class he seems prepared for many body types and many moods. Ever patient, he will teach not only a pose, but the joy of moving into the pose. Although serious abotu his practice, he makes space for a good joke or two. Indeed I feel more relaxed in his yoga classes than I do in my own home.