Dennis Lang is a yoga teacher, meditation teacher and sound healer who works as one half of a teaching partnership, Yoga With Dennis and Kathy. He and his partner Kathy are based in Jacksonville, Florida, though "based" is a generous word for people who describe themselves as full-time traveling teachers. Where Lang was born and raised is not documented, and this profile does not guess at it. What is on record begins with a career that had nothing to do with yoga.
Lang and Kathy came to the practice from the corporate world. Their first class, in 2000, planted what they describe as a seed. It did not become a vocation overnight. As the practice deepened, they changed their working lives, embraced a healthier way of living and eventually became full-time teachers on the road. It is a familiar story in contemporary yoga, but the detail worth noticing is the pace: a first class in 2000, and a slow, deliberate turn toward teaching rather than a dramatic break.
Lang and Kathy call themselves non-denominational yogis, and their training reflects it. They draw on Kripalu, Kundalini Fusion, Jivamukti, Ashtanga, Yin and Vinyasa Flow, and their studies include trainings with Rodney Yee, David Life and Sharon Gannon, Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers. That list spans athletic, devotional and contemplative approaches, and the teaching that emerges from it does not belong to a single lineage. Anyone expecting a purist method will find an eclectic synthesis instead.
Their formal credentials are E-RYT500 certifications from the Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, North Carolina, along with YACEP status, which allows them to provide continuing education through Yoga Alliance.
The center of the work is a pairing of opposites. Lang and Kathy co-teach, and their classes blend Yin and Yang, structure and softness, stillness and movement. Two voices share the room, one leaning toward structure and the other toward softness, and the pacing of a session follows that logic, moving between held postures and stillness and more active movement.
The philosophical frame is wide. Their teaching draws on the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, alongside energetic anatomy, Chakra Theory and Daoist philosophy. Daoism supplies much of the vocabulary for yin and yang, while the classical Indian texts supply an ethical and metaphysical backbone. Their stated specialties are Yin Yoga teacher training, chakras and energetic anatomy, and meditation and mindfulness.
What most sets them apart is sound. Lang and Kathy are musicians as well as teachers, and they bring vibration and resonance into the practice with guitar, sitar, crystal bowls, flutes, drums and gongs. The sound is not an accompaniment played at the edges of class; it sits inside the practice, a way of letting students feel an idea rather than only hear it explained. Many teachers offer Yin Yoga or chakra-based classes. Fewer weave live instruments through them.
Underneath it all is a simple reframing. They see yoga as a relationship, first with yourself, then with the world, and ultimately with the divine. In their phrasing, the practice is never a work-out but always a work-in.
The one book credited to Lang and Kathy is Everything Matters, which extends the teaching into print. It is the only written work confirmed for this profile, and it is best approached as a companion to the classes: the same ideas about relationship, balance and inward effort, set down for readers who want to study them at their own pace.
Beyond the book, the work is largely live and itinerant. They have led retreats and guest teachings in Greece, Mexico, Morocco, Costa Rica, Bali, Italy, Portugal, Panama and Botswana, and have traveled to more than 60 countries. They maintain a YouTube channel and a website, yogawithdennisandkathy.com, and a Spotify presence with several thousand followers. No discography is catalogued, and the sound work is likely best experienced in the room.
Today Lang continues to teach with Kathy from Jacksonville while traveling for retreats and guest teachings. The Yin Yoga teacher training remains the clearest expression of their specialty, and their continuing education credentials place them among the teachers who help train other teachers. No upcoming events are confirmed in the information available for this profile, so anyone hoping to study with them should check the website directly for current offerings and dates.
Lang's work reaches a particular kind of student: someone who wants Yin Yoga, chakra work and Daoist philosophy in one practice, and who is curious about sound as a part of that practice rather than a bonus. It also reaches people who are not looking for intensity. Yin is slow and long-held, and a session built around bowls and gongs asks for patience. Students who want a sweat-heavy class, a strict single-tradition method or purely physical instruction may find it a poor fit, and that honesty is part of what makes the work credible.
There is also something quietly instructive in the shape of the story. Two people leave corporate careers after a single class, spend years studying across many traditions, and settle into a practice that treats softness and structure as partners rather than rivals. They teach as a pair, and the partnership is itself an illustration of the balance they describe.
The public record is modest. No press coverage or awards are documented here, and the clearest markers of standing are professional: the E-RYT500 certifications, the YACEP status, the book and the long list of places where they have taught. For a profile of a working teacher, that seems the right measure. Lang's significance lies less in recognition than in the practice itself, a patient, musical, text-informed approach that asks students to see yoga as a relationship, and to do the work inward.