When you’re looking for a Yin yoga class to get a deep stretch or a morning flow to help you wake up and get your heart pumping, Peloton yoga is there for you. But this practice is so much more than stretching and flowing—yoga is also an excellent way to build strength. To help you get after those strength goals, we’re expanding to offer more Power Flow and Yoga + Pilates classes and introducing a new class type, Sculpt Flow.

We’re also adding three new instructors to the team to help bring you even more Peloton yoga. Zacharias Niedzwiecki, Greta Dopp, and Johanna Ricouz will be teaching these exciting strength-based classes and bring their own style to some of the classic Peloton yoga classes that you already know and love. Keep reading to learn more about the new class types, the fresh faces coming to Peloton yoga, and how you can join in welcoming our new instructors to Peloton in their first live classes. 

What Are Peloton’s New Yoga Class Types?

In Peloton’s new Sculpt Flow yoga classes, you’ll grab a set of light weights and work in more strength moves for a full body workout. You’ll also see more of your favorite strength-focused yoga classes on the schedule, including more Power Flows that bring a strength challenge while getting your heart pumping, as well as more Yoga + Pilates classes with a mix of lengthening yoga poses and core-building Pilates moves. 

Meet Peloton Yoga’s Newest Instructors

To help us bring these new and expanded classes to life, we’re introducing three new instructors to guide you on the mat. In addition to Sculpt Flow, Power Flow, and Yoga + Pilates classes, our new instructors will teach standard Peloton yoga classes like Yin, Focus Flows, Slow Flows, and more. 

Zacharias, who’s also a professionally trained opera singer, has an extensive background teaching power-focused yoga classes that help athletes of all levels enhance their conditioning. Greta is our first ever Canadian instructor, and brings a playful, upbeat, and accessible spirit to the mat. And with a background in ballet and Pilates, Johanna has a unique approach to yoga and aims to make her classes inclusive and diverse spaces where everyone is welcome. 

Each new instructor brings their own style, personality, and energy to class, so we chatted with each to get the lowdown on why they’re excited to join the team, what yoga means to them, plus a few surprising fun facts. 

What excites you most about joining the Peloton team? 

Zacharias: I’m most excited about joining a team where each instructor is at the top of their field. Everyone is incredibly inspiring and I’m looking forward to learning from everyone. 

Greta: The community! Peloton has built such an incredible, inspiring community, and it’s a real honor to be part of it. I’m so excited to reach new audiences and hopefully inspire people to try a modality they may have been nervous to try before.

Johanna: Community is a huge pillar of my brand, and I’m really excited to be on the biggest fitness streaming platform in the world as a diverse instructor.

Where did your interest in fitness start? 

Zacharias: When I was young I played sports all throughout my schooling, but my true passion for fitness started during my undergrad at Michigan State University studying opera. I delved deeper into my yoga practice at that time. I started to understand fitness was more than aesthetics, more than the physical. 

Greta: I’ve been active for as long as I can remember. I played basketball in high school and I was kind of a gym girlie for a while. I then transitioned to more outdoor sports—lifestyle movement! I like to say I’m a jack of all trades. I like to surf (terribly), I like to scuba dive, I love to hike and snowboard. Staying moving is super important to me for mental clarity. I started doing yoga more intentionally after experiencing burnout in my 20s and have been practicing since I was 16. Movement is a way of coming back to myself. Yoga gave me mindfulness, Pilates gave me precision, and sculpt brought that fire. What started as stress relief grew into a deep love for exploring how the body and mind support each other.

Johanna: My movement career started as a classical ballerina in grade school. I then became a model and a dancer. I practiced Pilates when I was transitioning from dancing into modeling and it became a ritual for me. A few years later, I went through a really bad breakup and decided to get certified in Pilates as a way to bounce back. I then got my yoga certification a few years later.

What is your favorite part of being an instructor?

Zacharias: Having the ability to inspire students and see their passion for movement develop. When I see a student’s physical and mental well-being benefit from fitness I feel incredibly fulfilled. 

Greta: I really feel like teaching is my life calling. Do you know how artists get into a flow state and they’re just lost in their work, or you see a singer and they just are so in the moment and so content? I feel that way about being a facilitator. I love to share this modality and connect with people from all walks of life that I might never have crossed paths with. I love to get lost in the energy of the room or in the energy of an amazing playlist paired with an intentional sequence.

And I love witnessing the shift—when someone realizes they’re stronger than they thought, or when the energy in the room flips from hesitant to electric. My goal is always to create an experience where people leave feeling powerful, playful, and deeply connected to themselves.

Johanna: Inspiring people to move their bodies has always been the highlight of instructing. I also host Pilates certifications specifically for women of color to help create diversity and inclusion in the space. It’s always beautiful watching people graduate from my program and create their own lanes in wellness. 

Are there any particular moments that come to mind when you think of how yoga has impacted your life?

Zacharias: When I hosted my first yoga retreat, there was a moment on the second day when everyone had downtime. I was sitting on the edge of a cliff meditating, and in the background, I was hearing students I’ve known for years laughing. What made this so impactful was hearing students that have never met before, and that I have known for so long, laughing together and having conversations. It was just an example of how yoga has the ability to not only bring people together, but create lasting connections. 

Greta: Truly, far too many to count. I actually feel like the major milestones of my life have been paired with my yoga practice. Yoga has changed the way that I view life and how I live my life. It’s taught me to alchemize tough things that I’ve experienced into doorways to know myself deeper. It’s taught me how to slow down and listen, to be with myself, with all the versions of me that exist. Yoga gave me permission to meet myself with compassion and also the permission to deeply love my life. That practice of tuning in has changed the way I move and also the way I show up and view life.

Johanna: I never wanted to try yoga because I didn’t feel like people looked like me on the mat. When I started yoga in 2017, there weren’t a lot of practitioners of color. In Miami, there were a lot more diverse Pilates instructors than yoga instructors. I remember hearing Drake in the first yoga class I attended, and I cried. I was listening to music that I loved and moving my body in a way that was so healing. It was then that I decided that I wanted to teach.

If you weren’t a fitness instructor, what would you be doing? 

Zacharias: Prior to being a fitness instructor I was an opera singer. I might dabble in a performance circuit, music, or scripted arts. But what I would really like is having a self-sufficient farm to live off of and sell flowers out of my greenhouse.

Greta: I’d be a storyteller in some form I think. Maybe a writer, a traveler, or even an actor or director. Storytelling that helps people connect with themselves and the world around them really lights me up. Expression and connection are the throughline in everything I do.

Johanna: An activist!

What artist would you pick to soundtrack your life? 

Zacharias: Hozier

Greta: Fred Again..! His music feels like an anthem for movement and transformation and dance and play. 

Johanna: Future

What’s one thing people would be surprised to learn about you?

Zacharias: I took a year and a half off of undergrad to work on a jaguar conservation project in Panamá. We were studying the population density of jaguars, as they are the apex predators in central and South America in a pocket of forest suffering from human encroachment.

Greta: I’m a certified scuba diving instructor! I never went to university and instead I traveled the world and earned my PADI Instructor certification. I love the water; being underwater is one of my favorite feelings in the world.

Johanna: I cry a lot. 

How To Join Peloton’s New Yoga Instructors’ First Class

Our new yoga instructors offer unique new ways to move and flow, and we think you’re going to love them all. As we gear up for their upcoming premiere classes, here are a few things they want you to know. 

Zacharias hopes you’ll get more than just a great workout in his classes—his aim is to make sure you always learn something. “The fitness journey is about gaining skills and developing your own fitness fluency so if there is ever a time you can’t workout with me, you will still have all the lessons you’ve learned with me,” he shares. 

In Greta’s classes, you can expect plenty of variety. “Sometimes I’m speaking about energy or the Shiva sutras, and other times I’m sharing a story about that time I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants in the elevator. I’m sometimes explosive, sometimes slow and contemplative,” she says. “My classes are about building strength and resilience while staying rooted in joy. You’ll sweat, smile, and feel it all, and hopefully walk away feeling more like yourself.”

Johanna is ready to bring you a totally new yoga experience, whether you’re a seasoned pro or a first timer. “My classes are fast paced. I curse a lot, and I play explicit music. I encourage you to show up as your authentic self, free of judgment and free of conformity,” she says. But at the end of the day, “I want Members to feel safe, seen, and supported on the mat—to do no harm and take no shit,” says Johanna. 

Ready to start flowing and sculpting with our new instructors? You can now take their Premiere classes on-demand (and get a special badge for completing all three!).

Keep an eye on the schedule and our on-demand class drops for plenty more to come from the newest additions to the Peloton team!