Daria Ricchi practised her first sun salutation in 1999. She is a senior yoga teacher and certified yoga and ayurveda teacher from the Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda in Massachusetts. She has a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University where she has been teaching yoga and anatomy of the movement working with all different ranges of bodies and minds. She studied kinaesthetic and ideokinesis with Irene Dowd (Julliard School NY), Alexander Technique with Rachel Bernsen, and Bartenieff Fundamentals at the Laban Institute in New York. These somatic movement techniques and dance conditioning practices inform her teaching and sequences.

She is also a Yin Yoga certified teacher and a 650 hour certified ayurveda counsellor from the Kripalu School of Ayurveda. She lives in Oxford where she teaches private, group yoga classes, and workshops on kinaesthetic. Her current research considers the effect of space and movement for wellbeing.