“Back in the ’90s, when you went to yoga, each school would focus around a system,” Seane Corn, a prominent yoga teacher who studied under Ms. Ezraty, said in a phone interview. “Maty took all of those systems and brought them into one school so that everyone could try and explore all the kinds of yoga that existed.”

Their hybrid method was more accessible to a mainstream clientele, Ms. Corn said. “It was fluid but steeped in alignment and precision,” she said.

In addition to teaching students, Ms. Ezraty instructed teachers, from France to Japan, in her methods. She brought prominent yoga instructors together in Santa Monica for daily classes, hosted workshops and mentored many of today’s leading yoga teachers.

Maryam Askari, a yoga instructor who worked for Ms. Ezraty and took her teacher training program to France, said in an interview that Ms. Ezraty had been known for her rigor. Whereas some training programs for instructors took three days, she said, Ms. Ezraty’s took a minimum of six weeks.

Ms. Ezraty’s talent, Mr. Miller said in a text from Tokyo, “was to see greatness in people long before they saw it in themselves, pull it out and insist on excellence.”

Ms. Ezraty viewed yoga not as a vehicle for self-improvement but as a route to self-acceptance. As she once said: “Keep in mind that when you practice yoga, you’re not practicing to improve yourself. You are perfect. The practice is there to help you know that.”