Michael Levin

Michael Levin, RYT 200, took his first steps on the path of spiritual and meditative practice in his youth, when he came to work with a Native healer in the mountains and deserts of Southern California.  Michael spent the next decade working to integrate those teachings into his ongoing study and practice of Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound, and to manifest those teachings in his own musical performances. In 2005 he began formal asana study and practice with Kelly Fisher at Willow Street Yoga. He completed his 200-hour teacher training in the Anusara style of Hatha Yoga at Willow Street in 2012, and continues to study asana, alignment, physiology, Sanskrit and philosophy with teachers including Lucy Lomax, Moses Brown and Douglas Brooks.

Michael's teaching practice offers students classes that are alignment-based, heart-centered, and which are aimed at empowering his students with the tools and environment with which to achieve the balance, well-being and spiritual expression they seek in their daily lives. His classes are inspiring, challenging, safe, playful, adventurous, and infused with the kind of rock and roll energy you'd expect from someone who has been playing the guitar in bands for their entire life! And while his classes are always a lot of fun, they are also serious - firmly grounded not only in a strong asana practice but in all eight limbs of Yoga, including meditation and pranayama, with the goal of offering students an experience that is much more than simply stretching in Sanskrit.