Michael Lear is an internationally recognized Trager® Approach Movement Education Instructor and Ashtanga Yoga Instructor with a client base spanning five continents and including a few Academy Award, Grammy, and Emmy winners as well as many figures prominent in business and industry. Michael is also a professional drummer with the band Mystik Fool.

For over 30 years, Lear has been at the forefront of mind-body medicine, yoga and meditation.  He has studied Yoga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois during his New York visits as well as with many of Ashtanga's foremost instructors.  Holding a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 Certification, he teaches Yoga Anatomy for Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification courses and conducts workshops internationally.  He also conducts Mysore classes and adjustment clinics based through the lens of a therapeutic body-worker based on The Trager® Approach.
 My entire personal development experience is not reflected in the hours listed on this site.

I came to Yoga through Trager® Bodywork and Neuro-muscular Re-eductation.  Actually through - chronic lower back pain, hypertension, high cholesterol and clinically obesity - at age 23.  4 Years of bodywork, biofeedback, and diet change came first. Presently, I'm a certified Instructor for Trager® International - conducting Professional Level Certification courses domestically.

I've practice Ashtanga-based asana since 1992 and began formal Ashtanga in 1999 - and began teaching (adjusting in 2001) at my own studio Easton Yoga after having 10 years of hands-on therapeutic bodywork experience in a clinical setting.   I have a daily asana practice and have practiced through Advanced A -  I practice 7-10hrs. per week, thousands of hours at this point and teach Functional Yoga Anatomy for YA certified trainings.  I also practice and teach the intermediate Pranayamas as well. 

My primary daily practice in addition to Asana is Vipassana Meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U B Khin as Taught by S.N. Goenka.  I've sat and served 17 dhamma courses including 2- 20-day courses, and multiple experiential courses of the Maha Satipatthana Sutta since 1998. I've sat multiple short courses in this tradition as well I continue to sit 2hrs daily, maintain Sila and have sat thousands of hours to date.

I'm in my 31th year as a hands-on body-worker addressing chronic pain, trauma related injuries, post surgical rehabilitation and Veteran's PTSD, all of which informs my hands-on adjustments - in particular Mysore style Ashtanga. More on the conditions I've successfully addressed can be found at www.michaellear.com

My goal is the offer support for a balancing energizing, quieting and harmonizing daily practice that eventually inspires students to commit to a regular and deep seated meditation practice. 

Feel free to conctact me at michael@michaellear.com 

May all beings be happy.   

Metta,

-M