Rob is author of the groundbreaking The New Yoga: From Cult and Dogma to Science and Sanity, acclaimed as "essential reading for yoga students and teachers alike. The book, available on Amazon, is based on his experience of directing yoga studios and yoga teacher training for the past 19 years together with wide research and reflection on the directions and misdirections of modern postural yoga.
A Yoga Alliance 500-hour Experienced Yoga Teacher, he is excited to be offering a radically different teacher training program with an emphasis on high quality instruction from experts in each field, and flexibility for everyone’s timetable and budget.
He trained on three five-week trips to Pune, India, in 2003, 2005 and 2007 with Yoga Master BKS Iyengar, receiving four levels of certification. He now enjoys the freedom to draw from a wider range of influences, especially evidence-based biomechanics - which advances and sometimes overwrites the experiential wisdom of traditional gurus. He has served as a member of the Yoga Alliance member benefits committee.