Tias' background is steeped in both academic study and physical discipline. He graduated from Amherst College with a BA in English, played competitive soccer for 15 years and was elected All-American. He went on to study movement and performed with a modern dance company in Tucson, AZ for one year. He began his yoga training in 1984 in the Iyengar system under the guidance of his mother Susan Little. Tias' first trip to India was in 1989 where he lived in Mysore for 6 months learning the first two series of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with K. Pattabhi Jois. After practicing Ashtanga Yoga for 10 years, Tias immersed in the study of the healing arts including massage, cranial-sacral therapy and bodywork. He teaches yoga with a sensitivity and subtlety that is informed by his anatomical knowledge and keen sense of touch. His teaching is grounded in the structure and precision of alignment from the Iyengar system while sharing the spaciousness and compassionate wisdom that stems from the Buddhist tradition.
Tias
earned a Masters Degree in Eastern Philosophy
from St. John's College in 1998. His Dharma
training has been further informed by teachings
from the Zen and Vipassana communities.
Tias is a student of Tsoknyi Rinpoche in
the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
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