The path of Yoga

entered Rob's life in 2003 as he sought relief for lower back pain caused by a car accident. Asana quickly became a refuge and balm for the chaos that had become his outer life of work in private equity, venture capital and biotech. In 2005 he began teaching yoga at the request of other students. In 2007, Rob discovered the teachings of Tibetan Bön Buddhism and met his root teacher, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, with whom he has done more than 60 in-person retreats. 

Rob’s classes are appropriate for anyone with an established yoga practice. His hatha yoga workshops tend to focus more on “advanced” postures such as arm balances, inversions, lotus pose, and bound postures. Rob draws on his personal experience of subtle anatomy to share the Tibetan yogic practices as he has learned them from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche, Chaphur Rinpoche, Geshe Yangton, Lama Kalsang, Lama Yungdrung and especially Dr. Alejandro Chaoul.

By way of training, Rob completed a 200 hour yoga teacher training with Sri Dharma Mittra in 2007. He has completed 5-year, 3-year, and 3-month trainings in Tsa Lung Trul Khor, or Tibetan Yoga and has co-led trainings in A-Tri Trul Khor. In 2021 Rob undertook a traditional 49-day dark retreat, an intense meditative retreat conducted in total darkness.