Ellie Kaufman

Ellie Kaufman is a student of Ashtanga Yoga in the lineage of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his family in Mysore, India, where she returns annually for practice, and was given Authorization to teach the method by Sharath Jois at the KPJAYI in February 2014. She has had a consistent yoga practice since 2002 and a daily Ashtanga practice since 2005. She spent 2009-10 practicing under the guidance of Magnolia Zuniga in San Francisco, and apprenticed with her in 2010. In the last year, she has undertaken an ongoing remote apprenticeship with Angela Jamison of Ashtanga Ann Arbor. Ashtanga teaches discipline, flexibility, strength, willpower, clarity of purpose, and courage. Ellie is grateful every day to be able to practice and to share her love of this method.

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"Ashtanga Yoga brings you face-to-face with the things that are difficult for you, physical or otherwise, and asks you to look a little closer. What you do on the mat each time you practice can have a tremendous effect on your everyday life."