Michael Thomas is a former yoga studio owner who has taught thousands of yoga classes, privates yoga sessions and workshops. 

Prior to relocating to Los Angeles, Michael helped to build a yoga program at the renowned, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, where he received two Letters of Recommendation for his teaching skills and contributions to The Johns Hopkins wellness program. 

His experience includes work with professionals, top level executives, and professional, collegiate and high school athletes, those with limited mobility, as well as those looking to heal from challenging injuries or chronic pain. Most importantly, Michael enjoys working with the moms and dads, grandmothers and grandfathers who tirelessly devote themselves to the care and support of their families.

In 2013, after nearly a decade of teaching group classes, Michael realized that group yoga classes were not adequately able to meet the needs of each student. Nor were group classes able to address an over active mind that tends to arise in our time starved modern lives.

Michael recognized that group yoga instruction was unable to  address the deeper aspects of yoga that arise when one has had a consistent, prolonged and sustained yoga practice attended to for years.

Over the last decade, Michael has devoted himself to teaching yoga privately to individuals and small groups. Michael, has experienced first hand how private yoga sessions are able to more thoroughly address, heal and fine tune the body-mind connection. Leading to increased physical and mental vitality, clarity, inner calm and connection.

As a result, Michael has watched yoga blossom in the lives of those he has been fortunate to have worked with, and often in the lives of their families as well. 

More About Michael:

In addition to being a yoga teacher Michael is a sought after financial professional as well. Michael combines the insights and wisdom from his own dedicated spiritual practices in the Bhakti & Vipassana traditions with his over two decades of experience as an estate and financial planner. He has served as advisor to individuals, families and businesses for over two decades. His expertise is in designing and implementing strategy-driven estate and financial plans based on the principles of Love & Relationships. 

Michael also consults for the Vipasana Community Foundation and its prospective donor’s individual estate planning and financial planning needs. The Vipassana Community Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to receive, manage and distribute charitable donations throughout North, South and Central America to support growth of the teaching and practice of Vipassana Meditation. The Foundation is qualified as a non-profit organization under 501(c)(3). 

Adding to his extensive background, from 2009 through 2019 Michael was one of the organizers of America’s premier yoga & music festival, Bhakti Fest & Shakti Fest, held bi-annually in Joshua Tree, California. He brings a contemplative approach the to the teachings of yoga that comes from 17 years of Vipassana Meditation practice and thousands of hours of personal yoga asana practice, as well as dedicated service to those he works with.

Michael's diverse background enables him bring profound insight, to the link between the spiritual and the material life, guiding those he works with into the Heart of Peace and Abundance.