“Back in the ’90s, when you went to yoga, each school would focus around a system,” Seane Corn, a prominent yoga teacher who studied under Ms. Ezraty, said in a phone interview. In addition to teaching students, Ms. Ezraty instructed teachers, from France to Japan, in her methods. She brought prominent yoga instructors together in Santa Monica for daily classes, hosted workshops and mentored many of today’s leading yoga teachers. Maryam Askari, a yoga instructor who worked for Ms. Ezraty and took her teacher training program to France, said in an interview that Ms. Ezraty had been known for her rigor. As she once said: “Keep in mind that when you practice yoga, you’re not practicing to improve yourself.

Source: New York Times July 17, 2019 20:15 UTC