Gary was originally certified as a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200 hour) in 2000. His first teacher training was with Stephanie at the Asheville Yoga Center. He completed an additional RYT 200 hour training in Pure Yoga Tantra with Rod in October 2003. He is currently working on his RYT 500 hour certification with Rod Stryker and will ultimately be certified as a Pure Yoga teacher. In addition he has a teaching certification from Doug Swenson. Gary has studied yoga for over seven years with many well known Yoga Gurus including Rodney Yee, Erich Schiffman, Donna Farhi, Ravi Singh, David Life, Todd Norian and others. He has also studied Thai Yoga Therapy with Saul David Raye. Gary is currently assisting Stephanie Keach in the training of future yoga teachers at the Asheville Yoga Center. Consequently his unique teaching style is an eclectic blend bringing together the best of many disciplines of Yoga.

Originally I came to Yoga as a way of healing my physical body. I was 44 and a lot of little problems were turning into bigger problems. Slowly with time the physical problems began to subside as I practiced Yoga. Then I began to discover there were more subtleties going on at the emotional level that needed healing as well. Yoga began to make those slowly subside as well. During this process I was going to workshops where ever I could find them. At one point I went to a workshop with Stephanie Keach and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It came to my attention she was offering teacher training. At the time I wasn't interested in teaching but thought this would be a wonderful way to increase my knowledge. Well, it seems the universe had other plans for me. Immediately upon completing the training a friend had an accident and needed help teaching her Yoga classes. Here it is four years later and I'm still teaching and running a Yoga space for all of us. I've found that Yoga brings healing, fulfillment and peace to each person in just the way that they need at the time. It's my great privilege to help each student discover that path to their personal self fulfillment and I thank each student for that honor.