A Personal Path to Teaching
After many years of teaching, I am evolving my offerings. My public classes are transitioning into a dedicated Yoga Teacher Training program — an intimate, deeply personalized training led one-on-one or in a very small group.
This is not a large cohort program. This is direct transmission: your practice, your questions, your development as a teacher, with my full attention.
Peaceful Presence Yoga School (PPYS) is a Registered Yoga School (RYS 200) with Yoga Alliance. Graduates are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as RYT 200 teachers.
The training is already underway in Cedarhurst — our first class began July 9th, 2026, and new students may continue to join.
Why This Training Is Worth It
You are not paying for a curriculum. You are paying for nearly fifty years of practice and a lifetime of training, distilled and handed to you directly.
I have practiced yoga since age eight. I was accepted into ten doctoral programs in clinical psychology, and ultimately chose a different path: four years living and training in residence at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, where I taught guests and large groups of teacher trainees. I am a Licensed Massage Therapist — I know the body's anatomy professionally, not just from a yoga manual. I am a Licensed Master Social Worker with a specialization in addiction — I know the mind's struggles professionally as well.
And I know them personally. I have walked through my own dark seasons — years of feeling lost in body, mind, and spirit — and I found my way through, ultimately returning to my own tradition as a Baal Teshuva. What I teach about self-mastery is not theory. I have needed every tool I will hand you.
Program Format
Personalized instruction tailored to your background and goals
Small group or private one-on-one intensive format
Completed within one year: 40–50 poses taught safely with detailed alignment, anatomy and physiology, philosophy, and supervised teaching practice
200-hour curriculum meeting Yoga Alliance standards
Tuition — Sliding Scale Based on Enrollment
Group training (3–4 students): $10,000 per student
Smaller or larger groups: tuition adjusted accordingly
Private one-on-one intensive: $30,000
If cost is a barrier, ask me about the sliding scale. I want this training to be accessible to committed students — and I firmly believe it is worth every penny.
A Note for My Current Students
My classes are no longer the usual public drop-in classes. If you'd like to practice with me, you're warmly invited to participate as part of the training community, even if only paying for single classes. If you're ready to deepen your practice into teaching, I'd love to talk with you about full enrollment. Even if you are not pursuing certification, you can help make this a success — through your patronage and your willing participation in helping the school "be fruitful and multiply" Peaceful Presence Yoga teachers. God knows this world can use all the help it can get in growing true peace.
A Note to My Community
Spreading peace is my calling, and peace must go together with solid, unwavering strength. The yoga we practice is a merger of strength and compassion — fittingly, "Hatha" means masculine or sun integrating with feminine or moon. Chesed (loving-kindness) and Gevurah (strength, boundaries, and judgment) are foundational concepts in Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah.
I have taught in the Five Towns for twenty years, including many rabbis and rebbetzins. The aim is always Shalom — peace rooted within, then rippling outward to our families, community, nation, and world. My wish is that this training moves people toward God, truth, kindness, love, and strength. May this "kosher" Yoga Teacher Training for Men be part of the healing that the Jewish People, Israel, and the larger world so badly needs.
The Vision
This training is the seed of something larger. I hope that graduates will carry Peaceful Presence Yoga forward and that together we will help many. I'd especially like to have a "Presence" in Jerusalem and the surrounding area. If you feel called not just to teach, but to build, I especially want to hear from you.
Interested?
Contact me directly with your questions and to discuss whether this training is right for you. Enrollment will shape the program and the per-person fee. I welcome your help spreading the word to anyone called upon to teach yoga.
