Through story, metaphor and humor Tom Griffith encourages students to enjoy practice and have fun. 

​Tom Griffith, E-RYT 500 Yoga Instructor, YACEP-certified Teacher Trainer and Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT). His goal as a teacher is to make the physicality and subtlety of yoga asana and breath work accessible to all student. He has been teaching since 2005 the same year he became an LMT.

Immediately after becoming a Registered Yoga Teacher, Tom began assisting in teacher training programs. For over a decade, he has been mentoring, teaching and guiding teachers at the 200- and 300-hour level. Tom has designed and led Ashtanga-specific teacher trainings in addition to anatomy-related workshops and trainings.

Helping others as they heal from injury, advance their own practice or continue to practice as they age is central to his approach. Tom’s teaching lineage begins with the founders of Yoga on High in Columbus, Ohio: Martha Marcom, Linda Oshins and Marcia Miller. He has also completed teacher trainings with world-renowned Ashtanga yoga teachers Tim Miller, David Keil, Maty Ezraty, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor. All of these master teachers have helped to guide Tom in his understanding of anatomy (both subtle and gross), pranayama and individualized student instruction as well as the history, philosophy and depth of the living yoga tradition.

Tom has 8000+ hours of Yoga Alliance registered teaching of asana, pranayama and meditation. He has a bachelor’s degree in Art History from The Ohio State University where he focused on Buddhist meditational art. He is an E-RYT500 teacher registered through Yoga Alliance and is a Yoga Alliance Education Provider (YACEP).