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

​His goal as a teacher is to make the physicality
and subtlety of yoga asana and breath work
accessible to all students.

His work and training as a licensed massage therapist is integral to how he approaches teaching. Just as his dedicated practice and teaching of yoga inform his work with massage clients. Helping others as they heal from injury, advance their own practice or continue to practice as they age is central to his approach. 

Over the past 20 years Tom has logged 8000+ hours teaching of asana, pranayama and meditation. For over a decade he has spent 1000+ hours mentoring and training yoga teachers at the 200- and 300-hour level. He has a bachelor’s degree in art history from The Ohio State University where he focused on Buddhist meditational art. He is an experienced Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT500), a Yoga Alliance Education Provider (YACEP) and Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT). With his skills and education as a massage therapist, Tom was asked to assist in teacher training programs immediately after becoming a RYT. He has designed and led multiple yoga teacher trainings as well as anatomy related workshops and series classes for teachers and curious students alike. 
 
Outside of his 500 hours of teacher training with Martha Marcom, Marcia Miller and Linda Oshins; the founding partners of Yoga on High in Columbus Ohio; he has logged hundreds of hours in additional teacher trainings with world-renowned yoga teachers Tim Miller, David Keil, Maty Ezraty, Doug Keller, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor. All these master teachers have helped to guide him 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.