Ryan’s journey into the healing arts began in 1992 working in a foster home practicing emotional release therapy with foster kids in Evergreen, Colorado. During this time he had his own personal experience of deep healing which inspired him to further study and reinforced his commitment and desire to help others in their healing process. Ryan studied therapeutic massage in Denver in addition to Energy-Body Healing and Chi-Kung in Boulder. After several of years of practice in Colorado he moved to Los Angeles in 1998.
It is in California that Ryan fell in love with yoga. In the rich and diverse Los Angeles yoga community he practiced the styles of Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara and dabbled in Kundalini with Gurumukh. He also deepened his exploration of chi-kung with a couple of trips to Beijing, China and local practice and teacher training with Matthew Cohen.


Sometime in the year 2000 Ryan found himself practicing yoga with Shiva Rea and he knew he had found his yoga teacher. After years of dedicated practice with Shiva he has gone on to finish over 500 hours of her teacher training. He has also found inspiration from other world-class yoga teachers such as Andrew Lappa, Annie Carpenter, Matthew Schwartz, Jo Tastula and Vinnie Marino.

Ryan also has a new love for Kalaripayyattu the ancient martial arts form of Kerala, India, where he recently spent a month of intensive study and practice.

Now a teacher in the art of Vinyasa Flow Yoga, as well as a skilled bodyworker, Ryan works to blend the best of everything he knows and weave it into a devotional moving meditative experience for his students.