timothy lynch
in 2014 timothy founded mysore oakland, a six morning a week mysore program in california. he guided this thriving community of practitioners for three and a half years before relocating back to brooklyn, nyc (where he had previously spent 20 years) with his family in 2017. during that time, he was a mysore room guide at the shala yoga house five mornings a week in manhattan.
in october 2019, timothy returned to the bay area and planted the seeds for atha, a six morning a week mysore ashtanga yoga practice space. he has been guiding the community since. he has taught in nyc, san francisco, oakland, bali, costa rica (casa ashtanga nosara), and berkeley, ca.
he is grateful for the support and guidance of eddie stern, rolf and marci naujokat, sharath jois, sharmila desai, peter sanson, dr. nagaraja rao, and the late s.n. goenka of the vipassana tradition. he is also honored to have had the pleasure of working with and learning from all of the amazing humans who have stepped into our community spaces and shared a part of themselves and their efforts over the years. he recognizes the enormous privilege it has been to have made nine extended trips to india to study. he is humbled and indebted to the people and traditions of india, which have been and continue to be a great source of inspiration, confrontation, and mystery.
timothy has a degree in fine arts from the school of visual arts, nyc and in 2023 finished three years of waldorf teacher training at the bay area center for waldorf teacher training. he has facilitated a parent education + support group at berkeley rose waldorf school in berkeley, ca for the last two years. the group is oriented towards building a greater understanding of the developmental arch of childhood from birth to 7 years of age. he offers consultations with parents of children from birth to age 7. more information on that here.
a personal statement from timothy
i respectfully requested my name be removed from sharath jois’s list of authorized teachers in 2019. here are links to two podcasts, one with harmony slater here, and one with J brown here where i discuss among many other things, some reasons for this decision.
stephanie du pont
Stephanie has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and began teaching in 2013. Over the last decade she has run Ashtanga programs in the South and East Bay. She also teaches yoga philosophy and Sanskrit courses for local teacher training programs and is the Managing Editor for the Journal of Dharma Studies. She holds a master’s degree in yoga philosophy and is in the process of pursuing her PhD in Sacred Hindu texts.
Stephanie’s teaching has been influenced by many teachers over the years. She particularly draws upon alignment elements that can be found in Iyengar Yoga as her first teacher training focused heavily on elements of Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga. She also completed two year- long intensives into primary series and intermediate series with Melanie Green of Berkeley Yoga Center and has been practicing with Timothy Lynch since 2016. Additionally, Stephanie studied with Sharath Jois in Mysore, India, which is where she met her current teacher, the beloved, Sharmila Desai. Stephanie travels to Morjim, India, annually to study with Sharmila. Other influences on her teachings can be found in her mentor, and well-known scholar on the Divine Feminine and Ecofeminism, Dr. Rita Sherma, of Graduate Theological Union.
miyuki tamura
Miyuki tried Yoga for the first time in 2014. She experienced immediate connection to her deeper self at her first yoga class and began to go to yoga class every day since. A year later she started Ashtanga Yoga with Certified Ashtanga Yoga teacher, Magnolia Zuniga in San Francisco to deepen her practice. In 2017, she began practice with Timothy Lynch at Mysore Oakland.
Miyuki started assisting in Mysore Oakland 2018. Timothy was her first teacher who taught her how to be in Mysore room as an assistant teacher. Miyuki really enjoyed observing other people’s practice as well as connecting with others through assisting.
In 2020, Miyuki took online 300 hour training from Miami Life Center with certified Ashtanga Yoga teacher Kino MacGREGOR, Authorized Ashtanga Yoga teacher Tim Feldmann, Joseph Armstrong and more. She enjoyed their program and took another 200 hour training with them.
In 2021, with a request from her friends, Miyuki started teaching Ashtanga Yoga. In 2022, Miyuki’s work caught the attention from Green Yogi Studio in Berkeley and she started teaching Led quarter primary series there. Currently, she assists at Atha in Berkeley under Timothy as well.
Miyuki has back ground in nursing in Japan, a bachelor degree in early childhood education, and certifications in Montessori teaching. Miyuki enjoys creative work and spend time with her beloved dog Momoko.
inquiries
timothy@atha-room.com
mysore ashtanga yoga in the east bay, california