Michelle Tupko
Michelle has practiced yoga since the age of 15, when she discovered a hatha yoga class in the loft of a local health food store. She didn’t know it at the time, but she was studying in the lineage of Classical Raja Yoga. Over the course of many years, she found her way to the practice of Ashtanga Yoga, which offered her much-needed discipline and focus on levels physical and spiritual.
Michelle teaches Ashtanga and vinyasa-inspired classes with a view toward the need of each individual to fit their own practice to their life, physical skill level, and desires. Inspired by the time she has spent in in-depth study with Andre Lappa, Guy Donohoy at the Ashtanga Yoga Shala in NYC and many other teachers she has worked with along the path, such as Tim Miller, Danny Paradise, Jim Bennitt and Paul Weitz, Michelle incorporates mantra, pranayama, meditation and the practice of yoga nidra into her teaching. She believes in the importance of the classical texts and encourages internal and external research in her students into their own relation to the tradition of yoga.
Working in the spirit of the teachings of T. Krishnamacarya, the esteemed yogi, physician and teacher of both Patthabi Jois and B. K. S. Iyengar, she aims to develop a personal, joyful and growthful practice in collaboration with each of her students.
Michelle also studies and practices Thai yoga therapy and is a practicing visual and performance artist. She incorporates the teachings and principals of yoga into these aspects of her life as well.
Yoga is a living, breathing form that pervades all corners of our lives. We can find a way to integrate our practice into all aspects of our daily living, existing with attention, kindness and deep joy.
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