About Miles
Miles is an NYC based ERYT500+ Senior Yoga Teacher, embodiment educator, speaker, music maker, craniosacral therapist and author who has studied, practiced, and taught the science and philosophies of yoga, meditation, buddhism, and tantra for over 25 years.
As an embodiment educator, Miles draws from his extensive studies of the human nervous system to teach people accessible, practical ways to down-regulate and and increase their resilience to the stressors of modern life.
His work centers around embracing the most essential parts of ourselves as a path to lead whole-hearted, purpose-filled lives steeped in meaning and connection. To that end, he wrote a magical realism memoir, Beautiful Monster: A Becoming, (Regalo Press 2023), that synthesizes his understanding of yoga in a very personal way, bringing out the universality in these teachings and making them accessible to anyone searching to live closer to their purpose.
As a Latiné, queer trans immigrant and citizen of the world, Miles is a passionate advocate for dismantling the systems within (and without) ourselves that keep us small.
As a speaker, Miles is a magnetic and inspiring storyteller, with an innate ability to engage his audience. His speeches and workshops inspire people to lean into their unique gifts to create meaningful social change so that we can continue to co-create the world we want to live in. He has offered keynote speeches, conversations, panel discussions, and workshops at conferences, organizations and universities. He has also had the honor of officiating weddings, working extensively with elders, and accompanying people through birth, illness, and death.
Miles trained at Om Yoga back in the day with Cyndi Lee and her crew. Some of his most influential teachers in the yoga-sphere are: Raghunath Capo, Margi Young, Ana Forrest, Schuyler Grant, Michael Stone, Alan Finger, Eric Shiffman, Rod Stryker, Maty Ezraty, Rusty Wells and Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band. He continues to be inspired by articulate, sharp movers, thinkers and shakers such as: Ido Portal, Mark Robberds, Wim Hoff, and Jenni Rawlings.
Miles lives with his best friend and Guru— Bowie, In NYC.
Miles teaches at St. Marks Yoga as well as online. He is part of the R&R and Luminary presenter teams at the Kripalu Yoga and Wellness Institute and leads retreats, workshops, teacher trainings and kirtan around the world.
Miles has also contributed to many yoga publications such as Embodied Philosophy, Om Stars and Haus of Phoenix.
Check out Miles’s other writings here.