Tina Zymarakis

Manhattan-born, Tina grew up in the sunshine of Greece.  She has been practicing yoga in New York City since 1998, initially at the Jivamukti and Sivananda centers.  In 2002, she found Richard Freeman, who inspired her to embark on a daily Ashtanga Mysore practice at Ashtanga Yoga New York with Eddie Stern.  Since then she has studied the ashtanga yoga system with Mr. Freeman and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois almost annually. 

She has spent a total of four months at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India; while there, she also studied Sanskrit, Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutra in the traditional method.  After years of traveling far and wide to attend workshops and retreats with senior teachers (including Nancy Gilgoff, Sharon Gannon & David Life, Cyndi Lee, Tim Miller, Sharath Rangaswamy, Shiva Rea, David Swenson and Rodney Yee), Tina received her formal training and certification from Alison West's acclaimed Yoga Union program in downtown Manhattan.

Since 2003, she has been involved with the Yoga Society of New York’s Ananda Ashram in upstate New York, where she both teaches and studies yoga, chanting and meditation.  Tina draws from her ongoing studies in the Iyengar and Vinyasa traditions, as well as her regular Ashtanga practice, to teach a class that is breath-based, vigorous and intelligently sequenced- with kindness and humor.