Bill Phillips

      Bill Phillips started doing yoga over twenty years ago to help train for a half marathon while in graduate school. A knee injury ended plans for running a long race, but yoga continues to be a life routine. At first, yoga was about the exercise aspect of the practice for Bill. As his practice grew, he found the life-balance and mind-body connection that yoga offers. He prefers taking hot sequences because of the challenges they present and the additional opening of the body that can be achieved. After 13 years of practice, he completed Sumit’s Yoga 200-hr program in 2017 at the now Roots Yoga Studio and teaches hot yoga sequences at a couple of studios.

      Outside the studio he is an administrator in higher education and a father of teenage boy who plays hockey (lots of travel!). Other non-yoga activities he engages in are weight training, hiking, and fixing up his old house. Having a doctorate degree in biomedical engineering, he aspires to write a book connecting basic principles of science, technology, engineering, and math to the practice of yoga.