Dr. Zoë Slatoff

Zoë Slatoff has been practicing yoga for 30 years and teaching for nearly as long. She has a PhD in Religion and Philosophy from Lancaster University and a BA and MA in Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, focusing on translations of Sanskrit texts on Yoga Philosophy.  Zoë Slatoff is the Clinical Professor of Sanskrit as well as the Associate Director of the Yoga Studies MA Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She is the author of “Yogāvatāraṇam: The Translation of Yoga,” a Sanskrit textbook based on classic yoga texts, currently under contract for a second edition. She has also written various articles/book chapters on yoga-related subjects and is working on a book-version of her PhD dissertation on Yoga and Advaita Vedānta, to be published next year. Zoë spent many years studying in Mysore, India and was authorized to teach Ashtanga Yoga by Śrī K. Pattabhi Jois in 2002 and received Level 2 from R. Sharath in 2009. She taught yoga and Sanskrit for many years at her yoga shala in her hometown of NYC, Ashtanga Yoga Upper West Side.