Matthew has been a practitioner of Yoga and Ayurveda for three decades and has had the privilege of developing teachers for over twenty years. He is responsible for designing Circle Yoga Shala's 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training programs.
As the owner of a yoga studio for ten years before co-founding the Shala, he developed an extensive private client base — adapting asana, pranayama, and meditation to individuals seeking yoga as a therapeutic modality for structural and biomechanical pathologies, digestive problems, depression, anxiety, and spiritual development.
Matt uses Viniyoga techniques as a template for organizing therapeutic strategies, combined with Western biological theories of development — drawing on models of pre- and post-natal development and the sequence of gait acquisition observed in bipedal organisms. His private work has grown to include elite athletes who compete on the world stage: tennis players, bullfighters, beach volleyball players, and rock climbers.
He also utilizes his professional training as a chef to design Ayurvedic meals as a component of therapeutic work. As a philosopher and religious scholar, his podcast The Lost Ways of Knowing extends his teaching beyond the classroom — exploring what ancient wisdom traditions carry that modernity has forgotten.
"My work has been a crucible of convergence between eastern and western models of the human system. My life's work is to help alleviate the suffering of individuals on all levels of being human — for the purposes of flourishing and liberation." Matt
Matt leads the Yoga Wisdom Teachings, MoveWise Certification, and both YTT programs — bringing the same rare combination of philosophical depth and somatic precision to everything he teaches.
