John Campbell

Teaches at Athletic Garage Dance & BodyWork Studio

John Campbell started practicing Ashtanga Yoga in India eighteen years ago with the late Shri K. Pattabhi Jois. He began teaching in 1995 with Eddie Stern at the first center in New York City devoted to this traditional practice, and was honored in 2003 to become one the few Certified teachers of Ashtanga Yoga worldwide. While a graduate student in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies he became a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. His teachers include HH the Dalai Lama and Denma Lochoe Rinpoche. In 2009, he was granted his Ph.D. in the Religion Department at Columbia University for a dissertation on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Tantric systems. John taught daily Ashtanga Yoga classes for Pure Yoga before becoming the Co-Ordinator of the Contemplative Sciences Center at UVa. He is also an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies.