photo courtesy of Sandy Kavalier

Look for his forthcoming book, A life Worth Breathing, Skyhorse Publishing 2010, due to be released in April.

Innovator, teacher, and author Max Strom is known for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students and has become one of the most respected teachers of personal transformation and yoga worldwide.  Due to an ever-increasing demand for his teachings, Mr. Strom travels extensively teaching and lecturing on  transformation, spirituality, and yoga.  

His teachings are a culmination of his life experience and many years of study.  His methods  reach beyond the boundaries of simply a practice of yoga postures, and addresses the internal, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our life.

Strom has a unique connection with his students that stems from his own personal journey, his gregarious nature, and distinct integrity.  He offers his unique system of transformation as a Way of Life, which includes a philosophy of living, self-enquirey, breathing exercises, yoga postures, and meditation, guiding his students to grow into happier, healthier, and empowered human beings.

Born a twelve-pound baby with clubfeet, Max Strom spent much of the first 6 years of his life with his legs confined in plaster casts and braces. After several painful corrective surgeries, he was able to walk fairly well but would always have abnormally shaped feet. This would create physical and emotional challenges for him in many ways. Because he had to learn to endure partial confinement and for a time complete immobility at a very young age, he developed patience, determination and a high tolerance to pain in order to cope with his condition.  At fourteen years of age, a personal mystical experience ignited a sudden and ardent desire in him to understand the human condition. Finding little support or guidance in his atheistic household, Max's own passion and intellect guided him and he took it upon himself to read with spiritual voracity any sacred text he could find.  By the time he was nineteen, Max had studied Taoism, modern and esoteric Christianity, Sufism, and was practicing meditation and Chi Gong diligently. 

After discovering Hatha Yoga he experienced a profound life-change through his practice, and yoga ultimately became for him a system of embodiment that integrated all of his previous physio-theological studies. 

Max has now been teaching since 1995 and is recognized by the Yoga Alliance, at their Advanced Teacher Level (ERYT).  He has taught tens of thousands of students and trained several hundred teachers.  You can see more of his work on his DVDs, Learn to Breathe, to heal yourself and your relationships, and, Max Strom Yoga – Strength, Grace, Healing.  http://maxstrom.inticketing.com/catalog.php?sid=&email

photo courtesy of Brian Crain