Sara Azarius Eichmiller, Yoga Director

Sara Azarius Eichmiller is Pittsburgh's most experienced teacher of Iyengar Yoga. She has been teaching yoga as her sole occupation for 16 years and developed Pittsburgh's Iyengar studio to cultivate a community of teachers and students dedicated to this method. Sara’s credits include Yoga Coordinator at the River’s Club fitness facility, former Director and Founder of Shadyside Yoga Studio (voted "Best in Pittsburgh" City Paper) and three years service as President of the Yoga Training Association of Pittsburgh. She has trained over forty of Pittsburgh’s yoga teachers in her past teacher education programs and ongoing apprenticeship program.

Sara's teaching style is a direct presentation of yoga asana, pranayama and philosophy. She teaches that yoga is for digging deeper and waking up. She considers herself lucky to be of service through yoga and to be able to help herself and others with this transformative art.

Sara graduated in 1990 from Penn State University with a degree in journalism. She worked for five years in Pennsylvania as a newspaper photographer before moving to Texas and starting her training in yoga.