Seaph Antelmi is a student of yoga, traveler, and writer based in Boulder Colorado USA. He is a single father to an energetic and loving little boy who he says inspires him to show up as his best possible self.

He has been practicing āsana on a regular basis for nearly eight years thanks to his brother Joshua who kept encouraging him to try yoga as a means of stress relief.

Seaph has had the privilege to study with world-class teachers both in the United States and in India. He spent the better part of 2007 and part of 2008 living and traveling in India, studying and practicing Ashtanga yoga and also teaching yoga classes in Bombay.

Seaph has always been an athlete with a competitive spirit. As a boy Seaph’s first love was downhill skiing, but he also participated in soccer, wrestling, cycling, swimming, and as a young man - body building.

Seaph grew up splitting wood and building ski jumps in a thickly forested coastal town in the Northeastern United States. He credits his mother for encouraging him to follow his own path in life and his father for taking him on countless adventures alpine skiing, back-packing, hiking, camping, fishing, canoeing, and also log cabin building as well as turning him on to the philosophies of Henry David Thoreau and Ralf Waldo Emerson. These influences and fun activities gave him an appreciation for philosophy and the outdoors, self reliance, and a strong mind. Not to mention strong legs, arms and back, but he jokes - "also short hamstrings..."

These sports and outdoor activities, which carried forward into adulthood, instilled in Seaph the importance of physical fitness for cultivating a healthy body, healthy mind and self confidence. Throughout his adult years Seaph has studied philosophies such as buddhism, hindusim, taosim, sufism, shamanism, native american beliefs, and of course yoga. Some of his favorite writers include Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Joseph Cambell, Sunryu Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rumi, and Carlos Casteneda.

Today at 40 years old, Seaph says, "Physically speaking, I feel better than I ever have in my entire life." He believes that the daily ashtanga yoga practice is what is keeping him feeling and looking so young and healthy.

Inspired by his own life experience, the joy and freedom he finds in his āsana practice, and the influence his teachers, Seaph says, "I will push my students gently but firmly to step into their own Yoga Mat Fire, and stay there."

Seaph’s strength as a teacher flows from trusting his intuition about his students, seeing possibility that they themselves don't see, and his faith that encouraging them to be fearless and to embrace their full potential will lead to a happier and healthier life for them and for their families and friends.