Erich Schiffmann is an accomplished American

United States

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 Yoga

Yoga

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 Master widely known for his award-winning video, Yoga Mind & Body, featuring actress Ali MacGraw

Ali MacGraw

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. He is the author

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 of a best-selling book, Moving into Stillness. He has been teaching yoga for more than twenty years.

At age 18 Schiffmann sent a handwritten letter to Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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 and was accepted to study with him in England

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. He deepened his practice of yoga with Desikachar

T. K. V. Desikachar

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 and Iyengar

B.K.S. Iyengar

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar , is the founder of Iyengar Yoga, although he himself would not call it Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practising and teaching yoga for more than 75 years...

 in India

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, and with Dona Holleman and Vanda Scaravelli in Europe

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Yoga Society president Leighanne Buchanan called Schiffmann one of the "innovators" in Yoga Journal's fall 2000 issue. He has produced numerous yoga instructional videos and conducts yoga workshops and teacher training throughout the United States and internationally. He currently resides in Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

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He is married to fellow yoga master Leslie Bogart, daughter of film actors Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

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 and Lauren Bacall

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External links

• Moving into Stillness with Erich Schiffmann