My name is Steven Metz and "Earth" is a nick name that I have had for many years. It started as a hiking/climbing/Yoga nick name that stuck and to be honest it is really just for kicks that I list it here.

I studied with my Teacher about a year and a half before his death in 1994. I began teaching in 1993 at Yoga West and was also trained there through the teacher training course. It was the beginning of my experience of sharing Yoga with the world. I then continued study with many teachers. Guru Singh, Shiva Rea, B.N.S. Iyengar in Mysore not BKS in Poona. Steve Ross, Pattabhi Jois, Lisa Walford. Jamana Giri on Chamundi Hill Mysore South India (Pooja and Mantra ) Shiva Cave temple.

I have been teaching and solely supporting myself through yoga in the Asana tradition for the last 20 years. I have been teaching an average of about 12 one hour and a half classes per week.

Reasons to practice with Steven:

1. Steven is a seasoned teacher with over 18 years of teaching under his belt

2. His teachings are based on Yoga postures with the critical eye of medical science and he teaches actual M.D.'s the practice of Yoga.

3. Real world knowledge. He has had injuries upon injuries due to the fact that he is a real athlete. He rock climbs (multipitch and toprope), surfs (kite, body and traditional),  mountain bikes, skis, snowboards etc... He has healed them all through Yoga. Who would you rather work with? Someone who looks in a book and tells you how to heal your injury based on words alone. Or someone who has been there and done it?

4. Some teachers have never even been to the roots of these arts. Steven has traveled the world 3 times over looking for the secrets of India and China, Thailand and of course America and Europe always looking for ways to advance his personal development system. So now he can share these secrets with you.

5. I guarantees his teaching. If you are not completely satisfied that this is not the best most advanced and complete style of Yoga you have ever done he will give you your money back at the end of class.

All this said, I am also constantly studying Anatomy and the art of strengthening the physical body. I am a very physical spiritual realist. I view asana as a physiological form of meditation. I also meditate every morning and practice Yoga postures.

I do see from time to time stories about Yogis teaching celibacy and then breaking their vows and that is sad. Also some proclaim that they can manifest miracles and walk through walls and I don’t believe in that. I am not nor will I ever be a celibate monk I am a householder at this stage of my life and I don’t intend to change that. I teach the Asana tradition as it was handed down to me by my teachers western and eastern. In the teacher training my classes get more in depth to cover Sutras, and classical texts such as the Gita and even the basics of Anatomy and the like.

As far as my religious path. I view Buddhism as a reformed early Hinduism. I consider the teachings of the Buddha my main religion though I also honor Judaism, Christianity and Sufism and believe that truth is found in many paths. As my teacher has entrusted onto me the honor of teaching classes I will do my best to share the bliss of Yoga.