About Yoga Mind Yoga Body Yoga Mind Yoga Body is Gernot Huber’s yoga school. Gernot Huber’s Teaching Style Gernot Huber teaches group and private yoga classes online, and workshops and retreats worldwide. In addition, he co-teaches yoga teacher trainings in Thailand and the US. Gernot began practicing yoga in 1996, and has been teaching yoga full time since 2009. Gernot has developed a teaching style that incorporates techniques from Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Forrest, and Kripalu yoga. In his teaching he also incorporates insights from yogic and Buddhist philosophy and from anatomy, physiology, and neuroscience. He skillfully integrates down-to-earth discussions of breath, alignment, anatomy, and awareness in his classes and workshops. This integration enables him to convey key yoga philosophy concepts with clarity and humor to practitioners of all levels. Gernot helps his students maximize the benefits of their practice. He does this by emphasizing yoga’s mental dimensions as well as the physical, and the intricate connections between both. Gernot’s Bio Gernot was born in South Africa and grew up in Germany. He has spent most of his adult life in the US and Thailand. Drawing on a broad spectrum of life experiences, Gernot relates with natural ease to students from every walk of life. Gernot has worked in Silicon Valley and has conducted biological field work in Argentina. He has worked in a restaurant kitchen and has taught wildlife monitoring to inner city youth. Gernot has been practicing and studying yoga since 1996. While working in Silicon Valley, he learned Ashtanga vinyasa and pranayama during lunch breaks from a co-worker. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. He also has a master’s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. Gernot loves cooking, eating, reading, bicycling, and wilderness travel, and practices monkey acro yoga with his two young sons.