Yoga Teachers
Pose by Pose Yoga
Lutz, Florida, 33558
Jim Cooper is the Senior Teacher in the Pose by Pose Yoga Teacher Training Program. He began presenting workshops in the program as a guest teacher in December 2012 and became the Senior Teacher in January 2014. He is registered with Yoga Alliance as an ERYT-500 yoga teacher.
Jim began practicing yoga in 1994 while living in Maryland. His first teachers all trained at Kripalu Center in Massachusetts. In November 1999, he completed the 200-hour teacher training program at Yogi Hari’s Ashram, then in Ft. Lauderdale. Yoga Hari is a disciple of Swami Sivananda and Yoga Hari’s Sampoorna Yoga is based on Sivananda Yoga. In August 2000, Jim completed the 250-hour teacher training program at TreeHouse in Tampa where he studied with Maggie McClain and such guest instructors as Erich Schiffmann, Esther Myers, Bob Smith and Monica Voss.
Jim completed a 500-hour teacher training program at Stillpoint Studios in Tampa in July 2004, studying with Sarasvati Devi and Vaz Rogbeck. It was at Stillpoint that Jim and Jennifer Leavy met.
Since January 2000, Jim has taught hundreds of group and private yoga classes and workshops in the Tampa Bay area. From 2004 to 2010, he taught in the 200 and 500-level teacher training programs at Stillpoint. In addition to the physical and psychological benefits of yoga, he is interested in the spiritual aspect of the practice and continues to study many of yoga’s ancient texts, influenced mainly by the writings of Georg Feuerstein.
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