Romy Phillips

Romy is a certified yoga instructor and yoga therapist who has been teaching since 2001. She has studied many styles of yoga but primarily practices Ashtanga and Iyengar. She teaches group classes regularly and leads teacher trainings, workshops, and intensives in the United States and internationally. Anatomy, kinesiology, and injury management are the highlights of her trainings. Romy taught yoga in Los Angeles, California at various studios for 17 years (YogaWorks and Santa Monica Yoga) and also in numerous cities throughout Japan, China, and Vietnam, including Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Saigon. Romy has a BFA (Maryland Institute, College of Art) and MFA (Columbia University). She has completed several yoga teacher trainings, including Anusara, YogaWorks 200HR (with Lisa Walford and Birgitte Kristen), and YogaWorks 300HR (with Birgitte Kristen, her mentor). In addition, she has attended numerous workshops and intensives with leading practitioners in the field. Romy is a certified Clinical Technician and currently works as a Clinical Customer Service Coordinator in the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.

Romy contributed the chapter “Yoga for Health” for the book "Integrative Healing: Developing Wellness in the Mind and Body" (Plain Sight Publishing, 2018).

Finally, Romy is excited about taking all her years of experience studying movement in dance (ballet, modern, and jazz) and yoga and sharing it in her new book "Yoga Forma: A Visual Resource Guide for the Spine and Lower Back" (Plain Sight Publishing, 2018).