First Person Healing Arts Studio

A certified advanced Integrative Yoga Therapist®, Per has studied extensively in several areas of Yoga, Ayurveda, Tantra, and been on staff at East Bank Club since 1998. His professional teaching experience includes in-depth private practice work since 2007, and prior to that, holding yoga teaching positions throughout Chicago in yoga centers, corporations, health clubs, hospitals, and social service agencies. He has served formally as a yoga educator- facilitating, directing, and or consulting in numerous Yoga teacher training programs both in the U.S. and abroad. Per has served as a mentor for developing teachers locally.

In addition to yoga, Per is a certified Tai Chi Chi'h teacher and Nosara Pranassage Practitioner®, a form of yoga based bodywork, all of which have informed his experience and practical expression of yoga over the last 30 years. His classes are unique, incorporating diverse elements of physiology, psychology, and meta-physiology. Per initially became interested in eastern philosophy in high school, reading core philosophical texts.