Trish Tillman has taught yoga since 2013. She initially started practicing yoga in around 2008, as a way of dealing with the physical stress and strain of her martial arts training on her body, as well as the mental strain of attending grad school. Her first class was a 90-minute hot yoga class, and ironically, her overall level of stress in her life was so high at the time that she found the 90 boiling minutes relaxing by comparison!

Trish completed her initial yoga teacher training in 2013, at Pure Prana Yoga in Alexandria, and her advanced teacher training in 2019, at Sky House Yoga in Silver Spring, with Hari-kirtana das and Ashley Litecky Elenbaas. She has also taken a yin yoga training with Paulie Zink, as well as a training through Beloved Yoga, and restorative yoga with Tara Lemerise.

As well as physical/ postural yoga, Trish enjoys studying and practicing bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion, which is mentioned in the Bhagavad-Gita among the different types of yoga. As a student of religious history, Trish is struck by how the language of devotion takes common patterns in every culture, as humans in different ages and different parts of the world all seek a meaningful relationship with the divine, and with one another.

Trish completed her PhD in History in 2018 at the Catholic University of America, and teaches history as an adjunct professor at University of Maryland. She has also taught college history classes at other colleges and universities in the DC area since 2012. Her writings have been published in Tarka, the print journal for Embodied Philosophy, and she has presented papers at conferences at Harvard Divinity School and at Notre Dame. Trish sits on the external advisory board for Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality, a groundbreaking program at Harvard which seeks to bring scholars and practitioners of religion and spirituality together in dialogue.