Michael Levine

You might call Michael Levine a yoga dad. 

In the early 90s for health reasons, Michael started practicing yoga (and later teaching yoga) at Holiday’s Health & Fitness Yoga in Portland Oregon.  He met his wife in a yoga class, and started writing Amal’s adventures after searching unsuccessfully for a fun way to introduce to the niyamas to their daughter. 

Through over three decades of study, with a variety of excellent teachers coming from different yoga traditions, Michael appreciates yoga beyond postures, breathing, and meditation. Discovering that children’s yoga books still focus mostly on asana, Michael realized the lessons of Amal’s universal and timeless foibles are more relevant and needed than ever.

When not writing more yoga tales, teaching yoga, or improving his personal yoga practices, Michael might be found gardening, making modifications to his catio to appeal to his inspirational feline, spending time in nature, or visiting yoga studios wherever he travels.