Her 300-hour certification is in
certification is in Ashtanga Yoga. She
is registered with Yoga Alliance and
certified in Pilates with Exercise
Science Alliance.

She also teaches special topics in
workshops and private sessions:
  • Breathing
  • Meditating
  • Freeing the Pelvis
  • Inverting
  • Arm Balancing
  • Backbending
  • Ascending and Floating in
    Vinyasa Movements
  • Using PNF Resistance
    Techniques in Yoga Practice
    and Teaching
  • Sequencing Your Yoga Practice
  • Developing the Core (both for
    general public and for
    postnatal women)

Elizabeth has designed and
conducted yearly yoga teacher
trainings at Miami University,
Cincinnati State, and her studio in
Troy. She offers training and
continuing education for yoga
teachers in the topics above, plus
method and theory topics, such as:
  • Observing and Responding to
    Students
  • Pacing and Sequencing
  • Precise Use of Language
  • Cueing Alignment in Flow
  • Adjustment Techniques
  • Applying Philosophy to Practice
Yoga and Pilates with Elizabeth Silas
Elizabeth Silas, E-RYT, is an
experienced, certified instructor of
yoga and Pilates on the east side of
Cleveland, Ohio.

She has been teaching for the past
ten years in both big-city studios and
small-town locations. Most recently,
she owned a studio in Troy, Ohio that
offered a full schedule of drop-in
classes and private sessions. She
Yoga while living in Chicago for the
summer of 2007, and she has taught
classes, workshops, and teacher
trainings at
It's Yoga, Gratitude, and
YogahOMe in Cincinnati since 2001.
She has taught undergraduate
courses and trained yoga teachers at
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in
addition to her weekly schedule of
drop-in classes and workshops that
ran from 2000 to 2007.

Her instruction teaches students to
carefully align the body while
flowing through a meditative and
challenging series of postures.
Students learn to initiate each
movement with the breath and
compassionate intention. Themes
from eastern and western
philosophies are woven into each
class.

Elizabeth teaches classes and
individualized private sessions for
new beginners, mixed levels, and
experienced students in a variety of
formats:
  • Jivamukti Yoga
  • Vinyasa Yoga (flow yoga, at
    slow, moderate, or vigorous
    levels)
  • Therapeutic and Restorative
    Hatha Yoga (focusing on
    prevention of injury, illness,
    and other conditions, as well
    as relaxation and stress relief)
  • Ashtanga Primary and
    Intermediate Series
  • Pilates (plus additional
    methods of core work)

She designs and refines each class
sequence to provide students with
the opportunity to immerse
themselves in the practice.
finally, the door opens...
and it opens outward: we've been inside what we wanted all along.
--David Foster Wallace