He has practiced Yoga for 47 years and taught for 41. His primary teachers include Krishnamurti, T.K.V. Desikachar, B.K.S. Iyengar, Mary Stewart, Dona Holleman, Vanda Scaravelli, Joel Kramer, and Rajpur. He spent 5 years teaching Yoga at the Krishnamurti School in England. Today he is his own teacher and encourages his students to do the same. Erich has filmed, edited and produced his own collection of Yoga videos, The Backyard Series. He is the author of one of the most popular contemporary books on Yoga, YOGA: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness. Erich teaches at Exhale in Venice Beach, California, and runs teacher training programs and Freedom Yoga and Meditation workshops around the world.