Rob Walker has directed yoga studios and yoga teacher training for the past 12 years as current Director of the Alberta Yoga College, former Director and Owner of The Yoga Studio South and former director of the Yoga Studio College of Canada. He has taught yoga for 20 years.
He continues to enjoy teaching at two Calgary yoga studios as well as focussing his main passion on yoga teacher training.
His passion for yoga took him on three five-week trips to Pune, India, in 2003, 2005 and 2007, to study intensively with Yoga Master BKS Iyengar (BKS Iyengar, the greatest living yoga master, was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential people in the world in 2004). He has four levels of certification in Iyengar Yoga.
He is a member of the Yoga Alliance member benefits committee and was recently invited to sit on a panel at the YA annual conference in Washington DC, addressing yoga studio owners on managing yoga teachers. As director of the Alberta Yoga College, he also participated in a YA conference round table on yoga teacher training.
Rob has appeared on a weekly series on yoga on Shaw Cable and twice on the City-TV Breakfast Show, the Calgary Herald and other publications in relation to yoga.
He began his working life in journalism, at the Press Association in London as Economics Correspondent and Deputy News Editor. He worked as Deputy Night News Editor on the award-winning Daily Mail in London (circulation 2 million).
He was Health Writer for the Calgary Herald for 17 years. His work has appeared extensively in a weekly journal for MDs, as well as the Yoga Journal and in Calgary Health Authority's Apple Magazine. In London, he wrote First Clue, an encyclopedia of finding out where to find out, published by Pan Books in 1983.