Zoe Mantarakis: Professor of Yoga at UT Austin. What Her Yoga Program Is and How It Works. The Value of Teaching Yoga at a University.

Zoe Mantarakis is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She has logged decades teaching in Austin's yoga studios and was voted Austin's Best Yoga Teacher in 2014. As a Yoga Teacher Trainer she has certified more than 75 students at the 200hour level. She created and established the Yoga Specialization degree path within the KHE Dept at UT and is graduating her first cohort in May 2025. Her field of interest is exploring the places where modern science and medicine corrleate, corroborate and validate ancient yoga wisdom. She is a loving mother to 3 children.Support the show