GabeYoga Academy
Most yoga education trains you in one tradition's answers. Gabe spent thirty years going to the source of four โ not to collect certifications, but to understand what the body actually knows beneath all of them.
The Story
1996 to now
Gabe started practicing yoga in 1996 โ looking for something, the way most people do. What he found instead was a system so vast, so internally consistent, that thirty years later he's still discovering it.
In 2005, within the span of four months, he traveled to Thailand to train with Pichest Boonthumme in Chiang Mai โ then flew to Mysore to practice under Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, one month after meeting Pichest. Then to Pune to study with B.K.S. Iyengar. Along the way he visited the house of Krishnamacharya, the man who taught both Jois and Iyengar, and spent a week at the Osho Meditation Center in Pune. Guruji passed away in 2009. That window closed. Gabe was one of the last generation of Western teachers to train with him.
In 2007, he built the first teacher training program at Absolute Yoga โ one of Asia's most respected studios at the time. That experience crystallized what he'd been learning: that the best teaching isn't about the teacher's body. It's about what the teacher understands.
That understanding โ how the body moves, how the mind follows, how language lands in a student's nervous system โ became the foundation of everything he builds. The Sun Salutation Series. BikYasa. The Joint Dialogue Method. Teach Without Demo. Each course in the GabeYoga ecosystem exists because Gabe lived through the question it answers.
He currently teaches from Khanom, a quiet bay in southern Thailand โ running retreats, creating courses, and refining the synthesis he's spent three decades building.
Gabe's depth comes from going where the tradition lives โ not studying a tradition as it's been translated, but learning it from the people who carry it.
Ashtanga Vinyasa
The Pattabhi Jois tradition โ the system of breath-locked, sequence-based practice that underlies modern vinyasa yoga. Gabe practiced under Jois in Mysore in 2005, part of the last generation of Western teachers to train with him before his death in 2009.
Iyengar Method
B.K.S. Iyengar's approach to yoga as anatomical inquiry. The precision and depth of the Iyengar method informs how Gabe teaches alignment across all styles.
Thai Yoga Massage
Trained under Pichest Boonthumme โ one of the most respected Thai massage teachers alive, whose approach integrates meditation, breath, and bodywork into a single practice.
Yin Yoga
The slow, sustained practice of working with fascia and connective tissue rather than muscle. The foundation of GabeYoga's therapy pillar and the Joint Dialogue Method.
BikYasa โ Founded
A synthesis of Bikram's heat and sequence principles with Vinyasa's breath-movement integration. BikYasa is now taught across four continents by teachers who trained with Gabe.
Joint Dialogue Method
Gabe's original therapeutic framework for working with the joints as sites of dialogue โ not just mechanical function. The most personal body of work in the GabeYoga ecosystem.
BikYasa Yoga
BikYasa began as a practical answer to a real problem: how do you bring the transformative heat and structure of Bikram into a format that works for different bodies, different rooms, different cultures?
Gabe spent years refining the integration โ keeping what works (consistent sequence, heat, respiratory challenge), adding what Bikram lacks (breath-movement coordination, intelligent transitions, modern biomechanics). The result is a method that teachers want to carry.
Continents where BikYasa is taught
Years of method development
Published book on the method
Influences Beyond Yoga
The GabeYoga philosophy didn't come from yoga alone. Two teachers outside the yoga world had a profound effect on how Gabe thinks about the body, communication, and what it means to teach.
David Deida's work on conscious relationship, masculine presence, and embodied communication changed how Gabe understands the teacher-student dynamic. He organized a 3rd Stage men's group, attended three of Deida's live programs and three online programs. The Communication pillar in GabeYoga โ and particularly the Teach Without Demo methodology โ carries a direct Deida influence: the idea that transmission happens through presence and language, not demonstration.
Osho's approach to meditation โ not as technique but as a quality of awareness brought to every moment โ shaped how Gabe holds the practice space. Not the institution, not the controversy, but the core teaching: that presence is the practice. It shows up in the GabeYoga emphasis on how a student feels in a pose, not just whether they're "doing it right." The Therapy pillar, and the Joint Dialogue Method specifically, carry this influence most clearly.
Home Base
Khanom is a quiet bay in the Gulf of Thailand โ not the tourist trail, not the party islands. A handful of villages, a long stretch of beach, and enough space to practice without noise.
Gabe runs the KhanomYoga retreat from here โ a small-group intensive in the tradition of immersive learning. No itinerary packed with excursions. The structure is practice, rest, practice, good food, and the conversations that only happen when there's nowhere else to be.
It's also where the GabeYoga content is made โ the sun salutation videos filmed on the beach at sunrise, the course modules recorded in the studio he's built here. The location is part of the teaching.
Start with the free Classical Sun Salutation video โ five minutes that shows you what the practice looks like when four traditions are pointing at the same thing.
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