JOURNEY
My journey to
the work
Erin James, MFA in Creative Writing, RYT-200
I am a writer, educator, editor, and yoga instructor whose work lives at the intersection of embodiment and expression.
After experiencing a long period of loss and a personal health crisis at a young age, I found refuge on both the yoga mat and the page. For more than two decades, I’ve explored yoga as a practice of presence, balance, and belonging—and writing as a way of knowing oneself more deeply, making meaning, and giving language to what we carry
Through many years of writing, teaching, and deepening my own yogic and creative practices, I came to see how closely the page and the body are linked.
How the same attention that steadies the breath can unfold a sentence.
How our capacity to be present with our experience and listen inward can reveal the story that is waiting to be told.
PHILOSOPHY
My own education has moved across disciplines and practices. I studied journalism and English at New York University before earning my B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. I later studied education at Mary Baldwin University and received my MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2024.
I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training in the Integral Yoga tradition and continue to study with teachers across a range of lineages and somatic modalities.
I approach both the mat and the page as spaces for listening, discovery, and becoming.
Whether we are together in a classroom, yoga studio, workshop, or one-on-one, my work is grounded in curiosity, embodiment, and supporting you as you attune to the unfolding of your story and the wisdom of your body.
WRITINGS
