Zoë Slatoff

Dr. Zoë Slatoff has a PhD in Religion and Philosophy from Lancaster University, in the UK, and an MA and BA in Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Her work centers around translations of Sanskrit texts on Yoga Philosophy, particularly as it relates to Advaita Vedānta, Sāṃkhya, Jainism, and Buddhism. She is the Clinical Professor of Sanskrit at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she teaches Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy courses in the Yoga Studies MA program, of which she is Associate Director, as well as undergraduate courses through the Department of Theological Studies.

Dr. Slatoff is the author of "Yogāvatāraṇaṃ: The Translation of Yoga," a Sanskrit textbook based on classic yoga texts, from which she teaches, that uses extracts from classical yoga texts to integrate traditional and academic methods of learning the language. She has also been practicing yoga for over twenty-five years and teaching for nearly as long. She had a flourishing Ashtanga Yoga studio in her hometown of New York City for twelve years.