Antonia Kao has been practicing yoga since the early 1990s and sharing the practice as a teacher since 2003. She first fell in love with Kundalini yoga, then discovered Ashtanga Vinyasa in 2003. Since then, she has studied Ashtanga with many veteran teachers, including her current teachers John Berlinsky and Lea Watkins, and, at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy. She is additionally influenced by Yin Yoga, yoga nidra, and ecclectic mind-body-spirit practices such as Skan Reichian Therapy and hoop dancing. Antonia completed 200 hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher training at Avalon Yoga (mentor: Anirudh Shastri), advanced studies/ teacher training with Erich Schiffman, and Yin Yoga teacher training with Sarah Powers. As a teacher and student, she is ongoingly a practitioner of yoga in its broadest sense.