Edward is a dedicated yoga teacher and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism with more than 15 years of teaching experience and over two decades of sustained spiritual study. His journey into these traditions began not as a career move but as a way to bring clarity, structure, and healing into his life after growing up in a destabilized environment. The teachings of yoga and Buddhism helped him cultivate insight and reconnect with a deeper sense of purpose. These practices helped him understand the nature of the mind, the roots of affliction, and the movement of emotions with clarity and a coherent framework.

His Buddhist education has taken shape through long-term relationships with revered Tibetan masters. He has received teachings and empowerments from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama John Brady, Lama Alan B. Wallace and has been a close student of Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa, the former Abbot of Gyume Tantric College, for over twelve years. Edward continues his studies and considers all of these relationships central to his path.

For the past decade, Edward has also worked with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. He also worked for years with The Asian Legacy Library and supported projects focused on preserving Buddhist texts. His nonprofit organization, The Maitri Project, builds connections between donors and monastic communities across the Himalayas and now supports over 5000 people, including children, elders, and teachers. The work is rooted in a deep respect for lineage and the wish to be of practical service to those who preserve it.

Edward’s yoga path has been shaped by years of committed practice. He studied closely with Sri Dharma Mittra for five years, focusing on Hatha Yoga, advanced breath work, and the relationship between fasting, energy, and inner clarity. He practiced Ashtanga Yoga for more than a decade and was one of the first certified teachers from The Yoga Studies Institute. Through these systems, Edward found tools that helped him stabilize his nervous system, regulate the emotional weight he had carried since childhood, and return to a more grounded and integrated way of being.

He has completed ten personal retreats and spent extended time in India and Nepal, living near sacred sites, engaging in pilgrimage, and absorbing the lived context of the teachings he now shares. These years of practice and immersion have become the foundation of his current work. Edward teaches from experience rather than theory. His offerings combine Tibetan Buddhist thought with Hatha Yoga, meditation, somatic work, and subtle body practices in a way that is accessible, sincere, and rooted in lived transformation. His approach is not about perfection but about honesty, rhythm, and meaningful self-inquiry.

Before fully devoting himself to this path, Edward worked in photography and high-level creative production. Working as Bruce Weber and Steven Meisel assistant and with brands such as Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Abercrombie and Fitch, Super model Gisele Bündchen, Estée Lauder, Italian Vogue, US Vogue, W magazine, and more. Although that world offered him creative opportunity and incredible experience it didn’t satisfy him.

His work now is guided by the belief that practice is not performance. It is relationship with body, breath, lineage, and the truth of one’s own heart. Through his teaching, Edward continues to support others in discovering that truth for themselves.