Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D., E-RYT 200, RYT 500, C-IAYT, CMT is co-founder of YogaUOnline.com, a leading provider of continuing education for yoga teachers. As co-director of YogaUOnline with her husband, Terry Smith, Eva has spent more than a decade developing online resources for yoga teaching methodology that makes yoga accessible to every body. She believes that yoga has great potential as a tool for personal and societal transformation, but that there still is much work to be done to make yoga more universally accessible.

Eva is a writer, yoga therapist, and body worker with a lifelong passion for yoga and meditation. She started her yoga training in Kripalu Yoga, and has since studied Anusara Yoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy, and has been further enriched with her ongoing studies with many of the leading yoga teachers in the country.