Christopher Miller completed his PhD in the Study of Religion at the University of California, Davis. He currently serves as the Bhagwan Mallinath Assistant Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. His current research focuses on the ways by which yoga practices are translated into contemporary transnational yoga communities. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters concerned with Jainism, the history and practice of modern yoga, yoga and politics, and yoga philosophy and is a co-editor of the volume Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age (2019). A California native, Christopher completed a 2 year yoga teacher training in 2012 at the Hill Street Yoga and Meditation Center in Santa Monica and eventually earned his Yoga Alliance Experienced Yoga Teacher credential.  As a certified Continuing Education Provider for Yoga Alliance, he lectures internationally on all things yoga and remains a dedicated practitioner of hot yoga. He is the co-founder of Hothaus Yoga Education, an online teacher and student training platform that is reinventing hot yoga from the ground up.