Misha Hill

Yoga Teacher

Shiva Yoga

Misha was born in the UK, but grew up in New York. As a teen, he left home to pursue a professional ballet career, unaware he was beset by a weak heart inherited from his mother. Like hers, his heart deteriorated until it seemed he would need a transplant to survive. This brought him to LA, to specialists at Cedars. He was initiailly atop the transplant list, and then lower priority, and eventually he was too healthy to be on it at all. His heart's functionality continued to improve with meds and has now been normal for several years, an internal defibrillator the only souvenir of this distant nightmare. Momentum kept him in LA. He enrolled in a local cc, where a yoga class offered a gentle path back to life for a body weak, stiff and in chronic pain from being sedentary. The pain relief motivated a baseline of discipline, and he practiced lightly but consistently. Eventually, he was enabled to reanimate his ballet career, both as a performer and teacher. This year, he is presenting his choreography at Ballet Fest, and diving deeper into yoga; pursuing his first 200hrs. Outside of a ballet/yoga studio, Misha enjoys music (especially mixing playlists and embarassingly enough, writing rap lyrics), comics, philosophy, Vonnegut, anime, and spending time with his partner and their roommate and cats.