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Edward Vilga  

Yoga Guru and Yale Grad. Creator of Best-Selling books and DVDs that share accessible Yoga with the World.

Edward Vilga is an accomplished writer/director and one of New York City's leading yoga teachers. Most recently, Vilga combined his two careers as the creator and director of a series of bestselling yoga books and DVDs.

The first, YOGA IN BED, reached #1 for all of health and fitness DVDs on Amazon.com after Vilga's appearances on REGIS & KELLY and CBS THIS MORNING. Other press ranged from PEOPLE MAGAZINE to YOGA JOURNAL, Martha Stewart's BODY SOUL to FITNESS, REAL SIMPLE to a Travel Channel interview, including over two dozen other publications and broadcasts. YOGA IN BED has been translated into seven languages. The next book and DVD in the series will be YOGA FOR SUITS.

Edward Vilga's made his feature film debut writing and directing DEAD BROKE which stars Paul Sorvino, Jill Hennessy, John Glover, Tony Roberts, and Justin Theroux. DEAD BROKE opened the New York Stories/Angelika Film Festival and premiered at the Newport Film Festival. In 2006, DEAD BROKE was released on DVD by Warner Brothers.

Over the years, Vilga has also directed, written, and produced acclaimed theater. Most recently, he co-created and directed MIRACLE IN RWANDA, a one-woman show starring co-creator Leslie Lewis Sword about the remarkable story of Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Iligabiza. THE VILLAGE VOICE lauded that "Forgiveness...is a genuine inspiration...Sword's one-woman performance makes riveting theater." THE EPOCH TIMES proclaimed "Sword is brilliant and compelling in the various roles, effortlessly switching from one to the next...Great direction by Edward Vilga...An excellent piece of theater." MIRACLE IN RWANDA has embarked on a world tour that includes the Edinburgh Fringe, the National Black Theater Festival, and Stanford University.

Vilga has had five books published. Beyond his yoga series, these range from mass-market paperbacks (featured on ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT and serialized in STAR MAGAZINE) to academic tomes (ACTING NOW, published by Rutger's University Press; a Stage & Screen Book Club Main Selection) to a romance novel written on a lark.

Along with writing and directing, Vilga has an extensive private teaching practice in New York City. He also teaches several extremely popular classes at the Laughing Lotus Yoga Center where he was nationally certified. He is a sought-after national speaker, often appearing at large wellness and corporate conventions or leading special event class, such as one for several hundred people for NYC's TIMES SQUARE Summer Solstice Celebration.

Edward Vilga graduated from Yale University with a BA in English. He also attended the Masters Program in Filmmaking at U.S.C. under full teaching scholarship.

Finally, he is deeply in love with his chocolate lab, Belle.

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