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# About David Keil

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## This is about YOU learning your muscles.

As far back as I can remember, I have enjoyed deconstructing and reconstructing things. Whether I was pulling apart a radio in our garage or building a bike out of various pieces, I love understanding how things work.

From an educational perspective, I enjoy the challenge of taking complex topics and making them simple and understandable to everyone. This is the challenge that I've taken on for myself since 1999, when I taught [kinesiology](https://3dmusclelab.com/what-is-kinesiology/) for the first time. The reward has been tremendous! Developing content on anatomy so that people not just understand it but also benefit from it, leaves me fulfilled. Because I know that when therapists, and teachers understand their anatomy, it helps them to help others.

## Functional Anatomy of Yoga

This mission to make the complex simple is exactly what I did in my book, *Functional Anatomy of Yoga*. I took the complexity of anatomy and the complexity of yoga and brought them together in a conversational tone. Why? So that the people reading the book would understand it!

![Functional Anatomy of Yoga book cover](https://3dmusclelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/faoy-book-transparent-shadow.png)

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## Yoganatomy.com - Where I sharpened my skills

Since 2000, teaching anatomy in the yoga world has been my passion and it has literally taken me around the world. I started practicing yoga and Tai Chi back in 1988 when I was still in High School. That was years before yoga became popular and learning resources were extremely limited.

While teaching kinesiology at Educating Hands, I realized that yoga teachers also needed to learn their anatomy in order to work with their students. I created yoganatomy.com and mixed my passion for yoga and anatomy. It's been a very fulfilling journey.

## More about David

![David Keil](https://3dmusclelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/david-keil-headshot.jpg)

David Keil

- M.S. Exercise Physiology
- LMT, NMT
- E-RYT 500 · YACEP
- Authorized Level 2, Ashtanga Yoga

1. 1988 Yoga and Tai Chi, at 17
2. 1999 Teaching Kinesiology, Miami
3. 2001 Meets John Scott
4. 2002 First trip to Mysore
5. 2004 Authorized, Ashtanga Yoga

David Keil was introduced to yoga in 1988 by his Tai Chi Chuan teacher. Both the Tai Chi and Yoga practice at the ripe age of 17 began his research into his own mind-body connections. His search continued through massage therapy where he discovered many insights and affirmations of what he had been exploring and finding on his own through his practices. One of the most important elements was the specific understanding of the musculoskeletal system and how fascinating, beautiful, and amazing the body is on the scientific level and how that directly played into and off of his own understanding of the human body. He was given names and explanations for some of the things he had been experiencing and feeling.

As an instructor of Kinesiology (the study of movement and musculoskeletal anatomy) at Miami’s Educating Hands School of Massage from 1999–2003, David developed a fun, informal and informative style of teaching. By repeatedly teaching incoming students who had no prior understanding of anatomy, David was confronted with the problem of making such a complex and beautiful system accessible and understandable to the average person.

David brings his unique style and ability to make things simple to the yoga world. Because of his passion and desire to share the human body with everyone, he delivers this complex and sometimes frustrating topic in a way that is very accessible and understandable to yoga practitioners.

Over the years David has used his skills as a Neuromuscular Therapist to help people reduce their chronic pain patterns. He often brings this information into his workshops where students are regularly uncovering painful patterns or injuries in their bodies.