E-RYT 200, RYT 500, James Conlan has been a student of yoga and meditation with the Baptiste Yoga Institute since 2008. He became a full time Baptiste yoga instructor in 2009. James has accrued over 1200 hours of direct training from renowned yoga teacher Baron Baptiste and regularly assists Baptiste Yoga training programs around the world.

James recently opened Yogatomics Training and Wellness, a specialized yoga training and retreat center in Mystic, CT. Yogatomics offers a variety of educational trainings, as well as personal self-care services and retreats. Yogatomics Training and Wellness is an expansion branch of the Mystic Yoga Shala.  James has been a teacher at MYS since 2008, and served as a lead trainer since 2011. James also designed the new Mystic Yoga Shala expansion in 2012, and he is the cocreator of the Mystic Yoga Shala/Yogatomics Training and Wellness 200Hr Teacher training curriculum.

James consults and coaches fellow yoga studio owners and teachers regularly and strives to maintain the highest form of integrity towards yoga education and business practices in the modern world. He travels frequently to many studios and communities so he can inspire and share powerful yoga workshops . His passion for the practice and the science of yoga is infectious and he looks forward to bringing his experience and education to pradipikaYOGA.