Tim Miller was educated at the University of California, Riverside, where he studied psychology and Eastern philosophy.
[8] Miller met Jois in Encinitas, California in 1978 after practicing yoga for only 8 months.
[9] He became Director of the Ashtanga Yoga Center in Encinitas, California in 1981; it has since moved premises several times.
[1][10][11] He taught at the first Yoga Journal conference in 1996 and has been a frequent speaker and teacher at subsequent events.
[14] He has situs inversus viscerum: that is, his internal organs are the mirror image of normal.