Salvatore is a mystic, rogue scholar, and world-traveling recluse.

Salvatore began his yoga adventure as a student in 1967. He began teaching ?sana in 1968 and Dhy?na/meditation in 1969. The Yoga-Sutra came into his life in 1968 has been his organizing principle ever since.

He has established several yoga centers in the United States and has taught yoga and related subjects in universities, institutes, and ashrams around the world.

Salvatore is the founder of the Yoga-Sutras Institute and the author of two highly respected yoga reference books: The Unadorned Thread of Yoga: the Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali in English and The Yoga-S?tra Sanskrit-English Dictionary.

He lives with his wife, dogs and a flock of pampered chickens on a tiny hobby farm in western Washington State in the USA.