[2] Schultz born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, lived in Austin, Texas, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, working as an insurance salesman.[7] In the mid 1990s Schultz traveled on tour with the Grateful Dead as the band's personal yoga teacher until Jerry Garcia died.In an interview in a Deadhead magazine, Phil Lesh credits Ashtanga with having a real effect on the music this tour and giving him personally a new feeling of centeredness.Schultz's notoriety in the South of Market, San Francisco area led him gain a second nickname, "The Mayor of Folsom Street.I see people take in the practice from various angles and develop, change and transcend their limitations, realize their possibilities.In 2009 It's Yoga San Francisco closed.