Yoga has been a part of my life companion since late 1990's. When I was a child, my Mom was telling me magical stories of advanced yogic practices and siddhis (powers) that put me at awe, and also planted a seed that eventually sprouted in my mid-twenties. Since my first encounter with this mystic practice, there was a sense of recognition and having landed in my soul home. When a few years later I physically landed in India to study yoga at its birthplace, there was not a doubt in me that I had walked in this land in many a past incarnations. In fact, I stayed in India for 7 months. In the subsequent (at least) yearly travels, I have spent in aggregate several years in that sacred land.

Since my first days in India, I was fortunate to have met my teacher, Ramesh Balsekar - an Advaita Vedanta guru who had laid a philosophic foundation for my soul journey to come. I have since studied with many Indian and Western masters deepening my practices of yogic postures, breathwork, meditation, Indian classical dance, and yogic philosophy.

While I have deep respect for the wonderfully-grounded Western approach to teaching yoga through information, words, demonstration, and method,  I aim to teach through the power of Presence, which is a more Eastern approach to transmit the mystic teachings. I am happy to share with my students the sacred spark of  many days in the satsangs (spiritual gatherings) absorbing the teaching of my guru, endless hours of meditation in retreats, holy places, and caves,  pilgrimages to sacred Shaivite sites in the Himalayas, the thunderous sound of Silence and the eternal presence of Light.

My yoga classes are a movement prayer in the temple of Body that lead to the profound stillness of shavasana that accompanies the student long after the class. The mind quiets as the body comes alive.

Come to the next group class or schedule a private yoga session and let your body sing its deepest prayer to the sacred melody of the breath!