About Anusara Yoga®
Anusara is a blend of the best yoga can offer. It adheres to a life-affirming, non-dual, Tantric philosophy that makes sense and applies to our everyday lives. Founder John Friend has the wisdom to collaborate with some of the finest scholars of yoga philosophy — Dr. Douglas Brooks, Paul Mueller-Ortega, Carlos Pomeda, and Bill Mahoney. Anusara Yoga®’s strong commitment to creating community and building a support system for its teachers and students continuously inspires me and helps me stay strong and focused when life is challenging. The transformational Universal Principles of Alignment work in all poses, from the most basic asana to the most complex and contorted positions imaginable. As John Friend says, Anusara Yoga® opens your heart, blows your mind, and rocks your body!!!! To learn more, visit anusara.com
About Rajanaka Yoga
Rajanaka is the lineage of my yoga philosophy teacher Dr. Douglas Brooks, one of the world’s leading scholars of Hindu Tantrism and the esoteric traditions of the Goddess. A branch of tantrism, it is part of a South Indian tradition called Shri Vidhya (auspicious wisdom). Rajanaka says that, as embodied beings, we will and should have the full spectrum of human emotions and experiences including anger, fear, happiness, courage, desire, grief, wonder, disgust, and peace. Yoga is not about stopping these experiences from happening, but how we can open to receive the gifts that these experiences offer us. Practicing our yoga, we can turn a seeming curse into a blessing, a kleesha (stain) into a lakshmi (a mark of beauty). We do this by engaging life and stepping into its currents of joy and challenges — not by turning away or trying to stop the flow. Douglas’s teachings have opened my mind and heart to a deep appreciation of the fullness of life, as well as exposed me to a vast world of Indian philosophy, literature, myths and practices that I foresee spending the rest of my life learning more about. To learn more, visit rajanaka.com.