About Anusara Yoga®
Anusara® Yoga is a playful and powerful practice exploring what is possible in each individual’s body, mind, and heart. The word Anusara means “flowing with grace” and “to step into the currents of the heart.” Each class has a heart-oriented theme, with focus on cultivating a virtue, a quality which is a microcosmic reflection of our divine nature. It is an elegant system of yoga that unifies healthy biomechanical alignment principles called the Universal Principles of Alignment with a philosophy of intrinsic goodness and a strong focus of living your yoga on an off the mat in ways that create harmony. Anusara, with it's spirit of creativity, passion and kindness, welcomes all who are interested in yoga. As Anusara's founder 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.