About
I am hugely passionate about Yoga as a holistic lifestyle choice, I was especially drawn to the Pranayama practices of Yoga as I grew up with severe asthma resulting in numerous hospital admissions and life support/ventilator use.
In 1993 I started to attend Yoga classes in which probably I had my first experience of feeling something different, peaceful, spiritual, and inexplicable to me at the time! That feeling of a spiritual home.
I began to study the ‘Yoga step by Step’ correspondence course with Ammaji Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani, ICYER, Ananda Ashram. This course was the prerequisite to the most in depth and longest Residential Yoga Training courses in the world at the time. By 2006 I was ready to get to the Ashram in person and begin the intensive 6-months YTT program 1500 hours training under the guidance of Ammaji. This course was an incredible (and difficult!) experience of a routine that start with a 4:30am wake up bell, classes all day long (hatha, pranayama, mantra, karma yoga, satsanga, chikitsa, bhajan) till around 9:30pm at night. This immersion made me take a full 180 degree turn in my life at the time! I made a lot of huge changes; I felt the most healthy and well I had probably ever been in my life and I treasured this so much having not ever been able to take good health for granted due to my asthma issues.
The Gitananda Yoga tradition had hands down the most breadth and depth in Pranayama! It has more than 120 breath techniques with astounding effects on our being, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Many of these work intensively on our nervous system which we can all agree in modern day living, our sympathetic nervous system is over stimulated and burnt out for many which effects our entire being and our ability to manage well all the different aspects of our life.
The Gitananda Pranayama system taught me for the first time in my life how to breath fully and consciously. By learning to expand my breath capacity I was able to access Prana – this means my life force was enhanced and I had more energy! I used to need to lie down and rest in the day every day before I practiced these Pranayama but not now!
In 2017 I gained the advanced 3000 hours senior Acharya awarded to me by Puduvai Shakti Yogacharini Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani. This qualification has only been received by around 25 students of the Paramparai worldwide. I am extremely grateful to have found such a pure wholehearted living tradition of Yoga and am completely honoured to serve the Gitananda Yoga tradition to the best of my ability. My life has been given back to me ten-fold and for that I am forever humbled.
Om jai shiva Om
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