FrogLotusYoga

I started doing Yoga in 1975 in India, when I was nineteen. My first Yoga class was love at first sight, and I still feel as passionate about it now as I did then. It came naturally to me—my body intrinsically understood the principals of Yoga without me having to think much about it. I started with Iyengar Yoga and practiced every day for a year at the ashram, where I was living. After a year, my teacher left the ashram and I began to teach the class myself, and did so for the next four years.

Since then I have studied and practiced, many different styles and techniques, including Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Sivananda, Power, Bikram and Forrest Yoga, as well as Iyengar Yoga. I have studied with many talented and famous teachers including Ana Forrest, Patricia Walden, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, David Swenson, Doug Swenson, Baron Baptiste, Sarah Powers, and many others.

I completed a 200 hour teachers' training in Ashtanga Yoga at "It's Yoga" in San Francisco. I participated in a very inspiring Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, with Ana Forrest, in Forrest Yoga. I have also taken Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Rodney Yee. I am registered with Yoga Alliance at the highest level, which is E-RYT 500.

I have taught yoga in many different places and situations, from an ashram in India to the most exclusive spa in the country, Canyon Ranch in The Berkshires, Mass. I am convinced that Yoga is, as Mr. Iyengar calls it, a path to holistic health. Yoga, practiced regularly, will make you strong, supple, radiantly healthy and give you a deep sense of well-being.

I founded Frog Lotus Yoga in March 2002 and it continues to be a great pleasure to own and direct a beautiful home for Yoga. Since having the studio, I designed, in conjunction with October Cellana, one of my fellow teachers, a comprehensive Yoga Teacher Training program and have been teaching four of these month long intensives a year at the studio ever since. We now have more than a hundred graduates of our training program. I enjoy teaching these training very much as it gives me the freedom to share my passion for all aspects of yoga, including the philosophical and metaphysical dimensions. More recently I have designed an Advanced Teacher Training, with October, and have started to lead Yoga Retreats in warmer climes.