Yoga Teachers

Steve Dwelley is relocating the shala, Ashtanga Santa Barbara to the Santa Barbara Yoga Center in October. I dropped into a few classes last year while road-tripping through California. He’s a wonderful teacher! Read his message to the community below. [click to continue...]

Where is home? For yoga instructor Dylan Bernstein, “Home is in my yoga practice.” He explains: “When I roll out a mat, I feel really grounded, I feel really centered and at home. I guess home is an internal place.”

Bernstein, who teaches Ashtanga yoga at Yoga Sala in Nişantaşı (www.yogasala.com), has been practicing yoga in Asia and Europe since 2001. Always interested in world religions, especially Zen Buddhist philosophy, Bernstein started yoga when he was a boy of 13 in, in the US. In 2001 he left his 10-year career in childhood education and moved to Vietnam. He moved to India in 2004 and studied Ashtanga yoga with Vijay Amaran in Dharamsala (in northern India). Read more…

Boise Weekly
Sept. 10 , 2008
by Johanna Kirk

This month, Sarah Durney threw open the doors of her new studio, Ashtanga Boise, the first local yoga venue with a daily Mysore practice. Competitive skier, rock climber, environmental studies student, firefighter, tango dancer, metal worker, special education teacher … Durney lives a life as multi-dimensional and fascinating as the postures she teaches in her classes. Although her life has unfolded in many directions, she’s remained consistently devoted to yoga since her teens. Yoga, which originally entered her life as a way to heal sports injuries, eventually inspired a spiritual journey that motivated multiple trips to India, where she studies at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute with the innovator of the practice, S.K. Pattabhi Jois and other yoga legends. She relocated to Idaho in 2006 after leaving her job with a Hotshot fire crew. On her most recent trip to India, she decided to open a studio in Boise. Read more…

Atma Vikasa Centre Of Yogic Sciences

Yogacharya V. Venkatesha
Opposite State Bank of India
Kuvempunagar Double Road
Mysore 570 009
E-mail: atmavikasa@gmail.com; atmavikasa@hotmail.com
Web site: www.atmavikasayoga.com
Telephone: 821-234-1978
Mobile: 984-545-0091; 944-845-7978

Venkatesha and his wife offer a variety of classes at their center including yoga, pranayama, massage, chanting, kriyas and philosophy. The yoga system he teaches is his own and not Ashtanga. His emphasis is on proper alignment and precision and he does not do hands-on adjustments. Known as the “rubber yogi,” his backbending course that runs for 4 weeks for Rs. 12,000 is one of his most popular classes. No drop-ins are allowed.