ASANA teachers for Mysore Yoga Traditions conference 2022

What does Yoga mean to us! How do we define it? What is it about our yoga practice that has helped us the most during pandemic? What philosophies have been most reassuring in this time. Yoga has taken a major blow due to Covid and teachers around the world have had to adopt different approaches to teaching. Join us as we share practices from Russia, Germany, France, United States, Greece, Austria and other countries as we create a sincere, international, multicultural discussion with teachers and students from around the world as well as senior yogis and Sanskrit scholars from Mysore to gain insight into this intriguing subject. Ancient Solutions for Modern Problems will be in mind as we all share our experiences as we dig deeper into our yoga experiences.

We have asked teachers from countries across the globe to contribute to our conference. Each has a deep love for yoga and many years behind them serving their communities with yoga. Get the distilled approach and techniques of brilliant teachers who have creative minds and open hearts! Learn what has worked best for each of them during the pandemic both in their personal practice and in their teaching methodology.

Asana sessions will be given after the lectures. The time will depend on where you are in the world of course. Check to see which time zone you are in. Lectures finish at 22:30 (10:30pm) India time and Asana Sessions begin at 23:00 (11pm) India time.

We are attempting to time the sessions reasonably for as many people as possible across the globe.

Oklahoma 11:30am -1:30pm

London 17:30 -19:30

Western Europe 18:30 - 20:30

Eastern Europe/Israel 19:30 - 21-30

India 23:00 - 1:00

Yamini Muthanna studied under the able guidance of Yoga Visharadha Sri BNS Iyengar for over 30 years. Yamini is a purist practicing Hatha Yoga Vinyasa and does not believe in tampering with the techniques evolved by the ancient masters. Yamini runs a school of yoga in Bangalore called Yogastala. She has conducted workshops in London, New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. She regularly conducts Yoga workshops in different corporate sectors on the benefits of Yoga in modern living. She has students from all over the world learning the art and technique of yoga with her.

She is also a well known and accomplished Bharatanatyam exponent, teacher and a performer who has been empaneled under the Indian Council for Cultural Affairs, External Affairs Ministry, Government of India. She has traveled as an official ambassador of Indian culture to various countries around the world.

https://www.yaminimuthanna.com/

Dr. Ronald Steiner is the founder of the AYI method. This method links traditional Ashtanga Yoga with innovative Yogatherapy. Body and mind connect with each other and together create a harmonious balance. Ronald is a sports physician, researcher with focus on prevention and rehabilitation as well as one of the most well-known practitioners of Ashtanga Yoga. Ronald Steiner is one of the very few yoga teachers authorized in the traditional way by both the Indian grand masters Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and BNS Iyengar.

In this class Ronald links traditional Ashtanga Yoga with innovative aspects of Movement Therapy. Ronald invites you to explore and extend the range of holistic movement and experience a new dimension of Yoga. The class ends in an open discussion about tradition and the roots of Yoga.

To learn more about Ron Steiner https://www.ashtangayoga.info/

Joey has been a devout practitioner of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga since 2008. Practicing daily for many years with Andrew Eppler, Bryce Delbridge, and Jennifer Engleman at Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Oklahoma, he began to travel regularly to India in 2013 to initiate ongoing in-depth study of Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Mantra, and Yoga philosophy with Sri BNS Iyengar, a direct student of T. Krishnamacharya and the world's elder living master in the Ashtanga lineage. In addition to his E-RYT 500 certification from Andrew Eppler at AYS and the Himalayan Yoga Association of Rishikesh, India; Joey has studied in-depth with a wide array of old school Ashtangis including David Williams, Nancy Gilgoff, Danny Paradise, David Garrigues, Gilad and Miriam Harouvi, Baptiste Marceau, Dominic & Stephanie Corigliano, & David Swenson.Beyond asana, he has studied Yogic chanting with Dr. M.A. Jayashree and Narasimhan of Ananta Research Foundation in Mysore & Kanchen Mala of Krishnamacharr Yoga Shala in Mysore; Yoga history & Sanskrit phonology/pronunciation with Seth Powell of Yogic Studies; and Yoga Darshana with Dr. M.A. Alwar of Maharaja Sanskrit College and his father, the late Dr. Lakshmi Tatachar, founder of the Samskrti Foundation in Melukote, India. In addition to his devoted practice and study, Joey is co-producer of the film “Mysore Yoga Traditions," a groundbreaking documentary that provides an in-depth look at the fabric of Yoga culture in Mysore; and currently co-hosts the annual Mysore Yoga Traditions Retreat and Conference held every year in Mysore- the birthplace of modern yoga. Currently, he is the lead instructor and manager of the Ashtanga/Mysore program at Om Shala and leads several international retreats dedicated to the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition of Sri BNS Iyengar.

Read more at https://www.joeypazyoga.com/

Bryce Delbridge is an advanced practitioner and internationally known yoga therapist who began practicing Ashtanga Yoga at the age of 15. Facing acute scoliosis and real possibility of full spinal fusion, Bryce had no alternative but to practice yoga with great sincerity and effort. A long time student of Andrew Eppler, Sri BNS Iyengar, David Williams, Danny Paradise, Dharma Mitra, Srivasta Ramaswami, Robert Boustany and many others, Brice brings knowledge and precision to his classes.

Bryce will be teaching about Yoga Therapy and teaching about how to build strength for advanced practice is a safe and practical manner.

https://ashtangakrama.com/

FLORA TRIGO has been teaching yoga for a decade. In 2015, she founded the yoga center “Yoga Shala Rennes” in France, which offers the public a complete yoga teaching program: weekly classes, advanced courses, training of assistants, immersive retreats, welcoming national and international teachers. . Following several stays in India, she has the particularity of combining an in-depth experience in Ashtanga yoga, with the approach of Iyengar yoga, a certification in yogatherapy, and a course in history and philosophy of yoga with Ysé Tardan-Masquelier (Catholic Institute of Paris). She had initially completed a master's degree in clinical psychology, with 11 years of practice as a therapist.

She opens the space of yoga to anyone sincerely interested in a process of personal development and self-knowledge. In this guided class, you will practice a mix of primary and intermediate series of ashtanga vinyasa yoga postures. We will approach the asana with curiosity and the discovery of the natural laws of the body, after having prepared it for the practice. A sustainable practice integrates a lived understanding of the principles of the body in its aplomb & biotensegrity. This course promises to be innovative.

https://yogashalarennes.fr/

Petros Yogi, musician, dreamer, father, friend - above all, human and attentive observer of all connected (but superficially seemingly separate) principles with a musical gift to playfully pass this on. He teaches yoga asana, pranayama, meditation techniques and bhakti yoga. Petros is a regular guest at yoga festivals worldwide and is known as a visiting teacher in numerous schools from various traditions and countries. He has trained hundreds of yoga teachers worldwide and has been retreating in his Yogashala on Crete for 20 years.

Petros will teach a asana-class on tapas, bandha, breath, vayu and pranic enhancement and Bhakti Yoga.

Mikhail began to practice yoga in 1995, in 1996-2000 he attended seminars of Andrey Sidersky (Kiev), as well as trainings and regular classes of many other teachers available at that time in the CIS. In 2002-2010 taught at the Moscow Ashtanga Yoga Center, in 2004 - graduated from Andrey Lappa's certification course (1 and 2 levels of Universal Yoga), in 2002–07 - studied in India under the guidance of Bal Mukund Singh (Delhi) - asana and sukshma-vyayama in the tradition of the Dhirendra school Brahmachari, and Doctor Madhavan (Tamil Nadu) - shatkarma, asanas and pranayama in the tradition of the Swami Sivananda school, as well as at intensive trainings by Sandor Remete (Australia), held in 2004 and 2005 in Russia, trainings on Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga by Mark and Joan Darby (Canada) in Russia and India. In 2008–09 he completed a 250-hour refresher course in the Yogatherapy and Ayurveda program. In 2010, he completed a 40-hour course by David Swenson (certification course for teachers in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga). 2018 - Course "Basics of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy" at the Moscow Institute of Hypnotherapy and Family Psychotherapy (IGISP) under the guidance of Mikhail Ginzburg.

Since 2003 he has been conducting seminars in Russia and abroad, since 2005 - regular courses in pranayama, since 2011 - organizer, methodologist and leading teacher of the training course for instructors "Yoga108".

Certificates: “Universal Yoga - first & second levels” (A. Lappa, 2004), “Vivekananda Institute of Yoga Therapy” (Dr. M. Madhavan, 2006), “Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda” (Academy of Traditional Health Systems in cooperation with AIC and the Institute of Integrative Psychology for Professional Development).

Author and developer of a number of methodological programs on asanas and pranayama of various levels of complexity, numerous educational video programs on the practice of hatha yoga, many thematic articles and the book "Yoga Nutrition in the Middle Lane". Director of the documentary "Yoga: a look at tradition through the eyes of modernity."

Since 2001 he has been practicing Vipassana Buddhist meditation (since 2007 - in the Thai Forest Sangha tradition), since 2006 he has been practicing pranayama and meditation in the Kriya Yoga tradition of the Lahiri Mahasai lineage (Shri Shailendra Sharma, Govardhan). Since 2010, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and a regular contributor to the international online magazine Wild Yogi. In 2011, together with Ilya Zhuravlev, he organized the international festival Yoga-Rainbow.

Website: mahaihos.com 

Brigitte fell in love with Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga years ago – and since then, she continuously immersed in Ashtanga Yoga with very experienced teachers in Germany, the US and in India. Brigitte is regularly teaching Yoga in her community in Germany and organizing workshops with her Yoga teacher friends from all over the world.

Brigitte is a 500hrs graduated Ashtanga Yoga teacher. She has been studying with Dr Ronald Steiner (AYI, Germany ) since 2015 and immersed in further yoga teacher trainings at AYS (with Andrew Eppler, USA) and at Krishnamacharr Yoga Foundation (Sri BNS Iyengar, Mysore India). She’s continuously exploring yoga tradition as well as innovative yoga therapy.

https://www.beyogiful.com/

Tapan Raj Tapan has been an avid Yoga practitioner since the summer of 2012 in the lineage of T.Krishnamacharya. Tracing the footsteps of this legendary master's teaching years which were split between Mysore and Madras, he continues to learn from and assist his teacher Yogacharya Vijaya Kumar in Mysore in the system of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. He learns the teachings of latter years in Madras from Sri TKV Desikachar's family, Sri Srivatsa Ramaswami and other senior teachers. Tapan has been passionately sharing his knowledge about Yoga with willing students since 2013. He adheres by the authenticity of the traditional contemplative practices he learnt from his teachers and teaches as it is applicable for an individual. “Yoga, to the material world means gaining what we don’t have. For the self, it is a process of simplification and union with higher consciousness” - Yogacharya Vijaya Kumar

TTC’s

250 hours with Bharath Shetty ( 2014 )

1000 hours in the tradition of T Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikachar ( 2015 - 2017 )

Level 1 Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Vijaya Kumar, Mysore ( 2018 )

Vedic Chanting in the classical tradition of T Krishnamacharya ( 2019 - 2020 )

Advanced Teacher Training Course with Srivatsa Ramaswami ( 2020 )

Intensives Yoga ongoing practice at Rashtrotthana Yogic Sciences & Research Institute ( 2012 - 2015 )

Advanced Intensive with Bharath Shetty ( level 2 - 500 hours ) ( 2015 )

Masterclass with Bharath Shetty ( 2016 & 2019 )

Ashtanga Vinyasa ( Primary & Intermediate ), Moon Sequences & Lion sequence with Matthew Sweeney ( month long immersive in 2016 )

Yoga ongoing practice at Ashtanga Saadhana under Yogacharya Vijaya Kumar ( 2017 onwards )

Mudras with BNS Iyengar ( 2018 )

Masterclass with Parveen Nair ( 2018 )

International Textual workshop on Hatha Yoga Pradipika by the research team of KYM ( 2019 - 2020 )

More than Anatomy with Dr. Robert Lamport ( 2019 )

In depth studies of classical texts by T.Krishnamacharya ( 2020 )

In depth studies of Kriyas with Shantaram ( 2020 )

Accreditations

Yoga Alliance International

CYAI - Council of Yoga Accreditation

International Indian Yoga Association

Viniyoga

Contact Email: tapanraj@gmx.com

Dr. Ronald Steiner is the founder of the AYI method. This method links traditional Ashtanga Yoga with innovative Yogatherapy. Body and mind connect with each other and together create a harmonious balance. Ronald is a sports physician, researcher with focus on prevention and rehabilitation as well as one of the most well-known practitioners of Ashtanga Yoga. Ronald Steiner is one of the very few yoga teachers authorized in the traditional way by both the Indian grand masters Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and BNS Iyengar.

In this class Ronald links traditional Ashtanga Yoga with innovative aspects of Movement Therapy. Ronald invites you to explore and extend the range of holistic movement and experience a new dimension of Yoga. The class ends in an open discussion about tradition and the roots of Yoga.

Andrew is the organizer of Mysore Yoga Traditions Conference and the director and producer of Mysore Yoga Traditions film. He has been practicing yoga for 35 years and has been the director of Ashtanga Yoga Studio for the last 22 years.

Raja Vinyasa Yoga is named after the great kings of Mysore and it is an attempt to practice asana in a way that leads to Raja Yoga. Drawing on many years of research, Andrew Eppler created this approach to yoga practice. This class will start with therapeutic exercises to warm up, them move into a dynamic flow of asanas which are based on Ashtanga Vinyasa sequences, then close with Mudra, Pranayama and Meditation. This approach works from gross towards subtle. Therapeutic movements prepare, and balance our bodies, and also reduce injuries. Structured practice created heat, flexibility and concentration. All forms of exercise make us feel good, but yoga has the tools and technology to go further. While we are in the state that is created by practicing yoga postures, we will continue to work with Mudra, Pranayama and Meditation to complete our yoga experience.

https://www.ashtangayogastudio.com/

2022 Asana Schedule

Monday Feb. 7 - Andrew Eppler Raja Vinyasa Yoga 

 Tuesday Feb. 8 - Tapan Raj Vinyasa Krama 

 Wednesday Feb. 9 - Ron Steiner Essence of Practice

 Thursday Feb. 10 - Bryce Delbridge Secrets of Floating

Friday Feb. 11 - Flora Trigo Ashtanga Integration

 Saturday Feb. 12- Petros Haffenrichter Tapas, Bandha, Breath Vayu and Bhakti Yoga

​Sunday Feb. 13- Mikhail Baranov Vinyasa Krama

 Monday Feb. 14 - Brigitte Antoni Half Primary - Half Intermediate Ashtanga Yoga

 Tuesday Feb. 15 - Joey Paz Advanced A Series Ashtanga Yoga

​Wednesday Feb. 16 - Andrew Eppler Moving into Pranayama

for questions about mysore yoga traditions conference contact

andrew eppler okiebaba@gmail.com