Join special guest teacher Tara Mitra for this unique practice experience!
Wednesday, May 17th
6-8am Pranayama, Chanting & Mysore
6-7:30pm THE 8 LIMBS OF YOGA IN DAILY LIFE
Ashtanga Yoga or 8-limbed yoga is an 8-part method as referenced in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Tara will move through each of these limbs discussing them from a philosophical lens while highlighting how you can integrate these eight limbs of ashtanga yoga into our modern daily life. Linking Traditional Yoga to Everyday Life.
About Tara:
Tara’s love for the human mind brought her to yoga over 19 years ago. She has been a dedicated practitioner of yoga and has been blessed to practice with some of the most dedicated ashtanga teachers in the world. Studying with Johnny Smith, Tim Miller (completing both his primary and intermediate series trainings), R. Sharath Jois & R. Saraswathi Jois. She has apprenticed for 6 years with certified teachers and R. Saraswathi Jois for 4 of those years in her very busy Mysore shala where she assisted up to 200 students a month for nine months of the year. Tara has a special bond with Saraswathiji and is one of the first few students authorized by her to teach.
Tara is also a Certified Yoga Therapist in the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya & his son T.K.V. Desikachar in Chennai, India. Her interest in yoga therapy is a focus to help heal others from injury and imbalances within the body. She has helped many students learn to understand their bodies while bringing back health and stability through yogic techniques, diet and lifestyle changes.
She has studied Pranayama with Sri O.P. Tiwari, Philosophy with Prof. Nagaraja Rao and Vedic Chanting with Dr. Vigneshwar Bhat and Madhavi Kotha in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya.
Tara has been studying ritual, chanting and Vedic chanting for the last 7.5 years and is a long time Vipassana Meditator.
Both R. Saraswathi Jois (kpjayi Authorized), Saraswathi Vasudevan & Vigneshwar Bhat have given her blessings to share the teachings as taught to her through parampara.
Tara does not take herself too seriously and teaches in a traditional yet playful manner incorporating the teachings of her teachers.
Find more at www.taramitrayoga.com