Yogacharya V.Venkatesha
Yogacharya V.
Venkatehsa started his practice at an early age of 13.
He is an
amazingly advanced practitioner, whose learning and teaching are based upon
EXPERIENCE alone.
He has been
practicing regularly for the past18 years and has won many National and
International awards including the prestigious title of YOGA SAMRAT (Emperor of Yoga).
He started
teaching at an early age of 16 and now at 34, he is one among the most
respected and renowned yoga teachers of the world.
Till now,
since the founding of the shala in 1998, he has trained thousands of western
students, apart from innumerable Indian students.
He is very
well known for his precision, dignity, discipline and ability to grade and
handle the students of all levels, Though, he is an expert in all sections of
Yoga, his special and rare expertise in back bending asanas, has earned him the
title rubber yogi. He is the first person to introduce special
courses on flexibility improvement techniques which are based on very strong
scientific, yet traditional grounds.
Acharye Hema
Hema started
her yoga practice under the guidance of Acharya Venkatesha at an early age of
12. Apart from being an advanced practitioner, her exceptional analytical
skills and grasping power, brought her into the teaching field at the age of
16.
She is has the
credit of being the youngest referee at many National level yoga championships,
not to mention that she has been a champion herself in many such competitions.
Having studied
Sanskrit, Chanting and Philosophy, for about twenty years, she has a great
mastery in those subjects and hence she currently heads the philosophy section
of the shala.
Also, she is
one among the youngest Sutra teachers of the world. Her yoga sutra classes are
highly popular among the yoga students.
Now, at 25,
she is the secretary of and Principal yoga teacher of Atmavikasa.
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