Message from our Partners

Bea’s international yoga teaching includes international partnerships with Ritz Carlton Jamaica and The Standard Hotel, Miami Beach and Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India. She has been featured in “Leaders Who Inspire” by Origin Magazine and been lead presenter on yoga at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive. Bea also serves as global ambassador for International Day of Yoga, founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Manduka. She continues offering her yoga wisdom internationally through practical instructional videos for pregnant mommas, yoga programs for corporations and mindfulness meditation podcasts for busy professionals in office settings. Bea is a contributor to Gaiam TV, Elephant Journal, and MindBodyGreen. Bea continues her daily yoga and mediation practice with her husband and baby daughter in Austin, Texas.

The main focus in his life is to be of service to humanity by creating a stress-free violence-free world. He is an award winning public speaker, Art of Living Happiness Program and certified yoga instructor, real estate investor. Spent over 15 years in Corporate America while investing and starting a company. Sold the company in 2012 and became an independent licensed broker. Ritesh has a Masters degree in Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences from the Sri Sri University, India and a MBA from Rice University.

His mission:To assist people in finding the joy inside of themselves.He and his wife, Edith Troen, are also co-founders of the organic snack company OM Snacks.Jonathan began his journey toward teaching and coaching several years ago, after a successful career in the media/entertainment business.He started his professional life as a radio producer, producing the #1 rated Morning Show at WBCN, Boston. He travelled abroad to work with the Voice Radio in Denmark before moving to Los Angeles, where launched one of the country’s first Internet live music entertainment sites, LA Live. With LA Live, Jonathan introduced the first ever ongoing series of live concerts and interviews on the Internet, featuring the likes of Madonna, Foo Fighters, The Who, Green Day, The Ramones, Backstreet Boys, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne and 100s of others. L.A. Live soon became the #3 music site on the Internet. He was a featured speaker at many entertainment and emerging media conferences, and has been interviewed on various radio and television shows about his cutting edge-work. He started his professional life as a radio producer, producing the #1 rated Morning Show at WBCN, Boston. He travelled abroad to work with the Voice Radio in Denmark before moving to Los Angeles, where launched one of the country’s first Internet live music entertainment sites, LA Live. With LA Live, Jonathan introduced the first ever ongoing series of live concerts and interviews on the Internet, featuring the likes of Madonna, Foo Fighters, The Who, Green Day, The Ramones, Backstreet Boys, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne and 100s of others. L.A. Live soon became the #3 music site on the Internet. He was a featured speaker at many entertainment and emerging media conferences, and has been interviewed on various radio and television shows about his cutting edge-work. Astounded by the impact Iyengar yoga had on his life, not only for physical health but mental health as well, Jonathan embraced the practice as an integral part of his life. In 2008, he left the television world to focus on teaching yoga, in order to share with others all In 2014, Jonathan and his wife, Edith, fulfilled one their own personal goals when they opened the doors to Austin Yoga Tree.

Prashant Joshi M.A., M.Phil, E RYT-500 is a computer scientist and an electrical engineer and has been an IT Industry management leader for the past 25+ years. He has introduced Yoga-principles in the academic and corporate world at all levels of management. He has brought Yoga to the tennis courts, executive boardrooms, mental health facilities and senior centers. He is an invited motivational speaker and an avid tennis player.

Both Prashant and Manju Joshi have been ardent students of Yoga since 1984 and have formal Yoga training from various renowned institutions (Vivekananda Kendra, Kaivalyadham) and teachers(Dr. Rao, Ph.D. founder of Lotus wellness center; Padmashree Sadashiv Nimbalkar-ji, founder of Yoga Vidya Niketan) in India and the US. Both have committed their time with various community service activities including sharing the science of Yoga since 1991 in the US and internationally through speaking engagements, writings, workshops, passionate & compassionate teachings and 1:1 consultations.

They founded Gurukul, LLC, A Science Of Living Institution in 2000, serving all ages with Yoga as a therapy. Their vision of simplifying and demystifying life management, and a mission of creating friends of yoga (Yoga-Mitra) through bringing harmony, health, and happiness has become reality. Gurukul Yoga Holistic Center(GYHC) in Bridgewater, NJ is the result of the organic growth of their efforts and has benefited thousands since April 2006. They have built a passionate and compassionate team at GYHC. GYHC now has another location in Austin, Texas as well.

He started teaching full time in 1989. He is a pioneer in laying the foundation for Yoga’s growing popularity in Texas. In the early 1990’s he was the first Yoga teacher in Central Texas to bring yoga into schools (A.I.S.D. & E.I.S.D), 4 universities including the University of Texas where he worked with students, faculty, administration, dormitories, Women’s Athletic Program (Track, Gold and Volleyball teams), and departments of Dance, Music, Kinesiology. He introduced yoga to four hospitals and set up two Cardiac Yoga Programs (Seton Hospital and The Austin Heart Hospital). Charles also led the way in bring yoga into the workplace. His clients include numerous Government Agencies, IBM, Motorola, Apple, 3M, and Sematech. He teaches ongoing yoga classes in Austin, offers yoga workshops at studios around the country, and leads Yoga & Meditation Retreats as well as Yoga & Writing Retreats throughout the US, Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala. He is the founder of Expanding Paradigms through which he regularly presents at National and International Conferences. He has written articles for numerous magazines including the Yoga Journal. In 2014 he presented at the International Association of Yoga Therapy conference in 2014. Charles is also the Founder of the Free Day of Yoga, Living Yoga Teacher Training Program, and the Texas Yoga Retreat.

Others suggest that yoga can help reverse some of the risk factors associated with Type 2 Diabetes. Another pilot study(Dr. Sundar Balasubramanian, Medical University of South Carolina) showed promise that a simple protocol of chanting and yogic breathing (pranayama) increased the presence of nerve growth factor. This has tremendous implications in the treatment of people with Alzheimer’s Disease.

 

Many organizations like IAYT, VYP and IRI are leading the way in yoga and yoga therapy research to help our veterans heal. However, according to a study published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy-No.26 (2016) (A National Survey of Yoga Instructors and their Delivery of Yoga Therapy), there are still many questions as to uniformity in yoga therapy criteria given to the veterans.

The objective of our study was to see if using the Veterans Yoga Project (VYP) protocol, Five Tools of Mindful Resilience, and the protocol of the Integrative Restoration Institute (IRI), The Ten Tools of iRest, together, would in fact make a difference in the veterans PTS(D), pain and stress levels in as little as six classes or weeks.

 You are a part of something winning. This is going to become much bigger with time. You are all pioneers, who are taking something forward into areas where no one has gone before.