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Shri.Swami Ramanandaji is President of the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City and a greatly respected senior teacher practicing Yoga for over 30 years in the Integral Yoga tradition founded by H.H. Swami Satchitananda. Through his affinity for and devoted study of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating ancient practices of yoga into daily life, and coping with stress, depression, and anger. He leads advanced level yoga teacher training programs in NYC, and offers a variety of workshops in many locations around the country. He is a founding member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals.

H.H.Swami Buaji Maharaj is the oldest known living yogi at 120 years old. He was recently featured in an exhibit at the United Nations called Earth's Elders, which stated his birth year as 1889. The youngest of 17 children, he was born crippled, and healed himself through yoga, mastering asana, pranayama, and kechari mudra. He has lived through countless near-death experiences, including being face to face with cobras, pythons, tigers,  cannibals, and even New York City robbers who punched his teeth out when he was 94. He continues to teach from his Manhattan apartment, and to greet all his visitors cheerfully. He is the founder of the Indo American Yoga Vedanta Society

Yogi Sri Dharma Mittra has been teaching yoga since 1967 in New York City. He is known worldwide for his Master Yoga Chart of 908 postures, and as the "teacher's teacher". He has taught and touched the hearts of hundreds of thousands over the past 40 plus years.He has spent most of his life in service to humanity, disseminating the ancient knowledge of how to achieve radiant health and spiritual development. He has created over 300 advanced Yoga postures popular amongst students of today. Dharma's only purpose to teaching is "to serve and share my knowledge with others".  Dharma remains the steadfast Yogi he has always been, "the rock of Yoga", as he plugs everyone into the real meaning of why we practice Yoga. He teaches daily at his school the Dharma Yoga Center in Gramercy Park N.Y.C.

Smt. Nivedita Shivraj is a talented carnatic musician hailing from a family of musicians, and was initiated by her maternal grandmother. She is disciple of renowned musicians Shri. Thanjavur Lakshmanan and Shri. V.Raghavan, and has taken advanced lessons from Dr.Chittibabu. She has been performing for over 20 years in India and USA, and was an All India Radio artist, with many medals and prizes in various competitions. She was featured by the Rubin Museum of Arts and has conducted workshops for NYC Public  Schools organized by Carnegie Hall. She teaches Vocal and Veena in New York, and is active in community organizations.

Michael Braudy is an experienced violinist in Western, North Indian and Celtic music, and has taught music and meditation for more than 30 years.  A versatile improviser, he regularly collaborates with poets, storytellers, dancers, theatre and mime, including storyteller Diane Wolkstein.  Michael studied Western violin with Raphael Bronstein and Dorothy Delay, and Indian violin with Acharya Roop Verma, Pandit V.G. Jog, and Debaprasad and Sulaya Banerjee.  From a deep commitment to music for meditation and health, he performs and offers workshops in the US and abroad.  In India he has given concerts in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Auroville, and at the Jaipur International Festival in Rajasthan, and often combines Western classical, Indian and Celtic music in one concert.  He was a founding member and toured with Lifetime Visions Orchestra with Chris Chalfont and Joseph Jarman. 

Sri. Guru Dileepji hails from a South Indian family with a lineage of yogis, ayurvedic vaidyas, kalari (martial arts) experts, and spiritual leaders. He is the president of International Gurukula Community, an organization which is dedicated to promoting peace and happiness through yoga, interfaith dialogues, universal family values, alternative healing methods, and caring for the environment.  He travels often giving lectures, satsangs, and workshops at international conferences and interfaith programs. He works to promote yoga around the world and is a member of the World Yoga Council.

Silvia Prado dos Anjos - Nylaia is an international multimedia Brazilian artist. She has performed dance, poetry, theater and techno arts since 1984. Ms.Prado dos Anjos is a former national Olympic gymnast. She received Brazilian cultural award in 1998 and 1999. Nylaia studied with Swami Buaji since 1996 in New York and she organized yoga camps in Brazil. Currently she teaches arts and yoga in Niteroi, Brazil where she lives. She dances and choreographs at CASA BENET DOMINGO in Rio de Janeiro as well as directs virtual gallery corpo-sentido.nafoto.

Shri Bawa Jain is Secretary General of the World Council of Religious Leaders. He is a leader in the interfaith movement, and from 1997 to 2000 was Vice President of the Interfaith Center of New York where he organized annual interfaith services to mark the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. He is the founder of the Gandhi-King award which has been awarded to Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Jane Goodall, and Mata Amritanandamayi. He travels extensively around the world, speaking at the invitation of governments and UN agencies on religion, spirituality, and peace.

Sri.Swami Nikhilananda  is a sanyasi teacher for Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, Barsana Dham. JKP is a non-profit, religious and educational organization whose main center in the U.S. is Barsana Dham, in Austin, Texas. JKP was founded by Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj (Shree Maharajji), a respected and renowned Spiritual Master from India, and the fifth original Jagadguru in the last five thousand years. Under the guidance of Shree Maharajji, Swami Nikhilanand extensively studied the Sanskrit scriptures. After intensive devotion in India, he received Vaishnav sanyas in the raganuga tradition of Vrindaban, India. With the Grace of Shree Maharajji, Swami Nikhilanand offers satsang programs throughout the U.S., which provide the opportunity to learn the deepest and most practical aspects about devotion to God.

World Yoga Community

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