LOCATION

SILENT SHORES RESORT: One of the finest Resorts in Mysore, located just 7 kms from Downtown Mysore and Coorg/Madikeri Road, spread across a sprawling 27 acres of lush green landscaped gardens with a lake and a fountain/cascade inside the property -  an ideal destination for deep practices, relaxation & rejuvenation.

Learn with John Brady

John Brady has been practicing yoga for over 25 years. He Began in 1984 with Hatha Yoga master, Carlos Madiera, in New York City. In 1996 he continued practicing with Kevin Gardner, who was directly trained by Master Iyengar.

John attended several Jivamukti weekend intensive trainings with David Life, Sharon Gannon, and Ruth Laur Manetti from 2000 to 2008.

John, in 2010, entered a 3 year, 3 month, silent retreat and upon his completion in 2014 he received a 200 hour teacher training certificate in the Anusara tradition. He continues to teach and practice in Sedona, Arizona.

Learn with Connie O'Brien

Constance O’Brien’s love for yoga started in the late 1970’s when the first Sivananda Yoga studio showed up in her local town. Thirty years later she encountered Heart Yoga and fell in-love with the practice all over again. She studied deeper knowledge about yoga’s inner practice from 2003 through 2010 with Geshe Michael Roach in Tucson Arizona.

Following a 3-year meditation retreat in 2014 she became a certified 200-hour Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance in the Hatha Yoga Anusara Style.

Since 2014 she has traveled through-out Asia as a teacher for the Diamond Cutter Institute, teaching yoga, meditation and Diamond Cutter principles for business. In 2019 she became the current director for the Yoga Studies Institute.

Learn with Bob Cirino

Bob Cirino has spent most of his life playing music, gardening, studying science, and starting businesses designed to harmonize man with nature. His drive for business success led him to Geshe Michael Roach's book, The Diamond Cutter.

It was here that he was empowered to pursue his passion for philosophy and yoga to a greater depth. Since then, he has developed a yoga and meditation practice that help him bring joyful focus into his daily activities.

He now serves the Yoga Studies Institute and resides in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania, USA, with his wife and cats.

Learn with Paola Pimentel

Paola is a Psychologist with a specialty in perinatal and postpartum psychology. As a constant and dedicated practitioner, Pao’s practice is characterized by many things: the influence of her teachers, the focus she gives to deep work on flexibility and strength of the body, maintaining a daily practice of meditation, and sharing her time with her 2 daughters.

She began the practice of Ashtanga yoga 17 years ago; Paola then continued her studies in Hatha Yoga and was certified as a Hatha yoga and Prenatal Yoga instructor in 2016.  For the last 7 years Paola has created many workshops and certifications.

Paola is a 500 hr Dharma, Prenatal Yoga and Hatha Yoga Instructor.  In 2016, she started GDL Prenatal Yoga and specializes in perinatal and postnatal work.

In 2019 Paola met Geshe Michael Roach and started working for Green Stretch Pen, a company which helps kids in underserved areas learn about healthy food and yoga.  In 2020 she joined The Yoga Studies Institute where she now leads the volunteer, customer service and community project groups (Yogi Corps) and teaches yoga asana and philosophy classes.

Why learn with the Yoga Studies Institute?

We do yoga different. If you've taken our other courses and classes, then you already know that! When practice is based in original yogic wisdom, it just feels different. 

We source our material from over 2 million pages of classic Asian texts which have been preserved and digitized by our partners at the Asian Legacy Library. Together, our teams have taken painstaking measures to translate, understand, and apply the original yogic texts so that we could share them with you in the most clear and easy-to-apply ways.

Having a lineage of authentic wisdom is important.

We believe this information needs to be integrated through years of practice and meditative contemplation. Many of our instructors have completed over 1000 days of silent meditation retreat practicing yoga and synthesizing this knowledge into experiential wisdom.