Yoga Teacher Training Course Leaders
Ganga White
Ganga
White, founder-president of the White Lotus Yoga Foundation,
is recognized as one of the outstanding Western teachers
and exponents of Yoga. He founded the nationally known
Center for Yoga in 1967 and has extensive experience as
a Yoga instructor spanning over forty years. He has taught
internationally, trained hundreds of Yoga teachers and
has studied and lived in India visiting remote monasteries
and learning centers. He founded Yoga centers in major
U.S. cities and for five years served as Vice-president
of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Society. He
has received the teaching title Yoga Acharya three times
from the Sivananada Ashram, the Yoga Vedanta Forest University,
Rishikesh, Himalayas and the Yoga Niketan in India. He
has years of personal study with many great teachers including
Swami Venkatesananda, J. Krishnamurti, BKS Iyengar, K.
Pattabhi Jois and Joel Kramer. Ganga created the unique,
new system practiced by two people called “Double
Yoga” and his text, Double
Yoga, is published by Viking-Penguin. In
addition, his work and achievements have earned him the
rare, honored title Yogiraj, “king of yogis”.
He is known for his humorous, down-to-earth approach.
(Read more of Ganga's
biography)
Tracey Rich
Tracey
Rich, director of the White Lotus Yoga Foundation,
co-founded the organization’s Santa Barbara Retreat
in 1983. She has been studying and teaching internationally
since 1978, training teachers and students. Her background
includes extensive training in classical, vinyasa and
jnana Yoga, dance, health and philosophy. She leads
seminars regularly at the Esalen Institute and is co-creator
of the best-selling videos Yoga,
the Flow Series, and Total
Yoga. Tracey focuses her teaching of Hatha
Vinyasa Yoga on the importance of refining subtle energies
and awareness of breath using the body as a symbol for
understanding our nature—“The asanas become
a dance with the dance moving out into all areas of
life.” Tracey brings a quality of grace, warmth
and humor to her teaching that opens the hearts of her
students. She holds the honored title, Yoga Acharya.
(Read more of Tracey's
biography) |
