Class Guide
Anusara Yoga
Anusara (a-nu-sar-a), means “flowing with Grace,” “going with the flow,” “following your heart”.
Founded by John Friend in 1997, Anusara Yoga is a powerful hatha yoga system that unifies a Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness with Universal Principles of Alignment™. Anusara Yoga is one of the most popular and fastest growing yoga styles in the world with over 1200 affiliated teachers and 100,000 students world-wide. Anusara Yoga classes are now found throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Japan with a growing presence in many other areas of the world. John Friend was featured in Vanity Fair as one of the 20 Greatest World Yoga Masters. Here is his definition of Anusara 'Anusara Yoga is a hatha yoga system that unites Universal Principles of Alignment with a philosophy that is epitomized by what I call a celebration of the heart… We practice looking for the good in things, especially in ourselves and our students… One of the key aspects of this attitude or philosophy is that we’re all co-creators with nature, or the Supreme, in this life, and this creative freedom makes life fun, exciting, inspiring… The poses in Anusara Yoga are considered to be heart-oriented and are expressed from inside-out… There is an emphasis on remembering the spiritual purpose of hatha yoga which includes reconnecting with our innate goodness, power and beauty and expressing ourselves from that divine place… Not only is Anusara an elegant system of alignment principles and non-dual philosophy but it’s a wonderful community of highly-trained teachers and fun-loving students… '
