Adrianne, Author at Always Home Yoga

Lilias, Yoga and You: 1st to Broadcast Yoga on American TV

by AdrianneBlog 2024-03-292024-02-09No Comments

Lilias Folan (born 1936) began to practice yoga as exercise in 1964, and was soon teaching at the YWCA in Stamford, Connecticut. She studied asanas under the yoga masters T. K. V. Desikachar, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Angela Farmer, and gained wider knowledge of yoga under the Sivananda Yoga masters Swami Vishnudevananda and Swami Satchidananda. She joined the Connecticut ashram of the Divine Life Society led by Swami Chidananda. In the 1980s she met Swami Muktananda, creator …

Michelle Young – Advocate for Accessible Learning

by AdrianneBlog 2024-03-222024-02-09No Comments

Michelle Young is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, and holds an M.Ed in Curriculum Development. She has been teaching in one capacity or another for almost 20 years, and she is passionate about creating authentic, accessible content that is both high quality and affordable. Absurdly high-quality yoga teacher training does not have to be expensive. Michelle …

Blanche DeVries: Co-owner of the 1st Yoga Studio in the US

by AdrianneBlog 2024-03-162024-02-12No Comments

Pierre Bernard and his wife, Blanche DeVries, were among the earliest proponents of postural yoga in America. In 1924, they created the Clarkstown Country Club, where yoga was taught to affluent and influential clientele. The network created through this endeavor not only popularized yoga in the West but also advanced the reinvention of yoga as …

Indra Devi – 1st Lady of Yoga

by AdrianneBlog 2024-03-152024-02-10No Comments

Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion:Women’s History Month 2024 Lovingly referred to as the first lady of yoga, Indra Devi was perhaps one of the most influential early practitioners of yoga in the United States in the mid-to-late 1940s. Though Devi died in 2002 at the age of 102, she is (and always …

Krishna Kaur: Kundalini Yoga Pioneer in South Central LA

by AdrianneBlog 2024-03-082024-02-09One Comment

Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion:Women’s History Month 2024 About Krishna Krishna Kaur, a dynamic, heart centered Yoga teacher, began studying yoga in 1970 and has passionately taught the art and science of Kundalini Yoga and Self Awareness for over 40 years. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from her teaching …

February Fill – Yoga Teacher & Student

by AdrianneBlog 2024-03-01No Comments

I managed to carve out 64 times to practice and teach Yoga last month. That may be my personal best! Thank you UC Berkley, Veterans Yoga Project, Yoga Specialists and Chrisine Brahami.