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About Kaya
Kaya is a “teacher behind the teacher”, guiding many of today’s well known teachers of yoga, āyurveda, astrology and yoga nidrā. Longtime practitioners seek her for mature practice, meaningful philosophy and authentic pedagogy that reflects her 20+ years of teaching the mystical and practical full spectrum of yoga. She is a lineage holder and steward of the yoga tradition with 3,000 hours of formal study with her own gurus in the Veda Tradition. Her dharma is to lovingly share with others the depths she has learned.
Kaya’s unique approach threads storytelling, therapeutic yoga, mysticism, Vedic Astrology, Ayurveda, Vedanta, Tantra, Sanskrit and Mantra. Her ability to make traditional teachings powerfully meaningful for modern life resonates with students all over the world. Her warm, nurturing and layered approach help students to deepen their lives in every way. Programs with Kaya are intricately organized for depth and meaning, yet she remains responsive to individual needs of her students moment to moment.
About SRY - Supreme Release Yoga
SRY or Supreme Release Yoga is an accessible yet advanced approach to yoga: accessible because it’s gentle and highly adaptive, and advanced because it takes you directly towards yoga’s supreme purpose. Combining asana, pranayama, mantra, a vedic viewpoint and contemplation, ŚRY nourishes and releases tension in both the physical and subtle spine. You are profoundly nourished and supported in ways that allow blocked, hidden, and painful conditioning that traces back through your past is to give way. SRY practice and teachings are not about effort or striving, but about revelation. What is revealed is the pure nectar that is the Self of the self.
*SRY also is a play on words, pointing to the essence of the practice as nurturing, softening and awakening, as the word śrī is the name for the feminine divine in Sansrkit.
About Yoga with Kaya
Kaya’s work sustains yoga’s fundamental purpose with practices that are adaptable to the needs of the moment and the individual. Yoga’s intrinsic purpose shines through every aspect of Kaya’s teaching and mentoring. Her programs are intricately planned and layered for depth and meaning, yet she remains open to respond to the present moment and the individual needs of students. Kaya weaves the modern human experience with the full spectrum of traditional Vedic wisdom – including yogic teachings, Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, Vastu design, and sacred texts and ancient stories – into a rich tapestry that truly delivers yoga’s promise and lovingly transforms your body, mind, and life.
Vedic Astrology ~ Jyotisha
Michael Manzella is an expert Jyotishi {Vedic Astrologer}. His skill, warmth, humor, depth and practical approach is a balm to clients internationally. If you are at a juncture point in your life, require insight or strategy, want to make a decision about a key aspect of work, family, finance, study, relationships and so on, a Jyotish reading offers profound guidance. Kaya relies on it heavily in her own teaching, life and work. Kaya and Michael often co-support their clients to provide full spectrum support.