The Breathing Space
Yoga with Amulyanna
Amulyanna began her yoga studies with Carla
Sgroi of the European Yoga Alliance in Milan, Italy.
Carla's gentle Hatha style prepared her students
for the sitting practice associated with Raja Yoga,
or meditation. After returning to the States in
1990, Amulyanna acquired her Hatha Yoga
certification through the Temple of Kriya Yoga
whose teachers incorporated principles of
alignment from the Iyengar method. She then
began taking classes with Angela Farmer and
Victor VanKooten whose style spiraled from
Iyengar into a dynamic process of using images
and symbols to create space in the body for
greater movement and breath.
Amulyanna now uses these study experiences,
along with her personal awareness through
asana and related branches, to invite each
student to open to mindfulness, subtle
awareness, deeper, more expansive breath and
opening in the body. She believes that people are
ready to ascend to greater awareness and
incorporate these experiences into their lives at all
levels.
Yoga is so much more than strength and flexibility, yet as we discover these supportive qualities in
the body, each student is invited to recover these qualities in relationship to themselves, other
people in their lives, and ultimately to conscious relation with Source.
Each class is composed of asana (postures), breath awareness and often Pranayama (breathing
techniques), deep relaxation and Dhyana or meditation. Amulyanna's goal is to create a class
setting in which the student has the experience of unwinding into a neutral mind/body in which
attachment, desire, cravings, biases all soften into a peaceful, calm state of mind and body.
Amulyanna has integrated an approach to yogic postures that uses symbols and breath for
discovering alignment and safe expression from the inside out. Techniques include movement,
breath, mudra, yoga nidra, pranayama, and meditation ~ each class is different, based on the
evolving needs and mastery of class participants, allowing for perception to rise through direct
experience, the witness mind, and working the edge.