Ashtanga Narayani is a container to explore & access the roots of yoga and a space to inspire individual and collective healing through empowerment and ongoing evolution. The shala was created with the intention to uphold the wisdom of Mother Earth and the divine intelligence of each individual’s breath, body, and unique experience.
Michelle 진아/眞我/True Self Song is an artist, yogini, herbalist, practitioner and teacher of the healing arts. She is an advocate for Earth based movements and celebrates the depth within Indigenous wisdom, creating art and community from this place of grounding. Over the last ten years she has studied and practiced within the lineages of T. Krishnamacharya and Baba Hari Dass, sat in sacred ceremony on the Gila River Reservation, and taken the bodhisattva vow within the Korean Zen Buddhist tradition. She continues to make regular trips to India to study with her teachers and go on pilgrimage to ancient & holy places. Michelle was granted the blessing by her teachers to pass on the teachings of Ashtanga Yoga and is a SYC Level 2 Authorized teacher. She lives in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains on Tongva land and loves gardening, painting, and singing. Michelle is the founder and director of Ashtanga Yoga Narayani.
अभ्यासवैराग्याअभ्यां तन्निरोधः abhyāsa-vairāgya-ābhyāṁ tan-nirodhaḥ