Although initially sent for yoga practice to learn discipline because he was an unruly child, Sudhakar quickly embraced the wise teachings and spiritual education from his first guru Swami Chandrananda. Always focusing on a theme or intention where the attention is on awareness, overcoming fear, relaxation, and experiencing inner grace, this school of yoga will grant you with mindful experiences through asana practice to calm down your mind and invoke a renewed sense of self-awareness and health on all planes of life.Д«orn in the spiritually renowned temple city of Kancheepuram, South India, Sudhakar was blessed to have started practicing yoga at the young age of 11. Master SudhakarвЂ™s teachings emphasizes sub-basic postures leading in and out of asanas in addition to the final postures as a way to attain a stable mind and body through inner power, not outer force. When asanas are practiced in this way, energy will be gained instead of exhausted through force or unsteadiness of the mind. Our school aims to instill a balance engaging all layers of awareness to attain multidimensional health in a manner that requires the least amount of energy expenditure. In the sutra, Kuryattadasanam Sthairyamarogyam Cangalaghavam, he defines that the true benefit of asana practice occurs when вЂњstability is gained, disease is absent, lightness and wellness of the body is feltвЂќ in all levels of health. Instead of solely centering on the final posture as a goal or only one aspect to attain health, VYS embodies a methodical progressive practice emphasizing the benefit of asanas as stated by Swami Svatmarama in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Vanakkam Yoga School was created to intelligently approach Hatha asana practices for any students to improve and integrate their physical, social, mental, intellectual, spiritual, and environmental health in all 6 dimensions. We humbly dedicate Vanakkam yoga school to the great and accomplished Yoga Siddhas who have gone before us on this path. We have created this school as an offering to the world, a remedy for the blindness that has left so many of us wandering aimlessly in the forest.

Once you are able to welcome all things into your life with joy, I-ness and My-ness dissolve.

In Vanakkam вЂkaвЂ™ represents this happiness, pleasure, joy. This light, this intelligence is yoga.В When you improve the quality of your mind, when you find the lotus hidden in the forestвЂ“the hidden truth of yourself, you find happiness. 'Vana' is the light that clears our ignorance and lights our path. вЂњWe are not choosing yoga, actually we think we are choosing yoga,Д«ut when yoga chooses us, yogam - the quality of yoga - comes to us.вЂќД«roken down, 'vana' stands for intelligence the intelligence of Atman, which is the true self hidden beyond the ego, the lotus hidden in the forest.

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