TOPIC IN FOCUS: Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (revision), introduction to the Bhagavad Gita

Edwin Bryant received his Ph.D in Indic languages and Cultures from Columbia University. He taught Hinduism at Harvard University for three years, and is presently the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, published six books and authored a number of articles on Vedic history, yoga, and the Krishna tradition.

As a personal practitioner of yoga for 35 years, a number of them spent in India studying with traditional teachers, where he returns yearly, Edwin strives to combine academic scholarship and rigor with sensitivity towards traditional knowledge systems. In addition to his academic course load, Edwin currently teaches workshops on the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, and Hindu Philosophy at yoga studios and teacher training courses throughout the country.

Kevin Gardiner, a native New Yorker, began studying yoga in 1970 and has been teaching since 1982. He has had the great good fortune to have studied on numerous occasions in India with the Iyengar family. He was a co-founder of the Iyengar Institute of Greater New York, Mary Dunn has been his primary teacher. In 2009 Kevin was honored to recieve his Intermediate Senior I Certificate from Guruji himself.

After marrying Erika he then relocated in Budapest where they own Amrita Yoga Center. Over the years he has been teaching extensively in North & South America and in many European countires. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kevin was a professional actor, director and teacher for 15 years and he also sustained a ten year practice of Tai Chi and Shaolin Kung Fu. His teaching is highly detailed and textured, seamlessly incorporating many components of yoga philosophy and the sutras, while continuously challenging students to gain greater sensitivity and awareness in each asana.