My Name..........Priya Jhawar

My Home..........Currently Dallas, TX

My Career..........Formerly High-Strung Business Litigation Attorney, Currently Blissed-Out Yoga Teacher

My Training..........I completed my 200 and 500-hour Ashtanga teacher training courses in Bali, Costa Rica and India. I have over 1,000 hours of teaching experience, and am a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200, RYT 500) with Yoga Alliance.

My Yoga..........I practice and teach classes in the Ashtanga tradition. I love the physical challenge of the practice, as well as its calming effects. It is an energizing and deeply purifying practice. Linking each movement with oujaii breath, my yoga is a moving meditation.

My Journey..........My mother was the first person to spark my interest in yoga and meditation, as she took much interest in these practices herself. At a young age, I became fluent in Hindi, studied classical Sanskrit texts, such as the Bhagavad Gita, and started to learn about yoga philosophy. I began to cultivate an asana practice (the physical postures of yoga) when I went off to law school in 2001. Throughout law school and in my career as a litigation attorney, I found yoga to provide the relief I needed from the daily stress of my job. Later, when a serious ankle injury required major surgery and intensive physical therapy, I again found my yoga practice to be the greatest healing agent of all. I then decided to give up a stressful career as a lawyer to help others realize the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of yoga.

My Loves..........my husband, Darshan, my dearest nieces, our family and friends.

My Interests..........traveling, hiking, climbing, skiing, scuba, soccer, classical Indian dance and singing, and just about all things active!

My Goals..........to live a balanced life, and use yoga to transform myself and others.