Shrikanth Ananthakrishnan
My spiritual journey began in 2001 with the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation. It started with a six day breath workshop that opened up a whole new realm of inner experience. I continued to do AOL courses in breath and meditation and slowly discovered secrets about the mind, how to use the breath as a tool to refine it, the joys of silence, meditation, and spiritual knowledge. I took up the physical practice a few years later in 2005, and eventually did my Teachers Training Certification in 2009.
Yoga is the path to inner freedom. It is the freedom from being bound by the mind and emotions, freedom from events, situations and people, freedom from suffering. It is the path to discovering the joy and bliss that is the nature of our spirit. Yoga is incomplete without meditation and spiritual knowledge. Just as asana is for the body, meditation and spiritual knowledge are for the mind and spirit.
I continue to be a student on the path, and bow down to all my teachers past, present and future. I hope to continue the tradition of knowledge that has been passed down for thousands of years, and share it in context with the present time.
