Ganga White

Ganga White

Name: Ganga White

Business: White Lotus Foundation

Resume:

Ganga White, president of the White Yoga Lotus Foundation, is widely recognized as one of the outstanding teachers and exponents of Yoga. He has extensive background in health, science and philosophy with teaching experience spanning over forty years. He is one of the pioneering yoga teachers and early leaders of yoga in America and has made many valuable and enduring contributions to his field. Ganga has trained hundreds of Yoga teachers, studied and lived in India visiting remote monasteries and learning centers and teaches internationally. He founded Yoga centers in major U.S. cities and has received the teaching title Yoga Acharya three times from the Sivananda Ashram, the Yoga Vedanta Forest University, Rishikesh, Himalayas and the Yoga Niketan in India. He has years of personal study with many great teachers including Swami Venkatesananda, J. Krishnamurti and BKS Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois. Ganga created the unique, new system of partner yoga that is now popular around the world and Viking-Penguin published his text, Double Yoga, in 1978. He is one of the early developers of Flow Yoga, which is now one of the most popular fomrs of yoga practice. Ganga White and his wife of twenty-two years, Tracey Rich, released the first yoga workout video, The Flow Series, in 1990. Their second video, Total Yoga, has sold over 1.4 million copies and is the number one selling yoga video worldwide. Although he has been honored with the sacred title, Yogiraj, and has a Sanskrit name, Ganga is a critical thinker who questions authority, traditional beliefs and dogmatic systems. His teaching empowers the individual and while retaining the essential truths of Yoga. Ganga's newest book, Yoga Beyond Tradition, will be released in the Fall of 2006.

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YP437 The Elegance of Yoga--Foundations and Principles II Workshop April 5, 2006 2:00 PM 5:00 PM

YP424 The Elegance of Yoga--Foundations and Principles I Workshop April 5, 2006 10:00 AM 1:00 PM

YP411 Flow Series Workout April 5, 2006 8:00 AM 9:30 AM

YP524 Yoga: Going Deeper Workshop April 6, 2006 10:00 AM 1:00 PM

YP511 Creative Flowing Yoga Workout Workout April 6, 2006 8:00 AM 9:30 AM

YP537 Bringing it all Together Workshop April 6, 2006 2:00 PM 5:00 PM

Y138 Using the Sun Salutations Workshop April 7, 2006 9:30 AM 12:30 PM

Y259 Balancing the Spine Workshop April 8, 2006 2:00 PM 5:00 PM

Y217 Partner Yoga Workout April 8, 2006 7:30 AM 9:00 AM

Y338 Insight & Inquiry into Yoga Workshop April 9, 2006 9:30 AM 12:30 PM

Y317 Advanced Flow Series Workout April 9, 2006 7:30 AM 9:00 AM