Yes I have had the opportunity to study with Yogi Amrit Desai. I have studied with him on and off for ten years. He is a gifted teacher, a wisdom holder. A very rare commodity in the yoga world.
He has inspried a lot of my own work with others.
Warmly,
keith
american-yogi.com

To date, we have 240 people registered for our NO CHARGE Pendleton Yoga Round Up! Folks are coming from Jamaica, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, New York, Montana, Colorado, Florida, California, and Arizona!!!

James Dewar and Myself (Tania Wildbill) have founded the Pendleton Yoga Round Up as a way to provide a FREE weekend of Consciousness (we have received grant funds to be able to put this amazing unique weekend on, located near the Umatilla Indian Reservation...) we will be blending two cultures, East India and West India, with a welcome invocation and prayer from tribal members from the Umatilla Indian Reservation!

Thanks to Yoga Journal for putting our event on your landing page! We hope to see your readers register at www.pendletonyogaroundup.com

Namaste!

Tania Wildbill

Gurudev (Yogi Desai) is the best spiritual teacher I know. He has an amazing ability to speak to a large audience and simultaneously address issues that touch each individual listening. His teachings have been the foundation of profound personal growth in my own life.
bill eager

This is another example of phoney "yogis" and phoney "yoga!" Real Yoga, being misrepresented and exploited, is undeniably the religious/spiritual practices of Hinduism and real yogis do not look like that. Here are some FACTS:
Sanskrit: The ancient language of the Hindus [Webster's] Note: all subsequent terms are Sanskrit (Skr.) and thus Hindu
~Aum/Om: The most sacred syllable in Hinduism [Oxford World Religions]
~yoga: Skr. "Hinduism" [Webster's]
~yoga: Oneness of Atmana and Brahman [Dict. of Skr. Names]
~yogi/yogini: (male/female) Hindu Ascetic [Oxford World Rel.]
~Atmana: Skr. Self/Spirit; Hinduism [Webster's]
~Brahman: Skr. Hindu Religion [Webster's]
~yoga: Skr. A Hindu discipline [Oxford Am. Dict.]
~ yoga: Skr. A system of Hindu religious philosophy [Thorndike Barnhardt]
~yoga: Skr. general term for spiritual disciplines in Hinduism [Columbia Encyclopedia]
~Swami: Skr. Title of respect of a (Hindu) Holy man or teacher. [Oxford World Religions]
~Guru: Skr. A teacher of worldly skills...more often of religious knowledge...liberation (Moksa). [Oxford World religions]
~Moksa: Release/liberation - the fourth and ultimate goal of Hinduism. [Oxf. World Religion]
~Veda Skr. The most ancient sacred literature of the Hindus. [Webster's]
~The first recorded evidence of the Skr. word "yoga" is found in the Vedas."Seers of the vast illumined Seer yogically control their minds and intelligence." Rig Veda V.81.
~Upanishads: Text in Hinduism which ends or completes the Vedic corpus (body of [Hindu] laws)[Oxf. World Religions]

Yogi Amrit Desai is the most gifted teacher I have ever met. His ability to address a group of 2 or 200 and still touch the hearts of all is awesome! It has been my great honor to study with Yogi Desai for over three years. In that time, I have experience profound changes in my life, my marriage, my relationship with family members and my relationship with my community and my world.
Yogi Amrit Desai IS THE REAL DEAL, make no mistake about that! If you will give him a weekend of your time, he will give you a new perspective on your life and your world.

Desai was asked to leave Kripalu due to unethical behavior.