YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM

New York City, starting March, 2012

Dr. Sanjay Yogi was born in the Holy City of the Himalayas, Haridwar on the banks of the river Ganges.  At the age of 5 he was adopted by a very spiritual, mother-like, yogini. With her, he started his meditation, hatha yoga,  rajyoga and vedic healing mediation studies. He lived among yogis. When he was older,  he went to study Yoga Philosophy at Gurukul Kangri University. There, he studied Ayurveda, Sanskrit and Yoga for 13 consecutive years, getting his BA, MA & PhD in Yoga and Philosophy. 

After receiving his degrees, he left Haridwar and went to the Himalayas for a deeper experience of  yoga, holistic science and silent meditation. He lived on the banks of the Ganges under the guidance of the Himalayan Yogis for 6 months. In 2001 he became a yoga professor at Punjaby University, where he taught yoga and philosophy. Dr. Sanjay Yogi was invited to the UK to teach a Yoga Camp there, so in 2003 he left the University of  Punjab.  In the UK he was interviewed on  MA Channel & SUB TV about yogic life in the Himalayas and Yoga and Indian culture.

After this, Yogiji  went around the world teaching Yoga and Meditation under the guidance of Swami Ramdev, Swami Amlanand and Swami Karmveri.  Dr. Sanjay Yogiji cured many people suffering from physical or mental problems using Yoga and Ayurveda & Yogic life-style.  Yogiji moved to the USA in 2006 and is an international yoga teacher, committed to help every human being on this Earth by offering holistic, healing yoga workshops, and courses that include Asanas, Pranayam,  Kriyas, Mudras and Vedic Mantra Mediation.  Now, he offers a 200hr Yoga Teachers’ Training Program at Sat Nam Yoga Spa in upstate NY in the Catskills.

Gitanjali Marilyn Valant first discovered yoga 25 years ago in one of the sports clubs in Manhattan.  It was Hatha Yoga.  The same year she met Sri Chinmoy, her first spiritual master, and He introduced her to meditation. Soon after that she became a vegetarian and at the same time started to run.  So far, she has completed 8 (eight) NYC Marathons, and 2 (two) 47-mile Races, also in 1991 she ran in a Peace Run in Europe for 30 days. 

Shortly after discovering Hatha Yoga, Marilyn came across a class at her Gym, given by a new teacher, Lea.  It was Marilyn’s first taste of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. She fell in love with this type of yoga and started to practice it religiously. In 1996 she went on a trip around the world, including India, with a backpack, visiting all the sacred places she could find, looking for God, looking for answers to her many questions.  A year later in 1997 at Lea’s recommendation Marilyn went upstate New York to visit the Siddha Yoga ashram. She met the Guru, Gurumayi, and received Shaktipat from Her.  From that moment on, Marilyn’s life changed.  It became a conscious practice of the Truth.  Her spiritual journey, her Sadhana, began and her daily practices of yoga and meditation were steady and permanently in her schedule. After 9/11 she moved Upstate New York, to the Catskills and in 2005, she taught her beloved Kundalini Yoga for the first time. In 2005/06 she completed her Kundalini Yoga Teachers Certification Program, Level 1 and a few months later she went to India again, this time to continue her training as a teacher, with Level 2 Teachers Training Program. Soon she started teaching Yoga in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Upstate New York, where  she now has her own Kundalini Yoga Studio,  the Sat Nam Yoga Spa.