Anusara Yoga is a heart-centered and inspirational yoga that is based on Universal Principles of Alignment for the Outer and Inner Body. It is a unique, therapeutic kind of Hatha Yoga in which the creative expression of the heart strangely merges with the scientific principles of biomechanics. John Friend founded and founded Anusara Yoga.
Anusara is derived from a phrase in Kularnava Tantra that meaning “flowing with grace,” “following your heart,” or “moving with the flow.”
The poem is written in Sanskrit as “shakti-nipata-anusarena sishyo’anugraham-arhati,” which indicates that a sincere seeker is made worthy and enclosed in the grace that feeds and supports their every activity by stepping into the stream of the divine grace’s fall into ones heart.

Anusara yoga was created in 1997 and is today one of the most well-known and quickly expanding yoga systems in the world, with over 2,000 associated teachers and a hundred thousand students worldwide. Anusara yoga courses are currently available across the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, Europe, and are expanding in many other parts of the world.
Anusara yoga has also received worldwide media interest, including a cover feature in the Yoga Journal in 2004, as well as coverage in publications and newspapers throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America. Its extraordinary appeal is partly due to its uplifting ideology, embodied by a “festival of the heart,” which seeks the good in everyone and everything.
As a result, students at all levels of skill and experience in yoga are recognized for their distinct characteristics, gifts, and limits. This life-affirming vision establishes the framework for a yoga system that celebrates the joy and harmony of a tightly knit community. Anusara yoga is not only regarded as an exquisite system of alignment principles and non-dual philosophy, but it is also a great collection of highly educated yoga instructors and energetic students. The community feels the closeness of familial ties as well as the looseness of a joyful bunch of bohemian artists.
As a yoga community, it is well systemized and organized, however it still is gives a strong emphasis on individuality and creative freedom. Anusara yoga is bonded by everyone’s understood alliance to its spiritual principles of Anusara philosophy, like celebrating beauty in every diversity, honoring Divine creative freedom in every being, and truthfulness.
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