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The most common place to begin is with a Structural Yoga Therapy session to address physical issues that have resulted from injuries, illness or stress and to personalize your yoga practices. Mukunda's first session begins with an evaluation of your posture, strength, and flexibility, and an assessment of the unique way your body has adapted to Life. Once your assessment is completed a personalized yoga routine will be created.

Yoga practice can dramatically change us, improving health and well-being. Yet, every body is unique. You may still be struggling with stress or residual pain from past injuries from which you have never fully recovered. Illness, pain and chronic stress always impact your posture and can cause structural imbalances. In addition, you may have postural imbalance like spinal curvatures (scoliosis), elbow carrying angles, knock knees, or other patterns in your body creating inefficient patterns where weakness and stress may accumulate. Structural Yoga Therapy can dramatically correct your posture, changes of spinal curvatures up to 50% have been achieved with guidance for 2 years, and your nagging aches and back pain can be eliminated.

At the Workshops page you can see where he is throughout the year. For those unable to set appointments at his programs or at his new home in Ojai, California consider sessions via phone, email or video sessions by downloading www.skype.com. Remote sessions work best if you audio or videotape them. Sessions can be given by US and international graduates of the SYT Course in your area for personalized guidance under his supervision.

A second format is based on Mukunda's new book Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy covering principles that may involve lifestyle changes to deepen the energetic and spiritual benefits of Yoga. This book details his method of adapting to the energetic and Ayurvedic conditions of each individual. This method can assist students to discover the underlying 3 unique forms of Ayurvedic Yogasana, pranayama, and meditation practice that create a serene sattvic state of consciousness. This process often resolves both physical and energetic conflicts that are not resolved by physical or medical therapies. AYT will take your physical practice to a much deeper level and will promote a spiritual lifestyle.

Mukunda offers his skill as a Spiritual Mentor for enlivening your practice into pranic energy training and a spiritual practice. Interested students can search his archival website on Spirit's Path located at www.yogaforums.com or read of his methods in Your Soul's Compass - What is Spiritual Guidance? by Joan Borysenko and Gordon Dveirin. Here he is one of 20 contemporary sages interviewed. See a list of recommended readings and links to spiritual teachers he recommends. His clients have included long term members of yoga based spiritual paths, as well as members of Jewish, Christian, Moslem, Native American, shamanic and those with a path but not a form. A new book Tantra Yoga Secrets by Mukunda is due winter 2010-11 covering in detail his method of mentoring and guidance.

"Mukunda is the finest Yoga therapist that I've ever worked with. Now the wealth of wisdom and experience that he brought to teaching me, my staff (at Mind Body Medical Institute, Deaconess Hospital, Boston) and our clients is available to you."

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Journey to God

"Mukunda has a fine intuitive insight and functional understanding for evaluating body imbalances and a very practical, effective yogic approach to permanently correct these imbalances. His approach worked well for me personally and I highly recommend him to my clients."

Gabriel Cousens, MD Psychiatry, author of Spiritual Nutrition and Conscious Eating

"Mukunda is a consummate healer, working with body and soul. Held in the sacred container created by his knowledge, skill and deep compassion I found I was able to drop into that rare and healing combination of spontaneous movement and profound stillness. Mukunda's open heart and radiant spirit are evident in the gifts he offers to the world."