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My journey with yoga started 14 years ago and over half of this time has been with Ketna Shah as my teacher. My practice began as a physical practice and it has developed (with Ketna’s guidance) into both a physical … Continue reading →

I came to yoga with no understanding of its meaning or history. Wearing a full-length fur coat I took my first yoga class with a friend at university. I cringe at the picture of this in my mind today. What … Continue reading →

I have worked with Ketna Shah for a little more than 2 years, practising my special yoga daily with her guidance and instruction. I have a hip joint condition that inhibits me from working with regular classes of yoga. When … Continue reading →

In the mid-eighties, before I practiced yoga regularly, I often sought the help of a chiropractor for a chronically stiff neck which was the result of a skewed pelvis. I awoke one day with paralysis. I couldn’t lift my head … Continue reading →

I was blessed to be born into a family that was already introduced to yoga as it came to the west. My father took a yoga teacher training with Swami Sachidananda ( Guru of Integral Yoga) and was involved with … Continue reading →