Vijnana Yoga Studio
#2150 Maple St. (@ 6th Ave)
Vancouver, B.C
604.734.8932
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Gioia Irwin (Principle Vijnana teacher in North America)
Gioia Irwin’s introduction to yoga, at the age of nineteen, was with Baba Hari Dass. At the age of twenty-four she began studying yoga in the Iyengar tradition. At thirty, after completing a two- year teacher training program, she began teaching Iyengar Yoga. Over the years Gioa’s inspiration has come from BKS Iyengar, Dona Holleman, Angela Farmer, Victor van Kooten, Aadil Palkhivala, Maureen Carruthers, and Orit Sen-Gupta (who is the founder of Vijnana Yoga). She has been studying yoga well over 26 years now and teaching for over 20.
Recently Gioia has passionately been exploring bio-tensegrity, which in essence is the balance of tension and compression elements in the body. The teachings of Thomas Myers (author of Anatomy Trains) and Stephen Levin MD have greatly helped her understanding of the interconnectedness between bio-tensegrity and the yoga practice.
