Jim Tarran

I have been practicing yoga since 1990 and teaching since 1992 after completing my first teacher training course in kathmandu in April 1992 and my second 2 year course in 1996.

I am so honoured to be part of such an awake, kind, caring and good humoured community as Vajrasati Yoga.

I devised the Yoga Alliance Professionals registered 500 Hour Plus teacher training course in 2000 and since the it has grown organically with the combined wisdom of the collective community. 

I have been privileged to teach students ranging from total beginners too advanced and everyone in between over the last 30 years and have been so fortunate to have taught yoga in so many countries all over the world from Morrocco and Mexico to Italy to India and so many more beautiful lands. 

The focus of these classes has been on yoga practices that are familiar to most; asana (posture), dhyana (mediation), pranayama (breathing practices), mudra (hand gestures and otter 'energy containers and mantra (chanting). Taking the lion’s share of these is asana but as meditation.

As per tradition I see yoga essentially as absorption, a process familiar to all as a momentary (or longer) melting of the illusion of separation into the ‘field’ of which all seemingly ‘separate particles’ from momentary thoughts to a whole sense of separate ‘me-ness’ are excitations.

All the techniques are employed to serve the principal purpose of yoga - an awakening to the undivided holism of the nameless essence that forms the commonality and bedrock of all our existences. 

Thank you for this beautiful life.