About Anusara Yoga

Anusara yoga, a system of Hatha Yoga, is heart-oriented, empowering, and inspiring while also being grounding, healing, and transformational. The Sanskrit word Anusara can be translated as “flowing with grace”, “aligning with your essence”, and “following your heart.”

This unique approach founded by John Friend powerfully blends biomechanical principles of the body with heart opening, creative expression, and celebration. As health and well-being are restored to the physical body through the application of these Universal Principles of Alignment, the journey to the heart begins.

Anusara yoga is rooted in a life-affirming Tantric philosophy that takes the premise that each of us is an expression of supreme consciousness. The highest purpose of the practice is to awaken to the highest goodness inside oneself, to recognize our gifts and talents, and use them to serve life fully.

Anusara takes its name from a verse in the great text, the Kularnava Tantra. It reads in Sanskrit,

“Saktipatanusarena sisyo’nugraham-arhati.”

This means, by stepping into the current of Divine Power, and herself aligning with it, the seeker draws Grace into her life.

“Flowing with Grace, anusarena, we experience our inner worth, we align our bodies, our minds and hearts in the current of the Divine flowing through us, we celebrate life itself as we touch the Divinity who pulsates within us as our every thought, feeling, and experience.” ~ Dr. Douglas Brooks, Tantric Scholar and dear friend of the Anusara community

How To Deepen Your Anusara Yoga Practice

Anusara Yoga Trainings

The Anusara yoga immersion is a 100-hour course perfect for those who want to take their yoga practice to the next level. Stacey’s Anusara immersions offer teachings on the philosophy of Anusara yoga, its Universal Principles of Alignment and more. Immersion who graduates who either want to teach yoga or take their own practice even higher are then eligible to participate in Anusara teacher trainings and therapeutics courses. Learn more by clicking the links below:

• Anusara Yoga Immersion
• Anusara Teacher Training
• Anusara Therapeutics Training

Anusara Yoga Workshops

Throughout the year, Stacey offers a number of Anusara yoga workshops in Northern California and beyond. Everyone from beginners to advanced practitioners can enhance their understanding of yoga poses, philosophy, anatomy and much more. Check out Stacey’s latest lineup by clicking the links below:

• Weekend Yoga Workshops
• Advanced Yoga Studies
• Yoga 101 for Beginners
• Yoga Therapy

Anusara Invocation

At the beginning of each Anusara yoga practice, we chant the Sanskrit invocation below. It’s our way of invoking the Divine, the guru that dwells in our hearts and in those of every living thing that surrounds us.

Om Namah Shivaya Gurave
I offer myself to the goodness within my heart, the eternal teacher

Satchidananda Murtaye
Whose nature is Supreme Consciousness and pulsates with the greatest joy imaginable

Nishprapanchaya Shantaya
Who is always present and full of peace

Niralambaya Tejase
Whose essence is completely free from limitation and sparkles with divine luminosity