Shakti Ganeshan

Sumati Shakthi Ganeshan, MD, MPH, doctor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, trained at Baylor College of Medicine. She also has a Masters of Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She has been exploring health and the body since she was a child. She learned Indian Classical dance, Bharatha Natyam from the age of 9. Her father and brother both were carnatic Indian music vocalists. Shakthi experienced a childhood of ancestral Indian temple culture, Indian classical music training, including bhajans and vedic chants. She began her studies of yoga in 1997. After years serving her patients in the fields of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, she turned her life to the study, practice and teaching of yoga. She has studied in both the Astanga and Iyengar traditions, and has been teaching since 2001. Shakthi has studied with Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers, and more recently with Timothy Lynch. She has taken thousands of hours of in-depth yoga trainings, and has delivered thousands of hours of yoga classes, trainings, immersions, and retreats. Shakthi is a dharma teacher in the Vipassana tradition, having completed Spirit Rock/IMS's multi-year Community Dharma Leader program. She has studied Buddhist philosophy with Jack Kornfield, Guy Armstrong, Joseph Goldstein, James Baraz, Gil Fronsdale, Andrea Fella, Pamela Weiss, Kate Munding. She is co-founder of Assayasangha.org. She has studied clinical Ayurveda, including pulse and tongue diagnosis with Dr. Sarita Shrestha, and continues her studies with Dr. Robert Svoboda. She is a trained Interplay Leader (levels 1 and 2) - a healing modality combining singing, storytelling and dance in the form of classes and workshops. She is absolutely humbled by what she does not know, loves relating with students, loves being curious and adores being open to the unfolding.