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Faculty Information   Sarasvati Buhrman, Ph.D., R.Y.T. (500) Has maintained a private practice of Ayurvedic medicine and Yoga Therapy since 1987, and is senior teacher and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda. She currently serves on the Board of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. She did graduate work in genetics and received her doctorate in medical and psychological Anthropology from the University of Colorado. She is also a certified biofeedback therapist and Cardiac Yoga instructor. A Yogic renunciate in the Vairagi order of north India, Sarasvati has practiced and taught asana, pranayama, meditation, and Ayurveda under the direction of her guru, Baba Hari Das, since 1976. She was trained in Ayurvedic medicine and asked to practice and teach by prominent Ayurvedic Physician Dr. R.P. Trivedi. She has published several papers in the fields of Yoga, Ayurvedic Medicine, and Yoga Therapy. Jnani Chapman, R.N. Jnani received her degree in nursing at the University of San Francisco and has served for 14 years as cofounder and senior staff member of Commonweal Cancer Help Program. She teaches yoga to women with breast cancer through the Breast Cancer Personal and Lifestyle Support Program of the University of California, San Francisco, and the California Pacific Medical Center. A longtime student of Swami Satchidananda, Jnani is the former executive director of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Deborah Quilter, C.Y.T. Deborah Quilter is an author, consultant, and certified yoga teacher. She has written two books, The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book and Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User’s Guide and has made many appearances in the media. Ms. Quilter has presented her work both in the U.S. and abroad, and has helped many people with RSI recover more use of their upper extremity without exacerbating pain. Ms. Quilter studied Ergonomic Guidelines for Computer Use at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Biomechanics of Human Movement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She founded a program to teach yoga to senior citizens at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City which was featured on the Martha Stewart show and was offered a Diversity in Teaching Yoga grant by Kripalu for this program. Mangala Warner, M.S., RYT (500) has a Master’s Degree in Human Performance (Exercise Physiology) and an extensive background in biomechanics, exercise testing, health research, and programming, She is a certified Structural Yoga Teacher Trainer and Cardiac Yoga Teacher. Her diverse background includes managing university and corporate wellness centers and teaching college level exercise and science courses. She has a private Yoga Therapy Practice and manages a corporate fitness center for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Cindy Flower, P.T. Cindy offers group and individual yoga therapy classes in Vancouver that weave the science of physiotherapy with the ancient practices/wisdom of yoga. Cindy is a certified physiotherapist and yoga teacher and has been working with people with pain and disabilities for 11 years. Yoga Classes/yoga therapy individual sessions are suitable for those of all ages and abilities,including back/neck/hip/SI pain, injury recovery, chronic pain, scoliosis, amputees, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, mild arthritis,AS, post stroke, spinal cord injuries, MS, osteoporosis, digestive condition, cardiac conditions, cancer, guillain barre, transverse myelitis, seniors, post-mva's, children with disabilities. Emphasis is on healing in a safe and therapeutic environment. Swami Dharmavati & Swami Brahmananda (Ed and Deb Shapiro) Ed and Deb Shapiro are renowned spiritual teachers of meditation, personal development and the beauty of an open heart. They are a vibrant, humorous and inspirational couple whose purpose is to serve the truth in all its forms. They travel worldwide holding workshops, seminars and retreats wherever they are asked to come, as well as teaching senior management in multinational corporations. They are best- selling authors and are part of the United Council on Yoga (UCY). They are the creators and producers of the daily Chillout Moment text messages for Orange mobile phones and have hosted their own TV series, Chill Out, on Channel Health TV. Together Ed and Deb have studied with HH The Dalai Lama as well as working with him on two books. They began teaching together in 1988 after being empowered and encouraged by their teachers to be of service to those who were seeking guidance. The Shapiros have written 14 books on stress-management, meditation, personal growth and social awareness and are published in many languages. Deb was born in England and grew up in the 1970’s in London. She became a meditator at the age of 15 and trained with Buddhist and Zen meditation teachers, including Jiyu Kennett Roshi, Chime Rinpoche and Tai Situ Rinpoche. She founded the Maitreya Institute in Hawaii in 1983 for Tai Situ Rinpoche, and was initiated as Swami Dharmavati by Paramahamsa Satyananda in 1987. She has also trained in numerous forms of bodywork and bodymind therapy, becoming the UK’s leading bodymind expert. Ed was born in the Bronx and grew up in New York in the 1960’s — as a teenager he won the New York City dance championships. In 1966 he met Sri Swami Satchidananda who had just arrived in the US, and by 1969 he was being initiated as Swami Brahmananda at the Bihar School of Yoga with Paramahamsa Swami Satyananda, a leading expert on Tantra. He later returned to the US to teach, where he also spent time with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Wisdom Master.