Benjamin Ward
Yoga
Ben has been practicing yoga since 2008 and has been teaching since 2013. He specializes in both Vinyasa Krama (sometimes called Viniyoga), Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, as well as Vedic chant.
He completed his first teacher training (300hr) in Breath Centered Vinyasa at North Alabama Yoga Company in Madison Alabama. He then went to India and studied with senior students of T.K.V. Desikachar and Krishnamacharya at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Chennai. After completing training at the KYM he left for Mysore to study Ashtanga Vinyasa more in depth. He took and completed his 200 hour teacher training in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga under Ramesh Shetty at Mysore Ashtanga Yoga shala and was blessed to spend months being taught 1 on 1 by four different teachers. During this time he was also taking Pranayama, Mudra, and Philosophy lessons from BNS Iyengar between his classes. During these teacher trainings he started to learn Vedic Chant but it was upon returning to the US that he decided to take private lessons online with Menaka Desikachar (wife of T.K.V. Desikachar and Daughter and Law of Krishnamacharya) and learned the bulk of his Vedic Chant practice.
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