Troy Taylor’s Bio 2010 I started my journey in yoga through a spontaneous experience with meditation. I was just sitting one day in my room and was stopped from getting up - from the inside something made me sit still. For the first time in my life I became still, and silent watching my breath. I was sitting for an hour at a time and then two. I would run to my house from work to experience more of the peace and bliss I was receiving from the meditations. This was 1988. I had a real awakening. I would say I became enlightened seeing . For about a year I walked in the truth of who I really am which is one with God and the universe and then slowly the experience became less intense until I returned to a more everyday awareness but much more clear then before all beings as myself and myself as all beings and knew for certain who I am . One day I was walking back from the beach and I heard a voice inside myself say that I was a yogi in the past and that I should practice yoga. The next day I called the North County Yoga Center in Solana Beach and asked for information on yoga classes. That was the summer of 1991.
						Yoga Philosophy "Yoga chitha vritha narodaha" translation: "Yoga is the cessation of the fluxations of the mind". Yoga means union with self. The cleansing of the koshas or bodies.Are: physical, mental, emotional wisdom and bliss bodies - this brings the practitioner more in balance with their self and the world around them. Yoga will align the spine on the physical level and open and purify the charkas on an energetic level. In yoga "nadi shodanam" means cleansing of the nervous system. This cleansing helps prepare the body for the inflow of the spiritual energy into the nervous system and the rest of the body. In the ancient past yoga was a way for the yogi to get closer to God through discipline, meditation and purification. Yoga asanas act as a tapas on the body. Tapas means heat or to burn up karma and impurities. When we are practicing yoga we are burning up impurities and cleansing the koshas bringing more life forse "prana" into our body's and creating balance in our lives .
I began studying Ashtanga yoga with Tim Miller who was teaching at North County Yoga Center at the time, before opening his own Ashtanga Yoga Center. Istudied with Tim Miller from 1991 until 2000, and I also did Tim Miller's Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training in 2003. Various other influences are Roger Cole in Iyengar yoga, Richard Freeman for Ashtanga Yoga, and Rudi Kadir for Kundalini yoga. Classic Hatha yoga has also been an influence. In 1991 I also met my rebirthing teacher Cass Smith and his wife Shama who are long-time devotees of the Indian yoga teacher Sri Sathya Sai Baba. I then began to learn more about Sai Baba and feelings of love and devotion began to blossom. During the next few years, I continued my rebirthing training, becoming a certified rebirther and massage therapist. And finally in 1998 I was blessed to take my first journey to India to see Sai Baba. The experience for me was life changing and from then on until now I have visited India many times to see Sai Baba as I now know him to be my guru. Every time I journey to India I also spend much of my time in Mysore studying Ashtanga yoga, many times with Pattabhi Jois and other Ashtanga teachers in Mysore.				Kosha means sheath or body that covers the soul. The koshas are: physical,mental, emotional,and spiritual. Through proper practice and devotion to yoga the yogi can cleanse the koshas and attain realization of the self. Yoga is a powerful method for self realization and or God realization, which in truth are the same thing. The eight limbs of ashtanga yoga are... Yama (ethical disciplines) Niyama (code of conduct) Asana (physical postures) Pranayama (breath control) Pratyahara (withdrawl from the sense object) Dharana (concentration) Dyana (meditation) Samadhi (enlightenment)
So far I have traveled to India seven times staying for more than three years to study yoga and meditation. I studied with K. Pattabhi Jois in May of 2002 in India at the original yoga shala.I have studied many times with Guruji since 2002. I now teach yoga at many yoga centers and at the different corporations in the Encinitas area. I teach workshops and retreats nationally and abroad. .

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