The Path Beyond the Studio

The True Yoga is about remembering that yoga has always been more than the poses.
For many of us, postures are where our journey begins. Over time, practice may naturally expand into meditation, philosophy, and a way of living.
That's the journey The True Yoga is here to support.
Study gives context to practice. Practice brings wisdom to life.
Together they create lasting transformation.
Our studies draw from:
- Haṭha Yoga
- Tantra
- The Yoga Sūtras
- Sanskrit
- Contemporary science that syncs with traditional wisdom
Yoga is a deeply personal journey. Studio classes can be a wonderful beginning, but they are designed for groups moving through a shared practice and tend to focus primarily on the physical body.
Through study, we begin to understand the deeper purpose behind the practices. A home practice then gives us the space to work with them more personally, move inward, and cultivate the transformation Yoga has always been about.

The Mission

To bridge the divide between studio practice and a transformational home practice by offering a fuller toolkit of yoga: āsana, breath, meditation, philosophy, and traditional yogic wisdom, taught in a structured, relatable way. No teacher training required.

My Journey Beyond the Studio

How my studio practice became a lifelong journey of study, meditation, and the deeper traditions of Yoga.

Hi, I'm Victoria, and this is my yoga story.
Around the turn of the millennium, I came to yoga the way many of us do, through yoga asana classes in Western studios. And for almost two decades, I practiced the poses, loving how they made me feel, both physically and energetically. But like many of us in the West, I didn't understand how deep yoga truly goes.
Then my body started to feel more like an obstacle than a vehicle and asana became more hurtful than helpful. I have a connective tissue disorder called Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, hEDS. It affects pretty much every part of my physical body and the older I get, the more obstacles it seems to put on my path.
But in retrospect, it's easy for me to see that my physical issues have actually been a blessing in disguise, for me anyway, because they pushed me onto a path of discovering the deeper wisdom of yoga and its practices.
To calm my nervous system, I learned to meditate, then got certified as a meditation teacher only because I wanted to learn more about the various meditation practices and that was the best way I could find.
My growing thirst for greater understanding then led me to Ishta Yoga in New York and I took more teacher trainings from world-class teachers focused on Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda. These teacher trainings revealed yoga to me as a profound living system of wisdom and self-discovery.
I never intended to become a yoga teacher either. But again, at that time, teacher trainings were really the only way I could find to learn true yoga in a systematic way, to embody the wisdom, and to develop a consistent evolving practice.
Since Ishta, I've continued to study yoga in various forms as well as Sanskrit, the language of yoga, study and recitation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and other classical yoga texts, Veda chanting, and Jyotisa, Indian astrology.
All of these truly massive subjects offer another angle, another perspective on the singular universal truth. And as long as we're alive, the learning never stops.

Yoga has changed me in ways I never could have imagined, and the change has been so profound that I now feel a sense of responsibility to share.
So when you're ready to dive deeper, I invite you to join me on this deeper journey into Yoga. I'd be honored to have you walk with me.

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The Foundation

The True Yoga is rooted in more than 25 years of practice and study. I share what I’ve learned from the traditions I’ve studied and the teachers who have helped shape my path.

I’m certified as a yoga and meditation teacher in the ISHTA lineage, a synthesis of Haṭha, Tantra, and Āyurveda, with continuing studies in Sanskrit, Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, Vedic chanting, and Jyotiṣa (Indian astrology).

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