Yoga

I started practicing yoga at 20 after a serious car accident, approaching it as a way to regain physical health, not really understanding what I was getting into. I took an immediate interest in it as it felt strangely familiar. Yet, it was cosmic and unlike anything I had experienced before. Soon after I went to India to take part in the Shivananda Yoga Teachers Training course and afterwards met Sharon Gannon and David Life. From that first meeting I knew that they would have a momentous impact on my life, and I became a student and later a teacher of their method. I have facilitated many of their Teachers Training Courses in the US and in India. I have also made many trips to India, my home away from home, to immerse myself in the sophisticated and multi layered culture and origins of yoga, all expressed with infinite sweetness. I have been extremely blessed to study over 3 decades with Sri K Pattabhi Jois and his family. I am also a Sanskrit and philosophy student of Professor HV Rao and Dr. M. A. Jayashree for whom I am forever grateful. In February 2021 I will be facilitating the next Jivamukti teachers training at Govardhan Eco Village in India.

Writing

Ruth has written three books An Offering of Leaves, Sweeping the Dust and Fell In Her Hands all published by Lantern Books. The first two are collections of short stories given as examples to teach yoga philosophy, that originated in the classroom and were then edited for reading. The last book Fell In Her Hands is a novel that tells a story of several characters seeking enlightenment through the human experience of the ups and downs of life. The novel is inspired by The Yoga Sutra of Maharishi Patanjali: a scripture written in Sanskrit more than 2000 years ago. 

Art

Ruth is also an artist, to view her work please visit www.RuthLauerManenti.com