TANYA BOIGENZAHN
ERYT-500, RTT, AYS, CHTP & Reiki Master
2014, 2015, 2016
Tanya is the owner, founder and director of Devanadi School of Yoga and Wellness in Minneapolis, MN, focusing on yoga teacher training, guest teachers, workshops and student mentor-ship. She travels more and more offering workshops, training's, and client sessions nationally, and guides retreats internationally.
Tanya started practicing yoga since the early 90's and has been teaching since 1996. She has meditated since age 15, and has a daily practice. Tanya devotes her life to sharing the gifts of yoga, wellness and well-being with clarity, ease, and joy while keeping in mind the constant evolution of the soul.
Tanya is a featured guest teacher on YogaInternational.com.
For over 20 years, Tanya has traveled and worked in a variety of foreign places from London to Wyoming to Portland to San Francisco, and has studied yoga with many respected teachers. In 2005 she met her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, and has been initiated into the 5000+ year old Himalayan tradition that includes the lineage of master teachers such as Swami Rama, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, and Bengali Baba. Rod’s style of yoga, known as ParaYoga, blends the three rivers of Tantra Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda and the Yoga Sutras into one comprehensive study. Through this wisdom, Tanya specializes in helping students create a therapeutic practice based on their physical, energetic, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. She continues to study under Rod, Pandijit, Rolf Sovik, Dr Indu Arora, and many other teachers channeling the sacred tradition of yoga, tantra and meditation.
She completed her 500 hour Yoga Alliance teaching credentials through ParaYoga® and is one of the few Level II Certified Teachers in the world, and the first in MN. Her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training was completed in 2001 through the It’s Yoga Ashtanga Teacher Training Program in San Francisco with Larry Schultz. Tanya also has several teacher training certificates in Prenatal Yoga, plus a wide variety of other teacher trainings from many other recognized teachers including Indu Arora, Dharma Mittra, Judith Lasater, Paul Grilley, Seane Corn, Tias Little, David Swenson, Doug Swenson and more…
Tanya blends her studies of Tantra Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar and Vinyasa Flow in each class. Focus is on aligning the physical with the subtle by using breath, awareness, alignment, and ancient yoga techniques including meditation, pranayama, kriya, bandha, chakra work, mudra, and mantra. She also strives to help students uncover their highest potential though tapas (purification & discipline), stiram (steadiness in body/mind) andsukham (maintaining a healthy sense of humor or ease during practice)
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Do not wait for a leader, do it alone, person to person.
– Mother Theresa
CERTIFICATIONS
Tanya started practicing yoga since the early 90's and has been teaching since 1996. She has meditated since age 15, and has a daily practice. Tanya devotes her life to sharing the gifts of yoga, wellness and well-being with clarity, ease, and joy while keeping in mind the constant evolution of the soul.
Tanya is a featured guest teacher on YogaInternational.com.
For over 20 years, Tanya has traveled and worked in a variety of foreign places from London to Wyoming to Portland to San Francisco, and has studied yoga with many respected teachers. In 2005 she met her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, and has been initiated into the 5000+ year old Himalayan tradition that includes the lineage of master teachers such as Swami Rama, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, and Bengali Baba. Rod’s style of yoga, known as ParaYoga, blends the three rivers of Tantra Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda and the Yoga Sutras into one comprehensive study. Through this wisdom, Tanya specializes in helping students create a therapeutic practice based on their physical, energetic, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. She continues to study under Rod, Pandijit, Rolf Sovik, Dr Indu Arora, and many other teachers channeling the sacred tradition of yoga, tantra and meditation.
She completed her 500 hour Yoga Alliance teaching credentials through ParaYoga® and is one of the few Level II Certified Teachers in the world, and the first in MN. Her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training was completed in 2001 through the It’s Yoga Ashtanga Teacher Training Program in San Francisco with Larry Schultz. Tanya also has several teacher training certificates in Prenatal Yoga, plus a wide variety of other teacher trainings from many other recognized teachers including Indu Arora, Dharma Mittra, Judith Lasater, Paul Grilley, Seane Corn, Tias Little, David Swenson, Doug Swenson and more…
Tanya blends her studies of Tantra Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar and Vinyasa Flow in each class. Focus is on aligning the physical with the subtle by using breath, awareness, alignment, and ancient yoga techniques including meditation, pranayama, kriya, bandha, chakra work, mudra, and mantra. She also strives to help students uncover their highest potential though tapas (purification & discipline), stiram (steadiness in body/mind) andsukham (maintaining a healthy sense of humor or ease during practice)
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Do not wait for a leader, do it alone, person to person.
– Mother Theresa
CERTIFICATIONS
- ParaYoga© Level 2 Certified Teacher
- HI Adjunct Faculty Teacher
- Yoga Therapist via YogSadhna with Indu Arora
- Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist (AYS) through the Himalayan Institute
- Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 500) through Yoga Alliance
- Instructor Status through THAI (Thai Healing Alliance International)
- Registered Thai Therapist (RTT) through THAI
- Certified Practitioner of the Thai Yoga Method
- Certified Healing Touch Practitioner (CHTP)
- Reiki Master
- Seichem
- Qi Gong
- Member of Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP)
- Member of AAPNA
- Member of IAYT
- Member of MN Ayurveda Assocation (MAA)
- Member of Healing Touch International (HTI)
- Member of Yoga Alliance (YA)
- Executive Board Member for THAI (Thai Healing Alliance International)
- Columnist (Yogini-at-Large) for Twin Cities METRO Magazine (past)
- IAYT Member (International Association of Yoga Therapist)
- Esprit de She Brand Ambassador
- HI Adjunct Faculty Member (Himalayan Institute)
