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About Me
I have been practicing Bhakti Yoga for over 30 years, and my own spiritual journey began several years ago, in the quest for inner peace and harmony. A profound spiritual awakening which happened in early 2006 led to a wonderful quieting of continuous thoughts, allowing me to look beyond changing the external environment and relationships to look deeper inwards and bring mind, body, spirit in balance.
During my meditations and reflections, I was inspired to share this knowledge and experience with others which resulted in starting Prana Gyana®, a company focused on holistic mind, body, and spirit integration techniques. I have also developed the Nava Shakti® program for Holistic Health which includes Weight and Stress Management.
I have a strong passion for learning and generating new realities from concepts and ideas. With an Engineering and Business degree from ASU, 17 years in the corporate world as an engineer, manager, and technical skills trainer, I bring an eclectic mix of knowledge and experience to my yoga and meditation classes.
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I learned yoga and pranayama for the first time when I was hardly 6 years old from my father, a disciple of Maharishi Swami Gitananda of Ananda Ashram in Pondicherry, India. I was the “little” one who could deeply relax in Shavasana, while the adults were fidgeting around “trying” to relax. While my father managed to continue his yoga and meditation practice for several years through his long military career, my practice had its starts and stops during college, work and raising a family. My maternal uncle has also been my mentor and guru since my college days. During Christmas ’04 and a surprise visit to Phoenix AZ, he gave me the gift of a lifetime – “Practicing the Power of Now” by Eckhardt Tolle. It sat unread, on the coffee table, for all of 10 months! I kept thinking I would get to it someday ……when the kids get older, when I have some free time, when I can squeeze it into my busy schedule. It didn’t happen for a while, but once I read the book and began to earnestly practice the techniques, there was no going back!
By incorporating yoga and meditation into my daily routine, I learned to become more mindful or conscious of what motivates our major life decisions as well as how we perceive and react to life situations and people around us. Being an engineer, there was a tendency to analyze the experiences through the thinking mind, but then I realized that not everything can be explained rationally through the five senses and the thinking mind. I recognized that fear had been a big player in my life, and continued to influence much of my decision-making. This insight and the practice of being mindful of when fear was present, allowed the ability to make decisions from a different place, from my heart. It is not that the feelings of fear disappeared with this insight, but rather I was able to recognize and work with the fear and not be run by it.
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Being a focused achiever in the corporate world, and balancing a corporate life along with raising three wonderful boys had inadvertently built stress, which manifested as chronic lumbar and neck pain, with little relief from traditional methods. I have been doing advanced/high impact aerobics and other fitness training for the last 15 years, but the pain remained. In the last few years, getting back to my disciplined exercise regimen along with a regular yoga and meditation practice has relieved all the physical symptoms of pain and totally re-energized my mind, body and spirit – where I really feel like a 25 year old!
By incorporating yoga and meditation into my routine, I have learned to become more mindful or conscious of what motivates major life decisions as well as how we perceive and react to life situations and people around us. I have lost more than 25 lbs using the 9 components of the Nava Shakti® program.
Mentoring and teaching has always been a calling for me, and my role as a teacher has manifest in several forms right from my early years: as an English student teacher during my Jr High and High school years teaching English to under privileged children and adults in India, as a youth group coordinator teaching organization/time management skills, as a mentor and teacher of sciences and life skills for my own children, and as a technical skills trainer in the corporate world.
I am a Chopra Center Certified Instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation, which is an ancient technique that allows us to take our awareness from the active level of the mind to quieter levels of the thinking process. We enrich our lives by bringing some of that silence and awareness into our daily routine and activities. I am also a 6th generation Reiki Master from the lineage of Reiki Grand Master Mikao Usui. I have been teaching in the Chandler/Tempe area after completing a Yoga Teacher Certification from Inner Vision in the USA, and am a member with the Yoga Alliance. In addition, I practice ancient Chakra Balancing techniques to remove physical and emotional pain from the subtle bodies, and restore wellness in the mind/body system. I am a member of the International Yoga Therapists Association and the International Yoga Association. My experiences have helped me truly internalize “being the change you want to see in the world” and my key mantra is to “let go” of unnecessary rubbish that we tend to collect in our mind, body, spirit on a daily basis to “feed” our egos. I encourage students to get centered through yoga postures, breathing and meditation, or simply by learning to quiet the mind a bit, focus inward, and let it go.
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Stay in the present moment – and make the NOW your primary focus in life! |
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TESTIMONIALS
I am so glad to write about my sister-in-law. I have known their family intimately for over 65 years
in all the phases of their chequered career in both their military and civilian life as an outstanding military Officer holding
noblest virtues of the highest order. Till his very last day when her husband suddenly passed away,
he was taking care of his wife of 48 years very well and they lived happily.
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"Take the apple in your hand (pause). Look at it (pause). Smell it," advises Anita as she describes the process of awareness - even when doing something simple like eating an apple. Since participating in the PSM Seminar three months ago and experimenting with the Chakra Healing for the past two months, I have prospered mentally and physically.
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About 8 months ago I starting experiencing a tightness and heaviness in my chest. I knew it was due to stress and anger in my life, but what I didn’t know was how to get rid of it. For me western psychology did not offer any answers and I did not want to go see a psychiatrist only to have the same issues arise a few months later. I did some research on my own on chakra balancing and it really seemed to fit into my overall beliefs.
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I just want to thank you for the many ways you have helped me with the energy healing treatments you have done with me.
I came to Anita to get some help with depression, migraines, sense of being overwhelmed, relationship problems and most especially, because I caught myself getting into a habit of yelling at my 3 year old son. I knew that that anger was misdirected and that I didn’t want to be feeling or acting that way at all.
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I can't tell you enough what a huge impact your energy healing sessions have had on me. I have discovered things about myself that I didn't know. I really feel like I have discovered a new me! I also have to tell you that I like the new me much better than the old one. I had a big issue with my obsessive compulsive disorder and I was letting it run my life but through the sessions I became a diffferent person.
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I started attending Anita's yoga classes about 6 months ago. Being a graduate of Dr. Deepak Chopra's Primordial Sound Meditation and Seduction of Spirit seminars I could see that Anita was very knowledgeable and skilled. I decided to sign up for her Nava Shakti® Body, Mind and Spirit program for general health and weight management.
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"Yoga at Prana Gyana® has rejuvenated me. I suffer from Chronic Fatigue illness and was in constant pain. I have now learnt to manage my pain better...
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"Anita!!! I did it…I just finished meditation for ~15 minutes. The music did the trick, I lit a lavender candle and worked on my root … I cannot thank you enough for all of your support...
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In the present world tension and stress is a common word in day to day life. I have read about the practice of yoga ,the asanas, the chakras in our body etc... but this was more for my knowledge or interest..
Several years ago, when I experienced a major tragedy in my life which came very unexpectedly. I was not in a position to accept it or probably did not have the courage to let it go and move on with my life. It had taken a toll on my physical and emotional health and my inability to let things go was affecting my family as well...
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It was four months ago that I coincidentally saw Anita at a lecture about “Pranic Healing”. At that time I was exploring the power of “Pranic Healing ” to combat a health condition which had seen only partial success through the modern medicine. Anita offered me an introductory healing session at the Prana Gyana® Holistic Center. After two or three sessions I decided to go through the full course designed by Anita to help me overcome my symptoms. The healing Energy course consisted of several healing sessions per week and practice of very focused yogic postures followed by meditation.
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I had a severe addiction to tobacco and Marijuana for the past 22 years. I had attempted to stop many times but nothing ever seemed to work.
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ANITA RANGASWAMI
With 17 years experience in the corporate world as an engineer, manager and trainer, Anita brings an eclectic mix of knowledge and experience to her yoga and meditation classes.
"Yoga and meditation have allowed me to keep my mind and body in balance by incorporating them in my daily practice." |
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Anita Rangaswami
Founder and
Yoga/Meditation Instructor |
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